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I'm #9!

Posted on July 10, 2007
According to SSRN download statistics for the past two months (May 11th to July 10th), my article is ranked #9 in downloads among all articles in the Law & Society: Public Law section. It reached that lofty position with 58 downloads.The article, in case you've forgotten, is entitled When Separation Doesn't Work: The Religion Clauses as Anti-Subordination Principles, and it is forthcoming soon in the Dartmouth Law Journal...

Do Law Reviews Matter?

Posted on June 28, 2007
So asks CONNtemplations, the Connecticut Law Review's online supplement, which has just posted some very interesting essays examining this question.I will try to post some thoughts on these essays sometime in the coming weeks (bar prep permitting), particularly since a few authors have engaged some of my earlier arguments regarding law reviews and online supplements...

Thomas v. Breyer Smackdown

Posted on June 28, 2007
Amid all the drama of today's school racial classification decisions, check out footnote 15 of Justice Thomas' concurrence. It compares Justice Breyer's dissent to the Lochner majority opinion by cryptically, but unmistakenly, implying Justice Breyer seeks to import his book Active Liberty into the law as Lochner allegedly sought to import Herbert Spencer's book Social Statics...

How I'm Spending My Summer, GPL v3 edition

Posted on June 26, 2007
I'm spending my summer working in the Legal Affairs department at Red Hat, Inc. ("The Open Source Leader.") Not coincidentally, the past several weeks of my life have been a deep dive into the esoterica of copyright/copyleft licensing- particularly the new GNU General Public License, due to be released this week...

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Balkin/Ackerman Throwdown

Posted on June 03, 2007
Well, not quite--but "respectful engagement" just doesn't pop the same way. Still, any law geek readers (any of y'all out there?) shouldn't miss Jack Balkin's four-part response (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four) to Bruce Ackerman's Holmes Lectures, The Living Constitution.

Conference Spotting

Posted on May 31, 2007
A few months ago, I described the color-blind ideology as "the French model," due to the fact that color-blindness has found its purest home in the land of the Gauls (and also, admittedly, because I figured it would annoy those on the right who like to think of Europe as enthralled by hyper-liberal multiculturalism)...

The Digital Identity of University

Posted on May 31, 2007
Tomorrow afternoon I will facilitate the Digital Identify of University working group at Harvard Law School's Internet & Society conference. Here is the description of the working group:With digital tools such as message boards, social networks, and search engines making University and its clients? identities more public than ever, navigating the integrated media landscape for students and other members of University has become increasingly difficult...

Will The Real Jonathan Adler Please Stand Up?

Posted on May 26, 2007
Running through a very interesting NYT article on how we use narratives to construct our lives, I read this passage: Jonathan Adler, a researcher at Northwestern, has found that people?s accounts of their experiences in psychotherapy provide clues about the nature of their recovery...

Student Publishing Opportunity in Penn Law Review

Posted on May 18, 2007
Topic: The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005Deadline: September 15, 2007PDF flyer available here.Hat tip: Concurring Opinions.

Torture and Newspeak

Posted on May 15, 2007
Did anyone get the sense that Ron Paul was the only candidate in the Republican Debate tonight that has read the book 1984? He took Brit Hume's covert phrase "enhanced interrogation techniques" and said "it sounds like newspeak" and is just another word for torture...

Horowitz on Anonymous Internet Defamation

Posted on May 15, 2007
Steven J. Horowitz has uploaded a short essay, titled Defusing a Google Bomb, to SSRN. Here's the abstract:Anonymous internet defamation is nothing new, but the recent Autoadmit controversy highlights one particularly difficult aspect of this problem: Google bombing...

Drumbl Making an Appearance at PrawfsBlawg

Posted on May 10, 2007
Washington & Lee Law Professor Mark Drumbl will be guest-blogging at PrawfsBlawg over the next few weeks. Drumbl, for those of you who don't know, is a baller and one of the most interesting theorists on the punishment of mass atrocities (genocide and the like)...

The Second Amendment--Next Stop Supreme Court?

Posted on May 08, 2007
Via David Kopel at Volokh, the DC Circuit has denied en banc review in Parker v. District of Columbia, the (for now) successful challenge to the District of Columbia's ban on handguns and functional longarms. I was all set to blog tomorrow about how it had been a month since the District filed its petition for review and no response had been requested by the Court...

Symposium Announcement

Posted on May 07, 2007
The Berkeley Journal of African-American Law and Policy will be hosting its annual symposium on "Setting the Agenda: Examining the Critical Legal Issues Facing African-Americans and Minority Communities in the 2008 Election." Papers are due June 8th, decisions will be given out by June 20th, and the conference itself will be held November 9th...

The Motive and The Message

Posted on May 03, 2007
Over at my home base, I give some thoughts on the proposed hate crimes bill moving through Congress.

What allows for a "Thatcher" Moment?

Posted on April 28, 2007
There's a great piece in today's Times (I would say "London Times," but it really is just "The Times") by Matthew Parris on prospects for economic reform in France if Nicolas Sarkozy is elected in a week. That France is in dire need of economic liberalization there is no doubt, argues Parris and as I would agree...

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