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From the Wall Street Journal : As part of her 1986 Supreme Court clerkship application, [Supreme Court nominee Elena] Kagan filed her most r...

Dear BBLers, we apologize for our lack of output over the past few weeks. We have finals like most of you. We will be back in full force sho...

The Huffington Post reports that Obama is likely to nominate Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday. Read about it here.

In a forthcoming article in the Emory Law Review, Scott Harshbarger and I address some of the issues that have come out of the recent finan...

Mikhail Koulikov recently wrote an article examining the academic impact of legal scholarship in disciplines other than law. Specifically, ...

As a native West Virginian , I was heartbroken by the coal mining tragedy that occurred a few weeks ago. Yesterday, President Obama and Vic...

In the midst of this struggling economy, you can always count on Goldman Sachs to make some money. From the New York Times : [Email] messag...

Look at porn apparently. From Yahoo News : A senior attorney at the SEC's Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looki...

From the New York Times : The Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday approved legislation to tighten regulation of derivatives trading, w...

We urge all of our readers to check out Lawschooltransparency.com. Their goal? Law School Transparency’s goal is to provide open access to ...

Dr. Leiter makes a convincing case for why President Obama's choice to replace Justice Stevens will be Janet Napolitano, the current Sec...

So large health and life insurance companies have substantial holdings in . . . fast food? CBS

Visualize Law provides a pretty cool graphical representation of the overall scores of the 2011 U.S. News Rankings . Click the small image...

Every year, as the tax man comes to take his share from his loyal citizens, law students from around the country eagerly anticipate the rele...

Can justices still learn on the job, or are they confined to strict party lines? Linda Greenhouse examines how Justice Stevens began his ca...

As many had predicted, this term will be Justice Stevens's last on the Court.  The New York Times reports : In a brief letter to Presid...

It was not long after Pennsylvania legalized table games that UPenn alum, and Las Vegas tycoon, Steve Wynn expressed his desire to get a p...

Senator Specter urges Justice Stevens to stay on the Court for the remainder of this term because he feels that the Senate will not be able ...