Concurring Opinions
Concurring Opinions is a general-interest legal blawg.
Author: Law professors Daniel J. Solove of George Washington University's law school, Kaimipono Wenger and Deven Desai of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Dave Hoffman of Temple University; Nate Oman of the College of William & Mary, Frank Pasquale of Seton Hall, and Melissa Waters of Washington and Lee University.
Blawg Related Categories: Constitutional Law • Law Professors • Law Schools • Legal Theory • Media & Communications Law • George Washington University • Seton Hall University • Temple University, Beasley School of Law • Thomas Jefferson School of Law • Washington and Lee University • William & Mary School of Law • Law Professor • Blawg 100 • Economics
Recent Posts from Concurring Opinions
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More Coverage on Factual Error in Child Rape Decision
There has been some interesting fall-out from the NY Times article I blogged about yesterday. DOJ has admitted that it erred in failing to file a brief in support of the Kentucky statute that proscribed…
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Dog Food for Prisoners?
Arin Greenwood's story on "nutraloaf" offers an interesting take on the more etiolated dimensions of 8th Amendment jurisprudence: Inmates hoping for relief from the courts for their Nutraloaf punishments aren't likely to get it from…
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Tribal Court Jurisdiction (III)
Over the last two days, I've been arguing that the Supreme Court's decision in Plains Commerce Bank was fundamentally misguided and arises out of the assumption that all tribal courts are identical and are biased…
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Driving While Elderly
According to Jane Gross, the growing population of elderly drivers is forcing some difficult conversations in families: Thirty-six percent of adult children polled by the Web site Caring.com and the National Safety Council said that…
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Younger Professors are Less Ideological
So says the NYT in a front-page story featuring my new school, the University of Wisconsin. The full article is worth a read....
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The Privacy Paradox
Over at the New York Times's Bits blog, Brad Stone writes: Researchers call this the privacy paradox: normally sane people have inconsistent and contradictory impulses and opinions when it comes to their safeguarding their own…
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Law Professor Duties
How do law professors spend their time? Duties are traditionally divided into categories of teaching, scholarship and service (consulting is outside the traditional division). How investment is allocated among the three varies. It could be…
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How Much is that Simulacrum in the Window?
When America's wealthiest families start beating the drum for estate tax repeal, remember this heartwarming story of canine cathexis from Leona Helmsley: [Helmsley's] instructions, specified in a two-page “mission statement,” are that the entire trust,…
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The NYT on the UCMJ
In today’s New York Times, Linda Greenhouse points out what appears to be a factual error in the Kennedy v. Louisiana majority opinion. Justice Kennedy’s majority said that 30 of the 36 states with…
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50 More Federal Judges
Law.com reports that under the Federal Judgeship Act of 2008 there would be 50 new federal judges (about 12 appellate and the rest district). What does this mean? More clerkships! Well there is a little…