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Kevin Funnell at Bank Lawyers' Blog says Justice Scalia's majority opinion is not nearly as helpful to broad regulatory efforts by state AGs as one might have thought from some of the first reports. Earlier coverage here.... […]

A report from New Orleans.... […]

A case against government-imposed first contracts (PDF) from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. More: Jackson Lewis.... […]

Regulation of sectors like health and auto insurance is often explained as an response to market failures arising from adverse selection, but, say Alex Tabarrok and Bryan Caplan, most of the real-world elements of regulation are hard to explain that... […]

As noted Thursday, a Brooklyn state senator with clout over the issue of city school reorganization simultaneously, as a private attorney, represents a former assistant principal suing Chancellor Joel Klein for wrongful termination. The problem of two-hatted state lawmaker/attorneys is... […]

Josiah Ober's excellent recent book Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens challenges one of the oldest bits of conventional wisdom in political theory: the idea that the... […]

Larry Ribstein has posted a copy of a lengthy open letter from several prominent members of the University of Illinois School of Law faculty responding to the Chicago Tribune's breathless... […]

On Friday, co-blogger Kenneth linked to this piece in the Wall Street Journal explaining that the main cause of the "foreclosure crisis" is no-money-down mortgages. The author of the... […]

Bill Henderson ponders whether law schools are preparing their students -- or themselves -- for the future. As with so much that Henderson writes, it's a must read for those... […]

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