Tagged: law
Sorry, Tea Leaf Readers
A potentially mighty case dies not with a shout, but with a one-sentence memorandum, full of legal formality, signifying nothing.
To No One’s Surprise
A squib of a post about this morning’s Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC. Very brief: aggregate campaign donation limits unconstitutional.
Linky Friday No. 61
It’s Linky Friday and now you have a way to malinger productivity while reading random links embedded in wry comments that are only funny after you read the articles!
Poor Partners
In classical art, you almost never see Athena and Aphrodite depicted together. There’s a reason for that, and it’s not the same reason you never see Clark Kent and Superman in the same room.
The Ethics and Incentives of Socialized Law
Noam Scheiber makes a radical suggestion. Eric Posner has lots of reasons why it’ll never work. Burt Likko says, “There’s a few things neither of you bright fellows have thought of.”
Bad Attorney Advertistements, Part 4
Renting a high-quality video camera setup and hiring a guy to operate it must be substantially more expensive than I would have first assumed.
Dreaming of the Guild
Now, before you get all in a huff about the California Supreme Court admitting an undocumented alien to practice law, at least read Burt Likko’s digest of the ruling.
Sandwiches, cont.
In preparing for my recent instructional guide on sandwich making, I asked the MD crowd whether a hot dog qualified. Â Responses were mixed. Â Included in the conversation were whether burritos ought be classified as...
A Persuasive Argument
Many times in the past when I’ve written of the Declaration of Independence, I’ve emphasized that it is not law. The Constitution is law, but not the Declaration, which is a political document. This...
Jurisprudence Blogging 3: Dworkin
In my previous post (which few people responded to*) I described Hart’s theory of law, gave some criticisms and gave my own take on things, which all things considered is still a legal positivist account...
Jurisprudence blogging 2: Hart
In my previous post in this series, I gave a rough outline of Austin’s views and a number of criticism levelled against it. Now, I’ll reveal my hand: All those criticisms were levelled by...
Coverture and Liberty
In which we return to a time that Bryan Caplan appears to love… blindly. Inexplicably. Sort of embarrassingly. I mean the nineteenth century. Back in 2010, Bryan wrote that the legal regime of coverture...
My Quick Take on The Martin-Zimmerman Incident
This is mostly a “clearing the deck” post. I realized earlier today that I have not participated in most of the discussions regarding what happened in Sanford, and so here it is: I...
Jurisprudence Blogging 1: Austin
This is the first in a series of posts about general jurisprudence. In this post, I will cover Austin’s view. I will give a simple overview on what his views are, what is good...
Jurisprudence blogging 0: Prologue
Questions of jurisprudence can become quite complicated. When we want to ask whether a particular judge went outside the law in making a decision, (or whether he was right to do so) we need...
