It’s too early to tell if these arrests will amount to anything, but if they’re legit it’s quite a story. The CIA and FBI may have a hard time catching terrorists, but at least the tabloid newspaper News of the World appears up to the job.
Author Archive | Orin Kerr
If You Want to Be A Law Professor,
be sure to check out posts here, here, and here from Wisconsin lawprof Gordon Smith. Smith is the appointments committee chair at Wisconsin this year, and offers his own perspective on how schools select faculty candidates.
Who Would Osama Vote For?:
Eric Muller finds some interesting bumper stickers.
70 Attacks A Day:
The lead story in today’s Washington Post reports that the number of enemy attacks in Iraq has reached 70 per day over the last few weeks, a considerable increase over other periods. About 20 attacks a day occur in Baghdad alone.
Kerry’s Management Style:
The NY Times has an interesting article in today’s paper on Kerry’s management style. An excerpt: Mr. Kerry is a meticulous, deliberative decision maker, always demanding more information, calling around for advice, reading another document – acting, in short, as if he were still the Massachusetts prosecutor boning up for a case. . . . . […]
Well, I Guess He Has To Retire Eventually:
Chris Geidner notes over at Blog DeNovo that speculation about retiring Supreme Court Justices is an old story; in particular, the NY Times was reporting “the widely anticipated retirement of John Paul Stevens” at the end of the Term as far back as 1994.
Useful Summary of Terrorism Prosecutions:
In an appendix to a forthcoming law review article, Wake Forest University lawprof Robert Chesney lists and categorizes DOJ’s anti-terrorism prosecutions. It’s a pretty interesting list; to see it, go here, click to download the article, and scroll to page 105. Chesney identifies 33 terrorism-related prosecutions involving 92 defendants; provides a quick summary of the […]
More on Vanity Fair and Bush v. Gore:
SCOTUSblog has posted copies of the Vanity Fair article on Bush v. Gore, in case you haven’t seen it. Part 1 here; Part 2 here. Will Baude offers some interesting comments on the article over at Crescat Sententia. An excerpt: Reading the VF article pushed me more closely to thinking that the decision was reached […]
A Tough Market for Women?:
The Legal Times has a story on law school faculty hiring entitled ‘A Tough Market for Women.’ The article notes that while most entering law school classes have close to as many women as men, most faculties remain male-dominated. The article makes the case that women are underrepresented among law professors for a number of […]
Conditions of Release and Technological Change:
In a forthcoming article, I argue that the rapid pace of technological change makes it difficult for courts to craft lasting Fourth Amendment rules when technology is in flux. Soon after a court’s rule is announced, the technological facts may change, requiring a new rule or leaving the validity of the old rule uncertain. On […]
Something for Everyone:
It’s hard to imagine a news story that combines sex, crime, elite law schools, civil liberties, and law school loans. But I think we may have a candidate in this story from yesterday’s Oakland Tribune. Excerpts: Feds seeking $61K from alleged call girl No charges filed against Stanford Law graduate who lived in Oakland Federal prosecutors […]
House Approves Penalties for False Web Records:
Reuters reports: The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would increase jail time for identity thieves and other fraudulent Web users who register sites under false identities. The bill, which passed by voice vote, would not directly outlaw the use of fraudulent registration information. Rather, it would increase by up to seven years […]
Anthrax Threat Case:
Does sending cornstarch designed to look like anthrax through the mail with the intent to scare the recipient violate the federal threat statute? In a 2-1 decision, the Third Circuit has ruled that the answer is yes. Here’s the relevant statute, 18 U.S.C. 876(c): Whoever knowingly so deposits [in the U.S. mail] any communication . […]
Murder at Harvard?:
An interesting story from today’s Washington Post.
Cell Phones:
Love’em or hate’em, cell phones have changed our daily experiences over the last decade. Christine Rosen has authored a thoughtful essay, Our Cell Phones, Ourselves, that considers some of those changes: But if this ubiquitous technology is now a normal part of life, our adjustment to it has not been without consequences. Especially in the […]