PrawfsBlawg

PrawfsBlawg says it is "just some friends trying to get the arguments right." They post observations on legal news, law and culture.

Author: The authors are law professors: Dan Markel of Florida State University; Ethan Leib of the University of California, Hastings; Rob Howse of the University of Michigan; Paul Horwitz of Southwestern Law School; Rick Garnett of the University of Notre Dame (who also contributes to Mirror of Justice); Matt Bodie of Hofstra University; Stephen Vladeck of the University of Miami; and Orly Lobel of the University of San Diego School of Law.

Recent Posts from PrawfsBlawg

Technology, porn and a quote for the ages (or should I say the aged)
The New York Times magazine today included this interesting little article about the relationship between technology and porn. Though many parts of the piece could launch many high-brow conversations about technology and human interests, one…
Obama, the Roberts Court, and the Four Horsemen Analogy
With Senator Barack Obama leading in the polls and general economic conditions favoring the Democrats, speculation has turned to what type of relationship a President Obama might have with the conservative Roberts Court. In what…
Thinking creatively about different SCOTUS short lists
The holiday times, the end of a notable SCOTUS Term, and this new Findlaw article (titled "What Kind of Justices Might a President Obama Appoint? Senator Obama's Reactions to Recent Supreme Court Decisions Show that…
More on Bloggers' Guilt, Plus a Cheap Attention-Getting Apology
Orly had a wonderful post a while back on bloggers' guilt. My own take on it is that blogging is like exercise: once you get out of the habit, it's very difficult to get back…
The 4th of July
When I was in college, the only colonial thoughts I had on July 4th involved Sam Adams. Later, I began to focus on what we're celebrating, our independence from the British Crown, the birth of…
Where Can Legal Academic Work Flourish?
I don’t really mean this as a metaphysical question. Recently, I have soured on the café as a venue for working. Despite—or perhaps because of—decades of addiction to caffeine, and despite a previously inveterate allegiance…
"Co-opting" "human being"
Emily Bazelon writes here, at Slate, about South Dakota's "unbelievable" abortion law which, among other things, "requires doctors to give patients who come for an abortion a written statement telling them that 'the abortion will…
"Thou Shalt Not Annoy"
World Youth Day 2008 is being held this summer in Sydney, Australia. According to the event's official web site, "[o]rganised by the Catholic Church, WYD brings together young people from around the globe to celebrate…
Lives of Lawyers Revisited
I owe a debt of gratitude, and apology, to Michael J. Kelly, who sent me his recent book, Lives of Lawyers Revisited: Transformation and Resilience in the Organizations of Practice, some time ago. Through no…
District Court: FISA Preempts the State Secrets Privilege for Wirtetapping Suits
Late this afternoon, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California released this fascinating decision in the Al-Haramain litigation (a challenge to the warrantless wiretapping program), on remand from the Ninth Circuit (the…