Firearms in Student Housing: California Penal Code 626.9 and the Second Amendment

I visited UCLA last weekend. While I was there, I visited Weyburn Terrace, an apartment complex for UCLA graduate students. UCLA's websi...

Silk Road Investigators Charged With Money Laundering and Wire Fraud

From the New York Times : On the so-called dark web, drug dealing and other illicit sales have thrived in recent years, the authorities have...

Kerr on The Influence of Immanuel Kant on Evidentiary Approaches in Eighteenth Century Bulgaria

A while ago, I wrote about Adam Liptak's criticism of law reviews, and argued that Liptak's criticism lacked novelty. I also did so...

Ninth Circuit to Grant En Banc Review in Concealed Carry Case

So reports the Los Angeles Times : A federal appeals court agreed Thursday to reconsider a decision that made it easier to receive a permit ...

No Sanctions for Attorney Who Submitted Incomprehensible Certiorari Petition

From the Wall Street Journal Law Blog : The Supreme Court on Monday declined to sanction a Washington, D.C., patent attorney who faced a ra...

Court Finds No Third Amendment Violation After Police Occupy Home

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin writes about a recent ruling by a federal district court that police officers did not violate the...

A New Round of Bar Exam Criticism

Law school graduates around the country took the bar exam at the end of February. In the exam's wake, commentators are questioning the n...

My New Paper on Prior Sexual Misconduct Evidence in State Courts

I just posted my most recent article on SSRN. The title is Prior Sexual Misconduct Evidence in State Courts: Constitutional and Common Law ...

Ban on Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy for Minors Approved By Iowa Senate

So reports the Des Moines Register : Iowa mental health professionals would be banned from trying to change the sexual orientation of gay pa...

The Implications of the "Blurred Lines" Verdict for Weird Al Yankovic

The major intellectual property story of the spring has been a lawsuit by Marvin Gaye's estate against Pharrell Williams and Robin Thick...