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OpEd Writing Seminars for Women

Posted on May 29, 2009
This is a great project: increasing the numbers of women who write op-eds. You can arrange for the seminar to come to your school, or you can take a webinar. Our Vision is to create a sea change in our...

Global Free Speech Update

Posted on May 29, 2009
Venezuela: Regulators continue to investigate Globovision for inciting a "panic and anxiety" in reports that criticized the government's emergency response record. Two years ago, regulators pulled the license of a Radio Caracas Television, leaving Globovision the only remaining anti-Chavez station...

Remove that Bumper Sticker or Get Towed and Fined

Posted on May 29, 2009
A Dallas homeowners' assocation has told a resident that he is in violation of the Association's CC&Rs for displaying several decals and bumper stickers on his car, each of which refer to his connection with the U.S. Marine Corps. The...

Alex Acosta New Dean At FIU

Posted on May 28, 2009
As Howard Wasserman reports, Alex Acosta has been named the new dean of Florida International University School of Law. Acosta, 40, is the sitting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and previously served in the Bush administration as....

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Chris Guthrie Named Dean Of Vanderbilt Law School

Posted on May 27, 2009
Chris Guthrie, 42, was named the new dean of Vanderbilt Law today. He served as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs from 2004-08. Guthrie has agreed to a five year appointment and will replace Ed Rubin who has been at Vandy...

Senior Theses (and other early scholarship) of the Now Famous

Posted on May 26, 2009
Update: Neither of the following count as early scholarship, but ... in honor of her impending nomination to be Supreme Court Justice, a link to Judge Sotomayor's 2004 tribute to John Sexton, which appeared in the NYU Annual Survey of...

Law Prof Fun: The SouterSuccessor Picker

Posted on May 26, 2009
The New York Times features an interactive game called "If You Were President" that allows you to "interview" candidates and then vote for them. There is even a write-in section, but you can only vote once--I already tried. (No I...

The Economics of Marriage Equality

Posted on May 26, 2009
If the moral imperative favoring marriage equality won't sway the right, maybe $100 million will. That's how much gay marriage injected into the Massachusetts economy over the past five years. According to one study, "marriage equality resulted in an increase...

The Next Supreme Court Short List (or Long List)

Posted on May 26, 2009
Many, many congratulations to Judge Sotomayor on her nomination to the United States Supreme Court. The confirmation hearings promise a robust debate on the role of empathy and on the role of experience in American law. Right now at Fox...

Will Religious Exemptions Accelerate Adoption Of Same Sex Marriage?

Posted on May 26, 2009
New Hampshire's governor, John Lynch, has refused to sign a same sex marriage bill that does not include substantial protections for religious individuals and institutions who disagree with the law. He's received a couple of letters from legal academics supporting...

It's Sotomayor

Posted on May 26, 2009
From NYT: President Obama will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as his first appointment to the court, officials said Tuesday, and has scheduled an announcement for 10:15 a.m. at the...

The Origins of America?s Love Affair with the Oversized?

Posted on May 26, 2009
Ask a European to describe America and Americans and they will inevitably talk about size. Americans love big gas guzzling cars. They build ridiculous McMansions. They wear gigantic hats. They supersize their meals. They lift weights and inject steroids until...

Judge Sotomayor on "where policy is made"

Posted on May 26, 2009
There's a very short slice of a speech that Judge Sotomayor gave in February 2005 at Duke making the rounds on the internet, in which she says something that some people think is scary, like the court of appeals is...

Sotomayor's Balanced Record

Posted on May 26, 2009
Check out Scotusblog for a quick and handy overview of Judge Sotomayor's opinions. Loads of good reading here, and more of a balanced record than her opponents are likely to acknowledge. Here are a few notable First Amendment cases: Center...

California Supreme Court Upholds Prop 8 as a Valid Amendment

Posted on May 26, 2009
The California Supreme Court, in Strauss v. Horton, has upheld the validity of Proposition 8 as a valid amendment to the state constitution. In doing so it stressed that Proposition 8, which added a new section to the constitution specifying...

Civil Rights, Cemetery Law. and Veterans' Day

Posted on May 25, 2009
Yesterday's Birmingham News ran a story by Erin Stock about a most, most extraordinary case: that of Vietnam Veteran and hero Bill Terry. Mr. Terry died in 1969 in Vietnam, at age 20. His body returned home to Birmingham, but...

Memorial Day: Fredericksburg National Cemetery

Posted on May 25, 2009
Since this is Memorial Day weekend, I thought that I'd dip into my stock of photos and post something from a National Cemetery. Close readers of the blogosphere (and my friends) will recall that one of my areas of interest...

Supreme Court Speculation and Diane Wood's Extra-Judicial Writing

Posted on May 23, 2009
In Thursday morning's Washington Post, Robert Barnes and Shailagh Murray suggest that two former law professors, Diane Wood and Elena Kagan, are emerging are front-runners for nomination to the Supreme Court. Ann Althouse clued us in recently that the "conventional...

Street Justice: Police As Irrational Actors

Posted on May 22, 2009
What you see in this troubling video may be perfectly understandable on a human level: irate cops finally catch up with an out of control driver (who may have targeted another officer) and beat the hell out of him. The...

Conservative Radio Host Gets Waterboarded, Lasts Six Seconds, Changes Position on "It's Not Torture"

Posted on May 22, 2009
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Dance with the Devil in the Pale Moonlight

Posted on May 22, 2009
Today, President Obama signed a bill that holds the hope of significantly reigning in credit card companies. This legislation actually appears to have a bit of a bite, at least in comparison to the regulations that the Federal Reserve passed...

The Alternatives to Marriage Project: No to Judge Leah Spears

Posted on May 22, 2009
AtMP, a nonprofit organization that advocates for equality and fairness for people who are not married, has issued this statement regarding the potential nomination of Leah Spears to the Supreme Court. Nicky Grist, the Executive Director of the organization, has...

Can a City tax Universities for enrolling Out-of-State Students?

Posted on May 22, 2009
That's what Providence,R.I., proposes to do. It wants the Rhode Island legislature to authorize cities in the state to impose a tax of $150 per student who comes from outside Rhode Island. Paul Caron, TaxProf Blog, has links to news...

The High Cost of Poverty: Washington Post

Posted on May 21, 2009
Article here. (Thanks to Prof. Melynda Price (Kentucky)) Credit. The poor don't have it. What they had was a place like First Cash Advance in D.C.'s Manor Park neighborhood, where a neon sign once flashed "PAYDAY ADVANCE." Through the bulletproof...

Summer Conference Season ? Frustrations

Posted on May 21, 2009
Although I?m usually one to see the glass as half full, Jacqueline?s post yesterday on the guilty pleasures of heading off to June conferences immediately brought to mind a hotel trend that has increasingly left me with a bitter taste...

Teaching Creates A Conflict Of Interest For Adjunct Law Professor

Posted on May 21, 2009
According the New Jersey Law Journal, Rutgers is prohibiting Sheryl Mintz Goski, an adjunct professor, from continuing her gig teaching international mediation at Rutgers-Newark Law School because she represents a company in a dispute with Rutgers Business School...

Summer Conference Season - Guilty Pleasures

Posted on May 20, 2009
As the summer conference season begins, and I sit in a hotel room in Chicago, I wanted to confess to some of the guilty pleasures that go hand in hand with being away from the family and the household chores...

The Coming Judicial Clerkship Application Crush

Posted on May 20, 2009
Skadden Arps welcomed their summer associates this week. According to ATL, there was a lot of anxiety in this summer class as they learned that offers would be forthcoming to those workers who earned them. (Isn't it weird that, in...

Arizona State Seeks To Relocate Law School To Downtown Phoenix

Posted on May 20, 2009
Say this about the folks at Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law: they're a practical bunch. Every law school wants to make it easy for students to move in and out of the legal practice world while...

Bitter Lawyer Turns US News Rankings Into A Movie

Posted on May 19, 2009
Via Paul Caron.

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