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Utilitarianism, Philanthropy and the Act/Omission Distinction 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
By Mike Dorf Professor Buchanan's post on Friday problematized a recent NY Times column by Peter Singer that I also found problematic--but my chief difficulty with Singer's analysis is somewhat diffe...
Producing Moral People 23 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
-- Posted by Neil H. Buchanan One of the recurring themes of my Dorf on Law posts has been the meaninglessness of the concept of "economic (or Pareto) efficiency." I have attempted to explain why th...
What Made George H.W. Bush a Law Follower? 22 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
By Mike Dorf In my latest Verdict column, I discuss the Obama Administration's continued refusal to declare that the July coup in Egypt was a coup. As most readers probably know, such a determinatio...
The Need to Blame: Taking Account of Victims Without Perpetrators 21 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
by Sherry F. Colb In my Verdict column for this week, I discuss Floyd v. City of New York, a decision from Judge Shira Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, hol...
Would the Oklahoma Ban on Foreign Law Survive if Challenged on its Own?--And a Digression on the Meaning of the Sharia Ban 20 Aug 2013 | 04:46 pm
By Mike Dorf In yesterday's post, I discussed the severability analysis in Awad v. Ziriax. The federal district court invalidated Oklahoma's ban on judicial application of sharia and went on to find...
A Federal District Judge Rightly Invalidates Oklahoma's Idiotic Ban on Sharia Law, But Did She Err With Respect to Severability? 19 Aug 2013 | 04:27 pm
By Mike Dorf Last week, in Awad v. Ziriax, Federal District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange ruled that Oklahoma's ban on sharia law--approved by the state legislature and the voters in 2010--is unconstitu...
The Affirmative Case for Significant Income and Wealth Redistribution 16 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
-- Posted by Neil H. Buchanan Every year, I write a column for Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots), an online journal that began publication in late 2009. Writers on Jotwell are assigned t...
A Very Back-Handed, But Sincere, Apology to Secretary Geithner 15 Aug 2013 | 06:45 pm
-- Posted by Neil H. Buchanan My new Verdict column today discusses (not in this order) Al Gore, Danny Ainge, Tim Geithner, and the IRS non-scandal scandal. The unifying idea is that some falsehoods...
A-Rod, Forfeiture and a Due Process Attack on Financial Incentives for Overzealous Law Enforcement 14 Aug 2013 | 09:18 am
By Mike Dorf My latest Verdict column uses the A-Rod saga as an occasion for considering the circumstances under which a judge orders a party to do something--go to prison based on a criminal convict...
Almost Literally the Least I Can Do to Support the Israel/Palestine Peace Process 13 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
By Mike Dorf Tomorrow, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resume peace talks. As part of his assiduous efforts leading to these talks, Secretary of State John Kerry called for American Jews to expr...
