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Can We Tolerate Tolerance?
This is the third in a series of occasional short essays about free speech in America. Earlier installments can be found here and here. We live in a tolerant society. Of course, that is an...
View ArticleChina, the Internet, and Sovereignty
China’s World Internet Conference is, according to its organizers, about: “An Interconnected World Shared and Governed by All—Building a Cyberspace Community of Shared Destiny”. This year’s Conference...
View ArticleUsing Secret Materials for Interpretation
Greetings from the AALS! I wanted to post about something that I’m thinking about in relation to a paper idea. Many Supreme Court opinions are ambiguous or susceptible to different readings. The...
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The Tragedy & Lost Legacy of James M. Landis — Book Review by Duncan...
The current issue of the Journal of Legal Education has a fascinating book review by Duncan Farthing-Nichol of Justin O’Brien’s The Triumph, Tragedy and Lost Legacy of James M Landis: A Life on Fire...
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Journal of Legal Education: Volume 65, # 3, Spring 2016
From the Editors By Thomas D. Cobb & Kate O’Neill Articles Postgraduate Legal Training: The Case for Tax-Exempt Programs By Adam Chodorow & Philip Hackney Dawn of the...
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FAN 99 (First Amendment News) Welcome to the Marketplace of Ideologies —...
One of the prerogatives of publishing First Amendment News is that I am free to express an editorial opinion from time to time. Thus the one that follows . . . along with some news items, of course. —...
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FAC 6 (First Amendment Conversations) The Law & Politics of Money: A Q & A...
Professor Richard Hasen Richard Hasen is the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California at Irvine. I am pleased to do FAC Q&A interview with him in...
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Introduction to About Abortion Symposium
We are delighted to introduce Professor Carol Sanger and the participants in our online symposium on About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America (Harvard University Press...
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Symposium on Carol Sanger’s “About Abortion”: Introduction & Commentaries
What follows is an online symposium concerning Professor Carol Sanger’s latest book, About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America (Harvard University Press 2017) (table of...
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FAN 148 (First Amendment News) Coming this fall: NYU Law to host conference...
Judge Learned Hand (credit: NY Rev. of Books) Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s (“Defendant” or “LVMPD”) violations of Plaintiff’s First Amendment right to freedom of expression, as well as...
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Looking back on Bridges v. California (1941) — Some random thoughts inspired...
The Bridges opinion was “a judicial Declaration of Independence for the First Amendment, freeing it from English law.” — Benno C. Schmidt Harry Bridges One sign of a good book is its ability to engage...
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“THE JUDGE: 26 Machiavellian Lessons” coming this Fall
Ronald Collins & David Skover, The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons (Oxford University Press, October 3, 2017). The Judge is in a league of its own. For all the countless books and articles written...
View ArticleA Lament of Many Judges
“This is one of those cases which too frequently occur, in which the court is called upon to interpret legislative expressions of doubtful import, without a clue to ascertain, with precision, what was...
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Q & A re THE JUDGE by Collins & Skover: “When ‘Machiavellian’ is a Compliment”
This from Andrew Hamm over at SCOTUSblog: “Ask the authors: When ‘Machiavellian’ is a compliment”: The following is a series of questions on the occasion of the publication of Ronald Collins and David...
View ArticleOf Synchronicity and Supreme Law
I want to flag a wonderful new paper by Sai Prakash that examines the time limits that accompanying the enactment of statutes, the ratification of treaties, and the proposal and ratification of...
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Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein to be interviewed at Newesum on May 1st, Law Day —...
Newseum, Wash., D.C. A Law Day Conversation With Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General of the United States Tuesday, May 1, 2018 / 2:00 p.m. Newseum, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Theater, Washington,...
View ArticleAbandoned? The Liberal Flight from the First Amendment
A FEW CAUTIONARY WORDS – First, and apart from a few well-intended editorial swipes here and there, the following comments are meant to be primarily descriptive. Second, nothing that follows should be...
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New Book — “Waging Justice: A Doctor’s Journey to Speak Truth and Be Bold” by...
Waging Justice is a deeply personal story of courage and compassion with global implications. Dr. Zeitz is a man of conscience who shares my commitment to bringing hope to the world’s poor. Please read...
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Nation’s only History Book Festival returns to Lewes, DE — Sept. 28th & 29th
I had the great privilege of presenting at the 2017 History Book Festival. It was an absolute delight. The organizers and hosts were extraordinarily hospitable, the events were well attended and...
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Barnette at 75 — FIU Law Review Hosts Major Conference
Professor Howard Wasserman Earlier this month the Florida International University Law Review hosted a major conference to celebrate the 75th anniversary of West Virginia State Board of Education v....
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