Author Archive | Sasha Volokh

With Romney just having gotten to 30% on InTrade, I thought you might want to practice saying “Y’all were nominating Romney” in Latin: Nominabamini Romney. UPDATE: This is what I get for carrying this around in my head for a long time and then typing it without thinking. What I meant was: either “Nominabamini, Romney”, […]

Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said today, in oral arguments before the Eleventh Circuit, that the individual mandate provisions of the health-care law “may violate the constitution of Ayn Rand, but they do not violate the Constitution of the United States”.

Ilya and I have covered presidential candidate Gary Johnson a few times on this blog: see, e.g., here, here, and here (and see here for a post by Todd). I’ve gotten slightly involved with his campaign in the form of gathering some “Academics for Johnson” signatures. Johnson has now been excluded from the New Hampshire […]

This is the fifth and last in a series of posts serial-blogging my new article, Prison Vouchers, forthcoming in the Penn Law Review. The first post in the series is here (I recommend reading it for an overview of the entire paper), the second post is here, the third is here, and the fourth is […]

This is the fourth in a series of posts serial-blogging my new article, Prison Vouchers, forthcoming in the Penn Law Review. The first post in the series is here (I recommend reading it for an overview of the entire paper), and the second post is here and the third is here. Some of the concerns […]

Well, I think the title of this post is pretty self-explanatory. There was such a guy, at least in L.A. in the ’90s. He also scribbled on a large dry-erase board. Does anyone remember his name?

This is the third in a series of posts in which I’ll be serial-blogging my new article, Prison Vouchers, forthcoming in the Penn Law Review. The first post in the series is here (I recommend reading it for an overview of the entire paper), and the second post is here. Many of the comments to […]

We had an exchange student from Germany live with us for a semester last year (attending the local high school), and we enjoyed it very much. I thought I’d plug the program we used, the Academic Year in America program from the AIFS Foundation. (Apparently they like to do full academic years, but one can […]

This is the second in a series of posts in which I’ll be serial-blogging my new article, Prison Vouchers, forthcoming in the Penn Law Review. The first post in the series is here. I’ve skimmed some of the comments to that post — some of the commenters’ concerns were addressed right in that first post, […]

This is the first of several posts in which I’ll be serial-blogging my new article, Prison Vouchers, forthcoming in the Penn Law Review. I’d appreciate comments (especially informed ones, which have a greater chance of making it into the final version, with thanks in the author footnote). * * * In this Article, I invite […]

On the minus side, I called Gary Johnson’s campaign before the recent presidential debate to see how I could get onto some “Academics for Johnson” list or similar, and they still haven’t gotten back to me on this. How dare they neglect the very influential Academics demographic! But if you’re an Academic for Gary Johnson, […]

Here’s the third (and final) installment of my Houston Law Review piece on Rationality or Rationalism? The Positive and Normative Flaws of Cost-Benefit Analysis. (Click here for the first installment and here for the second installment. See the printed version, 48 Hous. L. Rev. 79 (2011), or the SSRN version, for all the footnotes.) * […]

It’s been a while since the first installment of my Houston Law Review piece on Rationality or Rationalism? The Positive and Normative Flaws of Cost-Benefit Analysis. (See the printed version, 48 Hous. L. Rev. 79 (2011), or the SSRN version, for all the footnotes.) Sorry about that — I was at the Kalamazoo 46th Annual […]

I’m pleased to have gotten the reprints of my Houston Law Review piece, Rationality or Rationalism? The Positive and Normative Flaws of Cost-Benefit Analysis. It was part of their Frankel Symposium on environmental cost-benefit analysis; the main piece was Ricky Revesz and Michael Livermore‘s “Retaking Rationality: Two Years Later”, a follow-up to their (two-year-old) book, […]

My friend Nick Ragone has just published Presidential Leadership: 15 Decisions That Changed the Nation, which looks at, inter scalia, the Whiskey Rebellion, the Louisiana Purchase, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the “evil empire” speech. Here’s a review of the book from the Washington Times.