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Steven Eagle on Eminent Domain 27 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
Steven Eagle, George Mason University law school professor, appeared today on C-SPAN’s morning show (39 mins @ 34:50) discussing the origins of eminent domain and its drastic expansion prior to and fo...
Pensions or Bust 27 Aug 2013 | 06:39 pm
On and off, I’ve obsessed over public pensions and retirement costs, and about the menace posed by unfunded liabilities to state and local governments. Now, I’ve come across the Arnold Foundation’s we...
Last Year’s Higher Education Reform by the Obama Administration 27 Aug 2013 | 05:26 pm
President Obama’s proposal to address the rising costs and other problems of higher education has occasioned a fair bit of commentary. (See for example this interview with Richard Vedder.) Relatively...
Facebook’s Class Act 26 Aug 2013 | 06:18 pm
My buddy Ted Frank founded and runs the Center for Class Action Fairness. (Disclosure: I am a member of CCAF’s Board of Directors.) CCAF’s mission is to blow up collusive class actions and settlements...
Reforming Class Action Abuse 26 Aug 2013 | 05:38 pm
This Liberty Law Talk is with Ted Frank on reforming class action litigation and, in particular, the settlements plaintiffs receive under the current system. Frank, the founder of the Center for Class...
A Bridge Too Far: Reverse Incorporation 26 Aug 2013 | 05:25 pm
Over at Prawfsblog, Kurt Lash has a post on Incorporation of the Establishment Clause. Kurt did pioneering work on this issue back in the day, work which is rightly esteemed. In the first part of hi...
America Must Be On America’s Side 25 Aug 2013 | 09:15 pm
Our Ruling class is at odds about how to respond to the Middle East warring factions’ threats and blandishments because it has forgotten US foreign policy’s basic principle – we are on America’s side ...
The Fallacies of Marshallian Nationalism 25 Aug 2013 | 03:43 pm
In this spirited polemic, Prof. Sotirios Barber defends the American nationalist constitutional tradition, particularly the thought of John Marshall, from the attacks of both states’ rights advocates ...
Straussian Civil Wars 25 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
A seemingly esoteric academic debate bursts forth in the Book Review of the Sunday New York Times that ought to turn us to the most significant political books of our times. The war between the West a...
War by Fiat: A Response to Stephen Knott 24 Aug 2013 | 04:34 pm
A Reply to Steve Knott Proponents of the Global War on Terror are often quick to instruct us that terrorism represents a new threat demanding new thinking—both tactically and legally—except, that is,...
