I will be presenting my most recent work on Adam Smith (see here) at the annual meeting of the History of Economics Society, which is taking place at the University of St Thomas in downtown Minneapolis. Updates from the conference to be posted here soon.
In honor of the 807th anniversary of the “Great Charter of Freedoms“–it was on this day (June 15) in 1215 that King John was compelled to put his seal on the Magna Carta Libertatum–I am reblogging my 2016 post on “Judging the Magna Carta.”
You may have heard of “The Living Constitution” (i.e. the idea that the Constitution changes over time to meet our current needs), but have you ever heard of “The Living Magna Carta”? If not, check out this beautiful paper by R.H. Helmholz titled “The Myth of the Magna Carta Revisited,” published in the latest issue of the University of North Carolina Law Review: Vol. 94, No. 5 (2016), pp. 1475-1493. The paper explores how the meaning of the Magna Carta has evolved over time and how some of its substantive provisions were interpreted by the leading English jurists Sir Edward Coke (b.1552-d.1634) and Sir William Blackstone (b.1723-d.1780). Professor Helmholz concludes that Coke and Blackstone gave “expansive readings” to the Magna Carta by looking beyond the specific words used in the text of the Great Charter in order to discern its goals and purposes. More importantly, Professor Helmholz claims that this…
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See here. (Hat tip: Brian Leiter.) Update (6/16): If you are unfamiliar with this ugly and time-wasting legal monster, check out Judge Richard Posner’s review of The Bluebook. (Also, appendix 2 on pp. 854-857 of this scathing review contains Posner’s own simple and common-sense citation rules.)
Postscripts: I have developed my own set of simple citation rules for law and legal studies, which I call “Antiblue“; in addition, here are my previous posts about the hideous Bluebook.
Did you know that on this day (June 14) in 2002 the planet Earth almost collided with a near-Earth asteroid known as “2002 MN“. The asteriod missed us by a mere 75,000 miles (121,000 km), only about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
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… “Betsy Ross Day” in honor of a humble woman who helped changed the course of history. Here is her Wikipedia page.
Among other things, on this day (June 13) in 1774, Rhode Island became the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves, and on this day in 1525, Martin Luther, the rebel priest who ignited the Protestant Reformation when he nailed his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany, married Katharina von Bora. (Pictured below are three portraits of von Bora.)
Today (June 12) is the six-year anniversary of Pulse nightclub massacre. In the interim, the City of Orlando has created this website containing all the available public records of that terrible event. (A judge had ordered the release of the 911 transcripts, which the FBI and the police were trying to hide, back in November 2016. See here.) Looking back now, what strikes me the most about the Pulse tragedy is just how slow the police were to respond. Sound familiar?
Hey, what are the FBI and the Orlando police trying to hide from the public in connection with the massacre at Pulse nightclub last month? The police’s slow response to the Pulse shootings (it took the police over three hours to rescue the remaining hostages that night)? Under Florida sunshine laws, 911 phone calls are public records and must be released to the public, yet Orlando police–apparently at the request of the FBI (see letter below the fold)–is still refusing to release all but one of the transcripts of the 911 phone calls made during the Pulse shootings last month, and even the one phone record that was released was originally censored, with all references to Allah and the Islamic State redacted. Isn’t this sorry episode yet another textbook example of the police acting above the law?
On this day (June 11) in 2010 the first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa.
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