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29 Oct 2010, 1:13 pm by Lawrence Solum
Maimon Schwarzschild (University of San Diego School of Law) has posted Judicial Independence vs. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 11:36 pm by maimons
Complete video of the Adolf Eichmann trial is now posted online. [read post]
7 May 2010, 3:01 pm by maimons
Here is a good post by Patrick Ruffini on why proportional representation ("PR") is bad politics and why single-member constituencies (i.e. districts in the US) - with whoever gets the most votes the winner - is the right way to go. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 2:18 am by maimons
If by some chance you haven't watched Foyle's War, the English TV series - well, do. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 12:02 am by maimons
Suppose you wanted to show your chemistry pupils how many molecules there are in a few teaspoonfuls of water? [read post]
18 Sep 2011, 1:38 am by maimons
Here is something unusually thoughtful about Jews, Judaism, and Communism; with special reference to Poland, but also to east-central Europe and Russia generally. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 3:09 am by maimons
Here is Simon Schama, in the Financial Times, on his fellow-passengers on the New York commuter train: Heavy-set thirtysomethings on parole from suburbia, fists popping cans of Bud Lite, boomed to all who wanted to hear (Ben Bernanke maybe?) [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 12:43 am by maimons
The stock markets were euphoric yesterday about the latest EU bailout/rescue deal. [read post]
4 Nov 2008, 10:38 pm
Stalin once gave an interview, in 1930 or thereabouts, to the then-famous literary midbrow Emil Ludwig. [read post]
24 Nov 2009, 4:54 pm by maimons
I've been in Paris teaching a mini-course at the Sorbonne on US constitutional law. [read post]
27 Apr 2011, 5:53 pm by maimons
When I was a kid in the mid-1960s, I laughed immoderately when Ramparts magazine - the slick voice of the New Left - had a jeering piece about Madame Nhu and her family, deposed by a coup in South Vietnam, entitled "No Nhus is Good News". [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 1:40 am
I think when the right was disappointed in Bush - which we often were - it was for substantive (and substantial) reasons. [read post]
17 Dec 2009, 10:14 am by maimons
I'm in Jerusalem, teaching a two-week course at the Hebrew University Law School - in English, I hasten to add. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 1:55 pm by maimons
A propos Tom's thoughts about intelligent aliens from outer space: here is the Galaxy Song from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 2:37 am by maimons
The Arizona shootings, and the politics that follow, bring to mind other crimes which have been appropriated, misappropriated, or hijacked for political purposes with far reaching consequences. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 12:16 am by maimons
Victor Davis Hanson may be the best chronicler and commentator we have: he produces clear-eyed, clear-minded commentary, every few days. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 1:11 pm
He was my teacher, as he was to so many of us: politically, and even more so personally. [read post]
13 Jan 2010, 2:45 pm by maimons
The earthquake in Haiti this week is almost unimaginably disastrous. [read post]