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Health Care Reform

March 15, 2010 03:27

A Harvard Law student wrote a worthwhile post on Law & Mind a few weeks ago about some of the dynamics behind the health care debate.  Here is an excerpt. * * * How should an institution inspire collective action?  What’s the best strategy?  The conventional wisdom is that to solve a collective ...

The Stagnation of the Common Law of Property(?)

March 14, 2010 21:01

I just finished my seventh and final "property year in review" article for the Indiana Law Review. Each year, I abstract and comment on "noteworthy" decisions in Indiana property law or new statutes. Since this year is my last article,...

Banning Laptops in Class

Russell Brown
March 14, 2010 16:07

Now there's a tagline that should garner some attention. One of Georgetown Law's professors has done this. Imagine. Instead of students trying to create a transcript of their instructor's lecture, they listen, making (as students used to make) occasional notes...Now there's a tagline that should...

Mahoney on the Tension Between Positive and Negative Rights in Eminent Domain

March 14, 2010 14:48

Bran Frederick Mahoney, a student at George Mason, has posted The Greater Good or Property Rights? Resolving the Tension between Positive and Negative Rights in Eminent Domain on SSRN. Here's the abstract: This paper examines the background of takings law...

Koller: "Government as God: An Update on Federal Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns "

March 14, 2010 14:23

Dionne Koller (University of Baltimore School of Law) has posted "Government as God: An Update on Federal Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns" (forthcoming New England L. Rev.) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Whether a severely impaired...

Patty Salkin

Patricia E. Salkin
March 14, 2010 05:10

After the defendant was cited for violating the town code by maintaining more than one mobile home on his property, he appealed, claiming that at the time the town code was adopted, he had maintained two mobile homes on his property for approximately seven years.  Further, at the time the town ...

Slot Allocation at Congested Airports

March 13, 2010 20:56

For blog readers fluent in Portugese, Alessandro V.M. Oliveira of the Latin American Center for Transportation Economics has a new article on airport slots available online. See Slot Allocation at Congested Airports and Its Impacts on Airline Market Power, 4...

thesituationist

March 13, 2010 20:38

Situationist Contributor was recently interviewed by Big Think.  Here is his answer to the following questions: “What is wrong with our legal system’s notion of human behavior?”; and “What led you to study the link between law and cognition?” * * * * * * For a sample ...

$30k for Nursing the Wrong Child?

March 13, 2010 17:54

That is the amount of damages a Chicago couple is seeking for briefly being given the wrong baby at the hospital following delivery in a story resembling the latest episode of The Office. From the Chicago Sun-Times: The day after...

Burns Institute State Map of Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC)

March 13, 2010 16:54

The Haywood Burns institute, a San Francisco-based national nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of youth of color has created a State Map of Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) to quantify Disproportionate Minority Contact on a state-by-state basis. DMC includes measuring the...