Legal Research

Reform Treaty: Taxonomy of Competence
One of the most important changes brought about by the Reform-Lisbon treaty is the establishment of a taxonomy of competence: It defines - or at least attempts to - who does what in the EC...

Professional Reading: The Taxonomy of Interdisciplinary Legal Research
Mathias Siems (Edinburgh School of Law and Cambridge Centre for Business Research) recently posted The Taxonomy of Interdisciplinary Legal Research: Finding the Way Out of the Desert in SSRN...

A Taxonomy of Legal Blogs
The blog 3L Epiphany has published A Taxonomy of Legal Blogs. This is a very useful list of law related blogs. The sheer number of legal blogs is astonishing. To list a couple of examples there are 60 blogs under...

"A theater director... attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play."
A life-size replica? Not a scale model? I was wondering what the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman was up to. It seems as though he's been out of the public eye for an awfully long time...

A taxonomy of slippery slope arguments
Eugene Volokh has recently objected to my post deriding the sorts of ?slippery slope? arguments invoked in the ?same-sex marriage? debate. His post inspired me to take another look at my two very favorite pieces on slippery slope arguments ? Fred Schauer?s 1985 piece and Gene?s own much longer 2003 piece (both in Harvard)...

Scent of a Warehouse
United States v. Klump, No. 06-0339-cr (2d Cir. August 4, 2008) (McLaughlin, Sack, Livingston, CJJ)Federal drug agents followed a fan believed to be associated with drug activity to a home depot, and then to a warehouse in Buffalo that Klump owned...