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Arizona Senate Bill 1062 and the Hobby Lobby Case
Note: This law review comment was revised and expanded on the evening of 2 March 2014. As hedge fund managers and investment advisors are required to say, “past performance is no guarantee of future results.” Nevertheless, does the fate of … Continue reading
The Madness of Crowds?
Explain this equilibrium, or as the errant economist Tyler Cowen likes to say, solve for the equilibrium you see in the video …
Why is there still no slave-trade compensation fund?
Now that Black History Month is officially over, let’s get down to real business and talk about reparations for slavery. Does the Statute of Limitations apply to major injustices like slavery? Why can’t we create the equivalent of a 9/11 … Continue reading
Bill Gates (White) vs. Magnus Carlsen (Black)
Below is a play by play of their chess match of 24 January 2014 in algebraic notation: 1. e4 Nc6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bd3 Nf6 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. Nc3 Qh5 6. 0-0 Bg4 7. h3 Ne5 8. hxg4 … Continue reading
Puerto Rican Statehood Bill
Since 1898, Puerto Rico has been a colony of the United States. But two weeks ago (12 Feb. 2014), Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) introduced Senate Bill 2020, the Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act, which would … Continue reading
An Academic Turing Test?
Check out the Turingesque website arXiv vs. snarXiv, which presents the titles of two science papers, side by side, but only one of the titles is “real”, i.e. is an actual title selected from a paper posted on a popular electronic … Continue reading
Another form of sports betting
Should NFL coaches or Major League Baseball managers be required to pay a fee in order to protest a bad call? They would be if football or baseball were an Olympic sport. Here is an excerpt from this fascinating report in the … Continue reading
Reasonableness = Random Adjudication*
* This “micro-law review article” was revised and updated on 25 Feb. 2014– Like Richard Epstein [1], prior probability agrees that “reasonableness,” standing alone, is an open-ended and indeterminate legal standard. Yet, at the same time, this legal standard permeates … Continue reading
Time Out for Black History Month
According to David Becker (from the website Jazz in America), the first recording by an all-black band occurred in 1921 when Edward “Kid” Ory and his Sunshine Orchestra recorded the songs “Creole Trombone” and “Society Blues.” Kid Ory had a … Continue reading
Law School Prediction Markets?
Why don’t law professors try using “mini-prediction markets” to forecast the outcome of Supreme Court cases or the outcome of bills pending before Congress? That is, why don’t law professors let their students, colleagues, and friends bet on the future outcome of … Continue reading
prior probability 