The Brian Leiter-Paul Campos feud continues into the New Year. The latest: Campos is threatening to disclose “potentially very embarrassing personal information” about Leiter should the latter disclose the personal identity of “Dybbuk,” the pseudonym of a lawyer/”scamblogger” accused of harassing another law professor in blog posts and comments. Could this constitute blackmail? I’ll leave […]
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The Impact of the Volokh Conspiracy on the Obamacare Litigation
By Ilya Somin on November 13, 2013 11:10 am in Blogosphere, Federalism, Health Care, Individual Mandate
Part of my concluding essay in my new book, A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case (coauthored with VC co-bloggers Randy Barnett, Jonathan Adler, David Bernstein, Orin Kerr, and David Kopel) deals with the impact of the VC and the blogosphere on the case. Here is an excerpt: What role […]
Expanded the Range of Respectable Opinion in Constitutional Discourse
As Ilya noted yesterday, all the authors wrote postscripts for the book, some long, some short. Here’s my short one, focusing on the importance of blogs like the VC to expanding the range of “respectable opinion” in constitutional discourse: In 2011, a law professor at Yale, defending Obamacare from constitutional challenge, claimed that only one […]
I Should Not Have Opined About Facebook’s TOS and its Relationship to the CFAA
Some commenters on Stewart Baker’s, Orin Kerr’s, and my own recent posts on the Obama 2012 campaign’s possible violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act argue that, even if the CFAA does criminalize use of websites in violation of their terms of service, the Obama campaign did not in fact violate Facebook’s TOS, as […]
Massachusetts Judge Bans Tweeting, but Permits Blogging in his Courtroom
Prominent lawyer and legal blogger Robert Ambrogi reports on an interesting recent decision by Massachusetts judge Peter Lauriat, who has decided to ban tweeting but permit blogging by members of the audience in his courtroom [HT: Josh Blackman]: Does it make sense for a judge to allow blogging but ban tweeting from the courtroom? That […]
Blogospheric Rubbernecking
Paul Campos may have closed his “Inside the Law School Scam” blog, but his longstanding feud with Brian Leiter continues (see here and here), and is spilling over onto other blogs. If you ask me, it’s getting a bit ridiculous. UPDATE: Brian Leiter responds to Campos’ latest charges in an addendum to this post. FURTHER […]
Can We Talk (about Guns)?
Mark Kleiman wonders why so many of his ideological compatriots are driven to fits of rage by Megan McArdle, noting the fevered reaction to her recent column on the Sandy Hook shooting and potential policy responses. (See also here.) Though Kleiman would not endorse everything in the piece, he thinks it’s “one of the more […]
Volokh Conspiracy Nominated for Top “News/Analysis” Law Blog by ABA Journal Blawg 100
The Volokh Conspiracy has been nominated by the ABA Journal Blawg 100 competition for the award for the top law blog in the “News Analysis” category. The winner will be determined by popular vote. Our loyal readers can vote for us (or, to be sure, one of the other worthy competitors), here. We are also […]
Law Blog Mottos
Noncuratlex, “Another Law Blog, Dedicated to Old Law Stuff, Mostly,” has suggests some mottos for other law blogs. (Hat tip: How Appealing)
The Ethics of Advocacy Blogging
Both Dave Hoffman and Orin Kerr have recently suggested that some of the liberal legal commentators who claimed that the individual mandate was a slam dunk case for the government were doing so for the purposes of “shaping the narrative” about the case, and may not have actually believed what they said. Paul Horwitz of […]
Big Law Firm Blogging
Law Daily Blogger has a list of reasons “Why Big Firms Don’t Blog well.” Most of the reasons aren’t surprising, at least not to me. Big law firms do many things well, but they don’t really have a comparative advantage in blogging. The one revelation in the post is that so many big firms seem […]
“No Longer Anonymous, But Still Not Quite Right”
At Prawfsblawg, Paul Horwitz offers useful perspective on “Inside the Law School Scam” and its author’s decision to reveal his identity.
The LawProf Behind “Inside the Law School Scam”
In the latest post at Inside the Law School Scam, titled “An apology,” the LawProf reveals himself to be the author of this essay. UPDATE: Paul Caron rounds up coverage and background here. FURTHER UPDATE: Brian Leiter comments quite critically here. THIRD UPDATE: A reminder that Campos and Leiter have clashed before. FOURTH UPDATE: The comments […]
Did Bush Administration Target Liberal Blogger?
The NYT reports that a former CIA official is alleging that the Bush Administration sought damaging information on liberal blogger Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor who had been quite critical of the Bush Administration’s foreign policy.. From the story: In an interview, [former CIA officer Glenn L.] Carle said his supervisor at the […]
New York Times on the Secular Right Blog
The New York Times recently ran an interesting article on the Secular Right blog, which I commented on here back when it was first established: As a child, Razib Khan spent several weeks studying in a Bangladeshi madrasa. Heather Mac Donald once studied literary deconstructionism and clerked for a left-wing judge. In neither case did […]