Framing Health Care Reform
Washington is giving national health care reform its most serious attention since 1994, when the Clintons’ Health Security Act went down in flames. Gordon Smith highlights a salient political...
View ArticleThe End of Summer (Programs)
On-campus interviewing is already underway at many law schools, and law students are obviously worried about their job prospects this fall. According to NALP, law firms had already cut back their...
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Moneyball Revisited
Michael Lewis’s bestselling book Moneyball occupies a unique convergence of academic, sports, and popular fascination. Moneyball profiles Billy Beane and his management of the Oakland Athletics...
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More Moneyball
In my previous post, I argued that Michael Lewis’s influential bestseller Moneyball, widely cited in academia, ultimately relies too much on hyperbole to make its claims about the superiority of Billy...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform, Public Opinion, and Personal Experience as Information
James Surowiecki describes an interesting recent shift in public opinion about the health care system in the United States. Last year, polling found that only 29 percent of Americans rated the health...
View ArticleUpdate to the Tale of the Ph.D. Rapper
About a week ago, the New York Daily News reported a happy tale of Dr. Roxanne Shante, a former rapper who won a legal battle to have her record label pay for a Ph.D. education at Cornell University....
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Football and Judicial Politics
My colleague Joanna Shepherd and I are working on a project analyzing judicial voting on election law cases in state court. Although there is a sophisticated literature about judicial politics and...
View ArticleMore on Campaign Finance Reform
As Gerard noted earlier, the Court today is hearing arguments in Citizens United v. FEC, the well-publicized case featuring “Hillary: The Movie.” The case is receiving a great deal of public attention,...
View ArticleThe Informant!
It’s not often that I hear about a new Hollywood movie based on the facts of a case that I first encountered while clerking, but The Informant!, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon,...
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Scandal and Conflict of Interest in Formula One
A major cheating scandal has erupted at the highest level of international auto racing. After an investigation by the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the ING Renault Formula One Team...
View ArticleVoting as Veto
It’s been great to guest blog at Concurring Opinions, but unfortunately for me, my stint here has come to a close. I’ve enjoyed it. Thanks to Dan Solove, Danielle Citron, and their colleagues for...
View ArticleMore Citizens United
Thanks to Danielle Citron for giving me the chance to share a few quick thoughts about Citizens United v. FEC. In that decision, as you probably know, the Supreme Court struck down federal campaign...
View ArticleVictoria Nourse and the 7th Circuit
Thanks to Danielle, Dan, and our friends at Concurring Opinions for having me back as a guest blogger. I just returned from the SEALS conference in Palm Beach and now am thrilled to blog again. I...
View ArticleThe Value of Law School “Eliteness”
A paper recently circulated by Richard Sander and Jane Yakowitz finds that “performance in law school—as measured by law school grades—is the most important predictor of career success” and is...
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The Partisan Price of Judicial Elections
A major study of judicial elections released today reports that campaign spending in judicial elections doubled over the past decade and that “judicial elections are increasingly focusing not on...
View ArticleJSTOR and Interdisciplinary Research
The degree of interdisciplinarity in legal scholarship these days is staggering. Not long ago, it was common for professors in social science disciplines to find themselves surprised by the insularity...
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College Football, Inc.
With the start of the college football season this weekend, a columnist for CNNSI.com has called for college football players to be paid by the universities they attend. He argues that “[t]hese...
View ArticleFarewell to the Fall Submission?
Not long ago, the busy month for law review submissions was August, not March. As anyone who has been teaching law for more than six or seven years can confirm, law faculty worked on their manuscripts...
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The Partisan Foundations of Judicial Campaign Finance
The Center for American Progress has just issued a report on judicial campaign finance that documents the increasing costs of campaigning in judicial elections and raises alarm that “[i]nstead of...
View ArticleMore Sophisticated Than What the Clientele Wants
While reading this post by Paul McGreal over at Faculty Lounge about the rising costs of legal education, I was struck by the unexpected relevance of political scientist John Zaller‘s work on media...
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