An amalgamation of small, regional tea parties throughout the country—The Tea Party—touches even the liberal collegetown of Ithaca. But what is the Tea Party?
Kirk Sigmon asks a simple question: why does the federal government spend money prosecuting weight lifters who want to get more muscular, and, much to the bodybuilders’ chagrin, go bald and potentially develop breasts?
Professor Michael Dorf explores why conscientious objectors to gay marriage are not given the same deference as other conscientious objectors such as Quakers opposed to serving in the military. He also discusses what level of participation,in an act considered immoral, is required by a conscientious objector for an exemption to be recognized by the law.
When one Missouri college decided to institute a mandatory drug testing policy, students responded with a class-action lawsuit. Puja Patel discusses.
Cornell Law professors Hillman and Rachlinski respond to an upcoming paper suggesting, among other things, that the age of smartphones diminishes the need to police standard form contracts through doctrines such as unconscionability.
Behind California prison walls, greed trumps security because of an unlikely villain: the prison guards’ union.
What do the TV series Deadwood, a voice changer, and tort doctrine have to do with each other? Bonhomme v. St. James, a case that Kirk Sigmon argues overextends the doctrine of fraudulent misrepresentation in the Internet context.
Mystyc Metrik begins her column exploring the history and mechanics of law journals with a discussion of the inception of law journals.
James Hicks discusses why flooding is getting worse, and the special purpose district that would help.
Guest blogger Chris Heffelfinger is the author of Radical Islam in America: Salafism’s Journey from Arabia to the West and a Research Fellow at the Global Terrorism Research Center at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. In this blog post, Heffelfinger argues that the first official white house policy initiative to combat terrorist radicalization will ultimately be ineffective.