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Was Scalia Spooky?
Antonin Scalia’s views on snooping, in the 1970s and later
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Don’t Know What You’re up to
Thoughts on Ilya Somin’s take on the consequences of political ignorance for judicial review
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Says Who, Again?
Peter McCormick on why “by the Court” decisions matter – and who wrote them.
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Quisque?
Would term limits for Chief Justices be a good idea?
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New Year, New Look
For 2017, Double Aspect has a new look and a new address
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Abusus Non Tollit Usum
Should judges refrain from accusing their colleagues of acting illegitimately?
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Powerless Law
Timothy Endicott’s challenging views on law and the constraint of public power
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Erasing Constitutional White Spots
A critique of Vanessa MacDonnell’s theory of quasi-constitutional legislation One of my first posts on this blog dealt with the topic of quasi-constitutional rights and quasi-constitutional laws, in which such rights are mostly, although not exclusively, found. I have not really returned to that subject since, except in commenting on one case in which the…
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#Clawbies2016
My nominations for this year’s Clawbies, and some other recommendations December in the Southern hemisphere means that summer, not winter, is around the corner, and while the Santa Parade and Christmas trees are all there, they mostly provoke cognitive dissonance in those of us used to their being accompanied by snow (or grumblings about the…
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Passing Observations
Some thoughts on writing exams, from a guy who just graded 240 of them As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I recently graded (or, as we say in New Zealand, marked) more than 240 exam papers (or scripts). So I thought I’d volunteer some observations, in case any students who might be reading this are…
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