Commentary

  • The Recorder

    Dogs, Frogs and Compromise: Dangerous Things All

    By William W. Bedsworth | December 18, 2000

    Mark Twain once said, "Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."Based partly on my experience with animals, but mostly on my experience w

  • Alm

    Cameras Get Another Crack at the Courtroom

    By Nat Hentoff | February 16, 2000

    Floyd Abrams, who has often stood up for the First Amendment before the U.S. Supreme Court, was surprised by his latest victory. It came late last month when a state trial judge said that TV should

  • Legal Times

    Counting on the Constitution

    By James H. Johnston | April 19, 2002

    "Political Numeracy"by Michael Meyerson(W.W. Norton & Co., 221 pages, $24.95).Michael Meyerson of the University of Baltimore School of Law takes a refreshing new approa

  • National Law Journal

    Brass Tacks

    By Laurie Levenson | September 20, 2001

    How do I explain this one to my students? The day after I led my first-year criminal law class in a "hypothetical" discussion of whether ists should be allowed a cultural defense,

  • Legal Times

    What ACCA Had to Say

    By Susan Hackett | May 28, 2002

    Susan Hackett, senior vice pre and general counsel of ACCA, presented suggestions for improving the proposed rule. Her April 30 letter, excerpted below, was sent to Michael Glasser, pre

  • Daily Report Online

    One of Us?

    By Jill A. Pryor | April 14, 2008

    Is John McCain constitutionally eligible to be president of the United States? As The New York Times recently reported, the fact of Sen. McCain's birth in the Panama Canal Zone re

  • The Legal Intelligencer

    Methods of Judicial Selection:

    By Jessika M. A. Rovell | November 3, 2003

    With the 2003 judicial elections drawing closer, it is an excellent time to examine the continuing debate and practical realities of judicial selection methods. Pennsylvania is one of eight st

  • Legal Times

    Text Here to Vote

    By Evan P. Schultz | March 16, 2009

    Article I, Section 8, Clause 17. Repeat: Article I, Section 8, Clause 17. And again: Article I, Section 8, Clause 17. Pay attention because this short, neglected clause from the Co

  • Texas Lawyer

    Courts Get Wise to Harmful Secret Settlements

    By Charles Noteboom | October 11, 2002

    Can you keep a secret? Do you promise not to tell? Plaintiff sues defendant. Parties settle for an undisclosed amount. Parties seal the court record and retreat to their corners, their secret

  • New Jersey Law Journal

    Good Ruling, Bad Policy

    By Thaddeus Hoffmeister | April 10, 2006

    The majority of Americans, somewhere between 65 percent and 79 percent, support allowing gays to openly serve in the military. The minority, albeit a strong one, see gays in the milita

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