Category Archives: Law

NYP: Co-founders of ‘compassionate’ LA law firm resign after vile, sexist emails exposed

I suspect the overall moral quality of these two men’s lives is no worse than their peers. They just like to blow off steam. Everybody says horrible things in private. This is no big deal. These two men were stupid … Continue reading

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SMH: Let’s draw a line through a bill of rights

James Allan is Garrick Professor of Law at Queensland University. He writes in the Sydney Morning Herald Sep. 6, 2005: Compare the constitutional structures of Canada and Australia. Both are federal systems. Both share the English common law tradition, the … Continue reading

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Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy

Here are some highlights from this 2022 book by journalist and professor Amy Gajda: * [Alexander] Hamilton’s response to it all was a ninety-five-page booklet complaining about his own loss of privacy. He found “mortifying disappointment” in Callender’s “Scandal-Club” publication … Continue reading

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RBG

Comments at Steve Sailer: * Ginsburg is so damn overrated. If she was a man with the exact same record he would be known as a CRUSHING BORE. A plodder. * At the time she was nominated, Alan Dershowitz criticised … Continue reading

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LAT: By easing its bar exam score, will California produce more Black and Latino lawyers?

The Los Angeles Times suggests that reducing standards will allow for more diversity. Report: For more than three decades, California has clung to one of the nation’s toughest testing standards for law school students hoping to practice law in the … Continue reading

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