San Francisco politicos have promised to soften some of the most speech-chilling aspects of draft legislation (see Apr. 3), but Eugene Volokh (Apr. 5) takes a close look and still finds plenty to worry about (& update May 20: plan dropped.
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Point of Law- NEJM: "The Role of Medical Liability Reform in Federal Health Care Reform"Michelle Mello and Troyen Brennan in the July 2 New England Journal of Medicine: What kinds of malpractice reforms might be candidates for bundling [with comprehensive federal health care reform]? The warhorse of federal tort reform efforts in the past...Walter Olson
- Around the web, July 3Now that Harold Koh has been confirmed, let's have a calm debate on the merits of importing international law [Eric Posner, Volokh, parts one and two] New symposium on originalism in Northwestern U. Law Review has contributions from Barnett,...Walter Olson
- Nicholas Kristof on med-mal reformMissed this NYT column from him the other week: I don't mind the A.M.A. lobbying on behalf of doctors in the many areas where physicians and patients have common interests. The association is dead right, for example, in calling for...Walter Olson
- "2009 Mid-Year Review - Securities Litigation and Enforcement"Securities Docket is presenting a webcast at 2 p.m. Eastern July 9 with panelists Kevin LaCroix (D&O Diary); Tom Gorman (SEC Actions) Francine McKenna (re: the Auditors); and Lyle Roberts (10b-5 Daily)....Walter Olson
- "Four Myths about Federal Preemption of State Tort Claims"Lawrence Ebner's paper for the Washington Legal Foundation is here (PDF)....Walter Olson
- NEJM: "The Role of Medical Liability Reform in Federal Health Care Reform"
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- Was the Declaration of Independence an Example of Secession, Revolution, or Both?Patri Friedman of seasteading fame, has an interesting post reopening an old debate: whether the Declaration of Independence launched a revolution or a secession movement. This was a hotly...Ilya Somin
- Obama to Meet with Russian Opposition Leaders:Like Cathy Young, I worry that President Obama might be overly solicitous of the interests of Russia's authoritarian regime. In this respect, he could potentially repeat the mistakes of President...Ilya Somin
- Zero Money Down, Not Subprime Status, Leads Foreclosuresaccording to Stan Liebowitz, reporting in the WSJ today (Friday, July 3, 2009 not sure if publicly available) on a regression analysis he conducted of home mortgage foreclosures. I wonder...Kenneth Anderson
- The limits of global legalism.The African Union has decided not to cooperate with the International Criminal Court, which has indicted Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, for crimes against humanity. The African Union has 53 members,...Eric Posner
- Second-guessing the Second AmendmentThat's the title of this week's Independence Day cover story in the Boulder Weekly. Among the articles which you can read on-line are a pair of pro/con essays on Second...David Kopel
- Was the Declaration of Independence an Example of Secession, Revolution, or Both?
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