Month: January 2010

This past weekend, Duke Law School hosted a fabulous conference on Curtis Bradley's and Mitu Gulati's new article on Opt Out in Customary International Law (it's called "Withdrawing from International Custom").…

In my last post, The Modern Greek Drama: Comedy, Tragedy, or Both?, I offered the insights of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton partner and sovereign debt guru, Lee Buchheit, on…

Earlier this month, we asked the question, “Is 2010 The Year of Odious Sovereign Defaults?”  As predicted, Greece (and Europe more generally) will have to answer that question soon.  According…

On February 19-20 the LaVerne Law Review is hosting an immigration law symposium, "Encountering Stereotypes."  Hiroshi Motomura  of UCLA law school (and before that UNC) will deliver the keynote address,…

From the Boston Globe comes Peter Leeson's "defense" of the medieval ordeal.  Here's a sample:Modern observers have roundly condemned ordeals for being cruel and arbitrary. Ordeals seem to reflect everything that…

On SSRN.  Better yet, these comments on the paper, lifted from the comments section at Robin Hanson’s Overcoming Bias: Anon: “It’s somewhat unhinging to realize that there is an economist…

I'm deep in analysis of votes in the Virginia legislature in the early 1830s right now, so this is going to be fast.  There's a new statue -- of Nick…

Thanks to Paul Caron,  we learn that the San Diego Union is reporting that UC San Diego and California Western Law School have entered into preliminary negotiations to merge -…

Geoff Mearns, dean of Cleveland State University's Cleveland-Marshall College of Law has been named interim provost of the University.  The sitting provost, Mary Jane Saunders stepped down - apparently immediately.…

John Eastman, the dean of Chapman University School of Law in southern California, is resigning Monday.  He will seek the Republican nomination in the race for the post of state Attorney…