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The last couple of months have been extremely busy, at work (lots of great cases), at home, and academically (in the middle of a challenging article and preparing for a fall semester antitrust course). As a result, I have not been able to keep up with my regular posting schedule on the Law & Society […]

My apologies for the recent dearth of postings, which (fortunately) is the result of a number of good things having taken over my life more or less completely. Among them, one great case after another (including on the pro bono side ACLU v. Gonzales, even though I hasten to add that I only played a […]

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Comment spam is still threatening to shut down our servers. While the Akismet and Bad Behavior plugins keep most of the crap from showing up in the comments, the comment spam still makes it into the database and puts strain on the server. One problem with Askimet, in particular, is that it optimizes the comment […]

To avoid excessive comment spam (and the resulting server load), we had to restrict comments to those who have at least one pre-approved comment on this blog. This should not be too much of an inconvenience. So don’t be perplexed if your next comment doesn’t show up immediately. It will once we approve it. Subsequent […]

I work mainly in normative ethics and political philosophy, and I have side interests inapplied ethics, including bioethics, and in radical political thought. Idid my undergraduate work in philosophy and politics as well as aninterdisciplinary Masters degree at New York University.

In the last couple of days, we (and other blogs) have come under massive comment spam attacks, which Askimet, our spam killer, is apparently unable to block.

[Admin] Please check out our new group blog Antitrust Review. Manfred and I decided to focus the Law & Society Weblog on, well, commentary related to Law & Society, and to move all antitrust-related posts over to the Antitrust Review.

We are pleased to welcome a new member to the Law & Society Weblog, who will be blogging as Nico Artzi. Nico is (among other things) a young, successful law & philosophy scholar, writing about jurisprudential issues that are near and dear to our hearts, such as positivism, moral philosophy, and social philosophy.

Read the instructions and follow them. In most instances, you should be fine. However, some combinations of MySQL, phpMyAdmin, and PHP seem to cause all sorts of mischief. The most common problems are misformed SQL commands upon import. For example, my source host (Globat, slow as molasses) exported the first SQL command of the Law […]