Author Archive | Todd Zywicki

An article last week before the bill signing in the AJC, “Going for Broke Won’t Be So Easy“. The reporter actually went to a day of hearings (it doesn’t say for sure, but it looks like they were probably section 341 hearings) and has some reports from the front lines: A young woman in office […]

I was lucky enough to be invited to the Presidential Bill Signing Ceremony for the Bankruptcy Reform Legislation on Wednesday, which turned out to be a real treat. After eight years of seeing defeat clutched from the jaws of victory, I half expected that the President would get lost on the way over or that […]

A special thanks to the folks at Marquette Law School, who hosted me so nicely this past week. It has been a crazy week so I’m just getting around to thanking them now. Christine Hurt of Conglomerate fame was my tour guide, so a special thanks to her, and to Justin Longley, President of the […]

Michael McCann, who will be joining the faculty at Mississippi College School of Law (where I started my career, incidentally), is conducting a survey on nutrition labeling and related issues. He invites anyone would would like to participate to take the survey. It only took me a couple of minutes to complete it. You can […]

I will be speaking this afternoon (Monday April 18) at Marquette Law School on the question, “Should We Repeal the 17th Amendment?” The talk is at 3:30 and will be sponsored by the Marquette Student Chapter of the Federalist Society. I wrote a couple of law review articles on this a few years back; unfortunately, […]

and comments up right now over at PrawfsBlawg.

Another interesting article in the Washington Post on Wal-Mart’s decision to close its store in Quebec after employees voted to unionize. Its a pretty long article, but its well worth it. It discusses in much detail (and in a surprisingly even-handed way), the question of whether Wal-Mart’s decision was economically-justified or just sending a signal […]

The Washington Post reports on a shameful performance by Republicans attacking CAFTA at the behest of sugar industry rent-seekers. Democrats, of course, are largely hopeless on free trade, but Republicans should know better. The sugar issue consumed much of the hearing. The industry has been protected for decades by quotas that limit sugar imports and […]

From the A.P., “Bankruptcy Reform Close to OK in Congress“: “Bankruptcy legislation that could make it impossible for thousands of people to wipe away their debts is nearing passage by Congress.” Harder, yes; “impossible” no. Where do they get this stuff? Are they even trying for accuracy any more? It goes on: Between 30,000 and […]

On NRO.

Just came across a cool blog that I hadn’t seen before–“A Constrained Vision.” (Hat Tip: Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution) Definitely some good stuff there, but mainly this is just an excuse to mention one of my favorite books, Thomas Sowell’s, A Conflict of Visions. Not only do I find it profound and insightful, but […]

Evan Coyne Maloney at Brain-Terminal has the story from the front lines at Bucknell. He writes: Last year, Bucknell’s Women’s Resource Center sponsored a bus trip so students could attend a political rally in Washington, D.C. to protest the Bush Administration. *** When some female students saw that the WRC was in the business of […]

New York Times article reports problems with arrests of protestors at Republican National Convention. (Hat Tip: Sean Sirrine at Objective Justice). Among t[those arrested] was Alexander Dunlop, who said he was arrested while going to pick up sushi. Last week, he discovered that there were two versions of the same police tape: the one that […]

The Dartmouth Review has done a study of party affiliation of Dartmouth’s professors and the results are unsurprising: With these statistics in mind, The Dartmouth Review decided to revisit its investigation of the political affiliations of professors on our own campus. The results were not all that surprising: of the 341 professors registered to vote […]

over at CrimLaw.