Author Archive | Jonathan H. Adler

This Thursday I will be speaking on a panel discussing “Blogging and Privacy” at the 2006 Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference in Washington, D.C. As described in the program, the panel will discuss the following: Blogs make it possible for individuals to reach a greater audience than perhaps any other medium. While a pseudonym offers […]

As most readers have surmised by now, I was Juan Non-Volokh. I explained my decision to blog under the JNoV pseudonym at the beginning and at greater length in my last post as Juan. As I noted in the latter post, the concerns that prompted my use of a pseudonym were never exclusively (if even […]

The New York Times has an interesting article on the current conventional wisdom within the scientific communityt on pollution’s relative role (or lack thereof) in U.S. cancer rates. Contrary to some claims, there is little evidence that pollution and exposure to toxic chemicals are significant contributors to cancer rates. pinning cancer on trace levels of […]

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an editorial (link for subscribers) on Israel’s pending admission to the International Red Cross. After almost six decades of rejection, Israel saw the road cleared yesterday for its emergency and disaster relief organization to join the International Red Cross. The price of admission was relinquishing its symbol, the Red Star […]

So will Coca-Cola Blak — a version of Coca Cola infused with coffee — be good for you, or worthy of a lawsuit?

John Roberts first signed opinion as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court was issued today, a unanimous opinion in Martin v. Franklin Capital Corp. Here it is. [Note: Post edited as indicated to correct an error. As a commenter noted below, John Roberts is Chief Justice of the United States, not of the […]

The New York Times reports on pending consumer activist litigation against soda bottlers seeking the removal of soda machines from public schools. In a lawsuit they plan to file in the next few months, Mr. [Stephen] Gardner [of the Center for Science in the Public Interest] and half a dozen other lawyers, several of them […]

Reuters is reporting: Coffee and tea may reduce the risk of serious liver damage in people who drink too much alcohol, are overweight or have too much iron in the blood, researchers reported yesterday.

Yesterday’s New York Times had an interesting article on the failure of intelligent design to gain adherents. Even those initially open to ID theory are luke warm to it, as are science professors at religiously oriented universities. The Templeton Foundation, a major supporter of projects seeking to reconcile science and religion, says that after providing […]

As a few VC readers might have noticed, the National Hockey League is back. After a one year hiatus due to a labor dispute — the owners locked out the players — the NHL has resumed play with a salary cap and new rules to increase scoring. The end result has been quite a success. […]

Ramsey Clark has decided to join Saddam Hussein’s defense team. The likely reason, as Case Western law professor Michael Scharf notes in this post on Grotian Moment: The Saddam Hussein Trial Blog, is to advance Clark’s own anti-war political agenda. What will it mean for the trial? Scharf has some thoughts: Clark is known for […]

Yale Law School’s Peter Schuck has an article in the American Lawyer on the lack of viewpoint diversity at elite law schools, why it matters, and what to do about it. Among other things, he argues that ethnic and gender diversity are no substitute for real diversity of opinion and perspective. Here are some excerpts: […]

An interesting article in the New York Observer credits Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan with creating a more ideologically open intellectual atmosphere at the school. Harvard once had the reputation that it was a hostile place for conservatives and libertarians. No longer. Among other things, the student Federalist Society chapter has an estimated 350 […]

Ave Maria School of Law President Bernard Dobranski co-authored a letter to the editor (subscriber only link) published in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal responding to the WSJ story discussing the school’s potential relocation to Ave Maria Town in Florida. Among other things, the story quoted an Ave Maria professor “hyperbolically” referring to the development as […]

Some defenders of the judicial filibuster suggest this is simple payback for Republican mistreatment of Clinton nominees from 1995-2000. Others argue Senate Democrats have no choice because other, more traditional means, of blocking nominees (e.g. blue slips) have been curtailed. Implicit in some of these arguments is the view that blocking a judge is blocking […]