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Britney's Law
Is basic economics a mystery? Article by Wilt Alston.
Torturing the law
Earlier this month, civil-liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate had this to say on his blog at ThePhoenix.com about Attorney General Michael Mukasey's testimony regarding waterboarding:. [A]cknowledging that the CIA's torturers might have ...
Market Jitters: Bad for Investors, But Good for Law Students?
Ever since the economy started slowing down several months ago, the Law Blog has tracked how the sub-prime crisis and the credit crunch have affected the legal market — from layoffs to litigation. But a recent article in the Daily News ...
Iranian Law & The Notion of Pluralism
It's break week and I have the chance to return to Law and Revolution II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition, by Harold J. Berman, and will attempt to do so in a day or two. ...
Obama, Clinton Back Off Border-Fence Law
(CNSNews.com) - In a CNN debate in Austin, Texas, Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton agreed Thursday night that the Secure Border Fence Act of 2006, which directs the secretary of Homeland Security to ...
Politics and the Law
[D]o political movements need to obey the law? Political history learnt by me tells me that breaking the law, getting arrested, braving lathis and getting jailed are symbols of a principled agitation. ...
"What lawyer surfs the web in court?"
For now, though, let's set that aside and look at the more practice-oriented than law-school-oriented issue. I think this is really about envisioning the future of law practice. As Prof. David Thomson is want to say, ...
Law And Torture In Battlestar Galactica
How about something nice and simple and comprehensive? Like, aside from the fact that it's outstandingly ineffective at eliciting the kind of information a "good" society would want, the damage it does to that society is worse than any ...
Wall Street Journal Spins Negative on Law of the Sea
You'd expect it from the editorial page, but not from the WSJ news section. The otherwise very interesting and solid piece on Alexandre Albuquerque, the Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, ...
Maryland Residents Work to Overturn Transgender Law
Amid accusations of misleading and trying to scare citizens, Maryland Citizens for a Responsible Government has collected enough signatures to let voters decide on a law that provides special rights to people with gender-identity ...