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Veritas Riff--Skeel

Posted on July 16, 2010
I'm the elder statesmen—actually, old guy would be more accurate—in a really interesting initiative called Veritas Riff that is designed to train a group of young and mid-career Christian scholars to write and speak more publicly. This little column describes our...

The New Financial Reforms--Skeel

Posted on July 15, 2010
With the Senate vote today, it's all over but the signing. Readers have been kind enough to compliment me on a couple of recent predictions, so it's only fair that I fess up to one I got very wrong. I said on...

More on Business Expertise and the Supreme Court--Skeel

Posted on July 13, 2010
As I was imagining possible candidates for the Supreme Court with business expertise, my initial thoughts were about my colleagues in legal academia. But it occurs to me that an even better place to look might be the business world itself. Three...

Christian Legal Society v. Martinez--Skeel

Posted on July 08, 2010
I was boarding a plane to Israel a few hours after the Supreme Court handed down its decision in CLS v. Martinez last week, so I was a bit behind the curve in reading it. In a 5-4 decision written by...

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Business Expertise and the Supreme Court--Skeel

Posted on July 06, 2010
Jeff Rosen proposed in this op-ed in the New York Times Sunday that Elena Kagan should strive to do justice to the seat she will be inheriting, which was held by Louis Brandeis in the mid twentieth century.  For Rosen,...

Another Chemo Day--Stuntz

Posted on June 28, 2010
The most recent set of films showed that my cancer was growing again, so I went back on chemo today after an eight-week break. Not exactly fun, but not the worst thing in the world either. I was reminded of that earlier...

Technical Difficulties Fixed-- Skeel

Posted on June 16, 2010
Hopefuly not too many of you tried to post comments during our month or so of silence.  The comment function wasn't working for the last week or so.  My apologies for the problem, which is now fixed....

The Spirit of the Law--Skeel

Posted on June 16, 2010
This short review offers a few thoughts on The Spirit of the Law, a new book on the church-state battles over the past century.  The book is a fascinating, in depth historical study of six of the sometimes quirky groups behind the cases...

David Brooks on Goverment-Corporate Relations--Skeel

Posted on June 15, 2010
Inspired by the Obama Administration's awkward dance with BP over the oil spill, David Brooks divides the nations of the world into two categories in this column today: those that treat oil companies and other large corporations as private corporations...

The Influence of Books--Skeel

Posted on May 02, 2010
John Wilson, the editor of Books & Culture, devoted his column in the current issue to a list of the ten books that have most influenced him. His list is quirky and fun, as one would expect, and it started me...

Endgame in the Financial Reforms--Skeel

Posted on April 30, 2010
With the financial reform bill now in the full Senate and all signs pointing toward its passing in the next week or two, a flurry of possible amendments are circulating privately and publicly. Which are most important? Not Senator Boxer's new amendment,...

The Supreme Court Pick--Skeel

Posted on April 30, 2010
I'm lousy with predictions, especially when they involve presidents or Supreme Court justices, but here goes: I predict President Obama will hint widely that he plans to nominate Diane Wood (the main Protestant in the running), but actually nominate Elena...

Interview With Poet Charles Wright--Skeel

Posted on April 26, 2010
Many many years ago, while I was in law school, I took a poetry workshop with Charles Wright.  He was already a well-known poet then, and he's subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize and many other awards.  In addition to being...

Goldman's Dark Hour--Skeel

Posted on April 18, 2010
I remember the moment when I realized that Goldman had gone from being the darling of Wall Street—the firm everyone pointed to as the best run, with the best internal risk controls—to something very different. Last summer, in response to a little...

The Stuntz Conference Video--Skeel

Posted on April 09, 2010
The earlier link to the conference should now have the video.  It's right here.And here is an article from the Weekly Standard on the conference....

The Dodd Bill--Skeel

Posted on April 09, 2010
The Dodd Bill—the financial reform package currently under consideration in the Senate—is a sterling illustration of the old cliché that sometimes it's worse to miss by an inch than a mile. The provisions for handling large financial institution failures have progressed...

Implicit and Explicit Christian Scholarship--Skeel

Posted on April 06, 2010
In his characteristically wise contribution to the Stuntz conference, Mike Seidman posed the question of why so many of Bill's influential criminal procedure articles make no references to the Bible or Christianity. Why, he asks, do they look so much like...

Stuntz Celebration--Skeel

Posted on March 27, 2010
As hard as it was for Bill to endure the fuss, the celebration at Harvard Law School was, by my lights at least, unforgettable. The papers from the first three panels featured most of the nation's leading criminal law and criminal...

Caravaggio at Rome's Quirinale--Skeel

Posted on March 24, 2010
The Caravaggio exhibition at the Quirinale in Rome is one of those rare exhibitions that would justify a special trip. I'm tempted to try to go back (though I readily concede that I'm always tempted to go back to Rome). Caravaggio died...

Live Link for Stuntz Conference--Skeel

Posted on March 22, 2010
For those of you who can't make it to Cambridge this weekend for the conference but would like to tune in to some or all of it, I'm told that there will be a streaming video here....

Obama and Berlusconi--Skeel

Posted on March 21, 2010
A week ago, at the end of a nine day trip to Italy, I waded through a vast protest in against Prime Minister Berlusconi. At a reception that evening, an Italian former student explained that, after Berlusconi's minions missed the filing...

Bill Stuntz Conference at Harvard March 26-27--Skeel

Posted on March 20, 2010
Harvard will be hosting a conference honoring Bill next weekend.  The conference will consist of four panels of speakers on Friday and Saturday, the first three on criminal law and procedure and the last on Bill's life and work generally. ....

Cancer Update--Stuntz

Posted on March 18, 2010
Last week, the docs ordered another set of films; earlier this week, I heard the results. One of my tumors – the one on my liver – is growing again. This means the combination of chemo drugs I was on for the...

Rome Will be Rome--Skeel

Posted on March 15, 2010
When in Rome, I make a bee-line for the three great Caravaggio paintings of St. Matthew in San Luigi dei Francesi, just east of Piazza Navona. Standing in front of the paintings a few days ago—transfixed by the look of utter...

Santa Maria delle Grazie--Skeel

Posted on March 12, 2010
As she described Santa Maria delle Grazie, the Milan church that houses da Vinci's 'Last Supper,' our tour guide said she so much preferred the name in Italian to its English translation—Saint Mary of Thanks—that she would stick with the....

Church in Milan--Skeel

Posted on March 08, 2010
Yesterday I found myself in an Italian language service in Milan. The church—the Chiesa Cristiana, which doubles as Milan Bible Church in the afternoon-- was a thirty minute walk through nondescript neighborhoods (a reminder that Milan was heavily bombed during World...

Art and Markets--Skeel

Posted on March 07, 2010
Through a quirk of scheduling, I was in Amsterdam a week ago for a corporate law conference and (after a brief return home) am now in Milan and Rome for nine days with the twelve students in my Globalization of...

Wheaton's New President--Skeel

Posted on February 21, 2010
Phil Ryken, the pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church, the church of which I and my family are members, was just named the eighth president of Wheaton College.  The first excitement came even before the official announcement, when the website of...

Kids and Computers--Skeel

Posted on February 11, 2010
Thanks to the East Coast blizzard, we're now in day two of a six day weekend (otherwise known as an eternity) with our two high school sons. This means lots of spirited debates about how long the boys can stay on...

God and Disasters--Skeel

Posted on January 24, 2010
James Wood had an interesting op-ed (here) in yesterday's New York Times. Wood, as many readers may know, is a critic and novelist who was raised in an evangelical household but rejected the faith. He argues that that Pat Robertson's suggestion that...

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