Legal minds on legal matters and whatever else strikes our fancy.
So the last installment of my three-part series—The Global Gender Gap (#3 of 3)—is going to have to wait. I’m a little crunched this week, and there’s something else I want to write about. Today I have a yen to write about teaching and technology. Now, if you ask any member of [...]
Courts often don’t get sex. We know that. But I had thought that this was a peculiarly American matter. Not so, apparently. British newspapers are reporting that Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation, its highest court for nonconstitutional issues, has civilly blessed an ecclesiastical court’s annulment of a marriage. That, by itself, will [...]
Many have weighed in on Justice Breyer’s recent book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View. They understandably focus on the sexy topics—constitutional interpretation, Brown v. Board of Education, and judicial review generally; the topics most relevant to today’s political battles—statutory interpretation and the culture wars; and Breyer’s own big, nagging question—why [...]
In my last post, I highlighted the “horse race” aspect of the World Economic Forum’s 2010 Global Gender Gap Report, which shows the Nordic countries ahead of the curve in gender equality and the United States placing in the top 20 (#19) for the first time. The ratings are based on each [...]