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Sex offender community notification laws - sometimes known as Megan's Laws - have been a popular way for legislators to establish their anti-crime bona fides.  We've known that these laws…

Apparently there is a national movement supporting the rights of students to pack heat on college campuses.  (It's called SCCC - Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.)  Villanova law students…

Update: The 2009 US News law school rankings have been leaked prematurely.  For more information, visit here. Psych! Whatever you think of the actual rankings - and people have certainly…

More evidence, if anyone needed it, that language is a disconcertingly flexible thing.  The New York Times presents: The Innocence Project.  Most assuredly not what Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld…

This morning I noticed that the Yale Law Journal is using their Concurring Opinions page to highlight a Jill Pryor note from 1988 addressing the buzzing question of what the…

Calvin Massey,  Eugene Volokh, and Jim Lindgren among others,  have been blogging about whether McCain is a natural born citizen for the purposes of Presidential eligibility under Article II, Section…

Apropos of the Times Magazine article yesterday, Teaching Boys and Girls Separately, my colleague David Cohen has a paper up on SSRN entitled No Boy Left Behind?  Single Sex Education…

The New York Times quotes Craig Robinson, Brown's basketball coach, being softly critical of certain tactics Harvard may have used in order to net a Top 25 basketball recruiting class. …

The New York Times reports on the ongoing  challenge to enforce  the voting rights of Alabamians who have been convicted of crimes.   In the article, an Alabama Republican is quoted…

The Air Force has announced that an Airbus/Northrop Grumman consortium won a massive contract to provide 179 air tankers.   The NY Times (and everyone else) calls it a shocker: The…