Left2Right
"We'd like to consider whether liberal ideas should be somehow reconsidered—in some respects revised, in others perhaps merely re-stated—with the aim of increasing the overall ratio of dialog to diatribe in the American political forum. Some of us will be trying out various ways of re-thinking and re-formulating those ideas; others may end up arguing that such attempts are unnecessary, even counter-productive. And in the course of our discussion, there will be plenty of digressions and asides of the sort that naturally occur at the margins of a group discussion."
Author: Law-professor contributors: Don Herzog of the University of Michigan; Steven Shiffrin of Cornell University (who also contributes to Mirror of Justice); C. Edwin Baker of the University of Pennsylvania and Neil Buchanan of Rutgers University-Newark.
Blawg Related Categories: Government Law • International Law • Law Schools • Legislation & Lobbying • First Amendment • Cornell Law School • Rutgers University-Newark • University of Michigan • University of Pennsylvania • Law Professor • Economics
Recent Posts from Left2Right
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DeLay's history lesson
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they've gotta be joking
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Government and Religion
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court-bashing fairy tales
I'm on all these right-wing email lists. No, I didn't sign up. Someone else signed me up, shortly after I started writing for this blog. Hey, if you're reading this and you're the one who…
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slow news day?
Today's front-page banner headline from the Detroit News screams, PROFESSORS PAID NOT TO TEACH. I confess I was briefly puzzled: wow, I thought, some people teach so badly that they get paid to stay out…
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Moral Expertise?
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Academic Freedom, Catholic Education, and the Vagina Monologues
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color blind?
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What Game Would You Rather Play?
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Health Savings Accounts: A View from the Trenches
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