My colleague Gary Blasi helpfully pointed me to scholar.google.com, which lets you search through “scholarly” sites. Looks potentially useful, though it’s hard to tell how good (i.e., suitably broad yet suitably narrow) the search function is. Special bonus for the sophomorically inclined (this is my idea, not Gary’s): The search engine lets you engage in […]
Archive | November, 2004
Volokh Conspiracy Sells Out:
I’m pleased to report that American Lawyer Media’s law.com has invited us to join the Law.com Blog Network, and we accepted. This means: You’ll see an ad that they provide in the upper right hand corner of the blog, followed by headlines from other Blog Network blogs. We neither endorse nor denounce the contents of […]
Likudnik, Part II:
Kevin Drum writes: ANTI-SEMITISM….This is getting tiresome. It has long been a staple on the right that most criticism of Israel is really just thinly veiled anti-Semitism. Then after 9/11 we began hearing that criticism of neocons was just thinly veiled anti-Semitism. Now David Bernstein comes along to tell us that use of the term […]
Condaleeza Rice and the Second Amendment:
Condoleeza Rice has described herself as “a Second Amendment absolutist.” An article in the Montgomery Advertiser explains why. She grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where her father, a Presbyterian minister, was a strong advocate of civil rights: Rice has said memories of Birmingham’s racial turmoil shaped some of her core values. During the bombings of […]
The Ivory Tower:
You know that a university is doing pretty well when the lead article in the latest issue of the school paper begins with following paragraph: The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority will receive “harsh penalties” for allowing two unrecognized fraternities to participate in their kickball tournament, Panhellenic Association officials said earlier this week.
Phil Carter responds:
Phil Carter, who is a co-author of the Slate piece that I mentioned below, an expert on law-of-war questions, and my former student, responded: You wrote: “But I don’t see how the the Third Geneva Convention applies to insurgents who don’t abide by the laws of war, see article 4. (I’m also not sure why […]
Former Ninth Circuit Clerks Respond:
I received lots of mail from former Ninth Circuit clerks in response to my Friday post on the role that bench memos play in the Ninth Circuit. Some agreed with my pet theory that shared bench memos contribute to some of the Ninth Circuit’s quirky decisions; others weren’t convinced. I thought VC readers might be […]
More on the Geneva Conventions and wounded combatants:
A colleague of mine suggested that the Fourth Geneva Convention may protect wounded insurgents even if their armed forces don’t comply with the laws of war: Article 3 In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict […]
Wounded soldiers and the Geneva Conventions:
I’m not up on the facts of the incident in which a marine is alleged to have killed a wounded and supposedly harmless enemy soldier. But let’s assume the following situation: A wounded insurgent — not a member of a nation’s armed forces or militias allied to a nation’s armed forces — is no longer […]
Party affiliations of academics:
Today’s New York Times reports on a recent study by Daniel Klein. Klein sampled over 1000 U.S. academics as to their party affiliations. Here are a few salient facts: 1. In the humanities and social sciences, Democrats outnumber Republicans by at least seven to one. 2. For nonacademic practitioners, the numbers are not nearly so […]
The Man Who Set Himself on Fire
in front of the White House a few days ago turns out to be an important informant who had led U.S. investigators to lots of information in a number of terrorism cases. The New York Times offers this investigative report.
Organized Crime in Your In-Box:
Today’s Washington Post offers this very good story on e-mail phishing scams.
No Anti-Semitism Here…:
Folks on the Left have been throwing around the term “Likudnik” to refer to any non-left-wing Jew who differs with them on foreign policy [UPDATE: Case in point], even when the relevant issue has nothing directly to do with Israel, Iraq being exhibit A (to the extent the insinuation is that these Jews supported the […]
Scalia at Michigan:
University of Michigan law student Heidi Bond live-blogged Justice Scalia’s Q and A session this afternoon at the law school; you can read her post here. (Link: Crescat.) Heidi also has a post up on a lecture Justice Scalia delivered yesterday. An excerpt: About ten minutes into the class, people protesting Scalia’s sexual preference jurisprudence […]
Religious people trying to implement their religious views into law:
So far, I’ve gotten about 15 responses to the earlier posts, some very detailed — I’m afraid that I won’t be able to respond to most of them, though I hope to blog a few follow-ups responding to some. Many thanks for writing!