Never having worked in government at a high level (I was a summer intern once a long time ago), I am only vaguely familiar with the idea of bolstering your "legacy" at the
end of your time in office. But people who seem to know what they are talking about say this is a real thing that happens, and these people also seem to think this [...]
Washington Post Op-Ed: Living for the Unremarkable Moments, by Anne Lamott (Author, Somehow: Thoughts on Love (2024)): Sometimes, getting your hopes up backfires. Having been
accused by dark forces of writing about every little thing that happens to me, and in fact having made a career of this, I wonder... [...]
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: All the Little Sisters Want for Christmas Is Religious Liberty, by William McGurn: When Christmas arrives for the Little Sisters of the Poor, they
will be looking for one special gift under the tree: an end to the lawfare against them. [...]
Steven Arrigg Koh (Boston University; Google Scholar), “How Do I Design My New Law Course?”: How should a professor design a new law course? This question is a particular
challenge for new law professors, who lack resources for course design. While some scholarship exists on specific law courses and pedagogy,... [...]
This week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week's list. [430 Downloads] Rotten to the Core: The EU's Court of Justice Decision in Apple, by
Ruth Mason (Virginia; Google Scholar) & Stephen Daly (King's College London; Google Scholar) [355 Downloads] ETFs and... [...]
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Papers The principle of non-intervention: The principle of non-intervention is one of the established and well-known principles of international law. [...]
Over time, and since Katz (1954), Justice Harlan's two-part approach has largely guided how courts construe privacy protections in the 4th Amendment context. As the second
part of Harlan's approach involves what many consider to be amenable to empirical social science, a growing body of scholarship sets out to mark the boundaries of [...]
While relogit is a standard "go-to" Stata command when a data set includes "rare events," a threat of bias is enhanced if rare events derive from a "small sample." While bootstraping
may be an option for some, a recent Stata listserv discussion (here) emphasizes a pair of commands -- firthlogit and exlogit -- that might make sense for others. [...]
With help from a colleague, I can report on significant news relating to the US Sentencing Commission that goes along with the new Congress. As reported in this post, back
in August 4, 2022, the Senate confirmed Prez Biden’s seven nominees to the US Sentencing Commission, fully reconstituting the Commission after many years of being [...]
[Note: After patiently hearing me out on this topic since the election, Jack asked me to write this up. The delay is entirely my fault. The truth is I’ve been paralyzed
by the realization that we sleep-walked through an entire election cycle with the major parties and candidates showing only the barest interest in reforming our system [...]
