Author Archive | Todd Zywicki

Readers may be interested in Heather MacDonald’s sure-to-be-controversial article on law school clinical education in the latest issue of the City Journal. This is an expanded version of her Wall Street Journal column on the topic last week.

Friends, something seems to be awry with my ability to enable Comments on my posts today. On my last three posts, and one yesterday, I haven’t been able to get PowerBlogs to allow me to Enable Comments. Please know that I’m not trying to foreclose Comments on any of those posts (Eminent Domain, Illinois Wine […]

Illinois appears primed to enact legislation that would effectively eliminate direct shipment of wine by requiring purchasers to first purchase wine in person before being eligible to buy wine directly: A bill in Springfield, backed by a major distributors’ group, would restrict Illinois wineries’ right to sell wine over the Internet, through the mail or […]

Post temporarily removed–I inadvertently hit the “publish” rather than save button before I was completed editing. I will post a final version later today under a similar heading. Sorry.

In addition to the Washington Post article linked by Orin last night, this morning’s Washington Times brings this article on the dust-up with additional reactions, “Alito Accused of Racism.”

Today’s paper carries an article about oral argument yesterday in the Ohio Supreme Court in a Kelo-style Eminent Domain case (which also quotes my colleage Steve Eagle). A reader who attended oral argument writes with further information. I pass along the relevant information to those who are interested. Professor Zywicki: You might also be interested […]

Ben Barros has a post on Nicole Garnett’s new paper on Eminent Domain post-Kelo as well as some of the vexing empirical issues embedded in Eminent Domain disputes. To my mind, I haven’t really been persuaded by the “Just Write Them A Check” approach to Eminent Domain, which basically says forget about the Public Use […]

I thought the Kennedy-Alito exchange on CAP sounded familiar: Senator MCCARTHY. Not exactly, Mr. Chairman, but in view of Mr. Welch’s request that the information be given once we know of anyone who might be performing any work for the Communist Party, I think we should tell him that he has in his law firm […]

I recently read Michael Gazzaniga’s most recent book, The Ethical Brain. This is a great book by a leading neuroscientist (and friend). The book seems to have arisen from Gazzaniga’s work with the National Council on Bioethics, animated in substantial part by his perception of a lack of knowledge of science among some of his […]

For the few dozen of us who watch the brilliant Arrested Development, it turns out that there is in fact a “Bob Loblaw Law Blog” (although it is a real blog run by attorney Robert Loblaw). There is actually an Imoscar.com website and blog as well. This one is a spoof site set up by […]

One-third of Britain’s pets are overweight. No word on whether Britain will ban dog and cat food commercials (as former FTC Chairman Tim Muris once joked).

This morning’s Washington Times reports that the Democrats have dropped Stephen Dujack as a witness for the Alito hearings.

Tom Blumer has a thorough update on the stalled the New London project. His summary: This post contains: Two relevant area maps, one from the New London Development Corporation and another from Google. Given the controversy, I’m surprised that I have yet to see a single map in any article I have seen about the […]

There is a new study out on “the increasing number of students falling into the ‘race/ethnicity unknown’ category of postsecondary demographic data. The study findings suggest that a sizeable portion of students in this category are white, in addition to multiracial students who may have selected white as one of their categories.” The study reports […]

Since Orin didn’t get there first, I get to be the first to wish Bill Kovacic congratulations on being confirmed by the Senate to serve as an FTC Commissioner. Bill, of course, is Orin’s current colleague at GW, and my former colleague in senior management at the FTC. Congratulations Bill!