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I now contribute to the Chicago-Kent Law Blog. My latest post is a review of a law review article written by my Constitutional Law professor. My first post was about a conference at our school covering Michael Crichton’s book Next.
Mark D. Rosen of Chicago-Kent College of Law recently published an article titled Was Shelley v. Kraemer Incorrectly Decided? Some New Answers, 95 Cal. L. Rev. 451 (2007), which won the 2006 Outstanding Scholarly Paper Award from the Association of American Law Schools. Professor Rosen is a Norman & Edna Freehling Scholar and respected constitutional … Read more
On Monday, May 21, 2007, the Institute for Science, Law & Technology, at the Illinois Institute of Technology held a conference titled Who Owns Your Body? Legal and Social Issues in Michael Crichton’s NEXT. Lori Andrews, the Director of the Institute and a Distinguished Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, convened the conference … Read more
We witnessed a tragedy this month. Don Imus called the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos”. Al Sharpton, and others, said he was racist, got upset, and demanded he be fired. Imus apologized, a lot, and went on Sharpton’s radio show to apologize – again. Imus was suspended. People were still angry. Imus was … Read more
The British Royal Air Force (“RAF”) says that some fighter pilots may have to kill themselves by ramming their plane into “a vehicle carrying a Taliban or al Qaeda commander.” The RAF believes that the British people respect the military because warriors have to make hard decisions like this. In the movie Red Dawn, the … Read more
Christopher Hitchens from Slate.com is proud that his support of the Iraq War has never wavered. In this piece, he does a pretty good job of explaining why we should support the war. It’s so good, that the White House should hire him. But, he is still wrong. He thinks it was scandalous that Iraq … Read more
Lou Dobbs wrote an editorial on CNN.com recently that has some serious flaws. Dobbs: Democratic hacks embrace lunacy of amnesty. First, he spends most of the article calling people names. One has to read through all of the following before he stops insulting people and starts talking about the issue of illegal immigration.· “Democratic hacks”· … Read more
One of the skills we are supposed to learn in law school is how to find inconsistencies in arguments. When taken to extremes, people say we are nit-picking. Please tell me if I am nit-picking John McCain or if these are serious logical errors. Everything comes from this article:MSNBC: McCain fears ‘Tet Offensive’ in Iraq … Read more
From a recent article: SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. Dec 1, 2006 (AP)— A grandmother found with a trunkful of marijuana was convicted of drug running in what prosecutors said was an attempt to earn cash for a bingo habit. Grandma was addicted to bingo. Yes, addicted – New Scientist reported on research showing that it is … Read more
McCain said some silly things today: We left Vietnam. It was over. We just had to heal the wounds of war. We leave this place, chaos in the region, and they’ll follow us home. . . . [I]t’s not the end when American troops leave. The battleground shifts, and we’ll be fighting them again. You … Read more