Legal Commentary

Choking on the Condescension

Posted on August 24, 2008
Larry Summers writes in the FT:It is now recognised that meaningful efforts to address climate change require a framework that induces China and other emerging markets to co-operate.No, what's recognized is that addressing climate change requires a framework that induces the U...

Thoughts on Obama's Law Review Article

Posted on August 23, 2008
So Politico finally managed to find Obama's law review case comment, and the Obama campaign has confirmed his authorship. It's a six-page summary of Stallman v. Youngquist, an Illinois Supreme Court case holding that a fetus does not have the right to sue its mother for unintentional infliction of prenatal injuries...

Obama-Biden

Posted on August 23, 2008
I'm perfectly content with an Obama-Biden ticket. The best take on the Biden choice is this one by the TPM crew. However, as I've indicated, I'm worried that Biden's foreign policy credentials, which are taken as a given by the DC pundit class, won't impress voters much...

"The Global Refunding System"

Posted on August 23, 2008
Hans Gersbach has an interesting proposal ($) for how to overcome the international collective action problems of the Kyoto accord:Imagine that the twenty largest industrial countries would be able to coordinate and agree to put a significant, though not extraordinary, amount of money into a fund, the Global Climate Fund...

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