I was intrigued to read the Chief Conspirator’s post on grains, and functional grains, including the comments on quinoa, the Andean grain – I believe technically a flower, but treated in cooking like a grain – that has very high protein content and low sugars. As it happens, I cook with quinoa a lot, and […]
Archive | 2010
My New Paper on the Constitutionality of the Individual Insurance Mandate
On Thursday, October 14th, I will be giving the Sixth Annual Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture at New York University. i have just uploaded to SSRN the article on which that lecture will be based, which will be published in the N.Y.U. Journal of Law and Liberty. It is entitled: Commandeering the People: Why the […]
Induced Innovation Promotes Climate Change Adaptation
As climate change unfolds, billions of people will be seeking cost-effective strategies for dealing with the consequences of heat waves, draught, sea level rise and increased natural disaster risk. We will be seeking to consume more electricity (because summer temperatures will rise in many areas around the world), more water (because of climate change’s impact […]
Brief Blogging Hiatus
My efforts at blogging may be sparse or nonexistent for the next few days, because I am getting married on Saturday, and have to finish up a major pro bono project before then. The conjunction of these events also explains why I haven’t done much blogging over the last few days. I’m sure that the […]
A New Record for Mass Murder?
The Independent has an article summarizing a new study of Chinese Communist dictator Mao Zedong’s mass murders that concludes that he killed even more people than previously thought: Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, an expert who had unprecedented access to official Communist […]
Three Starches
I’ve never been that fond of the standard American starches, steamed rice or mashed potatoes — except when they have so much tasty stuff mixed into them that either (1) they’re a good deal less healthy, or at least (2) more time-consuming to make. But I recently tried some quinoa, and liked it very much, […]
The Changing World of Securities Regulation
On October 8, the Center for Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law will be hosting a full-day symposium on “The Changing World of Securities Regulation.” The event features an incredible line-up of speakers, including SEC General Counsel David Becker, UVA Dean Paul Mahoney, law professors John Coffee (Columbia), Renee […]
ICC Prosecutor’s Office and UCLA Online Global Law Forum
UCLA Law School’s Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project has launched a new partnership with the International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor, to create an online forum for discussing legal issues that might or have arisen for the prosecutor. The forum is at UCLALawForum.com. One of the difficulties for the prosecutor offices at the ICC […]
New Article: “Good Faith, New Law, and the Scope of the Exclusionary Rule”
I have posted a new draft article: Good Faith, New Law, and the Scope of the Exclusionary Rule, forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal. Here’s the abstract: Lower courts recently have divided on whether the good-faith exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies to reliance on overturned caselaw. This Article argues that the Supreme […]
Nate Silver on the Impact of the Tea Party
Over at the FiveThirtyEight blog, Nate Silver has an excellent post pondering the likely short-term impact of the Tea Party on upcoming elections.
Migration as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
In my new book, Climatopolis, I argue that anticipation is the first step in developing pro-active strategies to cope with climate change. Even if we could reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to zero today, we would still face climate change due to the cumulative stock of emissions. My book examines how cities around the world […]
The Millennium Development Goals and the Obama Administration’s Continuity with John Bolton
As President Obama prepares to head up to New York for the UN General Assembly meetings, which this year are focused around the 10 year anniversary of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), some stories are starting to appear in the papers about the UN and US relations. Colum Lynch, for example, the Washington Post’s UN […]
Breyer’s Approach to the Constitution
Yesterday’s Washington Post has an interesting profile of Justice Stephen Breyer, keyed to the release of his new book, Making Our Democracy Work. “The court should reject approaches to interpreting the Constitution that consider the document’s scope and application as fixed at the moment of framing,” Breyer writes. “Rather, the court should regard the Constitution […]
It’s Raining Tylenol-Stuffed Mice
CNN reports: Dead mice packed with acetaminophen, strapped to pieces of cardboard and dropped from helicopters may help control one of the big headaches for the Pacific island of Guam — the brown tree snake. Thanks to GeekPress for the pointer.
Comment of the Day
From commenter “Mike,” on the recent Delaware GOP Senate primary race and Mike Castle’s vote in favor of the Bush Administration’s TARP bailout in 2008: Fortunately, the people rejected socialist candidate Mike Castle. (If giving $700 billion in taxpayer money to Wall Street doesn’t make one a socialist, what does?)