Kudos to the organizers and panelists on a great conference at Harvard Law School on blogging and legal scholarship. There are plenty of wonderful summaries of the conference at Legal Theory Blog, Ann Althouse, Discourse and Conglomerate. Best of all are the conferences papers, which I recommend you read if you are at all interested in...
On Wednesday the city of London faced one of the most bizarre terrorist threats in its history: terrorist nail bombs as works of art. As reported here, a 36-year-old woman thought it would be an act of artistic expression to distribute various parcels throughout the city that had the look and feel of a terrorist package, such as the one...
The Third Circuit this week rendered an interesting and unusual case on The Hague Convention on The Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. In Karkkainen v. Kovalchuk, the Third Circuit was faced with a precocious and intelligent eleven-year-old who had lived with her mother and stepfather in Finland. But Maria Kovalchuk increasingly grew to love the United States when...
Fiona de Londras of Mental Meanderings, who is a Ph.D. student at the University of Dublin Cork, has a nice post on the struggles of being a young and budding scholar. "The anxiety connected with the notion of having something in print for ever and ever that might be wrong is too much. I have never published anything internationally before....
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. This day brings my thoughts back to the Holocaust restitution movement, which I have followed closely for ten years. Some have questioned the propriety of Holocaust restitution as the final chapter in the history of the Holocaust. But I have little qualms in concluding that Holocaust restitution has been a good and noble...
Read the following product names and choose who they belong to: Juicy, Juicy Couture, Choose Juicy, Juicy Pop Princess, Be Juicy, Wear Juicy, The Joy of Juicy, Juicy Girls Rule, Juicy Wear, Juicy Pop, Juicy Gossip, Juicy Tubes, Juicy Rouge, Juicy Tubes Pop, Juicy Vernis, and Juicy Crayon. Of course, any high-couture fashionista knows that the first eight are owned...
I just finished reading Larry Solum's article on Blogging and the Transformation of Legal Scholarship available here. Solum wrote the piece for the Harvard Law School conference on blogging, and without a doubt it is the best piece I have ever read anywhere on the subject of blogging and legal scholarship. Solum argues that blogs can function in two...
Clive Thompson has a detailed and enlightening story in The New York Times Magazine this weekend on Chinese censorship of the Internet. It definitely is worth a read. There are plenty of juicy tidbits that are fascinating (e.g., China has its own version of "American Idol" known as, I kid you not, "Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girl Contest."). But...
Andrew Kent has posted on SSRN an important article entitled A Textual and Historical Case Against a Global Constitution, forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal. You can read the abstract and download the article here. The broad issue addressed is whether the U.S. Constitution applies to aliens abroad. Kent "challenges the textual and historical grounds advanced to support the...
Ian Best at 3L Epiphany has posted a summary of law review articles that cite legal blogs. The list is 27 pages long and includes citations to over 70 legal blogs, including this one. If you scan this list you will see that blogs are cited in dozens of law reviews, including top ones like the Yale Law Journal,...
The Philippine press is abuzz with news that an environmental activist by the name of Elipidio "Jojo" de la Victoria was murdered last week in apparent retaliation for his outspoken efforts to protect the Visayan Seas, one of the richest marine eco-regions in the world. According to an editorial in the Philippine Sun Star, "[c]ommercial fishing is big business,...
Or so says claimant John Paul Marshall. In the case of Marshall v. United Nations, 2006 WL 947697 (E.D. Cal. 2006) (not available online) a federal district court in Sacramento was faced with a 325 page “rambling and unintelligible” complaint that alleged that the United Nations, the United States, the State of California, and the city of Sacramento violated Marshall’s...
