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1 Mar 2017, 7:43 pm
(Pix Wall Street Journal 28 Feb 2017)After a tumultuous first month in office--a month that appeared to solidify the great rifts among emerging political factions in  the U.S. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 4:00 am by Guest Blogger
Over a century ago, without his knowing it, legendary jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes spawned the case for judicial diversity in ten words: “the life of the law is not logic, but experience. [read post]
5 Feb 2017, 8:04 pm
"Oxford scholar who was mentor to Neil Gorsuch compared gay sex to bestiality; The Catholic legal professor John Finnis, who taught the supreme court nominee at Oxford, has inveighed against abortion and 'the evil of homosexual conduct'": Oliver Laughland, Molly Redden, Robert Booth, and Owen Bowcott of The Guardian (UK) have this report. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 6:53 pm by Molly Runkle
This evening President Donald Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch of the U.S. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 5:27 pm by David Markus
That was SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorssch during his speech tonight and in a dissent last year, which may give criminal defense lawyers some optimism (he found strip searches unconstitutional):"Often enough the law can be 'a ass — a idiot,' Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist 520 (Dodd, Mead & Co. 1941) (1838) — and there is little we judges can do about it, for it is (or should be) emphatically our job to apply, not rewrite, the law enacted by… [read post]
19 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Oliver is right about the latter two issues, but he is quite wrong about the Clinton campaign’s behavior.To give a sense of how little is going on, consider this headline from ABC News’s website: “Clinton Team Ran Highly Scripted Campaign, WikiLeaks Emails Indicate. [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 6:37 am
The Nobel Memorial Prize in EconomicsEconomists Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström were awarded the Nobel prize in economics for their work on contracts. [read post]
19 Aug 2016, 2:04 am
Becoming a global brand isn't as easy as Tine Tempah makes it sound - in this article, Neil Wilkof considers the difficulties Uber and Netflix have faced in their efforts to expand into new territories.Are companies allowed to tweet about #Rio2016? [read post]
29 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
They similarly negotiated with themselves to de-fang the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law.And if anyone in the Democratic Party represents the willingness of Democrats to offer olive branches to Republicans—even (or especially) in the face of Republicans’ hatred—it is the center-right bloc personified by Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.Of course, the Republicans can dig in and make things worse. [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 4:00 am by Amy Starnes
Nielsen, Houston Dustin Eugene Nimz, Wichita Falls Richard Keith Oliver, Houston Jed Ross Silverman, Houston Catherine Page Simpson, Fort Worth David Aaron Smith, Angleton Joe David Wells, Missouri City Lloyd Edward Whelchel, Fort Worth Rose M. [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 4:00 am by Amy Starnes
Nielsen, Houston Dustin Eugene Nimz, Wichita Falls Richard Keith Oliver, Houston Jed Ross Silverman, Houston Catherine Page Simpson, Fort Worth David Aaron Smith, Angleton Joe David Wells, Missouri City Lloyd Edward Whelchel, Fort Worth Rose M. [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 1:03 am by INFORRM
Neil McEvoy, who leads the Plaid Cymru group in Cardiff council, faces the bill after pulling out of a libel action he brought against Labour councillor Michael Michael. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 3:34 am
.* Jeremy Phillips' words of warning- and some further thoughtsStarting from Jeremy's words at the 10th anniversary JIPLP program, Neil reflects on the state of IP in the universities. [read post]
17 Nov 2015, 12:34 am
  * My detergent product is green, but don't tell anyoneStarting from a nice story on Eco-friendly detergents, Neil reflect over the evolution of green-branded products and their public's perception. [read post]
12 Sep 2015, 1:22 am by INFORRM
Neil is a penetrating interviewer, who exposes weaknesses in the arguments advanced by politicians of the left, right and centre. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
The dominant news story of the past week has been the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s “torture report,” which documents the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques that the Bush/Cheney Administration carried out (mostly via the Central Intelligence Agency), supposedly to reduce the risk of future terrorist attacks. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 3:05 am
Where is the troll phenomenon going, reflects Neil? [read post]