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25 Jun 2010, 12:57 pm
Court of Appeals Reverses Appellate Division and Says Columbia University Condemnation May Proceed (New York Zoning and Municipal Law Blog) Universities and Eminent Domain - Ilya Somin (The Volokh Conspiracy) New York's Eminent Domain "Blight" Grows - Jonathan Tobin (Contentions) Columbia Expansion Backed by New York's Top Court (Bloomberg) [read post]
28 Sep 2018, 8:15 pm
Participants included a variety of legal scholars and commentators with widely divergent views, including Bruce Ackerman, Mari Matsuda, Deborah Rhode, Sai Prakash, Ilya Shapiro, and myself. [read post]
6 Oct 2018, 8:48 pm
Contributors include legal scholars and commentators from across the political spectrum, including Deborah Rhode, Reva Siegel, Sanford Levinson, Ilya Shapiro, Volokh Conspiracy co-blogger Eugene Kontorovich, and myself, among others. [read post]
24 Dec 2018, 3:02 am
Constitution contains no general federal power to restrict immigration [Ilya Somin and others, Cato Unbound symposium, more] “The Supreme Court Really Needs to Start Defining the Scope of the Second Amendment” [Ilya Shapiro and Matthew Larosiere on Cato amicus brief in Mance v. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 8:07 pm
(Ilya Somin) Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone recently called for southern California to secede and form a new state:Is the state of California about to go “South”? [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 5:35 pm
(Ilya Somin) Today’s Ninth Circuit decision striking down California’s Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage is unpersuasive because it claims that the law fails to meet even minimal “rational basis” scrutiny. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 6:10 am
(Ilya Somin) I recently had a chance to read an advance copy of Brown philosophy professor Jason Brennan’s The Ethics of Voting. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 4:40 pm
(Ilya Somin) In his concurring opinion upholding the constitutionality of the Obamacare individual mandate, Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton argues that the plaintiffs’ case must fail as a “facial” challenge to the law because there are some applications of the mandate that are clearly constitutional. [read post]
25 Oct 2012, 8:05 am
(Ilya Somin) In my post comparing Romney and Obama on libertarian grounds, I noted that libertarians might have good reason to support Obama if it is likely that a second term for him would result in substantial immigration reform, by which I mean letting more immigrants in the country and/or letting more of the ones already here stay. [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 5:00 pm
(Ilya Somin) The recent controversial acquittal of Casey Anthony has stimulated efforts in many states to enact “Caylee’s Law” as a response. [read post]
24 Jul 2010, 4:35 pm
(Ilya Somin) In his much-discussed recent Wall Street Journal op ed, Virginia Senator James Webb makes some good points about affirmative action and race, but also some key mistakes and omissions. [read post]
20 Mar 2011, 2:36 pm
(Ilya Somin) Several liberal Democratic members of Congress are claiming that President Obama’s decision to use force against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi requires congressional authorization:A hard-core group of liberal House Democrats is questioning the constitutionality of U.S. missile strikes against Libya, with one lawmaker raising the prospect of impeachment during a Democratic Caucus conference call on Saturday.Reps. [read post]
2 Nov 2010, 10:29 pm
(Ilya Somin) Even before the election ended, some liberals argued that public ignorance explains the big Republican victories that just occurred. [read post]
21 May 2012, 2:57 pm
(Ilya Somin) Both sides in the individual mandate litigation have developed a wide range of legal arguments to support their position. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 9:40 pm
(Ilya Somin) The recent District of Columbia federal trial court decision upholding the individual mandate breaks little new ground and has many of the same weaknesses as the two previous district court decisions that went the same way. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 8:56 pm
(Ilya Somin) At Ricochet, Hillsdale College Professor Paul Rahe has a post on the 150th anniversary of South Carolina’s vote to secede from the Union. [read post]
17 May 2012, 12:29 pm
(Ilya Somin) In the recent case of Bowlby v. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 3:17 pm
(Ilya Somin) Damon Root of Reason has an interesting article giving his list of the “Top Ten Libertarian Supreme Court Decisions”: It’s no secret the U.S. [read post]
19 Jun 2024, 4:08 am
Over at VC, Ilya Somin has an excellent post about Biden’s “parole in place” policy. which should be about as uncontroversial from a policy perspective as any presidential act could be. [read post]
24 May 2010, 1:30 pm
(Ilya Somin) One of the most common rationales for anti-discrimination law is that it is needed to protect unpopular minority groups against exclusion from jobs and other opportunities. [read post]
