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Thursday, April 10, 2008 - Posts

  • Home Rule in the Breach


    David, your point about home rule is well taken, but even in cities with broad home rule, local authority is often quite limited. Two examples from the city that knows how (but still can’t, as it happens). California cities have very broad home-rule powers—among Read More...
  • Family Friendly Law Schools


    Adam, you're right to point out that the process for joining a law faculty as a tenure-track junior professor is not family-friendly at all. But once you're hired, a law-teaching job is pretty much the model of a family-friendly job—the schedule is extremely Read More...
  • Perhaps a Truth Commission


    Mark Tushnet writes that prosecution for war crimes isn't the only alternative: continue reading at Balkinization ... Read More...
  • China's Torched PR


    The Beijing Olympics are offering the world a nice look at what Chinese State PR looks like. A good example came yesterday, when Sun Weide, deputy director for communications for the Beijing Organizing Committee, presented this view of how the torch relay Read More...
  • Why Bush Is Our Most Shakespearean President


    "Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever." —President George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 12, 2008 "Let me live here ever / So rare a wondered father Read More...
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