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24 Apr 2012, 7:48 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Steve Jakubowski has a summary of the Supreme Court oral argument in the RadLAX case. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 7:24 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Max Stearns has an interesting take on the much-publicized failure to award a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction this year, arguing that it was likely the result of a flawed set of voting rules that led to none of the finalists receiving a majority, rather than statement of unworthiness of all the candidates (apparently the judges would have been fine with any of the three winning, it is just that among the finalists no one of the three stood out above the… [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 5:23 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) James Carter and Jason Fichtner describe it here: Any viable solution must cut spending growth. [read post]
22 Apr 2012, 4:04 am by Glenn Reynolds
TODD ZYWICKI: Upholding the Rule of Law, in Season and out of Season. [read post]
21 Apr 2012, 6:26 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I have a short essay up at the Liberty Law blog today “Upholding the Rule of Law In Season and Out of Season. [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 9:02 am by Curt Cutting
  The story gives the impression that Chrysler's "immunity" from punitive damages is somehow unique or unusual, but as Professsor Todd Zywicki of the Volokh Conspiracy points out, "That WSJ article was weird–it is black-letter bankruptcy law that you can discharge products liability and other tort claims in bankruptcy. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 9:28 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Yeah, I get the idea–if people don’t have to pay their debts now it is like we are giving a big random stimulus because people can buy new stuff and don’t have to pay for old stuff. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 9:13 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) As readers know, my concern about regulation of consumer credit and retail banking is that inefficient efforts to “protect” consumers by regulating prices and terms of credit can have severe unintended consequences by reducing access to higher-quality options (such as credit cards and debit cards) and push consumers to use less-preferred options involuntarily (such as payday lenders and check cashers). [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 5:14 am by Jonathan H. Adler
UPDATE: The VC’s own Todd Zywicki comments: That WSJ article was weird–it is black-letter bankruptcy law that you can discharge products liability and other tort claims in bankruptcy. [read post]
31 Mar 2012, 5:14 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I have a question prompted by Ken’s interesting post commenting on Jonathan’s post on the blindness of the academy to the validity individual mandate challenge. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 2:17 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) There’s an op-ed by Elizabeth Warren and other former COP-TARP members in today’s WaPo criticizing the preferential tax treatment given to AIG as part of the bailouts. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 5:37 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Congratulations to Maureen Ohlhausen, who was unanimously confirmed for a seat on the Federal Trade Commission. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 3:03 pm by Ilya Somin
Todd Zywicki’s excellent blogging about bankruptcy issues has been extremely influential for years. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 3:36 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) My former colleague and sometimes co-author Max Stearns has an op-ed defending the constitutionality of Obamacare in the Baltimore Sun here (co-authored with Leslie Meltzer Henry). [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 4:34 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Paul Roderick Gregory describes an imaginary interview by Chris Wallace of Steven Rattner on the auto bailouts. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 6:30 am by Walter Olson
[Mickey Kaus, Todd Zywicki, Ted Frank, Prof. [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 4:11 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) In an article several years ago I noted several of the unusual bedfellows made between certain industries and environmental groups: The presence of these “gains to trade” politics may explain the otherwise puzzling financial support of industry for environmental interest groups. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 7:02 pm by Josh Wright
  As co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review (along with Todd Zywicki and Ilya Somin) I was very pleased to notice how well the SCER is faring by these measures. [read post]