The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

One of the periodic themes of this journal is that the reality of power is everywhere and always messy. I have described my conception that ...

The standard mythology of the right is that the constitution established separation of powers and limited government. By restricting the pow...

I cannot for the life of me understand why courts still award alimony. Not child support - that still mostly makes sense in principle, tho...

1. The decision itself can be found here . Have you read it, even if only briefly? Did it occur to you to even search for it? Have you read ...

How might brands work if there's no intellectual property protection? Ordinarily, it's hard to know. Most works are protected...

File this one under “it’s probably still a bad idea, but it’s not clear exactly why”. The idea of a hedge is to take steps that are (t...

-First and foremost, read the damn decision . Otherwise you'll be one of those absolutely insufferable people who view every court decis...

The US Supreme Court is currently considering arguments for and against gay marriage. In the prognosticating about what was going to happen...

Over at Hacker News comes another story of patent trolls at PersonalWeb trying to use the legal system to extort money out of a company that...

So I'm about half way through the Obamacare ruling - so far, I've gotten through the Roberts opinion and the Ginsburg opinion. My t...

So Obamacare is constitutional . I'm going to swallow my own advice and refrain from commenting on the substance of the case until I&...

File this one under 'Positive, Not Normative'. I think not nearly enough people give any thought to plausible psychology when inte...

The story of Brett Kimberlin is a very scary one about how the American legal system can be used as a weapon to silence criticism. You can r...

The Columbia Law Review is set to publish an article alleging that Texas executed an innocent man  in 1989, Carlos DeLuna. He was convicted ...

If there's one thing that raises conservative ire, it's activist judges striking down [conservative] democratically elected laws bas...