New developments in scholarship:

For those who are interested in law and music, and the (really!) fascinating question of what musical interpretation has to teach us about statutory interpretation, check out Ian Gallacher's Conducting the Constitution: Justice Scalia, Textualism, and the Eroica Symphony. It's fun -- and even contains snippets of score! -- but not, I think, altogether fair to the textualist perspective. (For example: Who says a legal textualist should think textualism even desirable in music?) A better contribution to the genre, as I recall (it's been maybe ten years since I read this), is Sanford Levison's and J.M. Balkin's Law, Music, and Other Performing Arts, 139 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1597 (1991).

And, for those of you whose interests tend either to tax law or to silly jokes about buffalo, check out Erik M. Jensen's Wheir's the Beef?: Buffalo Law and Taxation, 36 N.M. L. Rev. 517 (2006). This is really one where you have to read the footnotes.