Congress passed H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act, in July and President Bush signed it quickly into law, praising the legislation as a necessary if much-delayed updating of the federal authority to monitor foreign electronic communications. The bill also provided...

Jonathan Adler reports at National Review Online: Michigan "Reform" Off of Ballot -- For Now   [Jonathan Adler]A Michigan appellate court has ruled that a "reform" initiative designed to shift control of the entire state government, including the judiciary, should not...

In case you thought the Mississippi saga was over, there are signs of impending action in the scandal's (thus far unresolved) Peters-DeLaughter branch. Plus: "Earwigging Haiku" at David Rossmiller's comments section....

AEI's Robert Hahn and Peter Passell: "Tighter regulation of the financial markets is almost certainly in the cards. But reregulation could have unintended consequences, bolstering the power of well-organized interest groups, reducing access to capital, and undermining America's competitive position....

"In stark contrast with the past," notes David Owsiany, "Ohio's highest court recently upheld caps on non-economic and punitive damages in Arbino v. Johnson & Johnson and a ten-year product liability statute of repose in Groch v. General Motors Corp."...

I wanted to follow up Ilya's post on the Socratic Method with a slightly different thought: From the standpoint of a law student, isn't the ideal to experience a wide...

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Like some other law professors, I have long had doubts about the merits of the Socratic method - at least in its full-blown "Professor Kingsfield" form, where any student can be...

Not China; not the United States. The gold medal for interstate warfare was snatched up by Russia, and that one is worth more than all the others combined! Poor China; it...

A moment, please, to commemorate the passing of one of the real giants in American (and world) culture last Friday. A very nice tribute in last Saturday's New York Times...