http://volokh.com/ The Volokh Conspiracy, an academic blog. en-us 2009-07-03T23:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246658622.shtml Patri Friedman of seasteading fame, has an interesting post reopening an old debate: whether the Declaration of Independence launched a revolution or a secession movement. This was a hotly... Ilya Somin 2009-07-03T22:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246657448.shtml Like Cathy Young, I worry that President Obama might be overly solicitous of the interests of Russia's authoritarian regime. In this respect, he could potentially repeat the mistakes of President... Ilya Somin 2009-07-03T21:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246650505.shtml according to Stan Liebowitz, reporting in the WSJ today (Friday, July 3, 2009 not sure if publicly available) on a regression analysis he conducted of home mortgage foreclosures. I wonder... Kenneth Anderson 2009-07-03T19:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246649185.shtml The African Union has decided not to cooperate with the International Criminal Court, which has indicted Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, for crimes against humanity. The African Union has 53 members,... Eric Posner 2009-07-03T19:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246642455.shtml That's the title of this week's Independence Day cover story in the Boulder Weekly. Among the articles which you can read on-line are a pair of pro/con essays on Second... David Kopel 2009-07-03T17:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246631380.shtml I have an op-ed on the subject in the Wall Street Journal this morning, based on my Georgetown Law Journal article.... Eugene Volokh 2009-07-03T14:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246581442.shtml That’s the question underlying my new essay, The Rise of International Criminal Law: Intended and Unintended Consequences, in the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 20, No. 2, June 2009).... Kenneth Anderson 2009-07-03T00:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246570979.shtml there lay a mysterious cipher -- a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now." That's the start of a very interesting article in Wall Street Journal. Thanks... Eugene Volokh 2009-07-02T21:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246569713.shtml On Monday, Benjamin Wittes and Jack Goldsmith had an op-ed in the Washington Post arguing that the Obama Administration should not replicate the Bush Administration's executive unilateralism in national security... Jonathan Adler 2009-07-02T21:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246569626.shtml I have been reading David Denby's book, Snark. I have some problems with that book, but they are essentially the same ones that the reviewers have talked about, viz., that... Kenneth Anderson 2009-07-02T21:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246568742.shtml The WSJ reports the cost of taxpayer funded trips by members of Congress has been increasing dramatically. Costs are up 50 percent since the Democrats took control of Congress in... Jonathan Adler 2009-07-02T21:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246566948.shtml You may recall that this is the case in which our coblogger Orin Kerr (currently on leave from the blog because of his temporary government position) participated; he has written the... Eugene Volokh 2009-07-02T20:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246564621.shtml Douglas Kmiec, who served in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel during two Republican Administrations and headed up the legal advisory team for Mitt Romney's presidential bid, will... Jonathan Adler 2009-07-02T19:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246552969.shtml If you're interested in writing about the subject — or if you want to suggest topics to incoming staffers on your law journal --check out my Implementing the Right To... Eugene Volokh 2009-07-02T16:07+00:00 http://volokh.com/posts/1246547581.shtml The Delhi High Court has held unconstitutional a colonial-era law that provides: "Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be... Dale Carpenter 2009-07-02T15:07+00:00