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26 Mar 2014, 12:25 pm
A while ago, I blogged about my Alabama Law Review article, Do Faith-Based Prisons Work? [read post]
26 Mar 2014, 6:58 am
Over 70 economists and law professors have signed a letter by Dan Crane (from University of Michigan) opposing New Jersey’s ban on direct sales of automobiles. [read post]
25 Mar 2014, 9:17 am
The web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is one of the best geeky web comics out there, together with xkcd. [read post]
24 Mar 2014, 6:36 am
Over the weekend, my friend Diana Hsieh discussed private prisons on her Internet radio show Philosophy in Action. [read post]
21 Mar 2014, 2:36 pm
First, The battle for the English language: Why are books about English grammar and correct usage so popular? [read post]
20 Mar 2014, 8:06 pm
Since I’ve been writing about the effectiveness of faith-based prisons — and what it takes to have a good evaluation methodology — I thought I’d point out an interesting paper, Do Federal Social Programs Work? [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 11:15 am
Zephyr Teachout of Fordham Law School has a new article on SSRN called Corporate Rules and Political Rules: Antitrust as Campaign Finance Reform. [read post]
18 Mar 2014, 9:18 am
John Sampson was a doctor who contracted with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to provide services to patients in exchange for reimbursement. [read post]
17 Mar 2014, 6:59 am
 Only the results of a true experiment would apparently satisfy Volokh and other critics, and that won’t happen. [read post]
15 Mar 2014, 1:35 pm
Remember March, the ides of March remember: Did not great Julius bleed for justice’ sake? [read post]
14 Mar 2014, 6:44 am
In quaintly valuable ways, a dedicated student — I, Volokh, Alexander — can determine beautiful and curious stuff, O! [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 2:40 pm
Lexicographer Kory Stamper’s harm·less drudg·ery blog defends talking funny. [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 10:14 am
In some past posts, I’ve discussed federal contractor immunity. [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 9:23 am
When the California voters passed Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage and the California government refused to defend it on appeal, the job of defending it fell to the official proponents of the initiative. [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 9:32 am
Between 1913 and 1915, there was a third baseball league, the Federal League, competing with the two established organized leagues we already know, the National League and the American League. [read post]
10 Mar 2014, 12:53 pm
The U.S. government contracted with various corporations, including Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) and Halliburton, to provide waste disposal and water treatment services on military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
7 Mar 2014, 6:27 am
In posting about the North Carolina anti-voucher decision yesterday, I referred to an article by Preston Green and Peter Moran on state constitutional provisions that may restrict vouchers, and also to a Reason.org post I did on the subject a few months ago, when the Louisiana Supreme Court struck down a voucher plan. [read post]
6 Mar 2014, 7:42 am
On February 17, a North Carolina state trial judge, Robert Hobgood, struck down North Carolina’s Opportunity Scholarships program (i.e. school vouchers) as violating the North Carolina Constitution. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 8:05 pm by Walter Olson
“The Shadow Lengthens: The Continuing Threat of Regulation by Prosecution” [James Copland and Isaac Gorodetski, Manhattan Institute] Police busts of “johns” thrill NYT’s Kristof [Jacob Sullum, earlier on the columnist] Sasha Volokh series on private vs. public prisons [Volokh] “Police agencies have a strong financial incentive to keep the drug war churning. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 1:06 pm
Yesterday, I posted some questions from my English Legal History exam. [read post]