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One-Third Of Awarded Fees Covered By Contingent Fee Agreement - The Utah Supreme Court has ruled in favor of an attorney in a fee dispute with a client. The attorney represented the client pursuant to a 1/3 contingency fe...
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Political Animal - Steve Benen

Day's End and Night Watch - So my plan is to stay home until after tomorrow's Supreme Court opinions are announced (normally after 10:00 EDT), and then head to San Jose for Netroots N...
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Three Naval Academy Midshipmen Accused of Sexual Assault - The case stems from an off-campus party in 2012 that involved heavy drinking.
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Calculated Risk

Analysis on Tapering QE3 - Last month there were quite a few analysts predicting the Fed would start tapering off QE purchases in June. My response was Three words: Will Not Happen. ...
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Above the Law

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The Monkey Cage

If You Give a State A Federal Reserve Bank (or two…) - What are the chances that both bank presidents—one as hawk, the other as d0ve—will dissent from the Federal Open Market Committee’s policy statement? Toda...
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Foreign Policy

Navy Responds to Crunch Scandal - By Michael Peck - Confirms that 'captain' is an imposter.
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Think Progress

When Baby Boomers Retire, Immigrants And Their Kids Will Fill Their Jobs - In the next twenty years, immigrants and their children will step up to fill the workplace needs caused by retiring and dying Baby Boomers, according to a ...
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Slate Magazine

You Don’t Have the Right to Remain Silent - On Monday, in a case called *Salinas v. Texas* that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves*,* the Supreme Court held that you remain silent at your peri...
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Salon.com

Fox News cans shady market analyst - Tobin Smith allegedly used his news credentials to hawk volatile stocks to conservatives
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Larger Rival to Acquire 3-D Printing Start-Up MakerBot - MakerBot, the Brooklyn-based start-up that makes 3-D printers, has agreed to sell itself to its larger rival Stratasys, the companies announced on Wednesday.
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands

Newly-Minted Berkeley Ph.D. Energy-Environment Economist Catherine Almirall and Macro-History Economist Joshua Kautsky Hausman Set Off for Ann Arbor - * [Catherine Almirall Hausman](http://areweb.berkeley.edu/candidate/sites/areweb.berkeley.edu/files/CHausman_CV.pdf) * [Joshua Kautsky Hausman](https://www.e...
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Fed Watch: FOMC Statement: Second Reaction - Tim Duy's second reaction to the FOMC meeting and press conference: FOMC Statement: Second Reaction
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Main Justice

Mueller Tells Senators FBI Uses Drones in Domestic Surveillance - Robert Mueller, who will conclude his 12-years at the helm of the bureau in September, said that counter-terrorism remains the agency’s highest priority an...
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Dr. Helen Smith on Where the Good Men Are, and Why They Left - We interviewed Dr. Helen Smith on her new book, Men On Strike, and her views on the challenges men face as they navigate American societal, cultural, educa...
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Orthodox Christian Studies Feted and Supported at Fordham - Aristotle "Telly" Papanikolaou (speaking into mic) and George Demacopoulos, co-founders of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center Opa! The Orthodox Christi...
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Jared Bernstein | On the Economy

The Fed Provides “Forward Guidance” on the Taper and May Be, Once Again, Too Optimistic - Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke did not say anything today about taking away the famous punch bowl. He didn’t even say that he and his Fed colleague...
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Washington Post Opinion

Syrian war is a fight the U.S. should avoid - The Post argued that U.S. security interests require a “more robust . . .intervention” in the Syrian civil war [“No time for half-measures,” editorial, Ju...
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Switchboard, from NRDC

Climate disruption: the 10 percent doctrine? - Laurie Johnson, Chief Economist, Climate Center, Washington, DC: What do the odds of a catastrophe have to be for insurance to be a wise inv...
2 hours ago
Gavel Grab

Greenwald: Oversight by Secretive Court a ‘Fig Leaf’ - Glenn Greenwald, who recently has reported disclosures about U.S. government Internet and telephone information-gathering, now turns his focus to the secre...
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The Onion

American Voices: U.S. To Hold Peace Talks With Taliban - American and Taliban leaders confirmed yesterday that they would meet face-to-face this week in the Taliban’s newly opened political office in Qatar to dis...
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The Hill -Briefing Room

DAY'S END ROUNDUP - *FROM THE BLOGS: The NSA is ruining its own image* Timothy Lee of *The Washington Post*’s Wonkblog *believes* the National Security Agency’s secrecy is m...
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Crooked Timber

The obesity paradox paradox - I see lots of stories made up of handwringing over the “obesity paradox”, normally presented as saying that even though obesity is a risk factor for all ki...
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Americans for Peace Now

The Fruits of our Labor - Today I am excited to share with you some good news - news that is encouraging and energizing. I know that you, like me, are subjected to a daily barrage of ...
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House to Vote Tomorrow on Unprecedented Amendment that Would Increase Hardship and Hold Millions of the Most Vulnerable Americans Hostage to Farm-Bill Politics - The House will debate tonight — and will vote tomorrow — on an amendment to the farm bill that would hold millions of the nation’s poorest children, parent...
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Legalization Would Not Threaten Social Security - From the National Committee to Preserve Social Security: Comprehensive Immigration Reform is not a Threat to Social Security It is estimated that there are a...
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Haaretz

American Jewish leaders: Netanyahu should disown 'irresponsible" statements against two-state solution - In rare public protest, leaders of major Jewish groups condemn 'shortsighted' comments that 'undermine the credibility of the government.'
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Do legal blogs still matter? - Al Brophy asks the question at Faculty Lounge. Answer there or here (or both).
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POLITICO Top Stories

Preparing for life after Bernanke - Obama made it awkwardly clear that he has no plans to renominate Bernanke to a third term.
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Dolce and Gabbana Convicted of Tax Evasion - An Italian court on Wednesday sentenced Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana to one year and eight months in prison for tax evasion
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Right on Crime

Richard Viguerie talks about Right on Crime - In this video, conservative pioneer Richard Viguerie talks about why he is an active leader in the Right on Crime campaign.
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Is Obama About to Get Serious on Climate Change? - Several people have suggested that President Obama will make climate change a key initiative of his second term. I've never really believed that, but to...
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Opinio Juris

The Calculus of Responsibility - *by Neomi Rao * by Neomi Rao “Of course our opinions do not coincide. But all of us have the intention to stop the violence in Syria,” President Putin said...
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Today's Lesson in Why One Shouldn't Trust Self-Identified "Independents" - Sean Hannity: "I'm not a Republican, though people often mistake me for one." (From Political Wire, quoted from a Playboy interview I'm not going to click...
4 hours ago
CrimProf Blog

Mnookin on Semi-Legibility and Visual Evidence - Jennifer Mnookin (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law) has posted Semi-Legibility and Visual Evidence: An Initial Exploration (Law, ...
4 hours ago
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Constitutional History and the Defense of Humanities and Social Science - Today’s *Washington Post* reports on the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ attempt to STEM the flight from humanities. Here’s a report of a similar i...
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In which Bernstein's "anti-quagmire president" conforms to type - Last week, I noted that in the unfolding of the news that Obama was stepping up aid to the Syrian rebels, it was possible to glimpse Obama pushing back, or...
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The Belly of the Beast - Steven Harper

ANOTHER COMMENDABLE CONDUCT AWARD - Big law bankruptcy attorneys may have finally killed their golden goose. We’ll never know if less hubris and more thought might have prevented the U.S. Tru...
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The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times

Glenn Beck's Media Company Hires Wiley Rein Lobbyists - The media company founded by conservative commentator Glenn Beck has turned to Wiley Rein for help in its first foray into Washington lobbying. Mercury Radio...
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Chinese Law Prof Blog

More materials on the Chen Guangcheng/NYU affair - Here's a report from the Wall Street Journal's China RealTime Report about a statement from Chen Guangcheng's former adviser, Mattie Bekink. Ms. Bekink's ful...
6 hours ago
Shanghaiist

Dish of the Day: Bai zhan ji (boiled and cut chicken) @ Xiao Shaoxing - [image: Dish of the Day: Bai zhan ji (boiled and cut chicken) @ Xiao Shaoxing] *Bai zhan ji (白斬雞)* literally translates to "boiled and cut chicken," which ...
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Obama’s WMD Moment: The Administration Increases Claims Of Thwarting “Potential” Attacks and Saving Lives - George Bush was rightfully denounced for his Administration’s false statements to both the public and the United Nations on weapons of mass destruction in ...
6 hours ago
Legal Ethics Forum

Regulatory appointee criticizes staff lawyers in speech "hypo" (aftermath of San Bruno pipeline explosion) - We previously covered the interesting story of the dispute between staff attorneys at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the political a...
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Spectator Blogs

Obama’s Berlin speech was a damp squib - Can Barack Obama still pretend to be champion of the liberal dream even though we all know he isn’t? Yes he can! Can a President who rides roughshod over...
7 hours ago
The Faculty Lounge

Are Law Blogs (Still) Relevant? - I've mentioned before that one of my friends asked me last winter whether law blogs are still relevant? It came as sort of a surprise. After years of skeptic...
7 hours ago
Isidor's Fugue

A Meeting of Gizzards and Erguotou in Beijing - A little after 5:00 p.m. on Monday, I was enjoying spicy chicken gizzards and chopped Chinese brocoli at a small restaurant in Beijing when a man asked if ...
7 hours ago
Securities Docket

SEC to Require Admissions of Wrongdoing in Settlements of Most Egregious Cases – Compliance Week - The SEC made some news yesterday at the Wall Street Journal CFO Network conference, as Chairman Mary Jo White announced that the agency will now begin requ...
7 hours ago
Mirror of Justice

Niall Ferguson on "The Regulated States of America" - Recalling Alexis de Tocqueville's praise of American preference for building voluntary associations to work together rather than relying on government, Niall...
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ProPublica: Articles and Investigations

Four Ways the Government Subsidizes Risky Coastal Rebuilding - by Theodoric Meyer Contractors with the Army Corps of Engineers last month finished pumping more than 1.8 million cubic yards of sand onto the beach in ...
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WSJ.com: China Real Time Report

Blind Activist’s Former Adviser: Pressure Claims ‘Mystifying’ - One of the lawyers brought in by New York University to assist blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng's transition to life in the U.S. on Wednesday reject...
8 hours ago
Sentencing Law and Policy

Guest post with more thoughtful perspectives on Peugh - I am very pleased to have received and to now have time to post the following "quick thoughts" of Professor Todd Haugh concerning last week's SCOTUS Puegh de...
10 hours ago
TortsProf Blog

Can the City of Philadelphia Be Sued Over the Building Collapse? - Philly lawyer Max Kennerly's analysis at Litigation and Trial. --CJR
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New York Attorney Malpractice Blog

Is It Legal Malpractice to Withdraw As Attorney? - Money disputes between clients and attorneys are a rich source of litigation. This is likely due to the low entry costs for attorneys to sue their clients, a...
13 hours ago
Paul Krugman

How Are These Times Different? - From GM to Apple.
14 hours ago
The D & O Diary

The Curse of Post-Close Merger Objection Litigation - There days, virtually every M&A transaction attracts litigation, usually involving multiple lawsuits. These cases have proven attractive to plaintiffs’ l...
15 hours ago
David Simon - The Audacity of Despair

The “Nigger Wake-Up Call” - The great political comedian Paul Mooney made his bones by laying in the cut between American democratic ideals and American behavior. A mentor and inspir...
19 hours ago
Language Log

Duran Adam - Another Turkish term is entering the international lexicon: "duran adam", or "standing man". Andy Carvin, "The 'Standing Man' of Turkey: Act of Quiet Prot...
21 hours ago
Fei Chang Dao

Sina Weibo Censors Call to Release Those Who Called for Disclosure of Officials' Assets - This screenshot was taken on April 30, 2013, and shows that on that day Sina Weibo was censoring searches for "Asset Disclosure Nine Gentlemen" (财产公示九君子). ...
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James Fallows :: The Atlantic

World o' Flight Updates: *NYT* Mag, Gliders, Yeshivah of Flatbush, Solar Impulse - A mix of news, more good than bad, all with aerial themes
1 day ago
Concurring Opinions

Google Challenges Gag Orders Relating to Surveillance Programs, Citing First Amendment - Google has decided to back up its calls for more transparency regarding government surveillance with a legal challenge to the gag orders that forced it i...
1 day ago
NYRBlog - The New York Review of Books

Spying on Americans: A Very Old Story - Aryeh Neier Much of the political surveillance of the 1960s and the 1970s consisted in efforts to identify organizations that were critical of government ...
1 day ago
Juvenile Justice Blog

Indiana Juvenile Justice Blog - Earlier this week I received an email from Kaarin Lueck, public defender in Richmond, Indiana, and nationally-known expert in juvenile delinquency and cr...
1 day ago
Legal Ethics in Motion

Less is More: Unbundling Legal Services to Serve the Greater Good - There is a move a foot to compel the legal profession t [...]
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Baseline Scenario

Goldman Sachs Concedes Existence Of Too Big To Fail - By Simon Johnson Global megabanks and their friends are pushing back hard against the idea that additional reforms are needed – beyond what is supposed to ...
2 days ago
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China

SIPO’S 2012 National IP Development Situation Report - SIPO released a 71-page report on the 2012 National IP Development Situation (2012年全国知识产权发展状况报告) on June 5, 2013, the fifth anniversary of SIPO’s adoption ...
2 days ago
China Law Blog

Buying Into A China VIE. What Me Worry? - Years ago, we here at China Law Blog made clear our views on VIEs and nothing about those views has changed. For that reason, and becuase VIEs have little...
2 days ago
On Lawyering

To Kill A Mockingbird and Fathers’ Day - Rev. Sykes: “Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’.” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Global Environmental Law

Chinese Air Pollution Regulations, Ghana Crackdown on Wildcat Mining, Myanmar, Ethiopian Dam (by Bob Percival) - On June 14 China’s State Council adopted new air pollution control regulations. One of the surprising features of the 10-part regulations is a requiremen...
2 days ago
David S. Bernstein

Globe Poll Coming... - Consider this a little something from Rumor Central (but not a full Alert): I'm hearing that the Boston Globe will have its final poll on the US Senat...
4 days ago
ReligiousLeftLaw.com

An Update on the Home Mortgage Bridge Loan Assistance Act - Hi Friends, Early last year, I noted with pleasure some progress underway in connection with a truly 'win-win' mortgage bridge loan statute I'd drafted wit...
4 days ago
SALTLAW

Affirmative Action for the Racist in All of Us - by Tanya Hernandez As a lawyer who examines the development of civil rights throughout Latin America it is quite remarkable to observe the explosion in the...
4 days ago
Joe Conason on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

On Civil Liberties, Comparing Obama With Bush Is Easy—and Mostly Wrong - Rather than hyping the terrorist threat, like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, President Obama has repeatedly framed a calmer—if equally resolute—attitude...
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FactCheck.org

A Botched Attack on IRS Budget - An ad calling for the abolishment of the IRS incorrectly claimed that the federal agency’s budget increased by $2 billion. In fact, it’s down by nearly $1 ...
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Ratio Juris

Open U.S. Intervention in Syrian War - Most of us are waking up to the following news about the Syrian war: WASHINGTON — “The White House declared Thursday that Syria had crossed a ‘red line’ b...
5 days ago
Skritter Blog | Developing the Best Chinese and Japanese Practice Tool

Skritter Guys On The Road - [image: author photo]I'm getting married in a week, so George, Scott, and I will be out of touch starting tomorrow as we head for the mountains for some ba...
5 days ago
Virtual Law Practice - Stephanie Kimbro

Video: ReInvent Law Presentation - This is the video of my "ignite-style" presentation at the ReInvent Law Conference in Silicon Valley a couple months ago. I'm speaking at a super fast pace...
5 days ago
China Law & Policy

Just For Fun: Restaurant Review – Las Vegas’ Ping Pang Pong - It’s not an understatement to say that Chinese tourists likely saved Las Vegas from economic oblivion after the meltdown of 2008. When most of Nevada was ...
5 days ago
The Legal Whiteboard

"There's A Lot of Money in that White Powder" - Telemarketing Edition - Posted by Jeff Lipshaw (cross-posted at PrawfsBlawg) Those were Sonny's words when the Don asked his view of the narcotics proposal Virgil Sollozzo was bring...
6 days ago
GOPlifer - Chris Ladd

Going Home - For most of this month I’ll be on a combination work/vacation with the family in Louisiana and Texas. The trip has been pretty interesting already.
1 week ago
Making Book

The future — again - I promised a while back not to write about the future of our industry any more — and I won’t. But here’s a wide-ranging piece by the ever wise Gene Schwart...
1 week ago
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The Obligatory Nutshell Version of Veterans Benefits - The Faculty Lounge: - The Faculty Lounge: The Obligatory Nutshell Version of Veterans Benefits: by Jasmes Ridgway There are three elements that determine whether disability benefi...
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OTHERWISE: A step forward for mentally impaired facing deportation – NJLJ Editorial Board - OTHERWISE: A step forward for mentally impaired facing deportation – NJLJ Editorial Board. The New Jersey Law Journal Editorial Board has commended the rec...
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中文搜索引擎 chinese search engine - 中文搜索引擎www.baidu.com 百度 zhong wen sou suo yin qing 'bai du' The popular chinese search engine is 百度 'bai du' 'sougou pinyin' chinese input software 搜狗拼音输...
2 weeks ago
Supreme People's Court Monitor

The Supreme People’s Court: Interpretations of Law as a form of Official Document (公文） - This post explains why: the Supreme People’s Court (Court) releases normative documents inconsistent with the law and its own definition of “judicial inte...
2 weeks ago
China Law and Practice Home

Provisions for Foreign Exchange Control in Connection with Direct Investment in China by Foreign Investors - SAFE further streamlines the foreign exchange procedures for establishment of foreign-invested enterprises.
2 weeks ago
Mass Tort Litigation Blog

Lawyering for Groups - The papers from the Fordham Law Review Symposium Lawyering for Groups are now online. Howard Erichson & Ben Zipursky wrote the Foreword. Other contributors i...
3 weeks ago
Topolog

Fish oils to prevent CHD . . . it's now official - The GISSI group's impressive, collaborative study just published in NEJM puts to bed any lingering theory stipulating a positive effect of fish oils to pre...
1 month ago
Professional Responsibility

NY Times: The Right to Counsel, Badly Battered at 50 - A couple of days ago, The New York Times published a good editorial on the state of the right to counsel. It starts: A half-century ago, the Supreme Court...
3 months ago
Inside the Law School Scam

Goodbye is too good a word - I began this blog one summer afternoon in exactly way I’ve started every other professional project I’ve undertaken which ever amounted to anything: with...
3 months ago
Brennan Center for Justice

Filibluster: Senate Rules Deal Yields Good and Bad News - *Crossposted at Huffington Post.* Senate leaders Thursday adopted a bipartisan package of rules changes designed to smooth Senate procedure and curb gove...
4 months ago
Forgotten Archipelagoes

国务院关于研究监狱布局调整和监狱体制改革试点有关问题的会议纪要 - 国务院关于研究监狱布局调整和监狱体制改革试点有关问题的会议纪要 (2006年4月24日　国阅[2006]40号) 　　4月14日下午，国务院副秘书长张平、李适时主持会议，传达学习国务院领导同志批示精神，研究监狱布局调整和监狱体制改革试点有关问题。发展改革委、司法部、财政部、国土资源部、建设部、国资委、法制办、...
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Chinese Law and Politics Blog

What Direction for Legal Reform under Xi Jinping? - Jamestown China Brief - Hopes for reform in China have risen in recent weeks. Xi Jinping’s decision to make Shenzhen the site of his first formal inspection tour as party general se...
5 months ago
WordInEdgewise - John Culhane

Will Congress Repeal the Law Barring Suits against Gun Sellers? - In this Slate article, posted earlier this evening, I argue that the 2005 law that banned most suits against gun sellers was a terrible capitulation to the...
5 months ago
Presidential Power - Matt Dickinson

Obama’s Victory And The Power of Incumbency In The Modern Era - A reporter recently emailed asking me to comment on the following observation: “This is the first time in American history since Thomas Jefferson, James Ma...
7 months ago
Deb Fallows

If you're in Sioux Falls! - South Dakota Dreaming in Chinese goes to Augustana College DATE: Thursday, November 15, 2012 TIME(S): 7 p.m. LOCATION: Chapel of Reconciliation, Augustana...
7 months ago
Austan Goolsbee's Blog

No, RNC, I did not grade POTUS a C (but I would give Romney an F) - I woke up this morning a bit surprised to find the RNC declaring that I had graded the President a C. I did no such thing and don't now. I was on Hannity...
7 months ago
Frank Askin

Deciphering super PAC double-speak - The IRS has shown little stomach to challenge the accounting sleight-of-hand made possible by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, among other key c...
1 year ago
National Memo | Breaking News, Smart Politics

Can We Escape The Global Energy Spiral? - Body: When the price of gasoline rises, so does political demagogy, especially during an election year. Frustrated drivers, infuriated by the spinning nu...
1 year ago
Stephen Budiansky's Liberal Curmudgeon Blog

"Thousands of Journalists Dead as World Comes to End" — New York Times - I don't in any way mean to trivialize the tragedy of losing a valued friend and comrade; Anthony Shadid was by all accounts not only a superb and courageou...
1 year ago
New Jersey Legal Malpractice Blog

Plaintiffs' Legal Malpractice Expert Report in New Jersey: Another One Bites the Dust - *Richard Tietjen v. Richard Mazawey, Esq.* Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division Docket No. A-1887-10T3 December January 12, 2012 *OPERAT...
1 year ago
The National Law Journal's Law School Review

Wrapping Things Up - Karen Sloan here from The National Law Journal. I just wanted to thank the contributors, commenters and readers of this forum. This past week or so of discus...
1 year ago
virtualreview: china|blogs

Living in Haikou – First Impressions | Humanaught - Well, I promised video/photos or a rant, and I’m happy to report I have no rant to offer. We moved in last Friday and have been living in a sort of stasis ...
2 years ago
The Yale Law Journal

The Future of Section 5: Perspectives on Shelby County v. Holder - With the Supreme Court's decision in *Shelby County v. Holder* looming this month, *YLJ Online* presents a series of reflections on the case below.
3 years ago
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City Questions 9/11 Workers? Claims of Illness - After the first exhaustive report was done on the 10,000 ground zero workers? medical records, it implies that the workers are not as sick as they made ...
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