Archive | July, 2007

In a forthcoming article on the law review placement process, Navigating the Law Review Article Selection Process: an Empirical Study of Those With All the Power

From today’s Seventh Circuit opinion by Judge Easterbrook in Nunez v. U.S. (thanks to How Appealing for the pointer): A lawyer who does not show up for trial might as well be a moose, and giving the defendant a moose does not satisfy the sixth amendment. Is this the birth of a new professional pejorative? […]

Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, died yesterday at the age of 89. Here is the New York Times obit and a collection of Bergman-related stories. Libertas’ Jason Apuzzo has a remembrance here. An index of his work is available on IMDB here. UPDATE: Michelangelo Antonioni died too. Daniel Drezner sees […]

From tonight’s interview with Larry King, via TPMMuckraker: KING: The New York Times — which, as you said, is not your favorite — reports it was you who dispatched Gonzales and Andy Card to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft’s hospital in 2004 to push Ashcroft to certify the President’s intelligence-gathering program. Was it you? THE VICE […]

Here’s a video someone (I don’t know who) made at an IHS event. Note that the video doesn’t include the entire song, which goes like this: We’re doing battle with statists Across the USA, ‘Cause everybody’s reading Hayek, The man from Austri-ay — In spontaneous order We let the market play, With the writer Fred […]

at least in the criminal investigation competition.

The hedge fund, run by the former manager of Harvard’s endowment, is liquidating after losing 57% of its value. Fortunately for Harvard, it had “only” 500 million dollars invested in this fund. This follows the high-profile collapse of two Bear Stearns credit market hedge funds, victims of the subprime debacle. Well, Harvard can’t say it […]

David Lat has an interesting post at Above the Law on the political leanings of law firms. I agree with David’s sense that most firms don’t care — which is to say that they reflect the view of the professional crowd drawn to that city, but they don’t make a big deal of it — […]

Over at Concurring Opinions, Dan Solove has posted the latest “Law Professor Blogger Census.” The key point: the number of law professor bloggers continues to increase steadily.   I wonder: Would you get the same impression by counting the number of posts rather than the number of self-identified bloggers? My very casual impression is that the […]

Missouri just enacted a new statute (2007 House Bill 820, revising Rev. Stat. Mo. § 546.720), which provides in relevant part: 3. A person may not, without the approval of the director of the department of corrections, knowingly disclose the identity of a current or former member of an execution team [i.e., a group of […]

Germany has decided to phase out subsidies for the domestic coal industry over the next decade. For decades, German lawmakers have propped up the industry, unwilling to risk massive layoffs and reluctant to eliminate a reliable energy source as gas and oil supplies become scarcer. But after spending more than $200 billion in subsidies since […]

I find myself more or less in agreement with Ruth Marcus, at least based on what we know so far. As I’ve said before, more than once, I think Gonzales should resign as AG. But based on the public record, the allegations that he committed perjury seem pretty weak to me.

Stuart Taylor thinks that Senate Democrats are being short-sighted on judicial nominations, and that their actions may come back to haunt a President Clinton or Presient Obama: Imagine that two years hence, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, or Sen. Barack Obama, or former Sen. John Edwards is president. She or he will be trying to fill […]

The subtitle of my new book is “Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist.” You can order it here. Eugene asked me to write a few posts on the book; I thought I would start by citing an Economist.com characterization: An earlier generation of these books, like Steven […]

According to the AP: U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, the senior judge in the United States, was reported alert and fully recovered from a seizure and fall at his seaside summer home, in which he experienced minor scrapes but no serious injuries. Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Monday that Roberts, 52, would remain overnight […]