Month: July 2012

To the credit of American Girl, a division of Mattel (though you'd never know it by the brand or price-point), the company has introduced a doll without hair.  According to…

Here's a new one at the faculty lounge: a trivia question related to the Articles of Confederation.  We don't talk much about the Articles of Confederation; in fact, I almost…

Thanks to an override of governor Beverly Perdue, the North Carolina death penalty is safe from statistical scrutiny.  The state  legislature acted right before the holiday to radically reduce the…

Adam Chodorow (Arizona State) has posted to SSRN his article Death and Taxes and Zombies, forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review.  Here is the abstract: The U.S. stands on the…

It just dawned on my that I might use a picture of Appomattox Courthouse as a sign for "the end of the line" for the "Calhoun Constitution."  That might have…

In past years I've written about the game of Monopoly, as well as July Fourth orations for my Independence Day post.  Alas, this year I've been too busy to write…

The Philadelphia Inquirer's headline understates the concerns here: Voter ID law may hit more in Pa. than originally estimated It appears that 9.2% of registered voters in Pennsylvania do not…

Am I alone in noticing that Google searches often load relatively slowly now, with unpaid results appearing about a half second before the paid ads at the top of the…

If you have an interest in the intersection of intellectual property and public health, then you may wish to attend the Sixth Annual IP Scholars Forum, sponsored by our friends…

As I'm sitting here editing University, Court, and Slave I've been thinking about the joint dissent in Sibellius.  This statement interests me in particular:  The constitutional protections that this case involves…