Month: January 2017

For those who decided to freeze themselves in Chicago over the next few days rather than attend the much more pleasant AALS venue, make sure to check out this session…

Over on Above the Law, Kyle McEntee and I have a column about the situation at Charlotte Law School, which we decided to prepare after being contacted by multiple Charlotte…

Following up on Monday's post about the Maskin and Sen proposal to use Condorcet (preference) voting in presidential elections, I wondered whether Abraham Lincoln would still have won in 1860…

On January 6, the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association is going to vote on a proposed boycott of Israeli academics.  As I explained in an earlier post, the…

As Akhil Amar has pointed out, the U.S. Electoral College was initially adopted to entrench the power of southern slaveholders, by giving them a disproportionate voice in the election of…

Chief Justice Roberts's 2016 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary begins with this anecdote: As winter approached in late 1789, Justice David Sewall of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court received…