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Ecology Law Quarterly is always worth a read, even if the electronic version lacks the beautiful Ansel Adams cover pictures. The latest issue has just been posted. Here are links to ...

FINDINGS NOT VALIDATED OR REPLICATED. PROCEED WITH EXTREME CAUTION. A couple of weeks ago, a major paper on the economics of government deficits turned out to have huge flaws. Matt ...

Don’t Buy A Used Car From This Man Big kerfluffle over the weekend concerning remarks by right-wing Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson, who claimed that Keynesian economics is not ...

Yes, this post is about the House GOP.  How did you guess? Lamar Smith, chair of the House science committee, has opened an unprecedented investigation into five NSF research projects, ...

Now THAT’S An Externality! My home institution of UCLA has decided to commemorate Earth Day in a clear and bold manner: it has banned tobacco on campus, starting on — well, ...

One interesting project for future intellectual historians will be figuring out how economics became the queen of the social scientists when virtually none of their predictions have ...

Sam Bagenstos at Michigan Law School has long distinguished himself as one of the most thoughtful constitutional doctrinalists in the country (and maybe the best disability scholar ...

Joe Feller, second from left, with students in his Natural Resources Field Seminar in 2008. Photo by Bret Birdsong. Today I learned the sad news that Joe Feller, Professor of Law at ...

Today in the mail appears an interesting program from the Wallage Stegner Center of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law: this coming Friday and Saturday, the Center will ...

The National Council of Bar Examiners has just finished a fascinating survey of what lawyers do in their first three years of practice.  Some of the most interesting findings relate ...

When the U.S. News rankings came out, naturally I looked first at the rankings for environmental law.  But then I got curious about the rankings for other environmental fields. I had ...

Or at least for John Yoo, who argues: Courts award damages based on the harm to the victim and the harm to society. Suppose you thought that the Iraq war was a mistake. If so, isn’t ...

Unexpected Tree Hugger! …even if they didn’t intend to. The Republican War on Science has morphed into a more general war on knowledge.  As Dan has pointed out previously, ...

Consider me somewhat skeptical of the arguments, well-presented by Jayni, that The New York Times’ killing of the Green blog will somehow enhance the paper’s environmental ...

My apologies to the folks at ELQ — I missed their last publication date. (Hint: please send one of us a heads up when an issue comes out if you want it posted on LP.) So here ...