Law Roundtable

One of my hobbies is historical recreation; one of my interests is running a bardic circle at which I try to create the illusion of a group of people sitting around a fire entertaining each other at some indefinite time and place in the medieval period. I recently created ...

It long ago occurred to me that one way of making the process of getting on an airplane easier would be to line up the passengers in advance in the inverse order of their seats numbers (assuming you board from the front) then march them aboard. That way ...

As most readers of this blog know, I posted some time back that I preferred Obama to both Hilary and McCain, expanding on that in a later post. There have now been several news articles including me in lists of conservatives who have endorsed Obama, based ...

I have been traveling in Italy with family and friends, ...

I like gadgets; two of them have been ...

The first stage of our trip to Italy ...

A recent CNN story discussing the cost of the case so far to the state noted with a tone of regret that it would be difficult to force the parents to pay the cost since the state Supreme Court had found that the seizure of their children was ...

Some years ago I heard a talk by someone who, as a law student, had been involved in providing free legal services to poor people in his community. Much of what he had done involved helping people deal with the welfare bureaucracy, including the parts of it responsible ...

The FLDS case is not yet over; the Child Protective Service has appealed the court decision to the Supreme Court. Nonetheless, I think it's worth looking back at the history of the case in order to figure out what CPS thought it was doing and why it thought ...

In an earlier post I suggested a low cost way of making it possible for students to take exams on computers. An alternative suggested in the comments was to have students boot their laptops under a stripped down version of Linux configured to make it impossible for ...