(in the context of assisted suicide) at Southern Appeal, between Steve (Feddie), Ramesh Ponnuru, and Jonathan Adler.
Archive | August, 2004
Vote Suppression in Florida:
Stuart Buck investigates continued allegations of voter suppression in Florida during the 2000 election.
Migration on the Move:
Earlier this week I heard a provocative talk on migration by Philip Martin of the University of California at Davis. In short, Martin argued that pressure for international migration will increase in coming decades for both demographic and economic reasons. Incomes are substantially higher, and population density is lower, in industrialized nations, making them more […]
ExpressO:
(This post is for authors of law review articles, and for law review editors.) I used Berkeley Electronic Press’s ExpressO service (FAQ here) to submit my last article, and I was quite happy with it — I basically selected the journals I wanted to submit to, uploaded my paper, my cover letter, and my list […]
Speech in Chicago:
I will be speaking in Chicago on Monday at noon on behalf of the Chicago Lawyers’ Division of the Federal Society. The topic: “You Can’t Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws.” For details and RSVP contact CROHRBAC at skadden.com.
Self-Hating:
Eric Muller (IsThatLegal?) points out that some people may indeed be “self-hating Xs”: “[B]ecause the person’s X-ness is very important to him or her yet also at some subconscious level causes or has caused him or her a great deal of discomfort, he or she denies and even flees from his or her X-ness[, and […]
Grokster:
The Ninth Circuit has just affirmed a district court’s decision that the distributors of Grokster, a peer-to-peer file-sharing service, weren’t liable for contributory or vicarious copyright infringement. My thoughts, which unfortunately probably presuppose a knowledge or reason to know of the legal structure of contributory infringement (which generally requires knowledge of specific illegal use or […]
Republican Senatorial Candidate Alan Keyes
is now supporting reparations for slavery (thanks to Dan Gifford for the pointer): Keyes proposed that for a generation or two, African-Americans of slave heritage should be exempted from federal taxes — federal because slavery “was an egregious failure on the part of the federal establishment.” In calling for the tax relief, Keyes appeared to […]
Technology Liberation Front:
(No it has nothing to do with the Front for the Liberation of Technology, damn it.) Some of the leading lights in libertarian tech policy — Adam Thierer (Cato), Jim Harper (Cato), Braden Cox (CEI), Sonia Arrison (PRI), Solveig Singleton, James Gattuso (Heritage), Wayne Brough (Freedom Works), Tim Lee (Cato), and Thomas Pearson (Cato) — […]
The perils of being a passive law student —
a tale of woe, with a moral: I’ve just been corresponding with a reader who wants to get into law teaching. His problem — and it’s a problem shared by many law students and young lawyers who want to get clerkships, fellowships, and other interesting jobs in government or in public interest law — is […]
Watch Porn When You Drink Up:
I’ve noted the benefits of (moderate) alcohol consumption. Now Dan Drezner reports on some evidence that watching porn is good for you. Just wait, soon they’ll find listening to loud rock music makes you live longer too. Then everyone will need an amp that goes to 11.
ACS on Enemy Combatants:
Kate Martin and Joe Onek offer an ACS Issue Brief on enemy combatants. An excerpt: The administration claims that the conflict with al Qaeda is a war and that therefore reliance on the criminal law is misplaced. It then claims that the conflict is a new kind of war, in which the traditional law of […]
Political Mudslinging:
Max Boot has a nice piece on modern political mudslinging, or comparative lack thereof.
Judge Kozinski on slippery slopes and privacy:
As I mentioned below, a Ninth Circuit en banc panel has just upheld the collection of DNA from people who are on probation after having been convicted of a crime. Judge Kozinski was one of the dissenters, and one of his arguments was that the majority’s result could lead to requirements that the DNA of […]
Second Amendment footnote:
The Ninth Circuit en banc five-Judge plurality opinion upholding DNA collection from probationers has this material in n.28 on pp. 11459-60 (accompanying the text “[T]he Court has recognized that ‘those who have suffered a lawful conviction’ are properly subject to a ‘broad range of [restrictions] that might infringe constitutional rights in free society,’): In Morrissey […]