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Paul Horwitz

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The Employee Free Choice Act

Paul Horwitz
January 04, 2009 05:06

Those of us teaching Labor Law last semester had a rare treat: a proposal to amend the National Labor Relations Act, in a significant way, made the news. Students brought it up on their own, presidential candidates were discussing it, and my own friends and colleagues were asking me about it. I say...

The future of legislative appointments

Paul Horwitz
January 04, 2009 03:45

The pathology that is Rod Blagojevich to one side, we are going through a rare period in which federal legislative appointments (i.e., gubernatorial appointments to fill vacant seats in Congress) are in the public eye. Four seats (NY, Illinois, Delaware, and Colorado) have become vacant...

To thine own self be true?

Paul Horwitz
January 04, 2009 03:34

If you injure someone in self-defense, do you then have a duty to aid him? A student asked me this, which got me thinking ... if I were to get the jump on Jason Voorhees before he was able to cleave me in half with his ax, leaving him mortally wounded (but not irretrievably so), would I need to...

Law School Hiring Thread, Part II: Callbacks/Offers Phase

Paul Horwitz
January 03, 2009 23:20

Here's some of the info agglomerated so far from here. Please use the comments to this thread as a place to share info about callbacks and offers for the law teaching market. And feel free to note any errors and omissions. Please note that I have been updating the information based on compilations...

Fictionalizing the Shoah, or Why tenure remains important

Paul Horwitz
January 03, 2009 21:26

I came late to the story of Herman and Roma Rosenblat, two survivors of the Shoah (he at Schlieben, a sub-camp of Buchenwald, she pretending to be Christian and living on a nearby farm). The tale they told for a decade until last weekend is that during seven months in the winter of 1945, Roma (then...