Interesting exchange kicked off by Einer Elhauge over at VC (here), with responses from Larry Tribe, Jack Balkin, and Orin Kerr (here, here, and here), among others, the basic line of which is that doctrinalism will get you nowhere in the legal academy these days. The disagreement has been mostly about what qualifies as doctrinalism, and whether this isn't...
Pretty tough question, eh? The answer: both of their recent books on the US and international law post-9/11 have been remaindered — that is, they have been deeply discounted from their list prices (see here and here). What does this say about the reading public? No ideological explanations available, since they come at it from opposite perspectives....
The NY Times fronts this interesting piece today on the rising number of Mexican consulates in the US — now up to 47, with recent additions including cities not traditionally hosting large consular communities, like Little Rock, Raleigh, and St Paul. But that's where Mexican immigrants are going, and the Mexican government is following. The consulates provide a...
Last week’s report of a major shipwreck treasure recovery had me wondering about what the law is here. From a pretty quick study, it looks like this is mostly CIL, at least as far as sites outside territorial waters and the contiguous zone are concerned (that is, more than 24 miles from shore, as this one apparently is), in...
This from Harvard's Einer Elhauge, guest-blogging over at VC. Elhauge describes his new casebook, Global Antitrust Law & Economics:We put US regulations and cases side by side with the EC regulations and cases that regulate the same conduct on global markets, without suggesting that one of them is more important or necessary to understanding basic antitrust law and that...
That's my hunch. It looks too much like the 1986 deal, coupling an amnesty with enhanced enforcement, the latter of which of course utterly failed. The deal announced yesterday would make pretty much all undocumented aliens arriving in the US before January 1 eligible for legalized status, under an indefinitely renewable "Z" visa program. That amounts to...
We had a ballot question in Philadelphia "urg[ing] the United States to make year 2007 the time to redeploy U.S. troops out of harm's way in Iraq," through the unusual mechanism of an amendment to the city's Home Rule Charter. The measure passed overwhelmingly (122,710 to 49,938). According to the Institute for Policy Studies (which has long promoted...
That's the bottom-line of thoughtful columns from Stuart Taylor and Karen J. Greenberg. (Hat-tips to Ken Anderson and Diane Amann respectively.) It's a harmless proposition, but it has an almost throw-away feel to it. One couldn't, I don't think, expect anything substantively interesting from such an undertaking. Bipartisan study efforts (calling Lee Hamilton!) seem invariably these...
Here's the press release from Starbucks. Starbucks had opposed Ethiopia's filing for trademark rights to three coffee names — Harar, Sidamo and Yirgacheffe — with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In Ethiopia's corner, Arnold & Porter took the matter pro bono (anyone who thinks lawyers have gotten slick should take a look at this youTube item with partner...
Thanks to a recent bilateral arrangement, you can now enjoy Indian mangos in the United States. To hear Indians talk about this, the issue is more important than nukes or Kashmir. The first shipments arrived this week in New York. Fruit flies had been the problem; irradiation the answer, a good enough one for USDA. (The US,...
See this story from Wednesday's FT on a meeting between Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the president of El Salvador, Antonio Saca, to address the growing transnational aspects of gang-related crime. This isn't a first -- the New York City Police Department has seven liaison officers posted in foreign cities, most recently to Santo Domingo on a narcotics-related...
Yesterday's immigrant demonstrations were predictably smaller than last year's, given the diminished risk that something really bad will come out of Congress at this point (remember, the House had passed a bill making presence in violation of the immigration laws a felony). As reported here in the WaPo, the emphasis at the gatherings was on keeping families intact. The...
