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2 Mar 2022, 4:59 am
please take a look at A Dubious Expediency: How Race Preferences Damage Higher Education (edited by Maimon [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 5:12 pm
Maimon Kirschenbaum stated, "Mr. Bastianich and Mr. Batali are not above the law. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 2:55 am
A friend at a law firm describes how big, apparently successful firms collapse: "What appears to happen in these places when they go under is that a greedhead partner earns say $1.8 million in one year but only $1.3 million the next. One would think that life would go on somehow. But the greedhead gets angry. He feels "misled" by the Managing Partner who expressed optimism about the year to come at the Partners Retreat in Hilton Head the previous March. The MP may have been… [read post]
18 Sep 2011, 1:38 am
Here is something unusually thoughtful about Jews, Judaism, and Communism; with special reference to Poland, but also to east-central Europe and Russia generally. If one can feel pride because of an accomplishment of a Jew, even of a non-Jewish Jew who did not act as a Jew, then by the same token one can feel shame because of crimes committed by Jews. If someone ever felt pride because of Freud's accomplishments he should be ready to feel ashamed because of Kaganovich in Russia, or Berman in… [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 2:37 am
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. The most horrific examples historically are of course the Reichstag fire in Berlin in 1933 and the Kirov assassination in Leningrad in 1934. (Needless to say, this is not to imply that we are dealing with Hitler or Stalin today. We aren't, and God grant that we never shall be.) The Reichstag fire… [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 3:09 am
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?) that they were "gonna do some serious shopping DAMAGE dude!" Schama's political point? [A]s the pontificators of the rightwing media insist, it's only deluded bleeding-heart liberals who persist in thinking that massive and growing income… [read post]
17 Dec 2009, 10:14 am
I'm in Jerusalem, teaching a two-week course at the Hebrew University Law School - in English, I hasten to add. It's an introduction to the US Constitutional system: the Israeli students are bright, interested, and very good in English. (Would that I were as good in Hebrew...) One of my hosts, a member of the law faculty who has been active in Israeli politics, had a party at his home a few days ago. There were law professors, an Israeli Supreme Court Justice, and a lawyer for one of the… [read post]
24 Nov 2009, 4:54 pm
I've been in Paris teaching a mini-course at the Sorbonne on US constitutional law. (In English, I hasten to add.) In class once or twice I've alluded wryly to the fact that France, like all European Union nations, no longer really governs itself. The students smile ruefully each time. They are perfectly well aware that the new EU President (an obscure Belgian politician, a fervent "federalist" of course; "federalism" in this context… [read post]
11 May 2008, 1:55 pm
"By the time Hillary Clinton figured out how to beat Barack Obama, it was too late", says Charles Krauthammer.When she began the race in 2007 thinking she was in for a coronation, she claimed the center in order to position herself for the real fight, the general election. She simply assumed the party activists and loony Left would fall in behind her.However, as Obama began to rise, powered by the party's Net-roots activists, she scurried left, particularly with her… [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 12:18 pm
Glenn Reynolds: "I don't believe in intelligent design. The case for not-very-bright design, however, remains open." [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 6:23 pm
Eugene Volokh goes for McCain:I'd vote for either of the Republican candidates in November, and I have some reservations about both. Still, I think that McCain is likely to be very good on defense and on spending, and I think he's eminently electable (not the only criterion, but a very important one). I'm also moved by the views of many lawyers and scholars I know and respect as serious conservatives â€â [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 12:43 am
The stock markets were euphoric yesterday about the latest EU bailout/rescue deal. Is the euro-crisis over? Will euphoria, or even mild euro-optimism, continue for very long? I wouldn't bet on it. The trillion Euro rescue commitment turns out to be highly "leveraged", that is, illusory or at least highly risky. It was leverage that helped precipitate the 2008 Lehman and housing crises. The risk that Wednesday's euro-salvation might make things even worse, rather than better, is… [read post]
7 May 2010, 3:01 pm
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. (Pity about Patrick Ruffini's initials.) The Liberal Democrats in Britain yearn for PR of course, because as a third party, PR might transform them into perpetual king-makers; instead of their only having outsize leverage once in a… [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 1:55 pm
A propos Tom's thoughts about intelligent aliens from outer space: here is the Galaxy Song from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. "...And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space/ Because there's bugger-all down here on earth." The song is classic - and perfectly sweet - Edwardian music hall, by the way. The Pythons were fond of traditional English things: they were often quite conservative at heart. [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 1:14 pm
I'm in Jerusalem for a conference at the Hebrew University on judicial independence. The conference really starts tomorrow, but the conference-goers were invited to the Knesset - Israel's parliament - today to meet the chairman of the Constitution and Law Committee, Menachem Ben-Sasson, a former history professor and an unusually quick, engaging, and intellectually lively man. There's a rancorous debate in Israel (for anyone who knows Israeli politics that last… [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 12:28 am
Michael Livingston is running for Congress in the Second District in Pennsylvania. Mike teaches tax at Rutgers Camden, has a wonderful blog, and has been quoted - to the point of virtually being a guest blogger - here at the Right Coast. Here is his announcent and press release. Mike is one of the most thoughtful and reflective people around. (Despite teaching tax law...) (And blogging...) Congress would be a much better place with a leavening of… [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 6:22 pm
From John Derbyshire:So farewell then, Eliot Spitzer.You're leaving our state in the pits. Herpeople head west,by taxes oppressed.We're glad you've decided to quit, Sir. [read post]
1 Mar 2008, 9:54 pm
The Duke lacrosse players' lawsuit against Duke University evidently violates Duke's speech code. Naturally, Duke is doing what now comes naturally to academics and academic administrators: trying to shut down the players' speechcrime - their court filings, which they've had the temerity to post on the internet. (Scroll down to "Documents".) Presumably Duke will soon discover that the courts have not yet reached the level of enlightenment… [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 3:11 am
Mike makes an engaging case that a McCain presidency might either saddle Republicans with responsibility for policies they don't really support, or foreclose conservative/libertarians from re-emerging as a successful political movement; so it would be better if McCain were to lose the general election, assuming he is the Repulican nominee, and for Mrs Clinton to win. Mike seems less sure - for good reason, I think - about preferring Barrack Obama as well. Mike takes an optimistic… [read post]
30 Jan 2008, 2:10 am
I have posted an article, "Keeping It Private", which is coming out in the San Diego Law Review and also in the University of Queensland Law Journal in Australia, where it is part of a symposium on the role of public policy in private law. "Private law" is about the relations of private people and institutions, whereas "public law" is about the government and people's relations with it. So private law includes commercial law,… [read post]
