The Supreme Court blocks the Prop. 8 trial from being aired , and Professor Orin Kerr offers some interesting thoughts on the decision here .
Professor Matthew J. Franck on the health care reform bill and conservative “judicial activism.”
The Supremes may know the law, but the NFL? Not so much .
Judge Posner on ” causation .” ( Via HJB )
The Oxford word of the year: ” unfriend .”
Are there too many lawyers and law schools?
Professor Steven Douglas Smith has a fascinating new essay available on SSRN, entitled ” Originalism and the (Merely) Human Constitution .” ( Via Legal Thory Blog )
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