volokh.com - 12/26/2008
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Happy Hanukkah From Israel!: The letters on the dreidels spell "Happy Hanukkah" in Hebrew. Natalie is spinning a giant dreidel, and modeling a menorah hat. Sufganiot (Hanukkah donuts) are in the backdrop on the right.
volokh.com - 12/30/2008
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Using Eminent Domain to Acquire Land for the
Flight 93 Memorial: Various readers have asked for my...
views on the federal government's possible plan to use eminent domain to acquire land for a memorial commemorating the heroes of Flight 93 , the plane ...
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volokh.com - 12/30/2008
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Educated Judges are Better Judges: Josh Wright and
his co-authors find that federal judges are less likely...
to have their decisions in antitrust cases appealed if they have received training at the George Mason Law and Economics seminars, at least in ...
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volokh.com - 12/23/2008
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Does the financial crisis discredit libertarianism? Ilya says
no ; others say yes. The question is not...
a good one, however, because libertarianism, in any meaningful philosophical sense, hasn’t influenced financial policy in decades. One might as well ...
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EUGENE VOLOKH on Ann Althouse, Kate Winslet, and Statutory Rape….
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EUGENE VOLOKH on Ann Althouse, Kate Winslet, and Statutory Rape.
"I'm told by Academy members that David Fincher would have a better shot at Best Director... if only he wasn't considered such a jerk...."
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... -- and got into an exchange with Eugene Volokh about that, so that became the movie I most wanted to see. (For now, I'll just note that the Kate Winslet character, a 36-year-old woman blatantly takes advantage of the 15-year-old virgin as the story is presented in the film. More on that later.) ...
"The Reader" is a law movie.
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... the way the actress Kate Winslet took offense at the use of the term "statutory rape" to describe the sexual relationship between her character — the 35-year-old Hanna Schmitz — and the 15-year-old Michael Berg. I'd acknowledged that you'd have to "check the statute books" to know if the term "statutory rape" technically applied, but Eugene Volokh nevertheless said: ...
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