Author Archive | Jonathan H. Adler

Bjorn Lomborg is back with a new book on global warming, Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming. I review the book today on NRO here. I generally liked the book, though I think Lomborg’s account understates the degree of uncertainty in climate forecasts. Uncertainty is not, in itself, an excuse for inaction, […]

The U.S. Judicial Conference is considering limits on clerkship salaries in an effort to control costs, according to this National Law Journal story. The primary effect of the measure would be to limit the use of career clerks by federal judges. The recommendations would curtail the judges’ freedom to hire lifetime clerks as of Oct. […]

At George’s Employment Blawg, where else.

Has the Grand Ole Party become the Grim Old Party? Robert Novak reports on the current woes of the GOP. Among other things, Novak notes that the Democratic Party has a “commanding lead” over Republicans in fundraising for the 2008 election: Such an unusual disparity is at once a symptom and a contributing cause of […]

Larry Solum has live-blogged the APSA panel on the “New Originalism,” featuring Sandy Levinson, Jack Balkin, Keith Whittington, Sot Barber, Jim Fleming, and our own Randy Barnett. From Larry’s write-up, it sounds like it was a very informative and engaging panel.

Steven Lubet and Andrew Koppelman make the case for replacing Alberto Gonzales with Northwestern law professor Stephen Calabresi. Calabresi’s conservative credentials are impeccable. A co-founder of the Federalist Society, he is the chairman of the organization’s board of directors. He served in both the Reagan and first Bush administrations before joining the Northwestern faculty in […]

The other Opus comic that many newspapers refused to print is here. I don’t find it any more inflammatory or risque than the last one.

I doubt that Karl Rove’s defense of Bush’s record will persuade many people who aren’t already fans of the President – though Rove is right that posterity may view Bush differently than we do today. Because it is mostly ineffective, I’m not going to comment on Rove’s essay in detail. But I will say that […]

Apparently some newspapers are refusing to run two installments of Berkeley Breathed’s comic strip.

Do Faculty Have a Constitutional Right to Sleep With Their Students? Heh.

For decades land rights activists have complained that Section 9 of the Endangered Species Act punishes private conservation. Under the Act, the reward for maintaining or creating endangered species habitat is the imposition of federal land-use controls. Specifically, landowners are prohibited from modifying such land without permission from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Commented […]

As has been expected, the Bush Administration is proposing to make it easier for mining companies to engage in so-called mountaintop mining aka mountaintop removal. This mining method involves blowing the tops off of mountains so as to expose coal deposits, and depositing the resulting rubble in adjacent valleys and streams. On Friday, the official […]

Apparently the White House web page has not kept pace with the Bush Administration’s conception of executive authority. The Washington Post reports: The Bush administration argued in court papers this week that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act as part of its effort to fend off […]

The syllabus is here.

A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit today upheld the conviction of former Illinois Governor George Ryan and an associate on various criminal charges. As the Chicago Tribune reported here, Ryan was accused of substantial corruption during his terms as both Governor and Secretary of State. The panel divided […]