Concurring Opinions

Concurring Opinions is a general-interest blawg.

Author: Law professors Daniel J. Solove of George Washington University's law school (who also contributes to Law & Humanities Blog), Kaimipono Wenger and Deven Desai of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Dave Hoffman of Temple University; Nate Oman of the College of William & Mary, Melissa Waters of Washington and Lee University, and Frank Pasquale of Seton Hall University, who also contributes to Madisonian and Law, Science & Technology and is editor-in-chief of Health Reform Watch.

Recent Posts from Concurring Opinions

Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:8 (June 2009)
Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:8 (June 2009) (Past issues are available on our website.) FAULT IN CONTRACT LAW FOREWORD Omri Ben-Shahar & Ariel Porat, Fault in American Contract Law, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1341 (2009)…
Prop 8 ruling to come down on Tuesday
From the court’s own website: The California Supreme Court has announced that it will issue an opinion in three cases challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8 at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 26, 2009. I’ve…
New York University Law Review, 84:2 (May 2009)
Volume 84 May 2009 Number 2 ARTICLES Categoricalism and Balancing in First and Second Amendment Analysis Joseph Blocher A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth Victor Fleischer Toward Procedural Optionality: Private Ordering of Public Adjudication Robert…
Measuring Gender Discrimination
I’m normally a fan of the statistical reports produced by the OECD, so was surprised to find myself in disagreement with the methodology of their recently-created Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI). The idea behind…
Happy Hour in Denver
For those of you planning on attending the LSA meeting in Denver at the end of the month, please mark your calendars for Saturday May 30th at 9pm. Concurring Opinions and Prawfsblawg are jointly hosting…
The Watchmakers’ Court and Related Curiosities
This recent New Yorker piece about “Baselworld,” the annual watchmakers’ confab in Switzerland (Patricia Marx, “Face Value,” May 25, 2009) included a throwaway line that I found fascinating. Baselworld is so large that it has…
Hiring for Tenure-Track
I wanted to mention that I’ll be the hiring chair at IU-Indianapolis for the 2009-2010 year. We are looking to hire up to four people. After the jump I’ll list the subjects that we’re looking…
A Rumble in the Wiki/Licensing World: Wikimedia Foundation Moves from GNU to Creative Commons
Slashdot reports that “The Wikimedia Foundation has resolved to migrate the copyright licensing of all of its wiki projects, including Wikipedia, from the GNU Free Documentation License to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.…
False Promises
Last weekend I was in Oak Park (outside Chicago) for the annual Frank Lloyd Wright house tour. Few people rise to the level of genius in my eyes, but Wright is one who does. What…
Still Smokin’? Maybe So, Maybe Not: Supreme Court, Medical Marijuana, and California
So medical marijuana is safe or is it? The Huffington post declared “Supreme Court Hands Medical Marijuana Major Victory,” because the Supreme Court refused to hear a case from San Diego County “arguing that the…