Author Archive | David Bernstein

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The L.A. Times ran my op-ed about how little a Nobel Peace Prize nomination means — the piece was based on a blog post of mine that the Times people read and asked me to adapt — and what should I see in the piece immediately above it on the page? [Tookie Williams] has been […]

Google Desktop is a wonderful tool. Unfortunately, it will search Microsoft Word, but not Word Pefect, documents. As a long-standing and still-loyal WP user, I’m very annoyed that I can’t use Desktop to efficiently search the vast repository of documents on my hard drive. An obvious solution would be to create an additional copy of […]

Science Proves It. Thanks to commenter Kim Scarborough for the pointer.

That’s how a San Francisco Weekly article describe Craigslist.com. It’s a funny locution — “taking millions.” The problem, of course, is that online classified advertising is proving to be more convenient than newspaper advertisers both for advertisers and for buyers. Therefore, advertisers are going to sites like Craiglist.com; therefore, newspapers are getting less money; therefore, […]

Just wanted to echo Orin’s post, and urge to read Posner’s opinion. This isn’t some liberal judge on the Ninth Circuit slamming the immigration bureaucracy — it’s a moderate conservative, citing many opinions from the Seventh Circuit (which has a reputation as being pretty sane). When he starts the opinion with, “In the year ending […]

Prof. Dale Carpenter, via email, responds to my last post on the Solomon Amendment controversy: Unfortunately, the student reporter’s story may have left you with a misimpression about the question I was responding to. He had asked me whether the law schools were pressing to exclude military recruiters _as a way to express their opposition […]

Fellow lawprof Mark Scarberry asked the following on a lawprof list; I asked him for permission to post it here, and he graciously gave it: Twenty-four Democratic members of Congress (including nine from California) have written to the Los Angeles Times to “object” specifically “as Members of Congress” to the dismissal of Robert Scheer, a […]

in court opinions, but check out this 5-page district court opinion — pretty amusing. Its title: “Order Denying Maaf’s Motion To Preclude the French Phrase ‘Queljeu Doit-On Jouer Vis-A-Vis Des Autorites De Californie?‘ as Used in Mr. Simonet’s Notes from Being Translated as ‘What Game Must We Play with the California Authorities?’” Thanks to my […]

As best I can count, the conservative faculty at Harvard consists of John Manning, Adrian Vermeule, Jack Goldsmith, Charles Fried, plus (probably) Einer Elhauge, Bill Stuntz, Mary Ann Glendon, Kip Viscusi, and a few others, amounting to perhaps 15 members of an 81-member tenure ladder faculty. If Harvard Law School is “listing” (I take in […]

In his first post in his ACS debate on the Solomon Amendment, with GMU Dean Dan Polsby, Bill Eskridge refers to the Solomon Amendment as “an unprecedented tying of massive amounts of federal grants to the renunciation of a dissenting stance by academic institutions.” It’s certainly not unprecedented, as the Solomon Amendment is directly descended […]

here’s the Swedish Supreme Court’s decision from today holding that Ake Green, a minister, couldn’t be punished for his anti-homosexuality sermon. Green had been sentenced to a month in prison; an appellate court set that punishment aside, and now the Swedish Supreme Court has affirmed the appellate court’s decision. If anyone can translate this into […]

Mark Kleiman and Cathy Young defend it, in my view quite rightly.

The Rhode Island Newsman’s Privilege Act provides (emphasis added): Except as provided in § 9-19.1-3, no person shall be required by any court, grand jury, agency, department, or commission of the state to reveal confidential association, to disclose any confidential information, or to disclose the source of any confidential information received or obtained by him […]

I’m pleased that this blog was noted in this article in the New York Review of Books: At The Truth Laid Bear, a Web site that ranks political blogs according to their number of links with other sites, eight of the top ten blogs are conservative. The conservative sites include InstaPundit (University of Tennessee law […]