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Adventures in Extreme Publishing

By Alfred Brophy

Our friends over at HUP blog are talking about Judge Posner's forthcoming book A Failure of Capitalism on the crash of 08.  It's due out in May and it's a non-technical explanation of the crash.  Publishing in real time, so to speak.  

This 'fastback' written by Yale law school professor Black (run through the press in a matter of days) is the most authoritative, clear and incisive analysis of the process and significance of impeachment that has yet appeared. An example of a cool legal intelligence applied to a complex and thorny issue, it may also become a hot seller. Professor Black does not approach impeachment wholly in hard legalistic terms; when he does not specifically name President Nixon and his present possible impeachment, his inference is clear (e.g., the possibility of a bribe in the milk fund case clearly refers to Nixon). Black is notably moderate (having supported 'executive privilege' at first, he now feels Nixon has compromised his claim to it by surrendering important confidential material). Here are congressional procedures in impeachment, finely balanced views pro and con, contrary interpretations of the Constitution, and altogether an invaluable clarification of impeachment for the citizens whom polls only recently showed were greatly confused on the subject. Appendices.

For some reason I had thought it was the Yale Law Journal, rather than Yale University Press--but that just goes to show how my memory's working these days.

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on April 27, 2009 (boomark / email).