Legal Commentary

Last week?s discussion of the decade's most significant developments in legal academia generated some really interesting response. The overall tone of the comments suggests that, unsurprisingly, the 2000s were a mixed bag for legal academia.  Brian Leiter?s poll on which of these developments was the most significant closes tomorrow, so get your votes in now.

Since last week?s post directed our collective gaze to our collective navel, I thought that this week we might look out a bit at the broader legal landscape: What was the most significant court decision, statute, or regulation this decade? Like last time, I?m purposefully casting the net widely, and there are solid arguments for and against a lot of the probable candidates--Bush v. Gore, Sarbanes-Oxley, the Military Commissions Act, Hamdan, Heller, the Patriot Act, the TARP legislation, and so on--so please feel free to add a bit of explanation with your vote.