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28 May 2012, 1:08 pm by David Bernstein
He added that co-blogger and Warren critic Todd Zywicki would have known this if Todd had “participated in hiring at an elite law school. [read post]
18 May 2012, 8:08 am by Brian Leiter
Zywicki says, falsely, that "in the past Warren identified herself as a Native American... [read post]
17 May 2012, 3:31 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I was out of town most of last week and I wasn’t planning on blogging any more on the increasingly bizarre saga of Elizabeth Warren’s claim to Native American ancestry, which as of the current moment appears to be entirely unsubstantiated. [read post]
15 May 2012, 9:13 pm by Josh Wright
I am the co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review, a peer-review publication that is one of the country’s top-rated law and economics journals, along with my colleagues Todd Zywicki and Ilya Somin. [read post]
15 May 2012, 7:30 am by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) As some of our readers know, co-blogger Todd Zywicki and I are co-editors of the Supreme Court Economic Review, a peer-review publication that is one of the country’s top-rated law and economics journals. [read post]
10 May 2012, 4:40 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) For those who lack the interest or patience to read my forthcoming full-blown law review article in the Washington & Lee law review, I have a shorter adapted version in latest issue of the Federalist Society’s journal Engage on the economics and regulation of bank overdraft protection. [read post]
4 May 2012, 7:05 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Aside from Brian Leiter, whose contention that being Native American provides no affirmative action edge in law school hiring fails the straight-face test, it is obvious to everyone else why Elizabeth Warren self-identified as Native American all those years–which was to get an edge in hiring. [read post]
4 May 2012, 5:49 am by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) In honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Milton Freidman’s Capitalism and Freedom the Liberty Law website has organized a symposium of reflections on the book’s legacy. [read post]
2 May 2012, 3:13 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) I’ve posted a new, short essay on SSRN, “The Senate and Hyper-Partisanship: Would the Constitution Look Different If the Framers Had Known that Senators Would Be Elected in Partisan Elections? [read post]
1 May 2012, 8:02 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) John Rosenberg discusses some of the bigger-picture slippery logic of affirmative action on Minding the Campus asking why those who believe in racial preferences have rushed to vouch that she never benefited from them. [read post]
1 May 2012, 2:29 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) Mark Olson says that CFPB is raising additional concerns as it ramps up in practice: Two disturbing bits of recent information give us a taste of how the CFPB plans to operate. [read post]
1 May 2012, 2:20 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) One of the obvious questions prompted by the public recognition that Elizabeth Warren’s claimed Native American ancestry is what it takes for someone to avail themselves of the preferential treatment afforded to racial and cultural minorities in hiring–and in particular, can someone assert the identity if they are only 1/32 and have absolutely no cultural ties, such as tribal membership. [read post]
30 Apr 2012, 6:12 pm by Todd Zywicki
(Todd Zywicki) If you are interested in learning more about public choice economics a great way to get introduced is by attending the annual Public Choice Outreach Seminar held at the George Mason Public Choice Center in Fairfax. [read post]
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]