Month: June 2008

A couple of years ago, Cass Sunstein joined the ongoing debates about the death penalty and deterrence.  In his piece Is Capital Punishment Morally Required: The Relevance of Life-Life Tradeoffs,…

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision striking down death for those charged with raping children (in the Kennedy v. Louisiana case) is here.  Corey Yung has an early post here.  SCOTUS…

The Dubai Metro placed a full page ad in a recent Business Week announcing naming opportunities for both individual stations and complete subway lines.  What corporation wouldn't benefit from having…

I've previously blogged about how Alabama was a big winner when the Air Force passed over Boeing, awarding its tanker contracts to an Airbus - Northrop Grumman consortium.  Now it…

I was surprised to discover that, according to a recent survey, 59% of Israelis have either sought, or intend to seek, a passport from a second nation.  Many Israelis are…

Dan Markel is doing the good work of identifying all law school hiring committee chairs.  Visit this post and make sure to contribute to the free flow of information!

This morning, as I was driving in to work, several pedestrians decided to step into the street - past rushing cars - to walk around a sidewalk obstruction.  My first…

I've previously mentioned the CQ Vice-Presidential brackets, which predicted a Huckabee - McCain ticket and have now entered the second round of Democratic predictions.   (I'm still smarting over Chuck Hagel's…

He died this afternoon, after collapsing at work, at age 58.  I, like many others, have spent countless hours watching Russert serve as a premier political commentator and reporter.  This…

As gas prices soar, among the biggest losers are those folks who bought into far flung suburban developments.  We've long known that the American metropolitan landscape is the result of…