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The first time I ever noticed Mark Tushnet was 45 years ago in a class on the history of English law.   He suggested that he thought that m...

I spent a few minutes yesterday with my bankuptcy st udents exploring one of the great unknowables: how do you give "fair" notic...

Years ago when the world was young, Mr. and Mrs. got to share a party boat with, inter alia ,Chief Justice William Rehnquist.  After assort...

I've been traveling and so not in the thick of the health care aftershocks (though they certainly seem strong enough to register on the...

Geopolitics boffins like to draw the distinction between strategy and tactics (maybe strategy, operations  and tactics, but it's a detai...

My friend John has been tracking headlines on the Supreme's immigration coverage.   Here's the best pairing:      High Court Al...

Every first-year law student learns that " “A contract is a promise the law will enforce .”  But then you have to beat it out of them;...

Linda Greenhouse calls it a Do-over Season :  the possibility that the Supreme Court might second-guess itself in Citizens United , and also...

Authors and actors and artists and such Never know nothing, and never know much. Sculptors and singers and those of their kidney Tell th...

Names define us; I think it was Daniel Patrick Moynihan who pointed out that you were more likely to be treated as Irish if your father was...

"The law," Judge Jerome Frank said (or did not say) "is what the judge ate for breakfast." Damn if he wasn't righ...

Larry Ribstein showcases an intriguing new turn in law/business education --a proposal for an "executive MBA in law."    Larry quo...

Yes, I know I'm a few weeks late, but this just turned up: a copy of the front page of the New York Herald Tribune from the day of my b...

 The good folks at Above the Law find astonishment and entertainment in the story of the former biglaw associate who tells the world that h...

I'm still trying to get my mind round the idea that the Virginia judge who decided the Obamacare  case also owns a chunk of a Republican...

I tried to quote this the other day, but from memory and I wasn't exact.  Still, I think I caught the spirit of the occasion.  It's...

Clarence Thomas' wife Ginnie has certainly performed one important service for current political debate: she's educated a new genera...

Listening to an NPR story about how gulf oil workers were being pressured into signing liability releases, I remember the story of Hanratty,...

And you thought all the trouble was in the Humanities Departments: We do not need to write jV (GH)j and jE(GH)j separately, since jV (GH)j =...

My friend Ignoto offers up a compelling reason why the Supreme Court nominee should be Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm: she's Scandi...