It’s February, so it’s time for the monthly open thread. As usual, Corbett Report members are invited to log in and engage in discussion in the comments below. Also, I’m posting this month’s subscriber video here. For those who don’t know, the subscriber video is a once-a-month slice-of-life or fun video that contains no original research […]
Category: Conspiracy Theories
Prof. Franciska Coleman (Wisconsin) on “The Anatomy of Cancel Culture,” Now at the Journal of Free Speech Law
From the Abstract; read the whole article here: In this paper, I undertake a qualitative exploration of how social regulation of speech works in practice on university campuses, and of the extent to which social regulation in practice affirms or undermines the stereotypes and caricatures that characterize the cancel-culture wars. I first summarize the two […]
Daily News and Updates for January 31st, 2023: “Is America’s Food Supply Chain Under Attack? Massive Connecticut Chicken Farm Catches Fire, While Joe Biden’s Casual Comment On “Increasing Food Shortages” Comes Back To Haunt”
Daily News and Updates for January 31st, 2023: “Is America’s Food Supply Chain Under Attack? Massive Connecticut Chicken Farm Catches Fire, While Joe Biden’s Casual Comment On “Increasing Food Shortages” Comes Back To Haunt” – Stillness in the Storm Source link
The Washington Post Profiles the 5th Circuit
Aaron Streett, a Houston-based lawyer who practices before the 5th Circuit and was a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, said the new judges are at the “leading edge of originalist and textualist ideas percolating up in law reviews and conservative public-interest law firms.” “You’ve got really bright, creative judges who are talented […]
Would You Prefer to Get Each of Our Posts as an E-Mail?
There are already two ways of getting our posts in your mailbox: To get the Volokh Daily e-mail, go to https://reason.com/volokh/e-mail-delivery/, enter your e-mail address, and then click on the link in the verification e-mail that you get. To get each post in your Outlook mailbox as it appears: In Outlook 2007, go to Tools […]
Daily News and Updates for January 23rd, 2023: “Arizona Finds Massive Issues With 2022 Election Tabulators, Misread Nearly A Quarter Of A Million Votes…Here’s What You Should Know About The Ongoing Fight For Fair Elections”
Daily News and Updates for January 23rd, 2023: “Arizona Finds Massive Issues With 2022 Election Tabulators, Misread Nearly A Quarter Of A Million Votes…Here’s What You Should Know About The Ongoing Fight For Fair Elections” – Stillness in the Storm Source link
Video of Amanpour & Co. TV Interview on Uniting for Ukraine and Private Refugee Sponsorship
The video of my recent Amanpour & Co. TV interview on the Uniting for Ukraine private refugee sponsorship program is now available on Youtube. It aired this Monday on CNN International and PBS. The interviewer and I discuss the program, its recent expansion to include migrants from four Latin American nations, and a variety of […]
“Strangers on the Internet” Podcast Episode 20: AI Dating Advice
The twentieth episode (Apple Podcasts link here and Spotify link here) of Strangers on the Internet with co-host and psychologist Michelle Lange deals with artificial intelligence (AI) chat bots, which have been all the rage in recent months. From concerns about academic plagiarism to questions about whether they may replace workers in many industries, the news has been abuzz with articles about platforms […]
Prof. Steven Calabresi (Northwestern) Joining Us as a Co-Blogger
I’m delighted to report that Prof. Steven Calabresi (Clayton J. & Henry R. Barber Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law) is joining our merry band! Steve has written or cowritten over seventy law review articles and three books on constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, federal jurisdiction, and administrative law, and he also […]
Getting Rid of the Yellow/Red Flags in Material Copied from Westlaw to Word
Say that you’ve copied a few paragraphs from Westlaw to Word, and they include yellow and red flags and similar items indicating the status of various cases (e.g., whether they’ve been questioned, overruled, appealed, and the like). That can be helpful for your own reading, but may not be so good if you want to […]