Law Roundtable

Okay, I am giving in to the Popular Will, against my better judgment.  What do VAT tax, PIN number, ATM machine, all have in common?  Feel free to list more in the comments, including your views on whether this is acceptable language usage or not.  (Put them here, ...

Daniel J. Mitchell at the Cato blog has a new post up, continuing an argument against the imposition of a VAT tax in the United States.  His argument in that piece is fundamentally that a VAT tax does not really solve the fiscal problem, but instead merely ...

Ann Coulter’s column today argues that Obama is not a Muslim; rather, he “is obviously an atheist.” The gist of the argument is “The only evidence for Obama’s Christianity is that he faithfully attended the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years....Attending Wright’s church ...

A couple weeks ago, I blogged about an article in the Korea Times reporting that the Obama administration was blocking the import of American-made M1 Garands and M1 Carbines which the South Korean government wished to sell into the U.S. market. The Korea Times reported that an ...

Here’s the latest speculation about whether Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels might run for the Presidency in 2012. I hope he does: From what I know at this point, he’s my favorite potential GOP candidate.

Could anyone point me to a link giving a basic, plain language discussion of the difference between forum and jurisdiction in American law? Something that I could use with a group of non-US lawyers — clear, not too long, basic distinctions? Thanks.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry that the comment thread to my post from yesterday, The Ultimate Legal Blog Comment?, is now at 314 comments.

This is so despite Muni’s earlier refusal to allow a movie ad showing police officers wielding guns, apparently on the grounds that it “appear[ed] to promote the use of firearms.” The new ad, for the Gun Rights Policy Conference does promote the use of firearms. ...

I’ve been using this word a lot in my first-semester Criminal Law and Torts classes, and finally one student had the nerve to ask me what it meant. I thought everyone knew, but just as a fish is said to not perceive the water in which it ...

The text of President Obama’s Iraq speech from last night is here.  The parts that most interested me were, first, the idea of ‘time to turn the page’.  Merely my view, of course, but it seems to me (along with practically all the other critics of the ...