Update: As of yesterday evening, it appeared that the President would in fact sign another six-month waiver of the law requiring the US embassy to be in Jerusalem but that he would "declare" (I assume the article really means "recognize") … [Read more...]
Liberals, Leftists, the Perfect, and the Good
Here is a data point that bears on the "liberals versus leftists" stuff folks have been talking about. After the US withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the eleven remaining countries continued negotiations, and they now have … [Read more...]
Elephant Habeas Case: Steven Wise Is A Well-Intentioned Menace
Cross-posted at Letters Blogatory. At the bitter end of the Monkey Selfie case, I pointed out that the "animals are people" genre of animal rights litigation isn't just a feel-good resume builder for bright 2Ls in the animal rights … [Read more...]
Naivete on the Left
We're familiar, after years and years of it, with the idea of right-wing ideologues coming to Washington and having no idea how to govern. This is what has led to government shutdowns, narrowly-averted defaults on the public debt, and in … [Read more...]
DACA and Congressional Cowardice
This is cross-posted from Letters Blogatory There are hundreds of thousands—maybe more than a million—people living in the United States who entered the United States illegally with their parents when they were children. In the important … [Read more...]
President Trump and the Unwritten Constitution
Cross-posted from Letters Blogatory If there's one thing the election of Donald Trump has shown, it's the strength of our formal political institutions. Do you disagree? Consider that in many states at many times in history, a … [Read more...]
Reflections on the Election
Cross-posted from Letters Blogatory. I posted this the day after the election; on the morning of election day I had posted a piece looking forward to a Clinton victory. The tone of my first reflections on the 2016 general election, … [Read more...]
What’s Going On At HLS?
Cross-posted from Letters Blogatory. I have been following the news from Harvard Law School, my law school, with concern. What is going on at HLS? I want to note two items that were worrying to me and maybe to you. The first is the … [Read more...]
We Should Oppose Abolition of the Leap Second
Cross-posted from Letters Blogatory Readers, I am going to subject you today to an editorial on a topic that periodically gets me worked up even though it has nothing to do with private international law: the proposed abolition of the … [Read more...]
The Israeli “Jewish Nation State” Bill: Is The Controversy Justified?
Cross-posted from Letters Blogatory: I thought this might be of wider interest. I want to veer off-topic to discuss the recent proposal in Israel to declare the state to be the nation-state of the Jewish people. The "Jewish Nation State" … [Read more...]
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