Duke Law professor James Coleman, former chief counsel to the House Ethics Committee, later wrote that these Nifong-mandated procedural irregularities "strongly suggest[ed] that the purpose of the identification process was to give the alleged victim an opportunity to pick three members of the lacrosse team who could be charged. [read post]

Most scholars operating within the branch of modern positivist analytic jurisprudence that is concerned with understanding substantive aspects of law (rather than understanding the concept of law itself) can generally be said to embrace one of two prominent methodologies: conceptual analysis (as exemplified by Jules Coleman’s explanation of tort law in The Practice of Principle) or, Brian Leiter’s approach which relies on the empirical sciences to explain legal phenomenon (as… [read post]

The West Virginia Cerebral Palsy Resource Guide was compiled by United Cerebral Palsy as a Resource Guide for individuals and families in West Virginia affected by cerebral palsy. [read post]

Those who took the time and made the effort to nominate their personal recommendations for Blawg Review of the Year 2009 know how daunting a task it is to single out a half dozen outstanding presentations of Blawg Review in 2009. [read post]