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Category Archives: Law
Trump vs Big Law
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would read Trump vs Big Law as a clash between two rival elite coordination systems competing to define legitimacy, loyalty, and the rules of power. Big Law’s alliance role. Large law firms sit at the center … Continue reading
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Trump’s ‘Illegal’ Raid On Venezuela
Why the fixation with the legality of Trump’s attack on Venezuela? You only get war when normal politics don’t work. This fixation with legal vs illegal wars of “illegal war” is a product of the Marxist-Leninist DNA of the 1947 … Continue reading
The Credential Society: An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification
Randall Collins writes in this 1979 book: * A better explanation of professionals’ altruistic codes of ethics is that they are defenses against the potential distrust of their clients (Wilensky, 1964).5 An occupation that monopolizes an important skill and reserves … Continue reading
Science vs Law
Gemini says: To the American Psychological Association (APA), dueling experts are not a feature designed for profit, but rather an unavoidable friction point between two different systems: the scientific method (which seeks consensus) and the adversarial legal system (which seeks … Continue reading
WP: ‘Justice is not meant to be a luxury good’
WP: Max Raskin is a fellow and adjunct professor of law at New York University School of Law. He is a co-founder of Uris Acquisitions. He writes: The bar exam, the Law School Admission Test and law school itself are … Continue reading
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Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social Thinker
Stephen Turner wrote in this 2020 book: The law lends itself to characterization as a world constituting conceptual structure. The list of “facts” admissible in a court of law are different from the facts as we ordinarily think of them … Continue reading
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WSJ: The Former Insurance Lawyer Trump Picked to Take On Comey
I recall the MSM has long mocked the incompetence of Trump’s lawyers. It revels in pointing out their mistakes and their good looks. And yet Trump is the most powerful man in the world, so maybe he’s been better served … Continue reading
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Why The Supreme Court Might Uphold Trump’s Tariffs
Trump tariffs and trade deals might be good for America. On the face of the law, however, Trump’s tariffs appear illegal just like Obamacare. ChatGPT says: Chief Justice Roberts’ approach in NFIB v. Sebelius (2012) shows how the Court sometimes … Continue reading
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NYT: Someone Is Defying the Supreme Court, but It Isn’t Trump
Adrian Vermeule writes in the NYT: Since President Trump returned to the presidency for a second term, legal scholars and political writers have wrestled with a particular preoccupation: What if he defies court orders? When actual examples of the administration … Continue reading
The Rise of the “National Class” and Populist Backlash
I love this 1999 Paul Carrington book, Stewards Of Democracy: Law As Public Profession, and I asked ChatGPT to help me apply its insights to hot button issues in the news: Elite institutions—universities, courts, corporations—feel increasingly detached, like moral commissars … Continue reading