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And although Thomas appears less well-known now than in 1995, most of the remaining variation in the surveys is likely within the range of sampling error…. But despite Roberts’ confirmation in September and all of the media coverage that went along with it, only 16% could recall his name by December.

I posted a near final draft of my review of Michael Pawlik’s new book Person, Subjekt, B?ºrger on SSRN.

Ben Gammage, San Diego Time may be money, but how much, really, for an eighth grader, who is not paid to attend school?… You turned it into a two-tiered system - kids with money don’t wait; kids without money do - shifting it from a we’re-all-in-it-together event to something less communitarian (if more profitable).

If you are like me, you are a bit tired of the originalism debate in American constitutional law. I can never quite shake the feeling that, if the authors of the Federalist Papers had championed universal health care and equal funding for public schools, many present-day originalists wouldn’t be so orginalist. The second reason why […]

[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.