Posts by Dan Filler

One of the remarkable things about this primary season is that Clinton and Obama are contesting some states that rarely receive signficant attention from Dems in either the primary or…

Jeffrey Rosen has offered up his view that the Democrats have a very short list of viable Supreme Court appointees, should a member of the party be elected President.  Doug…

I must not have been paying attention but I've only recently discovered, watching a Volvo ad, that the car now offers an optional "heartbeat sensor" - or psycho killer detector…

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won the Oscar for Best Song tonight for Falling Slowly.  After Hansard gave his thanks, Irglova started to speak as the music ran her down. …

As we bid adieu to Charles Rosenthal, the Houston DA accused (among other things) of sending racist emails, it's a good time to remind ourselves that race and prosecution is…

The Wall Street Journal reports today that Hans Smit, a legendary Columbia law professor, is holding firm in his efforts to sell his Manhattan home for $30 million.  He turned…

Cass Sunstein is headed to Cambridge, Mass.  I'll include this morsel in the next update of the lateral move list.  Hat tip: David Bernstein.

I just participated in an interesting Eighth Amendment conference sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.  (Doug Berman was there, among distinguished others, and previoulsy blogged about ...

Drexel Law crossed the first critical milepost for any new law school: getting the provisional nod from the ABA.  Everyone  at Drexel is pleased with this result - and nobody…

The Journal of Adolescent Health has a new study, Unrealistic Fatalism in U.S. Youth Ages 14 to 22 (subscription may be required), which concludes that 6.7% of all studied youth…