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20 Dec 2009, 12:03 pm
From Lynn White, Jr., Medieval Technology and Social Change: In 1895 A. Meitzen realized that the form of plough chiefly used in Germany might explain many peculiarities in the arrangement of fields and in the co-operative agriculture often found in medieval villages. A generation of scholarly activity ... produced in 1931 a synthesis from the pen of Marc Bloch which was the more persuasive because his convictions were so gracefully garnished with his doubts .... Thanks to my brother Sasha for… [read post]
3 Feb 2013, 3:29 pm
Oxford University Press has just published a new book on Comparative Constitutionalism in South Asia edited by Sunil Khilnani, Vikram Raghavan, and Arun K. Thiruvengadam. The book has essays covering a diverse set of constitutional themes across the region, and looks very exciting. Topics include constitutional borrowings, law and religious freedom and religious pluralism, judicial power, and so on.The new issue of the journal Seminar is a symposium on some of the current constitutional… [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 12:02 pm
Last year, I received a copy of the Virginia Journal, featuring an in-depth profile on the scholarly work of immprof Kerry Abrams. You can find it on pages 11-34 of the linked .pdf. It's exceedingly well done. It begins with... [read post]
4 Mar 2009, 4:28 pm
Earlier this week, I was filling out a grant application which covered "research for scholarly purposes." It defined such research as going towards "truths not yet discovered." Eventually, I set the application aside, since the truth I was researching was... [read post]
15 Aug 2008, 4:17 pm
As already noted at Moneylaw and elsewhere, a broad discussion of internet interactions has broken out across the blawgosphere. Concerns about bullying, internet trolls, attribution, and other subjects have clearly developed along with the development of law blogs. Part of... [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 5:00 am
We were accused -- okay, okay; we were guilty -- of being an "all preemption, all the time" blog in the days leading up to the Supreme Court's decision in Wyeth v. Levine. But those halcyon days are behind us. We're now half preemption, half the time. It's that time! Here are two recent articles wrestling with preemption law as it stands today. First, Richard Cupp, Jr., (Pepperdine) has posted to SSRN "Preemption's Rise (and Bit of a Fall) as Products Liability… [read post]
6 Jun 2007, 7:48 am
I'm back from a brief blogging hiatus after finishing my grades, and summer is in full swing. Here's a quick update on what I have been doing in terms of research.I have had a law review article and book review published this month. Both articles can be accessed via my faculty home page or my author page on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). You have to register to use SSRN, but the site is free.The law review article is entitled Thinking Outside the Border: Homeland Security and… [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 12:40 pm
Dov Fox (Yale Law School) has posted Retracing Liberalism and Remaking Nature: Designer Children, Research Embryos, and Featherless Chickens on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Liberal theory seeks to achieve the moral and practical goods of toleration, civil peace, and... [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 4:16 am
Clay Calvert and Robert Richards call for an end to the obscenity laws. [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 1:41 pm
The following two articles might interest our readers: Prof. Paul Lund, Federally-Chartered Corporations and Federal Jurisdiction Prof. Austen Parrish, Sovereignty, Not Due Process: Personal Jurisdiction Over Nonresident, Alien Defendants --RR [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 11:23 am
As I was walking from the parking lot to the law school, I talked to a colleague. My colleague had been working on an article this Summer, but then had taken a vacation (gasp!), and was having problems getting back into writing the article. You may remember enough high-school science to recall something about inertia: resistance to changes in motion. You might even remember a different concept, friction: the force (no, not The Force) by which the surrounding environment… [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 5:49 am
. Several terrific new articles have just been posted on SSRN: Charlie Morris, Restoring the Policy and Meaning of the National Labor Relations Act: Countering Taft-Hartley Revisionism and Distortion of the NLRB Appointment Process (forthcoming BJELL 2012). Michelle Travis, Impairment... [read post]
30 Sep 2007, 7:52 am
Fleming, Jennifer Rae. Student article. The blurred line between nursing homes & assisted living facilities: how limited Medicaid funding of assisted living facilities can save tax dollars while improving the quality of life of the elderly. 15 U. Miami Bus.... [read post]
21 Dec 2006, 4:24 am
Press, Jacob. Comment. Poor law: the Deficit Reduction Act's citizenship documentation requirement for Medicaid eligibility. 8 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1033-1070 (2006). KJ... [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 11:26 am
James K. Robinson, Jeannine F. D'Amico & Anne Marie Helm, Recent Developments in Requiring Expert Testimony in Criminal Securities Fraud Cases Michael Seigel, Corporate America Fights Back: The Battle Over Waiver of the Attorney-Client Privilege Lisa Casey, Twenty-Eight Words: Enforcing... [read post]
28 Feb 2010, 2:02 pm
Check out Prosecution Notes here (NYU) It includes an article by Michael L. Volkov & Allyson Miller (Dickinson Wright) titled, Prosecutorial Misconduct: An Increasing Problem or Overblown Hysteria? (esp) [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 10:57 pm
A Note by Duke law student Derick R. Vollrath presents an important view on white collar sentencing. The Note titled, Losing the Loss Calculation: Toward a More Just Sentencing Regime in White-Collar Criminal Cases, states in the abstract that "[m]oreover,... [read post]
29 Jun 2008, 12:53 pm
Plea Bargaining's Survival: Financial Crimes Plea Bargaining, a Continued Triumph in a Post-Enron World LUCIAN E. DERVAN Affiliation Unknown Oklahoma Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 3, Fall 2007 Abstract: This article examines the war on financial crimes that began after... [read post]
16 Jul 2024, 4:29 pm
Joseph Employment Law Scholarship, address the question “What are the biggest challenges facing [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 1:14 pm
The following excerpt is from Sarah Graham, our 2024 Behind The Wheel Scholarship winner. [read post]
