Commentary

  • The Recorder

    Death Comes for the Avatar

    By William W. Bedsworth | December 22, 2008

    My first-year criminal law professor spent a great deal of time—an inordinate amount of time, I thought then—on the philosophy of punishment. I was a lot more confident

  • Legal Times

    Boom!

    By Evan P. Schultz | September 4, 2006

    For all the Democrats wondering what to do the next time Republican senators threaten to launch the "nuclear opt

  • Legal Times

    A Microwave Molested One Day at 7-Eleven

    By William W. Bedsworth | November 13, 2006

    By 1992, I had completed a fairly successful career as a prosecutor and had spent five years on the bench. Most of my judicial work was in criminal law, where I had some background to dr

  • Legal Times

    Remembering When We Were Bachelors of the Law

    By Charles Reich | December 24, 2007

    Dear Sarah,Your father tells me you started a job at Cravath, Swaine & Moore earlier this fall. Perhaps you are aware that I spent some of my formative years at that firm

  • Legal Times

    Condemn Bad Assets

    By Alan B. Morrison | February 23, 2009

    Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s rescue proposal on Feb. 10 met with a resounding thud on Wall Street and elsewhere. There can be any number of explanations

  • Legal Times

    Split the Difference

    By Daniel J. Meador | August 28, 2006

    The long-running debate over the 9th Circuit can be broken down into two questions: Should the circuit be split? If so, how?br

  • Legal Times

    Not Just Harvard

    By Daniel J. Meador | March 30, 2009

    If diversity in public institutions is a good thing, as most Americans seem to think, President Barack Obama needs to take a close look at the Supreme Court’s diversity when

  • Legal Times

    Don't Demonize China

    By Antonio F. Perez | December 1, 2008

    It’s actually fairly easy to say what the Obama administration should not do in international law. Doing nothing in foreign policy is usually better than doing something. So

  • Legal Times

    The Laws That Misfire

    By Don B. Kates | August 7, 2006

    The District of Columbia is now suffering from what its police chief on July 11 called a "crime emergency."In 1976 the District banned handguns and required that all other guns b

  • Legal Times

    My Islam Is Better Than Yours

    By Eric L. Lewis | November 5, 2007

    Grab them by the beards, and their hearts and minds will follow: Thus has Maj. Gen. Douglas Stone, who oversees thousands of detainees in Iraq, updated a below-the-belt epigram from the

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