The Faculty Blog

The Faculty Blog posts articles and observations by scholars associated with the University of Chicago Law School.

Author: The authors are mainly on faculty or are somehow affiliated with the University of Chicago Law School. Blawggers include Saul Levmore, Shyam Balganesh, Randy Picker and Eric Posner. Posner also contributes to Convictions.

Blawg Related Categories: Constitutional Law • International Law • Law Professors • Law Schools • Legal Theory • States • Illinois • University of Chicago • Law Professor • Blawg 100 • Economics

Recent Posts from The Faculty Blog

Competition and Privacy in Web 2.0 and the Cloud
I have a new draft up on SSRN. The final version will appear as part of Northwestern's Colloquy and I expect this to be incorporated in a larger project that I am working on. Somewhat…
Real Homeland Security
What is it that we Americans stand for? What is it about our nation that makes us most proud? What is it that makes other nations of the world respect and admire and emulate us?…
Audio/Video: Richard Epstein Asks, "Is the Administrative State Consistent with the Rule of Law?"
On January 29, the always entertaining Richard Epstein presented a Chicago's Best Ideas talk entitled "Is the Administrative State Consistent with the Rule of Law?" Video of the talk is embedded below, or you may…
Audio: Randy Picker's Hooding Ceremony Address
Friday was graduation day here at the Law School, so please join us in wishing heartfelt congratulations to the Class of 2008 and to their families. As is tradition, along with the University's graduation ceremony,…
Cellphone Fines
Why do we see fines for littering but but not for cellphones ringing in the middle of movies and concerts? I'm afraid the question is better than any answer I have to offer. A private…
Empirical Scholarship and the Future of the Voting Rights Act
Over on Rick Hasen's Election Law Blog I've written a post about empirical legal scholarship and the future of the Voting Rights Act. I thought I'd cross-post the discussion here, but first I should provide…
Solving the Last-Foot Problem: The Roku Netflix Player
Sometimes my professional and personal interests overlap and mechanisms for delivering video content are very much in the sweet spot of that particular Venn diagram. We are big Netflix fans at my house. Netflix, of…
Adam Cox and Thomas Miles: "Judging the Voting Rights Act"
Over on the Columbia Law Review's online Sidebar, Chicago professors Adam Cox and Thomas Miles are involved in a debate about their January 2008 CLR article "Judging The Voting Rights Act." In that piece, Thomas…
Video: Cass Sunstein and Eugene Volokh on Information Cocoons
Yesterday, Bloggingheads.tv posted a discussion between Cass Sunstein and Eugene Volokh of UCLA (and the Volokh Conspiracy), in which they touch on questions of fairness, balkanization, serendipity, and defamation in the discourse of the blogosphere.
Martha Nussbaum: The 2008 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture
On May 14, Martha Nussbaum presented the 2008 Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture. The Ryerson Lectures grew out of a 1972 bequest to the University by Nora and Edward L. Ryerson, a former Chairman of…