Month: April 2009

Over at Above the Law, you can find Lat and Mystal's picks for the top Law Revue (not Law Review) videos of the year.  My own favorite is Hot Bodies…

Here are the facts of the case, according to the Birmingham News.  Read them, name what you consider an appropriate sentence, then see the actual sentence after the jump.Court records ...

Yesterday, the Obama Administration made available remarkable historical and political material regarding the conduct of the CIA in the aftermath of 9/11.  These memoranda - signed by Judge Jay Bybee…

Here's an author's dilemma.  Imagine you'd written a treatise for West.  After a few years, you decided to pen an update - but West declined.  And when West sliced your…

Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren (pictured), no stranger to those of us who have been anointed to teach commercial law, is featured in the current issue of Newsweek (April 20). …

Thanks to Doug Berman for surfacing this new product, WatchOut!, an iPhone app which allows phone owners to search for sex offenders wherever they are.  The product press release is…

Danielle Citron's paper, Cyber Civil Rights, argued that one way to address anonymous online attackes - of the Auto Admit variety -  is to conceptualize them as civil rights violations.…

Who said that President Obama has a fixation on law professors only at Harvard and Yale? Last Friday, President Obama nominated Larry Echohawk (pictured) to be Assistant Secretary for Indian…

From the Washington Post today:The D.C.-based Sentencing Project reported that the number of black inmates in state prisons for drug offenses had fallen from 145,000 in 1999 to 113,500 in…