Month: November 2018

The Women’s March seems to be slowly self-destructing due to the leadership’s refusal to disavow their past associations with Louis Farrakhan. To an outside observer, this obduracy is inexplicable. It ...

Zhores Medvedev died last week, one day after his 93rd birthday. Although not tremendously well known in the West, Zhores (a biochemist) and his twin brother Roy (a historian), who…

 Mystery Train, with The Band  Born in Chicago With Mike Bloomfield    Newport 1965  With Janis Joplin (audio only)  Bonus: To Tell the Truth (1966)  

The second annual Equality  Law Scholars' Forum kicks off at UC Davis tomorrow.  I'm looking forward to being one of the commentators on a fantastic set of papers. Here are…

This just in: Penn State Law in University Park seeks to hire a 2-year clinical law VAP to direct our family law clinic. This is a great opportunity for someone…

The genius of the First Amendment is that it applies even those who do not respect or believe in it. The same goes for academic freedom, which encourages the broadest…

This just in: The University of Wisconsin Law School seeks applications for the William H. Hastie Fellowship. The application deadline is February 1, 2019. For over forty years, the Hastie…

This just in: Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the School of Law. Under the leadership of Dean…

Next week I’ll be giving a keynote lecture and also participating in a panel discussion on “Allocation Problems in health care” at theMaCCI Law & Economics Conference on The Law…

Written by the immigrant Irving Berlin and introduced by Kate Smith on Armistice Day (now Veterans Day) 1938:  The most significant lyric is the closing line, describing America as "my…