Nijman on Leibniz on Relative Sovereignty & International Legal Personality
Janne Elisabeth Nijman (Amsterdam Center for International Law - University of Amsterdam) has psoted Leibniz’s Theory of Relative Sovereignty and International Legal Personality: Justice and Stability or the Last Great Defense of the Holy Roman Empire on SSRN. Here is...
Posted on: 11 March 2010 | 7:18 am, Author: Lawrence Solum
Responding To Expanding Employment Discrimination Protections Under New York Law
Mike Weber and Bruce Millman wrote an interesting Jan. 29, 2010 article for the New York Law Journal about responding to expanding discrimination charges before the NYC and NYS Division of Human Rights. As the article points out, New York...
Posted on: 11 March 2010 | 7:01 am, Author: Adjunct LawProfs
EEOC Sues Kelley Drye for Age Bias Over Compensation System
The New York Law Journal reported on Jan. 29, 2009 that the EEOC is suing the large NYC law firm of Kelley Drye for age discrimination. As the article explains: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Kelley Drye & Warren...
Posted on: 11 March 2010 | 7:00 am, Author: Adjunct LawProfs
Chief Justice Roberts Questions Whether Supreme Court Should Attend State of The Union
White House Spars With Chief Justice is an interesting March 10, 2010 article from the N.Y. Times Blog. It is about the President's criticism of the Court during his State of the Union Address. The article describes recent remarks by...
Posted on: 11 March 2010 | 7:00 am, Author: Adjunct LawProfs
Court Defines Disquailfying Misconduct For Unemployment Purposes
Matter of Cedrone v. Commissioner of Labor, ___A.D3d___(3rd Dept. Jan. 28, 2010), is an interesting case. The court holds that a teacher who left a student behind in a fire drill committed misconduct even though no harm was done and...
Posted on: 11 March 2010 | 7:00 am, Author: Adjunct LawProfs
Speedy Recovery to Michael Froomkin
Apologies for my even-lighter-than-usual blogging of late. I've been trying to manage a few different submissions and projects while enjoying a slight reprieve here in glorious Seaside before heading to Phoenix for this conference at ASU put together by Doug Sylvester, who may be yet another Canadian in the American prawf ranks... Anyway, I'm writing to share some good news. Those of you who don't read UMiami Prof. Michael Froomkin's quirky and interesting blog, Discourse.net, might not have known that Michael's had quite the health scare, and thankfully, he is on the mend according to two recent blog posts from...
Posted on: 11 March 2010 | 5:37 am, Author: Dan Markel
Engle on the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Eric Engle (Harvard University - Harvard Law School and Universität Bremen) has posted The Convention on the Rights of the Child on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) presents lofty goals for...
Posted on: 11 March 2010 | 3:22 am, Author: Lawrence Solum
Monica Conyers gets 37-month federal sentence (and creates some great appeal issues)
This Detroit News piece, which is headlined "Angry Conyers vows to appeal 37-month prison sentence," suggests a high-profile federal sentencing today a political bribery case includes some interesting in-court action. Here are the highlights: Former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers...
Posted on: 11 March 2010 | 2:26 am, Author: Doug B.
Marion Jones adds another notable reentry story to the sports pages
I enjoy following the post-sentencing fates of celebrity felons because they provide a great example of the willingness of society to give persons who can generate revenue a second chance. Thus, I was intrigued and pleased to see this AP...
Posted on: 11 March 2010 | 2:08 am, Author: Doug B.
Lots of notable new sentencing notes in the Notre Dame Law Review
The Notre Dame Law Review will always have an extra warm stop in my professional heart because it published my first big sentencing piece about departures over a decade ago. Now, thanks to a helpful reader, I have now leared...
Posted on: 11 March 2010 | 2:00 am, Author: Doug B.
NYU Journal of Law and Liberty: Justice Thomas Symposium
The New York University Journal of Law and Liberty has published the Symposium on Justice Clarence Thomas. Authors are Professor Nicole Garnett (Notre Dame), Professor Gregory Maggs (George Washington), Judge David Sentelle, (Chief Judge, D.C. Circuit), Professor Stephen F. Smith...
Posted on: 11 March 2010 | 12:25 am, Author: Adjunct LawProfs
Robinson on Complementarity
Darryl Robinson (Queen's University (Canada)) has posted The Mysterious Mysteriousness of Complementarity on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article explores an unusual interpretive disconnect in the discourse on complementarity, and shows how that disconnect is obscuring the most important...
Posted on: 11 March 2010 | 12:25 am, Author: Lawrence Solum
The Legal A-to-Z Cure
In yesterday's New York Times, the cartoonist Roz Chast explained that she combats insomnia by generating lists of diseases in alphabetical order. Her poster of diseases, including zombiosis, is pretty phenomenal. See Roz Chast, The A-to-Z Cure. I believe Chast's insomnia cure could readily be converted for use by lawyers. I already am imagining what a Torts version would look like. Assault, Battery, Comparative Fault, Defamation, Economic Loss Rule, False Imprisonment, . . .
Posted on: 10 March 2010 | 10:56 pm, Author: Lyrissa Lidsky
"The Radicalism of Legal Positivism"
This is the penultimate version of an essay that will appear in the special 'legal theory' issue of the National Lawyers Guild's Guild Practitioner. It is written with a non-specialist audience in mind, so may be of interest to some...
Posted on: 10 March 2010 | 10:26 pm, Author: Brian Leiter
The Best-Selling Book of All Time?
Probably not; there are no broody teen vampires in it. But I am still proud and pleased to announce the publication of Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality, edited by the indefatigable Austin Sarat and published by Cambridge University Press. Here's a description: It is widely recognized that times of national emergency put legality to its greatest test. In such times we rely on sovereign power to rescue us, to hold the danger at bay. Yet that power can and often does threaten the values of legality itself. Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality examines law's complex relationship to sovereign power and emergency conditions. It puts...
Posted on: 10 March 2010 | 7:16 pm, Author: Paul Horwitz
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