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15 Dec 2007, 8:13 pm
Are you a law student or alumnus at a private law school? Do you enjoy it when your school brings in a Supreme Court Justice or other federal judge to give a talk, teach a class, judge a moot court competition or deliver the commencement address? Well, forget about it. In a few days, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on an amendment to S. 1638, which, if adopted, will forbid federal judges and justices from accepting more than $1500 "in connection with a single trip or event, travel,… [read post]
18 Nov 2007, 11:10 pm
A friend of mine took his daughter on a college tour recently and reported back that Pitzer College--one of the otherwise highly-regarded Claremont Colleges--appeared to him to be a politically correct hell hole. Here is at least some evidence that he was right: Pitzer requires all freshman to enroll in a First-Year Seminar during the Fall Semester. Seventeen such seminars are offered from which a student may select, but enrollment is limited, so not everyone gets his first… [read post]
16 Aug 2007, 9:05 pm
This really frightenng .... In Missouri, in order to get popular initiative on the ballot, the proponents must submit their proposed language to the secretary of state. The law states that the ballot language must be drawn up "in the form of a question using language neither intentionally argumentative nor likely to create prejudice either for or against the proposed measure." If it isn't, the secretary of state can tweak it a bit. But she… [read post]
22 Apr 2007, 1:05 pm
A discussion of several occasions on which berserk killers have been stopped by someone with a gun (and the MSM's failure to report the circumstances) .... [read post]
2 Apr 2007, 11:04 am
My research assistant, Ms. Poulos, just sent me this link along with a note that reads, "This is slightly horrifying." She is evidently prone to understatement. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 9:29 pm
This is an interesting issue that I wish I had more time to blog on right now. I will try to add more later. I read Curt Levey's paper a few months ago when it was in draft form. Law firms (as well as the clients that are pressuring them to hire women and minority attorneys or face dismissal) would be wise to take this extremely seriously. [read post]
12 Jan 2007, 3:40 am
Ah! I'm happy to see that somebody in the media--Michael Miner at the Chicago Reader--is starting to comment on the Chicago Sun-Times' coverage of the Marshall Field's fiasco. It's been rather creepy reading the Sun-TImes lately. Why would a newspaper care one way or the other about a department store? Very simple. Department store ads are newspapers' Number 1 source of revenue. And Federated Department Stores, Inc. is the largest department… [read post]
11 Nov 2006, 12:17 am
This hasn't been a great week for the Republican Party. But then again the Republican Party didn't deserve a great week, so I'm not sure too many people are in a position to complain. I'd like to add my voice to those who have suggested that the GOP's problem isn't its values (at least not as I perceive those values). Instead, it was the straying from those values that lost the GOP its majorities. Perhaps a case in point: The Michigan Civil Rights… [read post]
24 Apr 2018, 4:07 am
Paying for job training has always been a challenge. When a Colonial American "master" shoemaker took on an apprentice, it would cost him at the outset. The master had to feed and clothe the apprentice as well as spend significant amounts of time training him. Somehow the master needed to be compensated, apprentices rarely had the funds to pay the full cost of the training upfront. Instead, the master was usually compensated in the form of a commitment to remain a certain number of years.… [read post]
18 May 2018, 5:50 am
Today is the 122st anniversary of the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). These days almost every middle school student is familiar with the case and how it ultimately came out. But just in case you were born on Mars: Notoriously, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Louisiana's Separate Car Act, which required railroads to provide "separate but equal" cars for blacks and whites. One thing that some people don't know is that the railroads were rooting for Homer… [read post]
24 Nov 2007, 7:28 pm
About a week ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an opinion essay penned by Sandra Day O'Connor critical of certain judicial selection procedures in state courts. She argued that partisan judicial elections have become corrupted by special interest money in states like Pennsylvania and are not the way to go. Instead, she favored a system under which "an independent commission of knowledgeable citizens recommends several qualified candidates suitable for appointment by… [read post]
7 Jul 2007, 10:03 am
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has been studying Historically Black Colleges and Universities and will probably be issuing a report in the next few months; Meanwhile I've been doing a little reading on the subject. Did you know, for example, the HBCUs produce 40% of the science and engineering degrees that go to African Americans with only 20% of the African-American students? That's pretty impressive. Why might this be? In 1996, Rogers Elliott, A. Christopher Strenta, et al. took a… [read post]
31 Dec 2006, 7:40 pm
Attention all Federalist Society members and friends: On January 27th, at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, the Federalist Society will be sponsoring a salute to former Attorney General Edwin Meese III. It will feature Gen. Meese himself, Ted Olson, Ken Cribb, Judge Lois Haight Herrington, Doug Kmiec, Dan Lowenstein, Judge Stephen Markman, Mike Rappaport, William Bradford Reynolds and Michael Uhlmann. And me. The title of the program is "The Legacy of the Department… [read post]
26 Nov 2006, 9:20 pm
Best wishes to my former research assistant Ronson Shamoun and his bride Melanie Dallo. Roni and Melanie were married yesterday evening in a beautiful ceremony at St. Peter's Chaldean Catholic Cathedral. When I left the reception a little before midnight, they were still dancing, and it didn't look like they were going to break up anytime soon. For all I know the relatives are still there (although I hope Roni and Melanie have taken a break for their honeymoon). Those who… [read post]
3 Aug 2018, 3:00 am
A new study finds evidence that they do.James Cleith Phillips has just posted Testing a Beckerian-Arrowian Model of Poltical Orientation Discrimination on the U.S. Law Professor Labor Market: Measuring the "Rank Gap", 2001-2010. Here's the abstract: There are comparatively few conservative and libertarian law professors on U.S. law school faculties. Why is this? One possible explanation is discrimination based on political orientation. This paper tests this using a model of… [read post]
9 Jul 2018, 5:49 am
In Ricci v. DeStefano (2009), a Title VII case that concerned the tension between liability for actual discrimination and liability for disparate impact, Justice Scalia began his concurrence this way: I join in the Court's opinion in full, but write separately to observe that its resolution of this dispute merely postpones the evil day on which the Court will have to confront the question: Whether, or to what extent, are the disparate-impact provisions of [Title VII] of the Civil Rights Act of… [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 8:10 pm
Times: "Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail [read post]
28 Jul 2007, 6:38 pm
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will be releasing a report on affirmative action in law schools in the next few weeks. I expect this report to be interesting and controversial, so be on the lookout for it. [read post]
22 May 2007, 12:34 pm
Not, not me, silly. I like Christian Evangelicals just fine. It's my colleagues in the academy who seem happy to admit to pollsters that they have unfavorable views of Christian Evangelicals. According to Tobin & Weinberg's "Religious Belief & Behavior of College Faculty," a solid majority of 53% claimed such feelings. I should be astonished by this admission, but I'm not. For the record, I will point out that… [read post]
14 May 2007, 4:31 pm
I plan to blog as much as possible this week on H.R. 1592 (the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007), which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on May 3rd It is, in my opinion, a pernicious item of legislation. Let me begin by re-printing an op-ed I wrote for the San Diego Union Tribune on July 5, 2000, when an earlier version of the same proposal was before the U.S. Senate:Lights, Camera, Legislation: Federal Hate Crimes Laws Are an Ill-Considered… [read post]
