Cathy Seipp has an interesting, original, and highly readable piece on the subject.
Author Archive | Orin Kerr
“Dishonest or Insane”:
Slate‘s Chatterbox column is running a new series called “The Fleischer Watch” — “an ongoing inquiry into dishonest or insane assertions buried inside Ari Fleischer’s White House memoir.” Here’s the first item, posted Tuesday: In his new book, Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House, Ari Fleischer, the former […]
Is Summers a Bush Proxy?:
David suggests below that the Harvard vote against Summers is a proxy for a vote against Bush and the political right: “they can’t beat Bush, . . . so [they] vote against Summers.” It’s an interesting theory, but what’s the support for it? I recognize that the Summers debate carries considerable ideological overtones; on the […]
Lawrence Lessig
has had enough with unbalanced copyright agreements required by law reviews.
New LawProf Blog:
Adam Kolber of U San Diego Law School has just started a new blog, Neuroethics & Law Blog. According to Adam, the blog is an interdisciplinary forum for legal and ethical issues related to the brain and cognition. The subject area is broadly defined to cover: (1) legal and ethical issues arising from advances in […]
Will Technology Lead to More Crimes Being Solved, or Fewer?:
Penn lawprof Paul Robinson, one of the best crimlaw professors in the country, has a very short essay up on SSRN entitled Criminal Justice in the Information Age: A Punishment Theory Paradox. The essay is a thought experiment about a possible future of criminal law, in which “most crimes are solved and most perpetrators caught […]
The Continuing Hunt for Patriot Act Abuses:
Haven’t heard about any abuses of the Patriot Act recently? It’s not because no one is looking. The Patriot Act requires the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General to collect complaints about alleged civil liberties abuses and to put out a report every six months cataloging the findings. The first one of these reports made […]
New Terrorist Database — But No Need To Worry:
The New York Times notes today that a new massive government database has been created that contains “fingerprints, DNA, voices, documents, car rentals and travel, as well as details about arms and explosives transfers” relating to suspected terrorists, and that it is is being shared among all of the nation’s police and military agencies. You […]
Two Can Play This Game:
A number of federal judges have signalled their willingness to expand the scope of constitutional rights recognized for those held at Guantanamo Bay beyond that suggested by pre-9/11 law. The Bush Administration is now responding to this trend — by moving detainees out of Guantanamo Bay.
The Problem With Partners These Days:
They just don’t understand law firm loyalty. (Or rather, they do.)
What Really Happened With the B-School “Hack”?:
I have been getting lots of mail from techie friends and VC readers about the recent hacking incidents by applicants to a number of top business schools. I first posted about the incident here. Harvard and MIT took the matter sufficiently seriously that they decided to deny the applications of those involved. The odd thing […]
Census Report on Arabs in the United States:
The Associated Press is running an interesting story today about a recent census report on the status of Arabs in the United States. The story, picked up by Al Jazeera, reports: The 1.2 million people of Arab descent living in the United States tend to be better educated and wealthier than other Americans, the U.S. […]
At Least No One is Chained to A Desk . . . Yet:
According to an article in the National Law Journal, some law firms are making sure their websites don’t broadcast the credentials or contact information of their associates to try to keep headhunters away. Amid an improved economy and an apparent upturn in lateral hiring, some law firms are trying to shield their associates from the […]
Was the ACLU Right About Doe v. Ashcroft?:
Back on September 30, 2004, I blogged about press miscoverage of a New York court decision, Doe v. Ashcroft, that invalidated the national security letter provision of the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act codified at 18 U.S.C. 2709. The MSM reported that the decision had found a key part of the Patriot Act unconstitutional, a […]
Getting to Maybe:
A commenter in a prior post asks if I would consider posting online an essay I wrote for first-year law students on how to take law school exams. I’m not entirely comfortable with doing so, in part because I suspect much of the advice is particular to my class and how I grade exams. But […]