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I've been tagged by Liberal War Journal . It's one of those "random facts" memes. I have three friends in the room to remi...

From The Archives helps Berkeley Law School out with some potential public statements on why torture-architect John Yoo remains on faculty....

Remarking on the burgeoning electoral crisis in Zimbabwe, Matt Yglesias writes: One would hope that, at this point, some good might come of...

Orin Kerr links to a story of a New York federal judge who, bucking long-standing precedent, is now holding that jurors need to be informe...

Well, I got turned down from that job I interviewed for (to be fair, I walked out of the interview thinking "Gosh, did I ever bomb tha...

Newly elected Rep. Brad Carson (D-IN) has now become the second Muslim in Congress, after Keith Ellison. Ed Stattmann approvingly comments ...

I like this Matthew Yglesias post, because it implies that the only reason he's even bothering to engage with a lightweight like Mark K...

Jack Balkin links to a Vanity Fair article pointing out that, even though the Military Commissions Act insulates our interrogators from do...

I don't know why this always works, but it does : I decided to go up to the young female students who were passing out their "genoc...

The Comics Curmudgeon reflects on grad school: "When I was in graduate school, my roommate and I decided to celebrate some minor life ...

What is it with the Maryland judiciary? Normally, I love my home state . But for some reason, our courts seem utterly incapable of acknowle...

Here . Via Rachel's Tavern .

A few days ago, I wrote a post on what I termed "quiet injustices" -- things that pretty clearly implicate questions of ethics an...

Continuing to demonstrate that she's smarter than most other human beings, Samantha Power had this to say about the UN in a recent inte...

Continuing once again on the theme of Black Conservatism , I thought this CNN story (it links to a video report) might be of interest. The...

There are many arguably unjust aspects about American society. Some of them are quite hotly debated in the public arena, but others seem to ...

I'm flying back to Carleton tomorrow (well, today, but in college a day doesn't end until you sleep). Nothing new, obviously, except...

At the American Prospect , Dana Goldstein has a good article up on the debate over establishing afrocentric schools in Toronto, Canada. Tho...

That anyone, much less a respected law professor , would consider citing to an Ann Coulter column in discussions of bigotry and prejudice li...

From Iris Marion Young, Inclusion and Democracy (Oxford: Oxford UP 2000): Onora O'Neill...argues that people (and perhaps some other cr...