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The February issue of Cato Unbound focuses on substantive due process. The opening essay, by me, is adapted from my article, In Defense of Substantive Due Process. Responses will be coming soon from Professors Gary Lawson, Lawrence Rosenthal, and Ryan Williams.
Thanks to Judge Alex Kozinski you won't have to worry about being forced to shack up with the slobby guy, the party girl, the all-night video game nerd, or the quiet but hateful passive aggressive. Neo-conservatives won't be coerced into sharing their early mornings crammed in a bathroom brushing their teeth with a polite progressive. And Catholics [...]
The word tolerance gets thrown around a lot in the media and in every day conversation. But I've noticed that few people, and especially those with set political beliefs, actually understand what the word means in practice. Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic has a great piece, entitled A Real Commitment to Minority Rights Needs a [...]
The States of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Vermont, the District of Columbia, and the Governor of Washington have filed their Brief as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents on Severability in the vided cases of NFIB v. Sebelius, and Florida v. DHHS, Nos. 11-393 & 11-400, [...]
Cockle Printing has printed and filed the Brief For Texas, Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and Guam as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondents in Wood v. Milyard, No. 10-9995.
The greatest lawyer in the Anglo-American common law tradition would have been 460 today, had he lived.
I've been reading lots of write-ups for Law Professor Michelle Alexander's book on the American criminal justice system, entitled The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. From what I've read, and heard from others in the legal community, it sounds like an amazing work. You can find the website for the [...]
SCOTUSblog is currently taking application from current law school students for its internship program. You DO NOT have to move to Washington D.C., from what the listing says the internship can be performed remotely. The details are here. Submit your application to Kali Borkoski at kborkoski@scotusblog.com.