The Middle Path of Reform
A contrarian approach is perhaps endemic to the reformer. If A is the problem, then it is natural to assert anti-A as the solution. In the realm of education, if we have been losing ground as a...
View ArticleStanford Law Review Online: The Money Crisis
The Stanford Law Review Online has just published an Essay by former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold entitled The Money Crisis: How Citizens United Undermines Our Elections and the Supreme Court. Senator...
View ArticleStanford Law Review Online: The Dirty Little Secret of (Estate) Tax Reform
The Stanford Law Review Online has just published an Essay by Edward McCaffery entitled The Dirty Little Secret of (Estate) Tax Reform. Professor McCaffery argues that Congress encourages and...
View ArticleStanford Law Review Online: Evaluating Merger Enforcement During the Obama...
The Stanford Law Review Online has just published an Essay by Jonathan Baker and Carl Shapiro entitled Evaluating Merger Enforcement During the Obama Administration. Professors Baker and Shapiro take...
View ArticleStanford Law Review Online: Politicizing the Supreme Court
The Stanford Law Review Online has just published a Note by Eric Hamilton entitled Politicizing the Supreme Court. Hamilton writes that the Framers carefully constructed a Supreme Court independent...
View ArticleMoral Values and the Curriculum
What great fun to read all these posts! There are three separate threads on the posts that I want to respond to: the impact of Robin’s analysis and exhortations on what our law school curriculum might...
View ArticleStanford Law Review Online: The Hunt for Noncitizen Voters
The Stanford Law Review Online has just published an Essay by Fatma Marouf entitled The Hunt for Noncitizen Voters. Professor Marouf writes that recent efforts by several states to purge noncitizens...
View ArticleTribute: A Liberal in the House of Harry Jaffa (1918-2015)
Harry Jaffa (credit: Ohio State University) 1-14-15: 1:03 a.m. My mind races. How does one pay tribute to someone with whom one disagreed on several important issues? – issues about life and law and...
View ArticleFAN 56.1 (First Amendment News) Constitutional & Criminal Law Experts File...
This morning an amicus brief was filed in the case of Ex Parte James Richard “Rick Perry” (App. Ct., 3rd Jud. Dist.); this is how it opens: Amici are an ideologically diverse coalition of experts in...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Patriotism
Last fall, I began reading Hillbilly Elegy. I wanted to see how the author, J.D. Vance, would deal with the question of class. I was particularly interested to see if his experiences at Yale Law School...
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