Law

Supremes Opera

October 15, 2018 Law

Despite their philosophical differences, Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Ginsburg, both opera buffs, were reportedly great personal friends. So we shouldn’t be surprised, that Derrick Wang, who teaches both music and law, has written an opera about them, Scalia/Ginsburg. Can you imagine a libretto (the script) with a couple hundred legal and operatic footnotes? Can […]

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North Carolina Needs King Cnut

May 30, 2012 Forecasting

And speaking of science and politics, North Carolina is considering prohibiting, by law, sea level rise. Here’s House Bill 819. And here’s an appropriately snarky, commentary by Scott Huler in Scientific American. According to North Carolina law, I am a billionaire. I have a full-time nanny for my children, I have won the Pulitzer Prize, […]

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Outdated Legal Doctrines

May 22, 2012 Law

Read Stephen J. Gottlieb’s, Outdated Legal Doctrines. This is how it starts: The law of contract, based on the consent of the parties, and the law of torts, based on our obligations when no agreement covers what happened, are fundamental to American law. There is only one problem. Both fields are hopelessly out of date. […]

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