Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Most-Read Blogs Run by Academics:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232562147
[1]TaxProf (Paul Caron) reports on the most-trafficked law professor
blogs, of those that have public SiteMeter rankings. The five top
blogs by visitor cou
Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Mercy Otis Warren Writing Against the Constitution:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232565241
Here's the opening paragraph of her [1]1788 pamphlet urging rejection
of the Constitution, signed Columbian Patriot:
Mankind may amuse
Posted by Orin Kerr:
Out With the Scalia Clerks from Kirkland, In With the Stevens Clerks from
WilmerHale:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232565629
Over at [1]ATL, David Lat fils us in on who will be staffing the White
House Counsel's Office and DOJ Office
Posted by Orin Kerr:
Volokh Conspiracy Citations in the Westlaw JLR Database, Updated:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232571321
Last year, around this time, I had[1] a post on the number of cites to
the Volokh Conspiracy in the Westlaw JLR database:
Vo
Posted by Jonathan Adler:
Should Obama Retake the Oath of Office?
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232571735
Carolyn Lochhead has an [1]interesting story in the San Francisco
Chronicle on teh flubbed oath at yesterday's inauguration:
The oath reads: "I d
Posted by David Kopel:
Left and Right Agree: Good Grades for Obama:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232573703
In this week's National Journal [1]poll of leading political bloggers,
the Left gives Obama's inaugural speech an A-, and the right gives it
a B-.
Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Illegal To Compare Islam with Nazism?
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232576675
That's what a [1]Dutch appellate court seems to be saying, in ordering
the prosecution of Dutch member of Parliament Geert Wilders. The press
release d
Posted by Orin Kerr:
Interesting Question Inspired by Pearson v. Callahan:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232577220
Imagine a circuit court publishes a decision holding A and B, where
both holdings A and B are considered necessary to the court's outcome.
Posted by Todd Zywicki:
EU Considering Requiring an IE-Less Version of Windows:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232577534
Apparently the European Union [1]is considering requiring Microsoft to
remove IE from the versions of Windows that it sells in Europe. Th
Posted by Todd Zywicki:
American Bankruptcy Institute Bankruptcy Townhall:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232577895
The American Bankruptcy Institute has a new "[1]Bankruptcy Townhall"
section on its website that collects material on bankruptcy issues of
Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Invective:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232578120
A recent glance at Alexander Hamilton's denunciation of John Adams
leads me to revise the comments policy. The passage I have in mind is
this:
This scrutiny [of some of Ada
Posted by Todd Zywicki:
Economics of Anarchy:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232578394
Some of our readers out there will be interested in Ben Powell and Ed
Stringham's new survey article on "[1]Public Choice and the Economics
of Anarchy."
References
Posted by Eugene Volokh:
An Unexpected Genealogical Connection
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232579139
between an author whom I was researching and Hilaire Belloc reminded
me of one of my favorite Belloc poems, from [1]A Moral Alphabet:
B stands for B
Posted by Orin Kerr:
The (Final) Case for the Third-Party Doctrine:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232582628
My new Fourth Amendment article, [1]The Case for the Third-Party
Doctrine, has just been published in its final form. You can get a
.pdf of the fi
Posted by David Bernstein:
A Few Gaza Notes:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232585477
(1) A retired British colonel, on the BBC no less, says that at "no
time in the history of warfare when an army has made more efforts to
reduce civilian casualties and t
Posted by Orin Kerr:
Obama Takes Oath Again:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232585767
The [1]AP has the scoop.
References
1.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA_OATH_DO_OVER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Posted by David Bernstein:
This is Just Creepy...:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232595017
Go to 3:54: "I pledge to be a servant to our president and all
mankind."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0&eurl=http://www.willwilkins
on.net/flybottl
Posted by Eric Posner:
Chapter 13 and the Durbin mortgage modification bill
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232596135
As I mentioned in an earlier [1]post, a number of bills are floating
around Congress that would revise Chapter 13 so as to ease the burden
Posted by Orin Kerr:
Comment Glitches:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232597053
It looks like some recent comment threads have been having problems --
the threads are stopping midway and not letting in additional comments
in some of the threads posted in
Posted by Jim Lindgren:
Miss Thistlebottom Strikes Again: Fear of the Bogus Rule Against “Split Verbs”
Mars Oath of Office.
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_18-2009_01_24.shtml#1232599806
The Constitution used the normal placement for an adverb � �I . . . do
SOLEMNLY swear� and �
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