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Nobody Puts Scalia in a Corner 27 Jun 2013 | 04:15 am
March’s SCOTUS oral arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor unsurprisingly became a focal point for my constitutional law course at the University of Arizona this past semeste...
Climate Change in the Southwest: Should we stay or should we go? 4 May 2013 | 02:42 am
The University of Arizona’s Institute of the Environment released its Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States this week. At an event entitled Climate Change and the Tucson Region:...
Education Reform: Back to Bologna 5 Feb 2013 | 08:32 pm
The university as we know it today came to us from Italy. There, in the northern city of Bologna, the idea first found its footing roughly a thousand years ago. In the 11th century, Italian scholars o...
Mind the Gap 17 Dec 2012 | 09:12 am
Last week, the Bureau of Reclamation released its Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study. According to the study the gap between available water from the Colorado and demand for water will...
Economics, Poker, Baseball, and Politics 9 Nov 2012 | 02:50 am
An unmissable subplot to the 2012 presidential election season goes by the name Nate Silver. His public $2,000 bet to Joe Scarborough that Obama would win reelection was just a tiny sliver of what was...
Water Security, Risk and Society: Oxford Conference Notes 3 May 2012 | 09:48 pm
Last month, I attended the University of Oxford’s first International Water Security Conference. The breadth of presentations, held over three days, made it a challenge to distill a single set of conc...
Reflections on the Dust Bowl 1 Feb 2012 | 07:22 am
I’ve been reading Daniel Worster’s Dust Bowl, a classic on the massive dust storms which hit the Southern Plains in the 1930s. Worster presents the dust bowl as a product of economic and cultural forc...
Law and Complexity Science 31 Dec 2011 | 12:41 pm
For the last post of the year, I thought I’d make available something that I’ve been playing around with this semester at Sciences Po. After reading some law journal articles analyzing the common law ...
Law as Social Science 28 Nov 2011 | 05:24 am
The New York Times editorialized this weekend on the need for reforms to the legal education system–mainly a shift from theoretical to more practical training–while making some uncharacteristically st...
Why Law School and Bar Exams are Necessary, and why Economists–Ceteris Paribus–Lack an Informed Opinion 26 Oct 2011 | 12:01 am
Clifford Winston, an economist at the Brookings Institution, published a nice and neat op-ed today in the New York Times on the economic benefits of wholly deregulating the legal industry in the Unite...
