"Connecting the dots," is a weighty metaphor. Oliver Stone abused the concept. The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, emphasized the gravity of doing so competently. With the information that comes to us in our...

"Connecting the dots," is a weighty metaphor. Oliver Stone abused the concept. The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, emphasized the gravity of doing so competently. With the information that comes to us in our...

David Zaring has a short but interesting post over at the Conglomerate about different types of empirical researchers in the law. He describes the political science types, who study Supreme Court data, the quant types who study finance and accounting...

Back when The New Yorker didn't run a Letters to the Editor section, Spy Magazine used to run a feature called "Letters to the Editor of The New Yorker."  Since my good friend Rick's other blog, Mirror of Justice, doesn't have a comment section, for...

I am editing a paper concerning the relationship between territory and the First Amendment, which I hope to post to SSRN next month.  The paper will examine a variety of restrictions on cross-border information exchange, including laws that limit...