This just in: Professor Martha Minow has agreed to serve as the next Dean of Harvard Law School. She will take up her duties on July 1. I think I speak for my co-Conspirators in wishing her all the best. Press release is here.
Author Archive | Randy Barnett
Judicial “Activism” Isn’t the Issue:
Jeff Rowes of the Institute for Justice has an important op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal: Judicial ‘Activism’ Isn’t the Issue: Liberals and conservatives both show too much deference to Congress. Here is how it begins: The growing dispute between conservatives and liberals over the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor obscures a more troubling […]
Justice Kennedy
Political science professor Helen Knowles, the author of The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty has posted Justice Kennedy
The 2009 Bradley Prizes:
On Wednesday, at a ceremony at the Kennedy Center with George Will as Master of Ceremonies, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy will receive one of 5 annual Bradley Prizes for outstanding achievement. The award will be made to its founders and president, former Sen. Spence Abraham, Professor Steven Calabresi, Leonard Leo, former […]
What the New Deal Court Did Not Do:
Tomorrow (Monday), the Cato Institute will be holding an afternoon conference on Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion? Lessons from the New Deal and Great Depression. Registration information is here. The conference features a keynote address by Amity Shlaes, author of the bestseller The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. From 3:15-4:30p.m. […]
Rio Bravo Reconsidered:
Rio Bravo was never one of my favorite westerns but, but after reading Haunted by the Memory of Her Song: Fifty Years of
Big News:
Ghostbusters III filming soon with original cast. In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Dan Aykroyd revealed that the third Ghostbusters movie could start filming soon. He said that all the original cast have now signed on, including Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson and of course Aykroyd himself. Well, OK, […]
Bill of Federalism 2.0:
After the voluminous response to my Wall Street Journal article calling for a Federalism Amendment, I began working on a Bill of Federalism consisting of ten amendments to restore a balance between state and federal power, as well as important aspects of the original meaning of the Constitution. I posted the initial draft of these […]
Remembering Lysander Spooner:
In this date in 1887, Lysander Spooner, the great Nineteenth Century lawyer, abolitionist legal theorist passed away in Boston. More information about Spooner, as well as most of his publications and correspondence, can be found at LysanderSpooner.org. Here is a portion of obituaries that appeared in the Boston Daily Globe and Liberty: Lysander Spooner: One […]
Want More Star Trek?
I saw the new Star Trek movie last night in IMAX and, like Casino Royale, it was an excellent and clever reboot of a series that had previously become stale and boring. Let us hope that the next one is not as disappointing as the Bond sequel Quantum of Solace. For those who want more […]
ON PJTV, I talk with Glenn Reynolds about changes being made to the “Bill of Federalism.” I continue to make major revisions to the proposal and, by next week, hope to have a revised version posted for further comments on FederalismAmendment.com.
The Value of Petitioning for and Article V Amendments Conventions:
A new paper by Indiana University-Indianapolis law professor Gerard Magliocca, who blogs over at Concurring Opinions, contends that Article V petitions for a convention to propose constitutional amendments is a useful means to achieve reform by affecting the behavior of Congress and the courts. You can download it from SSRN here. It is entitled, State […]
How to Picture $100 Million out of $3.5 Trillion:
This is cute (Hat Tip Tom Smith):
The Bill of Federalism:
I received a deluge of feedback on my WSJ column, The Case for a Federalism Amendment. The overwhelming response was positive–indeed enthusiastic–but some took issue with aspects of my proposal with well founded objections. Many also had their own favorite provisions they wanted to see included. And there were also objections to the wisdom of […]
Reply to Jon Stewart re: Truman as War Criminal:
Jon Stewart has apologized for what he termed as his “stupid” characterization of President Harry Truman as a war criminal because the US did not explode a demonstration atomic bomb before using one on Hiroshima. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Harry Truman Was Not a War Criminal thedailyshow.com […]