I’ve just read a revealing essay by Christopher Edley, the dean of UC-Berkeley’s law school, which was brought to my attention by Brian Tamanaha. Dean Edley looks back over the development of his institution on the 100th anniversary of its founding, considers where his law...
Author: Paul Campos
With what charge exactly is not yet clear. Over/under on the first talking head who draws an analogy to Leo Frank and/or the Scottsboro Boys: Three hours and 17 minutes..
An acquaintance of mine, a professor at a top business school, is a big fan of state-run lotteries. "It's a tax that poor people pay voluntarily!" he tells me with.
National Review has disassociated itself from John Derbyshire. For those who would complain about the violation of Derbyshire's supposed First Amendment rights, keep in mind the Constitution no longer applies to foreigners.
The decline of American journalism has some things in common with the decline of the legal profession. Consider this piece of "journalism," published yesterday in Forbes, purportedly one of the.
Two days ago, a three-judge Fifth Circuit panel ordered "President" Obama's Department of Justus to produce a letter of at least three single-spaced pages, explaining the dusky usurper's position on.
Scott links below to Ruth Marcus's inane pearl-clutching over how Obama criticizing the Supreme Court could be interpreted as an Assault On the Rule of Law and Thus Our Most Sacred Freedoms. Apparently some sort of signal went out from the Bat Cave today. Behold...
As Coach John Calipari is surely banking on, the thing about actually winning the title is that the NCAA won't vacate your Final Four appearance afterwards. (Thanks a lot Chris.
This guy has worse luck than Ben Roethlisberger and Roman Polanski combined. Hopefully he still has Bernard Henri-Levy on speed dial.
Here's the key passage in Judge Melvin Schweitzer's decision, granting New York Law School's motion to the dismiss the class action suit brought against it by nine graduates for publishing misleading employment and salary data: (more…)
Traded to the Jets for a fourth round pick fourth and sixth round pick, plus the Jets get a seventh. At least he and Rex Ryan can reprise The Odd.
From a hermeneutic perspective, the "text" of Manning making aliyah to Denver can be interpreted literally, emblematically, allegorically, didactically, and, not least, probabilistically. I like those odds.