As Ilya noted yesterday, all the authors wrote postscripts for the book, some long, some short. Here’s my short one, focusing on the importance of blogs like the VC to expanding the range of “respectable opinion” in constitutional discourse: In 2011, a law professor at Yale, defending Obamacare from constitutional challenge, claimed that only one […]
Archive | November, 2013
Chief Judge Kozinski on His Critics
David Lat has a report on a recent talk that Chief Judge Alex Kozinski gave at Yale Law School. It sounds like it was quite an interesting event, as almost all Kozinski events are. And for those readers who remember my post last month about the oral arguments in United States v. Maloney, Lat reports: […]
RoboticsAlley Expo and a Few Thoughts Re the Regulatory Future of Robotics
By Kenneth Anderson on November 12, 2013 6:11 pm in Drones (UAVs), Robotics, Self-Driving Cars, Uncategorized
I’m in Minneapolis the next two days, taking part in a terrific industry expo show, RoboticsAlley. It covers the broad range of robotics, from industrial robots to health care and assistive robots, along with a number of exhibitors from the electronics industries. Baxter-the-robot is here. It also covers drones and self-driving cars – the UAV […]
New Paper: “Kiobel Surprise: Unexpected by Scholars But Consistent with International Trends”
By Eugene Kontorovich on November 12, 2013 2:54 pm in Alien Tort Statute, Federal Jurisdiction, International Law, Law Reviews, Legal Scholarship, Supreme Court
My article on Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum is up on SSRN. It is forthcoming in the Notre Dame Law Review‘s Federal Courts Issue. Here is the abstract; comments on the article are welcome: The unanimous ruling in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum blind-sided the legal academy. The case involved one of the most contentious […]
Jack Goldsmith on Labor Law
I did not know until relatively recently that in addition to blogging at Lawfare, Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith blogs about labor law, at a newish project called “On Labor.” (“On Labor” is also home to Ben Sachs, another Harvard Law professor and one of the greatest labor law experts in the country.) Goldsmith has […]
Excerpt from My Concluding Essay in A Conspiracy Against Obamacare
Today is the publication date for A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case, a book I coauthored with VC co-bloggers Jonathan Adler, Randy Barnett, David Bernstein, Orin Kerr, and David Kopel. The book compiles our most important VC posts on the Obamacare case and its aftermath, as well as some […]
Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co.
At one point someone had posted several photographs related to the case of Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. They were vintage picture of the owner of the store, the store itself, etc. I had a bookmark at the following location: http://www.aalscontracts.org/Cases/Williams.htm . But that link doesn’t seem to be working anymore. Does anyone know if those photographs are […]
My SCOTUSBlog “On Camera” Interview: Parts 1 & 2
I was supremely honored to be asked by SCOTUSBlog to sit for an interview as part of its new SCOTUSblog “On Camera” interview series. Others who have been interviewed to date are Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Burt Neuborne, Goeffrey Stone, Adam Liptak, Linda Greenhouse, Nina Totenberg, and David Porter. The questioning was wide-ranging and very well-informed, […]
The History of the Internet, Typography Division, Cont’d
As regular readers know, I have the proverbial bee in my bonnet in regard to the necessity for retaining the initial capital “I” when writing about “the Internet.” I think it actually matters a good deal — see here and here if you’re interested in my reasons for thinking so. But in any event, my […]
Upcoming Josh Blackman Presentation on his book Unprecedented at George Mason University School of Law
This Wednesday from 5 to 6 PM, South Texas College of Law Professor Josh Blackman will be doing a presentation on his book Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare at George Mason University School of Law. In addition to being a highly successful young legal academic, Josh is also a prominent blogger, and a GMUSL […]
What Julia Ioffe Has Against Jenny McCarthy
Julia Ioffe writes on having pertussis, aka “whooping cough,” in The New Republic: At this writing, I have been coughing for 72 days. Not on and off coughing, but continuously, every day and every night, for two and a half months. And not just coughing, but whooping: doubled over, body clenched, sucking violently for air, […]
Could VA AG Race Go to Federal Court?
The Virginia Attorney General’s race remains too close to call. At last count, Democratic State Senator Mark R. Herring had a slim lead over Republican State Senator Mark D. Obenshain. If the lead evaporates, will Democrats take the contest to federal court? Rick Hasen thinks they might. His article in Slate begins: The race for […]
Campus Videorecording and Bans on “Harassment” and “Intimidation”
By Eugene Volokh on November 12, 2013 12:23 am in Freedom of Speech at Colleges and Universities, Freedom to Gather Information
As the previous post noted, I’m passing along another brief that the UCLA First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic has filed in the last few weeks. This one is on behalf of the Student Press Law Center and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, in O’Brien v. Welty (9th Cir.) (the link is to the […]
Amicus Brief in Religious Exemption Case
I thought I’d pass along two briefs that the UCLA First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic has filed in the last few weeks. One, on behalf of the Becket Fund, is in Overall v. Ascension Health (E.D. Mich.). My students Nate Barrett, Garry Padrta, and Paulette Rodriguez-Lopez worked on the brief, and Daniel P. Dalton of […]
The Golden Age of Treatises
From a 1997 obituary of law professor Louis Loss, the author of a widely-used treatise on securities law: In shaping the field of securities law, Mr. Loss was known for efforts to apply common sense to statutes that were somewhat opaque. “He was the great codifier,” Mr. Seligman said yesterday. “He could see the field […]