Mary Dudziak, at Legal History Blog, discusses
books and book reviews of interest to legal historians, including Charlotte
Brooks' new book, Alien Neighbors,
Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban
California (University of Chicago Press, 2009) (see
here); The Classical Tradition,
Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most, Salvatore Settis, (eds.), Harvard, 2009 (here); and a book review round up (with links to a number of reviews) is here. Also at Legal History Blog, Dan Ernst
discusses Tamar W. Carroll’s review of A. Cheree Carlson, The Crimes of Womanhood: Defining Femininity in a Court of Law
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009) here.
At TaxProf
Blog, Paul Caron has many clever tax-savings ideas, including donating your
home to the local fire department so that they can
burn it down. This one may not
work if you’re an ESPN commentator, though (and you know who you are), so check
it out with Paul first.
Reproductive
Rights Prof Blog has their typically thorough coverage of
reproductive rights issues, including several posts on the changing views (or
not) on abortion (here,
here,
and here).
At The Volokh Conspiracy,
Eugene Volokh says Stand
Up And Urinate Like A Man!
Most readers are already familiar with Larry Solum’s
recurring Sunday
Legal Theory Lexicon, of which last Sunday’s topic was originalism (there’ll
be a new Legal Theory Lexicon today). Despite Larry’s position that the posts provide a very brief
introduction to the subject matter in question each week that is aimed at law
students (especially first-year law students), I’ve always found these posts interesting. I realize that probably demonstrates
my lack of legal theory sophistication, at least relative to Larry.
And at PrawfsBlawg Howard
Wasserman asks Jon Stewart What’s
In A (Jewish) Name? And is the
issue that it’s Jewish or that it’s complicated? With a name like “Krawiec,” I can sympathize with the “some
names are not meant for marquee lights” sentiment. I’d be much more famous, I’m sure, with a surname like Hudson,
or Taylor, or Hudson-Taylor.