i am facinated by barak obama. in part this is because i figure he is likely to be the next president and in part because the combination of meteoric success and a limited public record has a tendency to make him into a kind of inkblot test of peoples hopes and fears. the resulting discussions are often very revealing even if they are not revealing about obama himself. also unlike most national...
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john mccain remarked last week that the hostilities in georgia marked the first serious crisis since the end of the cold war. his surrogates on the news shows have expanded on that position as they repeat the talking point about how the world is so dangerous and full of evil. this strategy shouldnt be surprising in recent elections the republican party has consistently emphasized national secur...
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here are some links that ive tagged in del.icio.us recently. this set is from july 15th through july 17th io9. strung out on science fiction. tags blog scifi must read 10 batman books you must read tags batman comics center for social innovation csi stanford university graduate school of business tags business academic education gsb introducing the new nerd whistle download.com tags ...
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university of chicago school of law professor geof stone has a fairly long video lecture on the christian nationreligion of the key founders question. its quite good. stone is an ardent secular leftist and as such he overstates the deist influence. he put ben franklin and thomas jefferson in the same box as thomas paine and ethan allen which i would not. however stone does recognize the hybrid...
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dan drezner raises the plausible possibility that the real reason for the objection of some 8 101 of the fulltime faculty to the milton friedman institute at the university of chicago which we blogged about earlier here is grounded less on ideology and more on an effort to ensure these departments get a bigger slice of the pie.a ht jon adler.a the letter itself concedes that funding is a motivatin...
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gee. i wonder why professor stone didnt mention the right of the people to keep and bear arms. does he like only someaconstitutional amendments would the presidents civilliberties adviser pick and choose in this way how would such selective enforcement be prevented yes this is the same geoffrey stone who tried to explain the partialbirth abortion decision in gonzales v. carhart by pointing outi am...
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over at bloggingheads cass sunstein and eugene volokh discuss free speech and the blogosphere. its very interesting discussion and well worth watching. hat tip u. chicago law faculty blog......
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i just got martha nussbaums book liberty of conscience in defense of americas tradition of religious equality. it looks to be a great read. and given her weight as a preeminent public intellectual its must reading for any serious student of the philosophy behind the religion clauses of americas constitution. from what ive read so far i agree with her notion something ive long trumpeted on the ...
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in october 2000 the sec promulgated rule 10b51 to provide company insiders with a way to trade their shares in company stock without incurring securities law liability through the pretrading adoption of a written trading plan. despite the rules protective purpose concerns have arisen more recently about rule 10b51 plan abuses as i noted in prior posts here and here.indeed concerns about angelo moz...
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back in march i responded to the common argument that since automatic teller machines are widely used and seem to be secure secure electronic voting must be doable as well. i pointed out a couple of problems with this argument but i took as a given that atm machines are in fact secure. but matt blaze recently discovered that atms arent that secure either. when blaze tried to withdraw cash from a p...
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update canada extends compensation to aboriginal individuals forcibly removed from their parents. dreadnought supports reconciliation with australias stolen generations.update after california is barack obama operationally opposed to marriage and the family rich lowry thinks so.update majority of californians support constitutional ban on gay marriage early figures show big 54 35 split.update cas...
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as you probably know by now im a big fan of innovation in the law. but theres good innovation and theres bad innovation and whats emerging in the litigation field in the us and the uk looks to me like it belongs in the latter category. legalweek reports that uk hedge funds are lining up to provide funding for lawsuits. this idea in itself isnt breaking news several us companies often backed by mas...
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last week the aba section of antitrust law held its spring meeting in washington dc. the meeting attracts several thousand antitrust lawyers and economists and features numerous panel discussions of various antitrust and consumer protection issues.a there is also of course a lot of socializing and networking.a it might have just been the panels i happened to attend but unlike in previous years th...
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ok im not talking to hillary herself. because we all know that its wrong to blame hillary for the trash her political allies talk even as obama is called out about anyone whos had a cup of coffee in a campaign office. because thats just fair.so im not talking to hillary but some apparently misbegotten campaign allies have been trotting out the argument that barack obama dishonestly stated he s...
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catching up on my reading i recently came across this post from the university of chicagos saul levmore about the merits of touchscreen voting. levmore thinks that the future is surely with the touchscreen or some other form of online voting. levmore doesnt go into any detail about why he thinks this i assume hes simply not familiar with the many evoting problems weve covered here at techdirt. he ...
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molly shaffer van houweling has an interesting paper on eulas and servitudes think real property. according to the abstract in the age of electronic commerce consumers routinely acquire intangible products without engaging in any direct human interaction. these products computer programs digital music etc. often arrive bearing terms that purport to limit the sticks in the consumers bundles ...
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