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This Wednesday I will be in Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota to give a pair of talks.  At 12:15 I will be speaking on property rights and environmental protection to the University of Minnesota Law School student chapter of the Federalist Society.  Details here.  Then at 3pm I will be speaking on federalism and environmental […]

An interesting article, just out in the Yale Law Journal: Nicholas R. Parrillo, Leviathan and Interpretive Revolution: The Administrative State, the Judiciary, and the Rise of Legislative History, 1890-1950.

Asheesh Agarwal has a review of Josh Blackman’s book Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare over at the Liberty Law blog: The story of the Affordable Care Act is as twisted and bizarre as anything ever written by Stephenson, Kafka, or Orwell. It is an Act that saw the President oppose his signature legislation, before […]

I’ll be on KABC Radio at the heart of the Conspiracy – LA (AM 790) at 0615 Monday, discussing the constitutionality of the ObamaCare Fix on the Doug McIntyre Show. Live streaming available here.

Just wondering…. If (a) you are running a business that has a commitment as part of ingrained policy to obey the law; (b) President Obama announces that his administration will for the time being not be enforcing the law with regard, e.g., to existing insurance policies, or for that matter, the employer mandate; (c) is […]

The results so far are here, based on 1,853 votes. A few thoughts: 1) As you might expect from a right-of-center blog, the right-of-center Justices were more popular than the left-of-center Justices. At the same time, every Justice had his or her fans. For example, in a one-on-one matchup between the most favorite of the […]

The Georgetown Center for the Constitution is now receiving applications for 2-year fellowships for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years. Fellows will work on their scholarship as they prepare to enter the law teaching market, and are Visiting Lecturers to teach their own seminar on the subject of their research and co-teach with me.  The […]

Here’s a VC reader poll: Who are your favorite current Supreme Court Justices? Rank all nine at this link. For entertainment value and to satisfy idle curiosity only, naturally.

I have never before been interviewed at such length, so we got into a lot more than one would normally expect during a video interview. And I did not remember all the ground we covered until I watched these videos. Part 3:   Part 4:  

DOJ has filed its brief in the Lavabit appeal before the Fourth Circuit. I blogged at length on Lavabit’s brief, so I thought I would offer a few thoughts on DOJ’s brief: 1) In general, it’s a solid brief. It’s going to be extremely unpopular in the IANAL computer nerd world, obviously, but it’s mostly […]

You might want to try my book: The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Contracts.  Here is the publisher’s description: Written by a leading expert in the field, The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Contracts provides students with ready access to the basic doctrines of contract law, the story behind their evolution, and the rationales for their continued existence. […]

Today is the publication date for A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case, a book I coauthored with VC co-bloggers Jonathan Adler, Randy Barnett, David Bernstein, Orin Kerr, and David Kopel. The book compiles our most important VC posts on the Obamacare case and its aftermath, as well as some […]

At one point someone had posted several photographs related to the case of Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co.  They were vintage picture of the owner of the store, the store itself, etc.  I had a bookmark at the following location: http://www.aalscontracts.org/Cases/Williams.htm .  But that link doesn’t seem to be working anymore. Does anyone know if those photographs are […]