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Political Animal - Steve Benen

Good news: the United States may be experiencing the lowest murder rate in over a century - Now for some good news: according to economic consultant Rick Nevin, this year, the U.S. in on track to experience the lowest murder rate in over 100 years...
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Legal Ethics Forum

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Via Meadia

Could Sufi Islam Make A Comeback? - Sufi Islam—more mystical, more concerned with God’s love than God’s law, and much more tolerant toward other faiths and other varieties of Islam—has been o...
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Legal Ethics in Motion

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Mirror of Justice

"Church law follows the theological reality of things." - A blog dedicated to "Catholic legal theory" should be interested in the fact of -- and the theory behind -- the ongoing revision of the law of the Catholic C...
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Commencement 2013 Photo Album - *-Tom Stoelker*
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Economist's View - Mark Thoma

New Research in Economics: Self-interest vs. Greed and the Limitations of the Invisible Hand - This is from Matt Clements, Associate Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at St. Edward’s University: Dear Professor Thoma, Allow me to add to ...
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A plain blog about politics

What Mattered This Week? - Barack Obama's Gallup approval rating is back to 51% today, which is back up to the upper part of the range it's been in for the last couple of months. I'm...
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Paul Krugman

Old-fashioned Austerity - Working harder to deal with debt? How silly!
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News Desk

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The Onion

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Spectator Blogs

Andrew Feldman denies calling Tory activists ‘swivel-eyed loons’ - Andrew Feldman, co-chair of the Conservative Party — and a university friend of David Cameron — has come out to strongly deny he was the senior Tory figu...
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Making Book

iPad - I’m not going to say it’s never happened before, but to me it’s a novelty. In its issue of April 19th 2013, the Times Literary Supplement has two consecuti...
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Sentencing Law and Policy

"Crackheaded Ruling by Sixth Circuit" - The title of this post is the headline of this new commentary by Ed Whelan at the National Review Online concerning yesterday's suprising split panel ruling ...
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HuffingtonPost

How GOP Obstruction Will Ruin The Republican Party - It’s obvious that the unprecedented Senate Republican obstruction of executive branch nominations is bad for the president; it’s bad for the smooth funct...
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Virtual Law Practice - Stephanie Kimbro

Gamification vs Games for Legal Services - As I've started talking about the game I'm developing, I hear people throw out the phrase "gamification of legal services" to describe my project. That's a...
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POLITICO Top Stories

Cuccinelli is Va. GOP gov nominee - He was the first state attorney general to challenge Obama's health care reforms in 2010. [image: Add to Twitter] [image: Add to Facebook] [image: Email th...
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Think Progress

Obama Tweets Study Of 97% Scientific Consensus On Manmade Warming, WashPost Confused On What That Means - The story seems simple enough. First, on Wednesday a study came out that found 97% consensus on human-caused global warming in the peer-reviewed scientific...
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JONATHAN TURLEY

Consider The Lilies Of The Field: Scientists Create “Flowers” In Beakers - By Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger Scientists from Aristotle to his 21st Century successors have wondered how complex structures form in nature. Wim L. Noordu...
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NYRBlog - The New York Review of Books

Why Obama Is Not Nixon - Elizabeth Drew References to Watergate, impeachment, even Richard Nixon, are being tossed around these days as if they were analogous to the current so-ca...
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The Monkey Cage

Why Some Politicians Stop Buying Votes - The next installment in this week’s presentation of NSF-funded research is this piece from Brown University political scientist Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro. The...
10 hours ago
Shanghaiist

Din Tai Fung voted best restaurant in Asia! Will Shanghai have an aneurism? - [image: Din Tai Fung voted best restaurant in Asia! Will Shanghai have an aneurism?] Din Tai Fung in Taipei snagged the number one spot in The Daily Meal's...
11 hours ago
Slate Magazine

Wine Drinkers of the World, Unite - The other night, I was having dinner with some friends in a fairly decent restaurant and was at the very peak of my form as a wit and raconteur. But just...
14 hours ago
Legal History Blog

Weekend Roundup - - On June 27, 2013, Morehead State University will host a *Federalism Symposium *featuring "academic presentations of research from scholars ...
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Opinio Juris

Weekend Roundup: May 11-17, 2013 - *by An Hertogen * by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Kevin was surprised by an unexpected dissenter in Kenya’s request to the Security Council to t...
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James Fallows :: The Atlantic

If You're in Redlands, Calif. on May 18 ... - Five years of that magical combination of small airports and craft brews.
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CrimProf Blog

"A ‘Pandora’s Box of Problems’ From a Police Shooting and Drugs in a Utah Town" - From the New York Times: West Valley City officials offered a few details from their investigation into the drug squad. They found that officers had mishandl...
19 hours ago
Foreign Policy

Longform's Picks of the Week - By Rachel Wilkinson - The best stories from around the world.
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WSJ Law Blog

Former IRS Division Chief Predicts Wave of Departures - A former Internal Revenue Service official who ran the unit now at the center of scandal says the agency is about to be a hit by a wave of resignations tha...
1 day ago
Talking Points Memo

Storms Away - GOP Rep storms away when father of Aurora victim tries to share pictures of dead son....
1 day ago
Language Log

Racist Park - Liwei Jiao sent in a selection of signs from a Chinese website that was originally part of a collection assembled in the Daily Mail. We've seen most of the...
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Main Justice

Coming Monday, May 20: Best FCPA Lawyers 2013 Global Trends Survey and Law Firm Profiles - Law firm partners and counsel, in-house counsel and chief compliance officers revealed candid insights to Main Justice, including never before heard opinio...
1 day ago
SALTLAW

Chasing the Kardashians - Written by Hazel Weiser Here’s where I disagree with Professor Tamanaha. It’s not that SALT has been silent or callous about the rise of student debt. As...
1 day ago
ProPublica: Articles and Investigations

How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional - by Kim Barker and Justin Elliott *May 18: This post has been corrected.* The IRS division responsible for flagging Tea Party groups has long been an ag...
1 day ago
Gavel Grab

In Many States, Veil of Secrecy Cloaks Outside Spending - A new 50-state analysis the by the National Institute of Money in State Politics finds that lax rules in many states let outside groups sponsor attack poli...
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Jared Bernstein | On the Economy

CBO Says President’s Debt Path is Even Lower Than WH’s Own Estimate - Just in case your weekend isn’t getting off to an exciting enough start, here’s another chart to make you go “hmmm…” The Congressional Budget Office always...
1 day ago
Above the Law

Maybe The Toronto Mayor Should Skip The P.R. Lawyer and Go Straight To Criminal Defense Attorney? - [image: Rob Ford] Toronto Mayor allegedly gets caught smoking crack, and his lawyer apparently gets caught hyperventilating while trying to kill the stor...
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The Hill -Briefing Room

DAY'S END ROUNDUP - *FROM THE BLOGS:* *Republicans shouldn’t let the facts speak for themselves **Daily Intel's Jonathan Chait says* the conventional wisdom — that Republica...
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PrawfsBlawg

Non-State Law and Enforcement - As I mentioned in my last post, I've been doing some thinking about what it means to be non-state law and looking to different types of non-state law - suc...
1 day ago
Off the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

In Case You Missed It… - This week on Off the Charts, we focused on SNAP (formerly food stamps), health reform, housing policy, the federal budget and taxes, and state budgets and ...
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DealBook

Investor Group Asks S.E.C. to Intervene on Access to Shareholder Vote Totals - The Council of Institutional Investors has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to intervene after Broadridge, main company that provides real-time...
1 day ago
Concurring Opinions

Copyright’s Constitutional Chameleon - by John Duffy, Peter Strauss and Michael Herz Earlier this year, more than 100,000 citizens petitioned the White House to overturn a copyright rule issue...
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China Law Blog

What Is Right With China? - If you haven’t been reading ChinaFile’s twice weekly “Conversation,” you should be. It basically consists of a bunch of knowledgeable China people getting...
1 day ago
Kevin Drum Feed | Mother Jones

Friday Cat Blogging - 17 May 2013 - On Tuesday evening, one of my bicep muscles started misfiring. Every minute or so it would vibrate or spasm for a few seconds. But it only happened if I...
1 day ago
Switchboard, from NRDC

My Bike to Work Day: 4 cities, 22 miles, 1000+ calories - Lizzeth Henao, Program Assistant, Santa Monica: This week I’ve been doing something that many consider foolish at best, dangerous at w...
1 day ago
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times

Lawyers Saddle Up for Bike to Work Day - Cyclists fill Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington. More than 14,000 bicyclists—including a few lawyers—saddled up for Washington's annual bike to work day. ...
1 day ago
TortsProf Blog

Catastrophic Payments and Medical Malpractice - Terry Baynes of Reuters has written an article about the recent study by a group of physicians at John Hopkins finding that large med mal awards do not contr...
1 day ago
ImmigrationProf Blog

Alvaro Huerta, “Just Say No to Gang of Eight Immigration Bill” - Given the national debate over the so-called Senate “Gang of Eight’ immigration reform bill, I have one recommendation: go back to the drawing board. Introdu...
1 day ago
Right on Crime

CQ article notes growing movement toward conservative criminal justice reform - This Congressional Quarterly article is worth reading in full. Note the mention of Right on Crime and the various conservative lawmakers who are supporting...
1 day ago
Americans for Peace Now

News Nosh 05.17.13 - APN's daily news review from Israel Friday May 17, 2013 Quote of the day: "This is a slap to the efforts of Kerry. Instead of protecting the interests...
1 day ago
Crooked Timber

Good (and bad) news from the Open Access front - I recently wrote a short ‘comment’ for the American Journal of Bioethics. The piece is 1788 words long, the names and affiliations of my co-author and myse...
1 day ago
David S. Bernstein

Ask Me Anything Day (At BoMag!) - Hey folks, I'm giving Ask Me Anything Day ...
1 day ago
xpostfactoid

Two takes on Obama from Fallows - In the long hot political summer of 2011, as Obama was sliding down the precipice toward the Budget Control Act (that wonderful deed that gave us the seque...
1 day ago
ReligiousLeftLaw.com

Should the IRS Pay Special Attention to those Groups Who Believe Taxes are too High? - Is it unreasonable to suppose that groups who are ideologically committed to the proposition that taxes are too high are more likely than other groups to p...
1 day ago
WSJ.com: China Real Time Report

Art Pops Up in Shanghai - A weeklong pop-up art exhibit opens today in Shanghai, and hundreds of art lovers are eyeing their inbox to find out where.
1 day ago
The D & O Diary

The Travel Issue: Madrid Edition - The *D&O Diary’s* European sojourn concluded with a brief stop earlier this week for business meetings in Madrid. I had never been to Madrid before. Like...
1 day ago
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog

Raced Based Case Analysis in Legal Malpractice - Courts are ready to consider dismissal of legal malpractice cases, especially when the motion for dismissal is predicated on the "but for" portion ...
1 day ago
Joe Conason on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

An Interview With Ron Wyden, the Senate’s Powerful Policy Wonk - Having served in Congress for more than three decades—and in the upper chamber since 1996—Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden has established a reputation as one o...
1 day ago
Supreme People's Court Monitor

The Supreme People’s Court and the Interpretation of Law - This is the first installment of three posts that will focus on the Supreme People’s Court’s (Court) authority to interpret law. My intent is to avoid the ...
1 day ago
The Yale Law Journal

A Brief Sur-Reply to Professors Graetz and Warren - *Professors Ruth Mason and Michael Knoll defend their interpretation of the tax-discrimination jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Unio...
2 days ago
The Belly of the Beast - Steven Harper

PBS NEWSHOUR INTERVIEW - My PBS Newshour interview about THE LAWYER BUBBLE is now available at http://to.pbs.org/143eTTG Filed under: "THE LAWYER BUBBLE"
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GOPlifer - Chris Ladd

Worse Than Watergate - Using the Scandalgate Gambit is a terrible mistake, but it has already accomplished the most important goals of its fans. It has shut down any talk of rati...
2 days ago
Isidor's Fugue

Sitting With Bush in Front of a Korean Mosque - Today in South Korea I visited the Seoul Central Mosque. Seoul's only mosque and the neighborhood around it provide an opportunity to learn more about the ...
2 days ago
Fei Chang Dao

News Sites and Weibos Censor Information About Kunming Anti-PX Protests - On May 10, 2013, the state-sponsored China Daily's web site published an article entitled "Public Opinion Decisive in Kunming's PX Project." An excerpt: CNP...
2 days ago
China Law and Practice Home

Circular on Issues Relevant to the Regulation of the Investment and Acquisition of Equity Stakes in Insurance Companies by Limited Equity Investment Partnerships - The capital contribution or shareholding of each PE partnership may not exceed 5% of a single insurance company.
2 days ago
The Faculty Lounge

Looking For Uncle Leo: The Film - My great-uncle Leo was deported to his death in Poland from Würzburg, Germany, on April 25, 1942. It turns out that the Nazis commissioned a film of the depo...
2 days ago
Chinese Law Prof Blog

Compulsory "legal education" as a substitute for Re-education Through Labor? - The Dui Hua Foundation has an interesting article on its web site about local authorities' newfound enthusiasm for legal education - this time, of the compul...
3 days ago
Mass Tort Litigation Blog

Distributive Justice in Action - There is a very nice, lauditory article on Kenneth Feinberg in the New York Times today: "One Man Disperses Charity After Tragedy in Boston." The interesting...
3 days ago
Torts Today

Full Text: Progress in China's Human Rights in 2012 (5) - CHINA - Globaltimes.cn - Everything said in this new official report is true. But the infrastructure - the agencies and institutions - charged with enforcing and realizing the com...
4 days ago
Baseline Scenario

If the Fed Knows Banks Are Too Big, Why Doesn’t It Make Them Smaller? - By James Kwak The Federal Reserve is serious—about something. On May 2, The Wall Street Journal reported that regulators were pushing to require “very larg...
4 days ago
Professional Responsibility: A Contemporary Approach | a legal ethics blog

Feds should disclose all “favorable evidence” – Green - Feds should disclose all “favorable evidence” – Green rompted by the disclosure that U.S. Justice Department lawyers hid favorable evidence from the defens...
4 days ago
Global Environmental Law

Nanjing Conference, Global CO2 Levels Hit 400ppm, Chinese Enforcement & Tesla Delivery (by Bob Percival) - On Monday and Tuesday May 6-7, I participated in a conference on “The Performance of Environmental Governance Systems: Comparing America and China.” The c...
6 days ago
Skritter Blog | Developing the Best Chinese and Japanese Practice Tool

Interview with Julien Leyre from Marco Polo Project - [image: author photo]I first stumbled upon Marco Polo Project (MPP from here on in) a little over a year ago and knew instantly that I would be spending lo...
1 week ago
China IPR - Intellectual Property Developments in China

USTR IPR Position Open For Applicants - The Office of the US Trade Representative has an opening for an IP position that closes May 20, 2013. The position is described here: https://www.usajobs.g...
1 week ago
FactCheck.org

May 10: Gitmo, Religion in Military, 9/11 Attack -
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Topolog

Fish oils to prevent CHD . . . it's now official: A definite "no go" - 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 week ago
Everyone's Blog Posts - Study More Chinese

Hot on Weibo: 白宫请愿网 Whitehouse petition website - 白宫请愿网（We the People）近日*爆红*网络，各种*靠谱*不靠谱的“*请愿*“让人大跌眼镜，”请给我一个媳妇“，”请判定*豆腐脑* 是咸的“，”请给我加*工资*“。网友调侃奥巴马即将被玩坏。白宫请愿网是美国总统奥巴马推行的，若有民众请愿在1个月内获得超过10万人签名，政府将对此进行* 官方回应*。...
1 week ago
China Law & Policy

DC Event: The End of Re-education Through Labor? – May 9 - Like many aspects of the Chinese legal system, “Re-Education Through Labor” (RTL) is a frequently-used anachronism, leaving outsiders scratching their head...
1 week ago
On Lawyering

The Tyrannical Beauty of Time Keeping — Selling Your Life in 6 Minute Increments — Part II - It seems like all I have to do is begin what I intend as a series of posts, and my practice gets so busy, that I can’t get back to it. More than a year tha...
1 week ago
Juvenile Justice Blog

To Defend a Terrorist: Reflections on Reid, Tsarnaev & How I Got from There to Here - Since my last post, I’ve been occupied with putting myself out there (via print, radio & cable news) to share the message that even those charged with the ...
2 weeks ago
The Legal Whiteboard

Why to Believe in Others - Below is 1972 video of Viktor Frankel, a renowned psychologist and author best known for his book, Man's Search for Meaning. Frankel's greatest accomplishmen...
3 weeks 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...
2 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...
2 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...
3 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、...
4 months ago
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...
4 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...
4 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 months ago
RSN = Reader Supported News

American Autumn: An Occudoc (Official Trailer) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeMbERJggt4
10 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...
11 months 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
WTC HERO Blog

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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