Arguments and Opinions
The Importance of the Afterlife. Seriously.
I believe in life after death. No, I don’t think that I will live on as a conscious being after my earthly demise. I’m firmly convinced that...
Defining Richard Epstein
To place Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law Richard Epstein on the political spectrum, just consider the titles of some of the columns he has written over...
Leading Questions
The transformation of the Internet into a market of user-generated content has had some unintended consequences. In a February 2014 Atlantic article, “Our Best Weapon Against Revenge...
Keeping Close
My grandmother was the daughter of people who were enslaved in Caroline County, Virginia. She was born in the 1880s, her parents in the 1840s. Her father...
The Second Amendment is One Sentence:
For 218 years, judges overwhelmingly concluded that the amendment authorized states to form militias, what we now call the National Guard. As late as 1992, Chief...
Workplace IDs
With a diversity and inclusion officer posted at most major companies, bias in the workplace would seem a thing of the past. And yet, only one...
The Consigliere of Mafia Prosecutions
The catalogue of James B. Jacobs’s organized crime books is infused with a subtle sense of aggravated wonder about the criminal achievements of the Mafia. But...
Legal Shelter from the Storm
After hurricane sandy devastated significant areas of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut in October 2012, many homeowners were unable to repair or sell and faced...
Judging the Nudge
It started with lunch at a Japanese restaurant on West Third Street and ended with a co-authored article in the Harvard Law Review that has prompted...
Correcting Corrections
With her expertise in both administrative and criminal law, Rachel Barkow has a unique perspective on the criminal justice system. She has used an administrative law...
Presidential Practice
In this year’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared, “Wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more...
What’s the (Fair) Use?
The latest incarnation of the Internet—Web to consider the relation between the aesthetic and 2.0—is the phenomenon of user-generated content. Pop culture consumers three decades ago...
Across Borders, Whose Law Applies?
At the intersection of private international law and legal and political philosophy is the question of how courts can legitimately apply a foreign law domestically. If...
An Ingenious Way to Own the News?
Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb LLM ’14 managed to intertwine several scholarly passions into one book. The International Distribution of News: The Associated Press, Press Association, and Reuters, 1848-1947,...
Words of Wisdom
Maimonides: Life and Thought by Gruss Professor of Law Moshe Halbertal won the 2013 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship and was critically acclaimed as “an...
Good Reads
View a comprehensive list of faculty scholarship (PDF) published between January 2013 and June 2014. Books Anthony G. Amsterdam, Martin Guggenheim & Randy Hertz, Trial Manual for...
