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.
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Recent Posts from PrawfsBlawg
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Constitutional Borrowing
Many thanks to Dan and the rest of the Prawfs community for inviting me to join the conversation once more. Lately, I’ve been thinking about constitutional borrowing, which is the practice of lifting legal frameworks,…
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Haberman et al on Madoff
Clyde Haberman, who writes the NYC column for the NYTimes, has a reaction piece in today's Times about the 150 year sentence for Madoff. He surveys views from a bunch of prawfs, including me. Needless…
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Limiting Online Provider Immunity
My last post argued that Section 230 should be reinterpreted to immunize only content that comes from third parties via the interactive service offered by providers. This would clear up many of the conflicts in…
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Thinking Like an Entrepreneur or a Lawyer?
If you are interested in the intersection of entrepreneurship and the law, the Kauffman Foundation, the leading sponsor of entrepreneurship development in the country, has funded an Entrepreneurship Law resource on its website, www.entrepreneurship.org. This…
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Theories of Corporate Compliance
Before I entered academia, I was a compliance attorney at a large, public company. Prior to that, I was a federal prosecutor in Manhattan. It was no accident that the large, public company hired me…
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Complexity, Judgment, and the Subprime Crisis - The Hedgehog's View
At the end of April, Dave Hoffman and two of his colleagues at Temple, Jonathan Lipson and Peter Huang, organized a fascinating day-long colloquium on issues of complexity arising in the current financial crisis. Among…
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Signing Off . . . .
Thanks again to Dan for inviting me to blog here in June. Thanks also to everyone who commented on my posts, either on-line or off -- I'm grateful for the thoughtful feedback. Best wishes to…
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The Identity Trail: A Canada Day Book Recommendation
Also by way of commemorating Canada Day (although I'm sufficiently assimilated that I'd forgotten it was taking place, which somehow seems both very American and totally typical of a Canadian holiday), let me recommend a…
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Nice to visit
Happy July, everyone. Thanks to Bernie Madoff, it's been an interesting week for those of us who think about white-collar crime. I can't possibly add to Jayne Barnard's play-by-play account of Bernard Madoff's sentencing proceeding,…
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Durkheim’s Law and Order
A terrible crime is committed, the kind that brings scores of relatives to their knees in grief and sets thousands more residents on edge; the kind of crime that can lead people to question their…