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15 May 2012, 8:20 am
(Ilya Somin) Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist A. [read post]
11 May 2010, 11:58 pm
(Ilya Somin) In his response to my last post, Orin argues that some of the seemingly anomalous reactions of respondents to the Pew survey I analyzed might have been the result of the fact that the researchers asked them to react to “words without context” rather than “ideologies” or political ideas. [read post]
1 Nov 2011, 7:02 pm
(Ilya Somin) I agree with most of what co-blogger Eugene Volokh writes about the benefits of have a wide range of student groups at law schools, including ones that focus on specific ethnic or religious groups. [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 12:37 am
(Ilya Somin) In this recent Boston Globe article, sportswriter Paul Kix argues that human sports performance is close to reaching its maximum limits because track and field world records have plateaued over the last two decades:In the sports that best measure athleticism — track and field, mostly — athletic performance has peaked. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 8:51 pm
(Ilya Somin) This semester, I am once again teaching Constitutional Law II: The Fourteenth Amendment. [read post]
28 Oct 2010, 7:58 am
(Ilya Somin) I recently wrote an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to hear the Columbia University blight takings case, on behalf of the Institute for Justice (the public interest law firm that litigated Kelo v. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 2:17 pm
I was cruising around town at lunchtime, running errands, and listening to Vik Amar and Ilya Somin debating the Obamacare mandate on Patt Morrison's radio show. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 4:55 pm
(Ilya Somin) Economist Richard Thaler, a leading advocate of libertarian paternalism, has briefly responded to some of the points I made in my most recent post on that subject. [read post]
18 Aug 2022, 3:30 am
Ilya Somin During the Trump Administration, progressives often found themselves resisting administration initiatives by appealing to constitutional principles traditionally associated with conservatives and libertarians: federalism limits on “commandeering” of state and local governments, separation-of-powers constraints on federal spending and regulation, and traditional civil libertarian approaches to freedom of speech that have come under increasing disfavor on the… [read post]
8 May 2010, 11:33 pm
(Ilya Somin) Back in 2007, I wrote a post explaining why the massive problem of prison rape is the sort of issue that government is likely to handle poorly because of structural flaws: [T]he government’s failure to address the problem is not accidental. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 9:32 am
(Ilya Somin) My George Mason colleague Eric Claeys has an insightful piece at the National Review website on how opponents of the individual mandate should respond to the Supreme Court’s decision upholding it: In NFIB v. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 10:06 am
(Ilya Somin) In his response to my post on the mandate cases and the presumption of constitutionality, Orin Kerr argues that the presumption applies to all cases where courts consider the constitutionality of congressional legislation.Orin recognizes that the Supreme Court majority in fact fails to even mention the presumption in many controversial cases where it strikes down federal laws, such as United States v. [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 2:01 pm
(Ilya Somin) NYU law professor Rick Hills argues that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on large soda pop servings is justified by the existence of government subsidies for health care: I am inclined to think that denouncing Bloomberg’s proposal as Orwellian is like ridiculing the Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act as a Stalinist plot or attacking “no smoking” signs in public buildings as a Maoist re-education campaign. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 11:20 am
(Ilya Somin) Linda Greenhouse and Dahlia Lithwick have attempted to resuscitate the claim that the individual mandate is so obviously constitutional that only ignorance or political bias can lead anyone to believe otherwise. [read post]
10 Dec 2011, 12:25 am
(Ilya Somin) USC medical school professor Ken Murray has an interesting article on the lessons we can learn from “How Doctors Die”: It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. [read post]
16 May 2010, 5:25 pm
(Ilya Somin) Vanderbilt lawprof James Ely — a leading expert on constitutional property rights — has an interesting column on the relevance of property rights to the current Supreme Court nomination: In seeking a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, President Obama indicated that he wanted to name someone in the Stevens mold. [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 1:05 am
(Ilya Somin) In a recent post at Balkinization, Sandy Levinson argues that the recent mostly government-funded rescue of the trapped Chilean miners proves the need for a large welfare state. [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 12:45 am
(Ilya Somin) At Slate, David Weigel claims that the libertarian Cato Institute may have purged its “liberaltarians” — scholars who advocate an alliance between libertarians and the political left: The libertarian Cato Institute is parting with two of its most prominent scholars. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 12:04 pm
(Ilya Somin) Famed property scholar Richard Epstein recently wrote an interesting post on an important Just Compensation Clause case that the Supreme Court is now considering whether to take: [W]hen government [condemns private property] … it must pay just compensation to the landowner for the value of the property taken. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 9:11 pm
(Ilya Somin) Economist Bryan Caplan has an interesting post outlining six types of libertarian arguments against government action — “six stages of libertarian denial,” as he calls it: Libertarians set themselves apart from other political thinkers by habitually denying that government should do things. [read post]
