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Introducing Guest Blogger Matthew Sag

posted by Deven Desai

I am delighted to introduce guest blogger Matthew Sag. Matthew is an Associate Professor at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. Matthew was born and educated in Australia and has practiced law on three continents. He began his legal career by clerking for one of Australia’s preeminent legal academics, Justice Paul Finn in the Federal Court of Australia. After that he practiced briefly in Australia and then in London with Arnold & Porter before joining Skadden Arps in Silicon Valley just in time for the dot-com meltdown. Matthew has been a permanent member of the DePaul Law faculty since 2006 and has visited at Northwestern Law and at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Matthew’s research focuses on economic and empirical analysis of intellectual property. Matthew has written influential work on the fair use doctrine in copyright law, patent reform, and the political economy of intellectual property. Matthew is an active participant on the ongoing debate about the Google Book project and his comments on the (now defunct) settlement agreement can be found on this series of YouTube videos and in his latest working paper, The Google Book Settlement and the Fair Use Counterfactual.

I have known Matthew for several years and find that I always learn something when we talk or I read his work. Here is list of some Matthew’s most recent articles:

Copyright and Copy-Reliant Technology 103 Northwestern University Law Review (forthcoming 2009)

Ideology and Exceptionalism in Intellectual Property – An Empirical Study, 97 California Law Review 801 (2009) (co-authored with Tonja Jacobi & Maxim Sytch)

Taking the Measure of Ideology: Empirically Measuring Supreme Court Cases, 98 The Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming 2009) (co-authored with Tonja Jacobi)

You can obviously learn more about Matt and his work while he guest blogs with us this month. In addition, he has a personal Website, and of course you can track down his other works on his SSRN page.

  November 2, 2009 at 7:57 am   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   No Comments

Introducing Guest Blogger Anita Krishnakumar

posted by Daniel Solove

I’m delighted to introduce Professor Anita S. Krishnakumar (St. John’s School of Law), who will be joining us for a reprise guest visit for the next month.

Anita teaches Legislation, Introduction to Law, and Trusts and Estates. She received her J.D. from Yale University, and her B.A. from the Stanford University. Before joining the St. John’s faculty in 2006, she visited at Touro Law School from 2004-06. Prior to entering law teaching, she worked as an associate in the appellate litigation group at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, and as a litigation associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen, & Hamilton. Before that, she was as a law clerk for Jose A. Cabranes of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.

In 2009, she received a Dean’s Teaching Award, based on student evaluations.

Anita’s current research focuses on legislative solutions to legislative process dysfunctions, recent trends in the Supreme Court’s statutory interpretation cases, judicial treatment of political parties, and election law.

Her publications include:

* The Hidden Legacy of Holy Trinity Church: The Unique National Institution Canon, 51 William & Mary L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009)

* Representation Reinforcement: A Legislative Solution to a Legislative Process Problem, 46 Harv. J. on Legisl. 1 (2009)

* Towards A Madisonian “Interest-Group” Approach To Lobbying Regulation, 58 Alabama Law Review 513 (2007)

  November 1, 2009 at 8:21 am   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   2 Comments

Introducing Guest Blogger Rachel Godsil

posted by Solangel Maldonado

I’m very pleased to announce that Professor Rachel Godsil is back for another guest visit.   Rachel is the Eleanor Bontecou Professor of Law  at Seton Hall University School of Law where she teaches Property, Family Law, Equality Under American Law, and Zoning and Land Use Policy.  She has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  While on sabbatical, she served as convener of the Urban and Metropolitan Policy Group, advisor to the HUD transition team, and co-directed a report to HUD entitled “Retooling HUD for a Catalytic Federal Government.”

Rachel graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, where she served as executive articles editor of the law review, was awarded the Henry M. Bates Memorial Award, and was elected to the Order of the Coif.  Prior to joining the Seton Hall faculty, she clerked for the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Associate Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.  She was also an associate with Berle, Kass & Case and with Arnold & Porter in New York City.

Rachel has written extensively on the convergence of race, poverty, and the environment.  Her recent publications include:

* Protecting Status:  The Mortgage Crisis, Eminent Domain, and the Ethic of Homeownership, 77 Fordham L. Rev. 949 (2008)

* Contaminants in the Air and Soil in New Orleans after the Flood: Opportunities and Limitations for Community Empowerment (co-authored with Al Huang and Gina Solomon), in KATRINA AFTER THE FLOOD (Robert Bullard, ed. 2008).

* Building Upon Sax’s Edifice: The Evolution of Environmental Justice and the Challenges of the Engaged Scholarship (Gerald Torres, ed. 2007)

* Just Compensation in an Ownership Society (co-authored with David Simunovich), in PRIVATE PROPERTY, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, AND EMINENT DOMAIN (Robin Paul Malloy, ed. 2007)

* Race Nuisance: The Politics of Law in the Jim Crow Era, 105 Mich. L. Rev. 505 (2006)

* AWAKENING FROM THE DREAM: CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER SIEGE AND THE NEW STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL JUSTICE (co-edited with Denise Morgan) (Carolina Academic Press 2005)

Rachel’s law review note, Remedying Environmental Racism, 90 Mich. L. Rev. 394 (1991) is one of the most cited law school notes of all time.

  November 1, 2009 at 8:12 am   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   2 Comments

Introducing Michael Zimmer

posted by Sarah Waldeck

I’m so pleased to welcome Michael Zimmer as a Concurring Opinions guest for the month of November.   Mike is a widely recognized scholar in the areas of employment discrimination law, labor and employment law and constitutional law.  He is also co-author of one of the first and still the leading employment discrimination casebooks as well as co-author of the first casebook on international and comparative employment law.

Mike is a professor of law at Loyola University Chicago.  He received his A.B. and J.D. from Marquette University, where he was Editor in Chief of the Marquette Law Review.  He also holds an LL.M from Columbia University, where he was named a James Kent Fellow. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Thomas E. Fairchild of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then served as an associate at Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee.

He began his law school teaching career at the University of South Carolina and he has taught at a number of law schools, most recently as a visiting professor of law at Northwestern University. He joined the Seton Hall University School of Law in 1978, served as Associate Dean from 1990 to 1994 and was on the faculty until 2008.

Welcome, Mike!

  October 31, 2009 at 6:36 pm   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   No Comments

Introducing Guest Blogger Spencer Weber Waller

posted by Danielle Citron

I have the great pleasure of introducing Professor Spencer Weber Waller who teaches at Loyola-Chicago and will be guest blogging with us in October.  Spencer kindly wrote a welcome post, so I include it below.  We are so happy to have you blogging with us!

Thanks to Danielle Citron and all the regular contributors at Concurring Opinions for allowing me to guest for the month of October.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with my work and background, I have been teaching at Loyola-Chicago since 2000, teaching and writing mostly in antitrust and consumer protection, and directing the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies.  Before that, I spent ten wonderful years on the faculty of Brooklyn Law School following eight years of law practice with the government and with a firm in Chicago.  I am also a recidivist Associate Dean having served in different capacities with that title at both Brooklyn and Loyola.

As a scholar, I spent most of my first ten years writing about the application of US antitrust law to foreign commerce, the growth of foreign competition law, and other developments in international and comparative antitrust.  Of late, I have been increasing interested in issues at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property.  Both of these areas seem to be where the action is in my fields and overly dominated by fairly narrow neo-classical economic analysis.

Most recently, I have working with fellow Concurring Opinons contributor Deven Desai on a large piece on the power of brands and how neither trademark law nor antitrust has captured the importance of brands in our modern economy or created a meaningful legal regime to regulate when become an enduring source of market power.  But more about that in future posts.

In my month or so with you, I plan to share more thoughts about the power of brands, a few of the activities of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, antitrust enforcement in the Obama Administration, and occasional musings about legal academia.  Thanks for having me.

Here are a few of Spencer’s recent articles:

-The Law and Economics Virus, Cardozo L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009).
-Justice Stevens and the Rule of Reason, 61 SMU L. Rev. 693 (2009).
-Areeda, Epithets, and Essential Facilities, 2008 Wisc. L. Rev. 360.
-Revitalizing Essential Facilities, 75 Antitrust L. J. 1 (2008) (co-author Brett Frischmann)

  September 30, 2009 at 6:17 am   Posted in: Administrative Announcements, Uncategorized   Print This Post   2 Comments

Introducing Guest Blogger Kathleen Boozang

posted by Sarah Waldeck

Associate Dean and Professor Kathleen Boozang is a health law expert at Seton Hall Law School.  While much of her scholarly career has focused on nonprofit hospital governance issues, she has expanded her research and teaching more recently to explore the legal and policy issues related to the global pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Kathleen oversees Seton Hall’s Gibbons Institute of Law, Science and Technology, as well as its Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy.  Her recent work at the Center includes a Whitepaper critiquing the practices employed by industry to promote their products to physicians, recommending, inter alia, a ban on industry gifts to physicians, and independence of continuing medical education from industry funding.

Kathleen’s most recent article is Monitoring Corporate Corruption: DOJ’s Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements in Health Care, 35 Am. J. L. Med. 89 (2009) (with Simone Handler-Hutchinson).  Other particularly noteworthy pieces include Does Director Independence Improve Nonprofit Governance?, 75 Tenn.L Rev 83 (2007) and The Survival of Religious Hospitals in a World of Reformed Health Care, 31 Houston L. Rev. 1429 (1995).  Kathleen also blogs regularly at Health Reform Watch.

Kathleen graduated from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Mo. and received her L.L.M. from Yale Law School.

  August 31, 2009 at 7:53 pm   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   No Comments

Introducing Guest Blogger Jonathan Siegel

posted by Daniel Solove

I’m delighted to introduce Professor Jonathan Siegel, who will be guest blogging with us this month.  Jonathan is my colleague at George Washington University Law School.  He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. He clerked for Chief Judge Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, after which he served for four years as an attorney on the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He became a professor at George Washington Law School in 1995 and was named the Kahan Research Professor in 2008.

Jon’s scholarship focuses on administrative law, federal courts, statutory interpretation, and lawsuits against governments. When not a guest on Concurring Opinions, he blogs at Law Prof on the Loose.

Some of his recent and/or favorite publications include:

* A Theory of Justiciability, 86 Tex. L. Rev. 73 (2007)

* The Polymorphic Principle and the Judicial Role in Statutory Interpretation, 84 Tex. L. Rev. 339 (2005)

* The Use of Legislative History in a System of Separated Powers, 53 Vand. L. Rev. 1457 (2000)

* The Hidden Source of Congress’s Power to Abrogate State Sovereign Immunity, 73 Tex. L. Rev. 539 (1995)

  August 31, 2009 at 11:30 am   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   No Comments

Introducing Guest Blogger John Ip

posted by Daniel Solove

I’m delighted to introduce Professor John Ip (University of Auckland Faculty of Law), who will be guest blogging with us this month.

John joined the law faculty of the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2005, and specializes in comparative counterterrorism law, and criminal justice. Prior to arriving in Auckland, he worked on Guantánamo Bay and death penalty litigation at an NGO in the United States, and was a Judges’ Clerk at the Auckland High Court. John is a graduate of the University of Auckland and Columbia University Law School.

Some of his publications include:

* Two Narratives of Torture, 7 Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights 35 (2009)

* The Rise and Spread of the Special Advocate, Public Law 171 (Winter 2008)

* Crime, Criminal Justice and the Media, in Criminal Justice in New Zealand (Tolmie & Brookbanks eds. 2007)

* Comparative Perspectives on the Detention of Terrorist Suspects, 16 Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems 773 (2007)

* Debating New Zealand’s Hate Crime Legislation: Theory and Practice, 21 New Zealand Universities Law Review 575 (2005)

  August 31, 2009 at 11:25 am   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   No Comments

Concurring Opinions Book Reviews

posted by Daniel Solove

Sandy Levinson has a thoughtful new essay lamenting the dwindling number of book reviews of books about the law — The Vanishing Book Review in Student Edited Law Reviews and Potential Responses, 87 Tex. L. Rev. 1205 (2009).  He discusses how the Michigan Law Review used to run 30 to 40 book reviews in its book review issue but now is running only about 10 to 15. He notes that among the top 20 law reviews, in 1987-88, they published about 125 reviews; in 2007-08, they published only 42 reviews.

Brian Leiter notes, in the title of his post about Levinson’s article, that “academic law needs more fora for serious book reviews.”

Beyond law reviews, the number of book reviews in newspapers is rapidly diminishing.

This is why we’re starting a new project at Concurring Opinions — we’ll serve as a forum for book reviews.

We will accept submissions from our readers — law professors, lawyers, law students, and academics in other fields are welcome to submit reviews.

The reviews we envision would be approximately the length of a New York Times book review — somewhere between 500 to 2000 words.

We will try to accept as many reviews as we can, but we will exercise editorial discretion if we think a review isn’t appropriate for our blog.  We’re aiming for serious reviews.

If you’re interested in writing a book review for us, we recommend that you first email us with a brief description of what book you’d like to review and your background, as we don’t want you to go through the work of writing a review only for us to think it doesn’t fit with our blog.  Emailing us in advance won’t guarantee acceptance, but we would hope to give you a good indication of whether we’d be interested in your review.

We believe that there’s a need for serious yet short book reviews, ones that aren’t as long as those published in law reviews.  That’s why we’re starting this project.  We expect it to be ongoing, so if you’ve read a law-related book recently and want a forum to publish your views about it, please think about doing a review for us.

If you publish a book review here, you keep copyright in your work, so you can use it, publish it, and disseminate it later in whatever way you desire.

So please email us if you’re interested.

  August 18, 2009 at 7:21 pm   Posted in: Administrative Announcements, Articles and Books, Book Reviews, Law School (Law Reviews), Law School (Scholarship)   Print This Post   One Comment

Please Ignore Hack Ads on Our Blog

posted by Lawrence Cunningham

Regular readers of our blog will notice extensive advertisements cluttering it.   Hackers appear to be responsible for this distracting garbage.  We are working  diligently to eliminate the invasion.  We are also working to identify the culprits.   We apologize for the mess and hope you will ignore the unauthorized ads.

  August 5, 2009 at 11:36 am   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   One Comment

Introducing Guest Blogger Alice Ristroph

posted by Daniel Solove

I’m very pleased to announce the reprise guest visit of Professor Alice Ristroph.

Alice is visiting Georgetown from Seton Hall University School of Law.  She teaches and writes in the fields of criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and political theory. She is working on a book about the legal regulation of violence.

Alice’s most recent papers are forthcoming in Constitutional Commentary, Florida Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. During the 2007-2008 academic year, Alice was  a Faculty Fellow in Ethics at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University. She joined the Seton Hall faculty in 2008 after serving as Associate Professor at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law.

Before she began law teaching, Alice was an associate in the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City.  She has a J.D. and Ph.D. in political theory from Harvard University.

Her recently published articles include:

* Respect and Resistance in Punishment Theory, 97 Cal. L. Rev. 601 (2009)

* State Intentions and the Law of Punishment, 98 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1353 (2008)

  August 2, 2009 at 7:35 pm   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   One Comment

Introducing Guest Blogger Elizabeth Nowicki

posted by Daniel Solove

I am very pleased to announce that Elizabeth Nowicki will be joining us again as a guest blogger this month.

When Elizabeth was last with us in 2006, she was on the faculty at Richmond and visiting away at Cornell. Now she is tenured at Tulane and visiting at Boston University. Prior to entering the academy, she clerked for Judge Jack Weinstein (EDNY) and Judge James Oakes (2d Cir.), she worked on Regulation FD at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and she was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell.

Elizabeth teaches Corporations, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities Regulation, Deals, and related courses, and her writing has focused on corporate governance, securities fraud, ethics, apologies, mergers, and deals. She is currently the Chair of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education, and she is an officer in the AALS Section on Securities Regulation.

Elizabeth has been an expert witness on a host of matters, including analyst fraud and stock option backdating cases, and Elizabeth is a regular in the media.

Some of her recent publications include:
* Director Inattention and Director Protection Under Delaware General Corporations Law Section 102(b)(7): A Proposal for Legislative Reform, 33 Del. J. Corp. L. 695 (2008)
* Not in Good Faith, 60 SMU L. Rev. 441 (2007)
* A Director’s Good Faith, 55 Buff. L. Rev. 457 (2007)

  July 5, 2009 at 11:26 am   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   No Comments

Introducing Guest Blogger Jenia Turner

posted by Daniel Solove

I’m delighted to introduce Professor Jenia Iontcheva Turner who will be guest blogging with us this month. Jenia is an Associate Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, where she teaches criminal procedure, comparative criminal procedure, international criminal law, and international organizations. Before joining SMU, Jenia served as a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, where she taught legal research and writing and comparative criminal procedure. She attended law school at Yale, where she was a Coker Fellow and articles editor for the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law. After her first year of law school, she was a summer clerk at the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and the following summer, she worked at the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Houston and the New York and Paris offices of Debevoise & Plimpton.

Jenia’s scholarship interests include comparative and international criminal law and procedure. Her articles have appeared in the Virginia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Virginia Journal of International Law, and the Stanford Journal of International Law. She has just written a textbook exploring plea bargaining from a comparative perspective and is now working on an article about ethical dilemmas of international criminal defense attorneys.

Some recent publications include:

* Defense Perspectives on Law and Politics in International Criminal Trials, 48 Va. J. Int’l. L. 529 (2008)
* Transnational Networks and International Criminal Justice, 105 Mich. L. Rev. 985 (2007)
* Judicial Participation in Plea Negotiations: A Comparative View, 54 Am. J. Comp. L. 199 (2006)

  July 2, 2009 at 4:07 am   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   No Comments

Introducing Guest Blogger Kevin Johnson

posted by Frank Pasquale

It is my great pleasure to introduce Dean Kevin R. Johnson, who will be guest blogging with us this July. Johnson is Dean of the School of Law, and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Davis and is a leading immigration, civil rights, and critical race theory scholar. His book, How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s Search for Identity (1999), was nominated for the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Dean Johnson has also published Complex Litigation: Cases and Materials on Litigating for Social Change (Carolina Academic Press, forthcoming 2009) (with Catherine A. Rogers & John Valery White); Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink Its Borders and Immigration Laws (2007); The “Huddled Masses” Myth Immigration and Civil Rights (2004); Race, Civil Rights, and American Law: A Multiracial Approach (2002); and Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader (2002), as well as numerous articles on immigration, civil rights, and racial identity.

A graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, Dean Johnson earned his undergraduate degree in economics from UC Berkeley. He is the recipient of many honors and awards, including the Clyde Ferguson Award of the Minority Groups Section of the Association of American Law Schools (2004), Latino Professor of the Year by the Hispanic National Bar Association (2006), and 2008 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Scholar of the Year. In 2003, Johnson was elected to the American Law Institute. He currently serves as president of the board of directors of Legal Services of Northern California and serves on the board of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He is co-editor of the ImmigrationProf blog.

Dean Johnson has written more than 50 law review articles. Select recent publications include:
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  June 30, 2009 at 1:58 pm   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   One Comment

Introducing Guest Blogger Michael Abramowicz

posted by Daniel Solove

I’m very pleased to introduce Michael Abramowicz, who will be visiting with us for the next month. Michael is my colleague at George Washington University Law School. He graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College, where he majored in economics and served as editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper. After spending a year as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board, he attended Yale Law School, where he served as executive editor of the Yale Law Journal and as a co-director of the landlord tenant clinic. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Patrick E. Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Before coming to GW, Michael served for a year as a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University School of Law, and three years as an assistant and then associate professor at George Mason University School of Law. He teaches and does research in areas including intellectual property, civil procedure, administrative law, insurance law, and corporate law. His work has been published in the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Stanford Law Review, UCLA Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, and Yale Law Journal, among others.

A few of Michael’s many publications include:

* PREDICTOCRACY: MARKET MECHANISMS FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DECISION MAKING (Yale Univ. Press, 2008)
* Citation to Legislative History: Empirical Evidence on Positive Political and Contextual Theories of Judicial Decisionmaking, J. LEGAL STUD. (forthcoming 2009) (with Emerson H. Tiller)
* Ending the Patenting Monopoly, U. PA. L. REV. (forthcoming 2009) (with John F. Duffy)
* Notice-and-Comment Judicial Decisionmaking, U. CHI. L. REV. (forthcoming 2009) (with Thomas Colby)
* Privatizing the Public Domain, in PERSPECTIVES ON COMMERCIALIZING INNOVATION (F. Scott Kieff & Troy A. Paredes eds., Cambridge Univ. Press forthcoming 2009)
* Intellectual Property for Market Experimentation, 83 N.Y.U. L. REV. 337 (2008) (with John F. Duffy)
* The Uneasy Case for Patent Races over Auctions, 60 STAN. L. REV. 803 (2008)

  May 31, 2009 at 8:50 am   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   One Comment

Introducing Guest Blogger Robert Hillman

posted by Dave Hoffman

I’m happy to announce that Robert Hillman, of Cornell Law School, will be joining us a guest-blogger this June.  Bob is one of the country’s leading contract law experts.  Indeed, he was the Reporter for the just-adopted Principles of Software Contracts, a topic which I imagine he might blog a bit about with us.  This past winter, I learned he was to boot a generous and friendly colleague, as his office was right down the hall from mine.

Bob has written extensively on contracts and contract theory, the Uniform Commercial Code, and related jurisprudence.  (You can find a smattering of his work on SSRN.)  A 1972 graduate of Cornell Law School, Professor Hillman clerked for the Hon. Edward C. McLean and the Hon. Robert J. Ward, both U.S. District Judges for the Southern District of New York. After private practice with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City, he began his teaching career at the University of Iowa College of Law. Hillman joined the Cornell Law School Faculty in 1982, and, in addition to teaching and authoring or co-authoring several major contracts and commercial law works, he served as Associate Dean from 1990-1997.  He teaches contracts, commercial law, and the law of e-commerce. He also teaches a class on the nature, functions, and limits of law for Cornell University’s Government Department.

Welcome!

  May 30, 2009 at 5:00 pm   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   No Comments

Introducing Guest Blogger Corey Yung

posted by Daniel Solove

I’m delighted to introduce Professor Corey Rayburn Yung who will be joining us for a short reprise guest visit.  Corey is an assistant professor of law at John Marshall Law School in Chicago. He joined the faculty there in 2007 and teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and a Sex Crimes Seminar. His scholarship is primarily focused on sex crimes and judicial decision-making. His sex crimes scholarship has recently focused on the punishment and regulation of sex offenders and was cited by the United States Supreme Court majority opinion in Kennedy v. Louisiana. Corey is also the author of the Sex Crimes Blog.

Corey is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and was an undergraduate at the University of Iowa. Prior to becoming a professor, Corey clerked for Judge Michael Melloy of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals and was an associate at Shearman & Sterling in New York.

His recent publications include:

* One of These Laws is Not Like the Others: Why the Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act Raises New Constitutional Questions, 46 Harvard Journal on Legislation (forthcoming 2009)

* The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act and the Commerce Clause, 21 Federal Sentencing Reporter (forthcoming 2008)

* Is Military Law Relevant to the “Evolving Standards of Decency” Embodied in the Eighth Amendment?, 103 Northwestern Law Review Colloquy 140 (2008)

* Banishment by a Thousand Laws: Residency Restrictions on Sex Offenders, 85 Washington University Law Review 101 (2007)

  May 27, 2009 at 1:22 pm   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   No Comments

Gerard Magliocca Joins Concurring Opinions

posted by Daniel Solove

I’m delighted to announce that Professor Gerard Magliocca (Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis) will be joining us as a permablogger.  Welcome Gerard!

  May 19, 2009 at 12:32 pm   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   One Comment

Slowness in Internet Explorer

posted by Daniel Solove

A number of readers have informed us that our blog is loading very slowly in  Internet Explorer.  We’ve been trying to resolve the problem and speed up the load time, but we haven’t been able to make significant headway.

If anybody has any ideas why our site is loading so slowly in Internet Explorer, please let me know.

If you’re using Internet Explorer and are experiencing slow load times with the blog, now is a great time to switch Web browsers!  To my knowledge, we haven’t experienced any slowness in other browsers.

I personally like Firefox, which is free for download at Mozilla.com.

I’ve used Firefox for many years now.  Firefox is generally much faster and better than Internet Explorer, so you’ll not only be improving your Concurring Opinions reading experience but also your reading experience at many other sites as well.  I also find that sites display better in Firefox.  And it’s got more features than Explorer.

It’s free, takes only a minute or two to download and install, so I recommend you check it out.  It doesn’t replace Internet Explorer, so if you don’t like Firefox, you can always go back to Internet Explorer.

We still hope to improve the reading experience at Concurring Opinions for Internet Explorer, but it may take some time as we try to figure out how.  So in the meantime, I suggest you try Firefox or another browser.

  May 15, 2009 at 6:56 am   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   3 Comments

New Feature: Posts by Author

posted by Daniel Solove

I’m excited to announce a new feature on our blog — you can now see archives of  posts by a particular author.  To do so, use the drop box on the left sidebar right above categories.

Including permabloggers and guest bloggers, we’ve had about 100 authors in the history of this blog.  Now you can read any particular author’s entire Concurring Opinions opus.  Have fun!

  May 13, 2009 at 8:10 pm   Posted in: Administrative Announcements   Print This Post   No Comments

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