Prawfsblawg

"Where intellectual honesty has (almost always) trumped partisanship—albeit in a kind of boring way until recently—since 2005." The authors post about books and papers, law school job openings, concerns of working professors, and "a variety of topics related to law and life."

Author: The authors are law professors: Dan Markel of Florida State University; Ethan Leib of the University of California, Hastings; Paul Horwitz of the University of Alabama; Rick Garnett of the University of Notre Dame (who also contributes to Mirror of Justice and The Religiously Affiliated Law Schools); Matt Bodie of St. Louis University; Stephen Vladeck of American University; Orly Lobel of the University of San Diego; Roderick M. Hills of New York University; and Howard Wasserman of Florida International University. Wasserman also contributes to Sports Law Blog.

Recent Posts from PrawfsBlawg

A Law Conference Unlike Any Other
Our appointments committee just finished an exhausting two days - back to back to back interviews. They were scheduled for 25 minutes and most went the full half hour. I met a lot of great…
Friendless
In an interesting legal development from my temporary home, Friends of the Everglades, a local environmental group with a self-evident mission, will be shutting its office. As the story notes, it can't help that the…
Thinking about Maine
The Maine result on Question 1 -- the same-sex marriage issue -- is of course dispiriting to same-sex marriage advocates. It also raises an interesting question about future strategy. Of course, one should be careful…
One of These Things is (Not) Like the Other?
Via Legal Theory Blog, I see that Nelson Lund has posted a review of Philip Hamburger's magisterial (so to speak) book Law and Judicial Duty. His review can be found here; my own short review,…
A new version of the golden rule
From Bloomberg: “The injunction of Jesus to love others as ourselves is an endorsement of self-interest,” Goldman’s [international adviser Brian] Griffiths said Oct. 20, his voice echoing around the gold-mosaic walls of St. Paul’s Cathedral,…
Catholic League v. San Francisco
When the Thomas More Law Center sued the City of San Francisco for condemning a Catholic Church policy on adoption, I opined that "the case seems pretty unlikely to get off the ground." I was…
The Pontiac School District litigation: How the incoherence of doctrine breeds ideological division
The Sixth Circuit's 8-8 en banc deadlock last month in the Pontiac School District case is a nice illustration of the confusion, both doctrinal and ideological, besetting the federal government's spending power. The (in)decision suggests…
Law School Hiring Thread, 2009-10, Thread Three: The Next Phase
This thread will be moved to the front every ten days or so. Please add comments to this thread, not Threads One or Two (where comments are now closed). This thread is for both law…
Fair Play and Rule 83
It is a few months old, but I recently came across the Eleventh Circuit's attorney's fees opinion in Sahyers v. Prugh, Holliday, and Karatinos and it is troubling-- far more so than the Second Circuit…
The fate of Jared the Subway guy and your law school's website
Last month, the Federal Trade Commission revised the Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising. A cursory look at the media coverage of the revisions shows that the changes requiring bloggers to…