volokh.com - 12/14/2008
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Why We Don't Need World Government to Solve the World's Problems: The recent upsurge of concern over global warming and the financial crisis has reinvigorated advocates of world government, who claim that it is the only way to solve global problems that cross state boundaries. Left to ...
volokh.powerblogs.com - 12/10/2008
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Most people have misunderstood the timeline of the
Blagojevich Senate scandal. Pretty much everything fits except Barack
Obama's statement yesterday that he knew nothing about it. If we didn't have Obama's denial to contend with, the actions of all ...
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volokh.com - 12/7/2008
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Academics and the Obama Administration: The Washington Post
has a front-page article indicating that several Yale Law
faculty members are among the many academics who think a job in the Obama Administration might be worth seeking: Yale law professor ...
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volokh.com - 12/7/2008
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Subsidies Versus Conservation: The Washington Post reports on
what we've known for a while: the combination of
agriculture subsidies, ethanol subsidies, and high ag prices are causing widespread loss of important migratory waterfowl habitat. Fighting ...
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... The case against world government, as presented by Ilya Somin. While it is commonly believed that the issues facing the world are unique and unprecedented–thus demanding unique and unprecedented responses, the fact of the matter is that there really is not anything new under the sun. International problems and challenges can be responded to in the same way that they have been responded to in the past–through multilateral cooperation where the interests of the parties meet and treaties memorializing such cooperation. To be sure, engendering multilateral cooperation ...
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The case against world government , as presented by Ilya Somin. While it is commonly believed that the issues facing the world are unique and unprecedented--thus demanding unique and unprecedented responses, the fact of the matter is that there really is not anything new under the sun. International problems and challenges can be responded to in the same way that they have been responded to in the past--through multilateral cooperation where the interests of the parties meet and treaties memorializing such cooperation. To be sure, engendering multilateral cooperation and ...
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