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Category Archives: Book Reviews
Book Review: Rehabilitating Lochner
Tagged book, constitution, david bernstein, Due Process, fourteenth amendment, lochner, new york, rehabilitating, review, substantive, Supreme Court
In the Winter 2012 Independent Review, I review David Bernstein’s Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform. Here’s how it starts: Few Supreme Court cases receive more scorn in U.S. law schools than Lochner v. New York (198 U.S. 45), the 1905 decision that struck down a New York law limiting the number of [...]
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First Review of Law Man
Tagged book review, federal prisoners, Huffington Post, Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Michael G. Santos, Shon Hopwood, Winning Supreme Court Cases and Finding Redemption
In August of 2012, Crown/Random House will release my memoir entitled “Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Cases and Finding Redemption.” Crown has started sending copies of the manuscript to people for reviews and blurbs. One of the first people they sent the manuscript to was Michael Santos. Mr. Santos is a [...]
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Book Review: Giovanni’s Room
Tagged book review, Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
Once again I’d like to thank the assigned readings from my classes for exposing me to a classic that I might not otherwise have had the time or notion to read. Every once in a while you come across one that reminds you why they are labeled classics in the first place. I hit pay [...]
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The Underside of (Legal) History
Tagged Elise Boulding, James Iredell, James Wilson, Natalie Wexler, Supreme Court history, women's history
Have you ever wondered about the women who ran the households of the Founding Fathers while they Declared Independence, fought the Revolutionary War, drafted and ratified the Constitution, and then governed the fledgling United States? We know quite a bit about Abigail Adams, in large part because of the vibrant letters she and husband John [...]
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Who Owns the Sky?
Tagged air commerce act of 1926, airspace, aviation, federalism, history, law, regulation, stuart banner, who owns the sky
In the latest Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, I review UCLA law professor Stuart Banner’s book Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On. Banner’s book is outstanding because it presents the history of air law — particularly the struggle to determine who would have property rights in and [...]
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray: A Book Review
I like to go into book stores every once in a while and walk around, glance over titles, perhaps read a page or two. But I always come across that shelf full of old classics like Moby Dick and Wuthering Heights and feel a little ashamed for having not read the majority of them. I mean, these are classics for a reason. They have been analyzed, criticized and immortalized for decades and yet I can’t find a few hours out of my day to sit down and appreciate these works of art? Thankfully they’re also assigned readings in most college level Lit classes.
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Book Review: This Is Your Country on Drugs
Tagged book review, cocaine, D.A.R.E., drug laws, drug war, drugs, libertarian, lsd, marijuana, Reefer Madness, ryan grim, this is your country on drugs, war on drugs
This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America By Ryan Grim • John Wiley & Sons, Inc. • 2009/2010 • $24.95 hardcover; $15.95 paperback • 272 pages Americans really like to get high, and they’ll go out of their way to do so even when the government threatens to punish them. That’s [...]
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Administrative Law’s Empire I
Tagged administrative, Breyer, Chevron, pragmatism, Scalia
Many have weighed in on Justice Breyer’s recent book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View. They understandably focus on the sexy topics—constitutional interpretation, Brown v. Board of Education, and judicial review generally; the topics most relevant to today’s political battles—statutory interpretation and the culture wars; and Breyer’s own big, nagging question—why does the public [...]
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