Brian’s emphasis on crosstown rivalries of Columbia/NYU and Chicago/NW Law provides a good way to illustrate my point. As Brian notes, the rivalry between Columbia and crosstown upstart NYU played itself out in the form of head-to-head competition for faculty and students. The two schools are now, arguably, in equipoise. Dean (now NYU President) […]
Randy Barnett argued in Friday’s Wall Street Journal* that
District of Columbia v. Heller teaches the importance of interpretive philosophy or method in judicial decision-making and the importance of selecting judges who have the right interpretive
philosophy.
Barnett said:
Justice Scalia’s opinion is the finest example of what is
now called "original public meaning" jurisprudence ever adopted by the Supreme
Court. […]
June 24, 2008
MEMORANDUM
Re: Poster Presentation at 2009 AALS
Annual Meeting
You are invited to
submit a proposal of a poster presentation for the 2009 AALS Annual Meeting in
San Diego, California (January 6-10, 2009).
Please send your
proposal by e-mail to sections@aals.org by September 30, 2008. The poster
should state your name, the name of your law school, the […]
The blogosphere is abuzz with the announcement of NWU’s 2-Year JD (Paul Caron collects relevant links ; the W$J Law Blog also has ). There is a lot of reaction to the program, especially in the comments at Above the Law, but not much analysis. So I thought I would fill the void. Moreover, this […]
Today’s Supreme Court decision in the Exxon case relies
heavily upon the empirical literature to punitive damages to evaluate the availability
and scope of punitive damage awards under maritime law. See footnote 13 (citing several studies shows
that punitive damages were on the rise between the 1960s and 1990s but
acknowledging more recent research, including Eisenberg, Heise, et al., […]
The graphic depiction of these law clerk moves is one of the more interesting aspects of the study. In one depiction, Supreme Court justices are, not surprisingly, clustered in the middle, but — more surprisingly — district court judges are "suffused throughout the network," not relegated to the periphery. This is one representation, Katz and […]
Earlier this week, I co-chaired Insight Information’s conference on electronic health records here in Halifax. I was very pleased to see a lot of expertise in privacy developing in Atlantic Canada, which is necessary as Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland move towards developing and implementing health privacy laws and as electronic health record projects […]
Because actions speak louder than words, one can easily assume that the British populace is completely passive and accepting of the explosion of CCTV surveillance throughout the green and pleasant lands of England. There is some dissent. Witness: Marina Hyde who has an interesting opinion piece in The Guardian.
Marina Hyde: This surveillance onslaught is draconian […]
