Robert T. Miller

The Center for Law and Religion (CLR) at St. John’s University School of Law, which is under the direction of First Things contributor Professor Mark L. Movsesian, has launched a very impressive new blog called the CLR Forum . It includes a Scholarship Roundup , which comprehensively compiles . . . . Continue Reading »

In anticipation of the tenth anniversary of September 11, Dean Reuter of the Federalist Society and John Yoo of the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Law (Boalt Hall) have assembled and published a collection of essays, Confronting Terrorism: 9-11 and the Future of American . . . . Continue Reading »

Ilya Shapiro and Caitlyn W. McCarthy, both of the Cato Institute, have a short paper in the John Marshall Law Review on the Citizens United case, addressing in particular the issue of whether corporations should count as “real persons” for First Amendment purposes. Reviewing the Supreme . . . . Continue Reading »

Many people think that CEOs of public companies are systematically overpaid. David F. Larcker and Brian Tayan, both of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, disagree. In a paper recently posted on the Social Science Research Network, they argue as follows: While it is true that . . . . Continue Reading »

Joseph Stiglitz, a winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and a professor at Columbia University, writes in Vanity Fair that income inequality in the United States has become so extreme that the people may soon rise in the streets the way they have in Tunisia and Egypt. That’s rather . . . . Continue Reading »

I love empirical confirmation of my views, especially when I wasn’t expecting it. You may recall that I recently wrote an article for On the Square defending the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association , which struck down on First Amendment grounds a . . . . Continue Reading »

Does economic competition destroy ethical behavior? I ask because I came across in my reading today this insightful short paper by Harvard economic Andrei Shleifer in which he argues that, yes, in some cases, competition destroys ethical behavior, but, in the long run, competition promotes such . . . . Continue Reading »

These pages are generally above following the likes of the Casey Anthony trial, but now that it’s over, I call to your attention a very wise editorial by Alan Dershowitz in today’s Wall Street Journal in which Professor Dershowitz explains why the result in the trial was correct. The . . . . Continue Reading »

On Monday, the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, striking down on First Amendment grounds a California statute prohibiting the sale of certain violent video games to minors without parental consent. The configuration of Justices was unusual … Continue Reading »

Here’s a story that amuses me no end. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal , Patrick J. Reilly, the president of the Cardinal Newman Society, complains about two recent decisions by regional offices of the National Labor Relations Board allowing certain professors at Catholic colleges to . . . . Continue Reading »