I’ll post up something fuller on my views about the AQ7 debate, but for now, here is my contribution at the New York Times’s “Room for Debate” blog. (Like Orin, I’m a signer on the original letter objecting to the AQ7 ad.)
Archive | Public Interest Law
Constitutional suits against Obamacare
FoxNews reports that the Liberty Legal Institute and the Fund for Personal Liberty/10th Amendment Foundation are contemplating constitutional lawsuits against certain provisions of Obamacare. As various elected officials and public interest organizations consider their own litigation strategies, it would be helpful for them to know about how well the aforesaid organizations might present a constitutional […]
New Institute for Justice Economic Liberties Case
By Ilya Somin on December 17, 2009 5:35 pm in Economic LIberties, Originalism, Public Interest Law, Regulation
The Institute for Justice has recently filed a new case challenging an especially egregious infringement on economic liberties under the Constitution: A civil liberties law firm has filed suit against the state of Texas on behalf of eight eyebrow-threading entrepreneurs, several of whom are based in San Antonio. The Institute for Justice, Texas Chapter, is […]
The Harvard Law School Guide to Conservative/Libertarian Public Interest Law
In response to my recent post on conservative and libertarian public interest law, various law students and others have e-mailed me to ask whether there is a single comprehensive list of right of center public interest firms. The closest thing I know if the Harvard Law School Guide to Conservative/Libertarian Public Interest Law, available here. […]
Addressing the Most Important Weakness of Conservative-Libertarian Public Interest Law
By Ilya Somin on December 10, 2009 7:58 pm in Conservatism, Federalist Society, Libertarianism, Public Interest Law
I recently renewed my membership in the Federalist Society, and got a mailing asking to sign up with the Fed Soc Pro Bono Center. I was only vaguely aware of this organization’s existence, even though it is a potentially important effort to address the most important shortcoming of conservative and libertarian public interest law. Perhaps […]