Overlawyered » about the site http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Most popular Overlawyered posts of 2011 http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/most-popular-overlawyered-posts-of-2011/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/most-popular-overlawyered-posts-of-2011/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 05:03:00 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26544 These are the posts last year that drew the biggest readership:

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Some samplings of the outpouring around the blogosphere: Geoffrey Manne and Paul Caron (with tribute roundups), Steve Bainbridge, Tom Kirkendall (”a teacher who understood precisely what his life’s purpose was and pursued it with an endearing combination of intellectual curiosity, vitality, humanity and good humor,” Dave Hoffman (”a galvanic force… a great and unique voice”), Ted Frank, Henry Manne, Andy Morriss (”I suspect he’s already been named Associate Archangel for Research in heaven and doubled scholarly output there.”). A memorial service is planned at George Mason.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/gone-fishin/feed/ 6 Top 50 law blogs list http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/top-50-law-blogs-list/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/top-50-law-blogs-list/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 05:10:10 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23112 The methodology for estimating traffic is unclear, but it’s still nice to see Overlawyered in the top 10. [Cision]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2010/12/christmas-break/feed/ 3 49 comments so far… http://overlawyered.com/2010/06/49-comments-so-far/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/06/49-comments-so-far/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:59:56 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=17665 …on the item about the 13 year old in Florida whose parents have filed an age bias complaint against a community college that won’t admit her. I am regularly surprised by which posts here turn out to stir the most reader interest.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2010/06/49-comments-so-far/feed/ 4 Joining Cato, and a farewell to the Manhattan Institute http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/joining-cato-and-a-farewell-to-the-manhattan-institute/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/joining-cato-and-a-farewell-to-the-manhattan-institute/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 18:26:37 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=17223 I’m delighted to announce that I’ve joined the Cato Institute as a senior fellow, effective this week. As most readers of this site know well, Cato is the premier voice for individual liberty in our nation’s capital, and a think tank of tremendous accomplishments across the board. Its program on law, led by Roger Pilon, includes such outstanding thinkers as Tim Lynch, Ilya Shapiro and Robert Levy. Cato is particularly known as a place where free speech, civil liberties, and the Bill of Rights are given the centrality they deserve in legal thinking, and it’s also a powerhouse in studying the ill effects of government regulation. In fact, the publication where I got my real start in the policy world, the magazine Regulation (originally published by the American Enterprise Institute), has made its home at Cato for many years now. In short, it’s hard to imagine a better fit with my writing and research interests.

I’ll be saying goodbye to my colleagues and kind friends at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, which has long supported my work in the most patient, good-humored and uninterfering way I could have hoped for. I’m immensely fortunate to have been part of MI for more than 25 years and I know I’ll learn much more from its formidable thinkers in years to come. While I’ll continue to contribute occasionally to MI’s blog/web magazine Point of Law, I’ve left its editorship, and I’m happy to say the Institute had the good idea of hiring as my replacement none other than Ted Frank, of Overlawyered and CCAF fame.

Jim Copland of the Manhattan Institute has some extremely kind things to say at Point of Law about our long association. The blog Think Tanked reprints the MI’s generous announcement.

I’ll still be posting as usual here at Overlawyered, and I’ll also be joining as a contributor at the excellent group blog Cato at Liberty, which you should promptly place in your RSS feed if you haven’t already. In months ahead I’ll have more to say about some new projects I’ll be pursuing at Cato, as well as existing projects many readers already know about, like my forthcoming book on bad ideas from legal academia, Schools for Misrule.

P.S. Cato’s press release and bio page for me are up, as is a welcoming post from Roger Pilon at Cato at Liberty. And thanks for the very generous words to Dan Pero at American Courthouse, Carter Wood at NAM ShopFloor, and Alan Lange at Y’AllPolitics.

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