(Update: Thanks, Glenn, for the Instalanche! If readers want a further discussion of this, including a short response from one of the co-authors of the “Regulation by Deal” paper, David Zaring, go here. One reason to look at that further comment is that it gives an approximate definition of “regulation by deal” from the paper.) […]
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Roast German Shepherd and Other Reminiscences from my Ill-Spent Youth
Oh heck, it’s late on a Saturday night, so perhaps Eugene will forgive me … a commenter mentions “roast German shepherd.” Sounds random; actually it cost me my first paid time card job. I was a high school student in Claremont CA, early 1970s, hired as a bus boy and dish washer at Pomona College, […]
Mere Mortals
Bow and scrape, mere mortals, before my awesome grill powers … with wife away for another week in Guatemala, and daughter just back from there, I decided it would be too hot and time-consuming to do much cooking this week. So I opted instead to make a gigantic fire in the grill, and then throw […]
More on Morrison
In addition to John’s shrewd post about Morrison below – I suspect the post is right that it might turn out to be a “zombie” precedent – take a look at University of Georgia securities law expert Professor Margaret Sachs’ observations from a global securities law perspective at Opinio Juris today. (Update: Also take a […]
Naval War College International Law Conference and Bleg for French Translation
I’m on radio silence, as I’m at the Naval War College conference on international law, which is where all the cool people are this week. I was last on radio silence finishing up my short policy manuscript on UN-US relations. I’m not sure I’d describe it as “done,” but the editors took it away from me, […]
My Only World Cup Post – Stolen from Chris Borgen at Opinio Juris …
… and dedicated to Tod Lindberg and his daughter Abbey. Tod is editor of Hoover’s Policy Review and a foreign affairs guru and both Lindbergs are soccer fanatics. I, on the other hand, can only say – further to the very interesting discussion from Ilya, et al. – that I know as little about soccer […]
Brian Tamanaha on the Law School Business Model
Over at Balkinization, Brian Tamanaha has a blistering post on law professors failing to take note – or anyway do anything about – the collapse of the job market for students at non-elite law schools in light of the size of law school tuition. The complaint of the proliferating blogs and other sites from frustrated […]
Jack Goldsmith on Cyber War
This week’s The New Republic features a cover story by Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith on cyberwar. (June 24, 2010.) It’s a long, serious review essay, using Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake’s new book, Cyber War, as the hook. But Jack goes well beyond a book review into the rapidly expanding literature on […]
The ICC and Crime of Aggression
Over at Opinio Juris, some first-wave discussion of the agreement on the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court and the crime of aggression. Kevin Jon Heller and Julian Ku – not sparring, but instead trying to give an initial read on the deal. A great deal of discussion is about to ensue over this deal, […]
Do the Bad Guys Ever Use Macs?
Hooray for the Volokhs! I hesitate to move from the sublime to the ridiculous, but heck … here’s my question. Do the bad guys on TV or in the movies ever use Apple? Macs? Over the last month, watching movies on my new FIOS connection, I realized that I have yet to see the bad […]
Habermas on the Euro Crisis and the Necessity of Doubling Down on the Europe Project
The Nation runs an article from the great German philosopher Jurgen Habermas on the Euro crisis. (I didn’t see a credit for an original German publication; if it’s special to the Nation, congratulations on an intellectual coup. But reads as though it had appeared somewhere earlier.) Habermas, consistent with his long held positions, comes out […]
Mallaby on Soros and the Pound, and Some Other Summer Reading in Philosophy and Economics
By Kenneth Anderson on June 7, 2010 10:01 am in Economy, Financial Crisis, Legal Professor, War and Armed Conflict
The Atlantic is running an excerpt from Sebastian Mallaby’s new book, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of New Elite, which is out on June 14. The excerpt covers the famous moment when George Soros broke the pound in 1992. (It was then that I went to work for him, as general […]
Adderall
I bet if I had some Adderall, I would have finished this manuscript revision hours ago, or anyway, would stay up all night in a state of ecstatic concentration and get it done :( Citing the drug’s extensive contributions to almost every field of academia, Harvard conferred an honorary doctoral degree upon a 30-day supply […]
How to Be a Hegemon
(And thanks Glenn for the Instalanche!) I’ve been very light on the blogging of late, as I have to turn in my short book manuscript on US-UN relations on Sunday. The following probably won’t make the final edit as a footnote, but I thought I’d preserve it here: One of the great ironies of multilateralism […]
My House Testimony in “Drones II”
By Kenneth Anderson on June 3, 2010 12:37 pm in Counter-Terrorism Policy, International Human Rights Law, International Law, Targeted Killing, War and Armed Conflict, War on Terror
As Professor Philip Alston’s report as special rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council on targeted killings, drones, CIA and military, and related issues is released today, I’ve been asked by numerous people to comment on it. I’ve read it once, but need to finish re-reading it before I’m ready to say anything that goes […]