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One of the standard defenses of the Socratic method, which I criticized in my last post and here , is adherence to tradition. If American lawprofs have been using the method for decades, there must be something to it. Who are we to question the approach that worked so well for Professor ...
World
By nature, I am a highly verbal, nonvisual person. I learn best by reading books or listening to lectures. I rarely benefit from looking at tables, charts, pictures, and the like. I’m the kind of guy who can’t drive to an unfamiliar destination without a detailed mapquest itinerary telling me ...
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Missouri v. Richard was decided earlier this week by the Missouri Supreme Court, solely on the basis of the Missouri Constitution. Missouri law, Section 571.030.1(5) punishes someone who “Possesses or discharges a firearm or projectile weapon while intoxicated.”
Richard did in fact possess a ...
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One of the many interesting issues raised by the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terrorist suspects in New York is whether transferring them to New York gives them any additional rights that they could assert to try to stop the prosecution against them. On Wednesday, the seven ...
World
United States
Someone hacked into the computers at the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit, downloaded various files and e-mails posted on the web. Now the climate blogosphere is all atwitter over whether the resulting disclosures are a scandal or much ado about nothing. Excerpts and reactions ...
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(coauthored with Stephen Ansolabehere and crossposted)
Upon the initiative of my colleague Jamal Greene who has been writing about the popularity of originalism , our July survey included several questions concerning judicial methodology. As cautious as we might be generally about measuring ...
Law
An online debate at the Federalist Society site — a fascinating subject, and two first-rate debaters. Check it out; here’s the summary (paragraph breaks added):
Under the statute authorizing the Troubled Assets Relief Program, Congress authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to “require each ...
Congress
Mitch McConnell
According to the New York Daily News and other news sources, the National D-Day Memorial has added a bust of Stalin to its line-up of allied leaders. This has understandably caused a great deal of controversy. The defense is most elaborately discussed here .
Here’s my thinking on the ...
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Bud Day
Soviet Union
according to Bloomberg . Not terribly surprising for the “ ground zero of the housing bubble ,” and launchplace of Condoflip.com .
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Michael Bloomberg
No Social Security or Medicare tax for a year. Raise the retirement age by one year starting in 2014. Pure fiscal stimulus, no additional long-term debt.
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Stimulus Plan
I recently discovered the “Night Lights” Classic Jazz Radio Program , an hour-long weekly jazz program produced by Indiana University’s public radio station. It’s marvelous, and there are five years’ worth of archives available on the web that you can listen to at any time.
Each program ...
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About 600 or so .
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I am pleased to announce that the Justice Department will be moving to dismiss its appeal in the Lori Drew case. The motion apparently will be filed today or tomorrow, and it will bring the Drew case to a close.
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I am a fan of Goldman Sachs. It is one of the few individual stocks I own, running against all my standard corporate finance professor ‘buy index funds!!’ instincts. Although we have had a surfeit of bankers and a surfeit of talent in financial engineering rather than, say, robotics, it is ...
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Foreclosure Crisis
From a Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendation in Griffin v. N.H. Dep’t of Employment Security (handed down Nov. 16):
For six years prior to May 19, 2009, Griffin worked for the Hospital as a radiology technician. Prior to May 19, Griffin had a conversation with a patient in which he ...
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The recent “everybody” threads reminded me of one of my favorite songs :
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Note that I quote it just because I like it, not because I think that it by itself is evidence that’s as strong as what I’ve pointed ...
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Earlier today, I posted quotes from prominent authors who use “them” with formally singular terms such as “everyone.” A commenter had earlier complained that “Already constructions like these are ubiquitous among high-school age writers, and sanctioned by their teachers.” I pointed out that ...
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A commenter writes:
The word “disrespected”, when used as, “the ho [disrespected] me”, shows [a] new use of a word, now fairly accepted, regardless of how clumsy.
I often see people talk about something being a new use of the word — whether they’re condemning the supposed new use or ...
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The Wall Street Journal reports: Justice Anthony Kennedy
got into a messy situation this month after a
widely circulated report that his office made a school newspaper get permission before running an article about the justice. It turns out the ...
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A “Messy Situation”?
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A commenter writes:
Well it could be worse. I hazard that in 50 years the sex sensitivities of the colloquial speaker will have caused the formal replacement of the generic singular pronoun (he) with the plural pronoun (they), which is safely without gender. Already constructions like these ...
