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Watson on Kolber on Punishment

Posted on March 18, 2008
A few weeks ago, I posted a description of Adam Kolber's new paper, The Subjective Experience of Punishment, in which he argues that the subjective experience of punishment is a relevant factor in determining a just sentence. I asked: in...

Royal college warns abortions can lead to mental illness

Posted on March 18, 2008
That was the headline in the Sunday Times. For the article, click here. HT: Jared Weir

Our Lady of Malibu and Our Lady of the Angels

Posted on March 18, 2008
This morning I read Rick's review of Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbaniam, and the Sacred, which appears in the March issue of First Things. (I look forward to reading the book). As I read, my memory brought me...

Why Shariah?

Posted on March 17, 2008
MoJ-ers will be interested in Noah Feldman's new essay. An excerpt: [T]oday?s Muslims are not being completely fanciful when they act and speak as though Shariah can structure a constitutional state subject to the rule of law. One big reason...

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HBO's "John Adams"

Posted on March 17, 2008
Last night, I watched the first episode -- "Join or Die" -- of the HBO mini-series, "John Adams." (The series is based on the popular David McCullough biography.) Paul Giamatti -- an excellent actor, in my view -- plays Adams,...

"Age of Unreason"?

Posted on March 15, 2008
Here is a good review of Susan Jacoby's "disappointing" "Age of American Unreason": . . . This is disappointing, because "The Age of American Unreason" poses fascinating questions about the nature of American ignorance. Are we really getting more anti-intellectual,...

Spitzer v. United States

Posted on March 14, 2008
My colleague Michael Stokes Paulsen has a preview of a high-profile Supreme Court ruling due in 2010. An excerpt: This case presents the issue we carefully reserved in Lawrence. See Slip Op. at 18 (noting that that case did "not...

If at first you don?t succeed, try, try again?

Posted on March 13, 2008
In August of 2005 in an earlier posting I commented on the attempt in the Massachusetts legislature to impose financial reporting obligations on churches which the Commonwealth?s attorney general would have the authority to investigate. [HERE] In my earlier posting,...

Some Interesting News

Posted on March 13, 2008
This will, I think, be of interest to many MOJ-readers. New York Times March 13, 2008 Priest-Cosmologist Wins $1.6 Million Templeton Prize By Brenda Goodman The $1.6 million Templeton Prize, the richest award made to an individual by a philanthropic....

As promised, more on the Markel Sex-education licensing proposal

Posted on March 12, 2008
Thanks to MOJ contributors and readers (but not the hijacking robots) for patience and understanding in the delay to follow up on my promise to respond more fully to Professor Dan Markel?s proposal about his sex education licensing proposal for...

Obama and the Catholic Vote: Looking at the Empirical Evidence and Studying the Tea Leaves

Posted on March 12, 2008
Last evening, Prof. Douglas Kmiec, friend and colleague to all of us here at Mirror of Justice, spoke at the University of St. Thomas School of Law on ?The Call to Faith-ful Citizenship & the 2008 Primary.? (The program was...

MOJ hijacked by robots!!!

Posted on March 11, 2008
So, if you have found your way, gentle reader, to this site, you've probably figured out that MOJ's usual domain-home has been seized by web-scouring robots. Please spread the word far and wide: Until we can reclaim our home (at...

So, What Do You Lust After? More Power? More Wealth? More Celebrity?

Posted on March 11, 2008
What's the point? New York Times March 11, 2008 Kissing the Earth Goodbye in About 7.59 Billion Years By DENNIS OVERBYE In the end, there won?t even be fragments. If nature is left to its own devices, about 7.59 billion...

Moral Engagement Without the "Moral Law"

Posted on March 11, 2008
I just posted a draft of a paper I've been working on titled Moral Engagement Without the "Moral Law": A Post-Canons View of Attorneys' Moral Accountability. I welcome any and all feedback. Here is the abtract: Several years ago in...

More reaction on GLBT curriculum

Posted on March 11, 2008
First, let me dispel any rumors that MoJ crashed last night because of the sheer volume of reaction to my posts on the GLBT curriculum (though I cannot rule out that it crashed a sign of divine disapproval). Second, for...

Religious legal theory

Posted on March 11, 2008
Seton Hall law prof David Opderbeck informs me that he has started a Religious Legal Theory email discussion group. Here's his description: This is an email list for the scholarly discussion of religious legal theory. The list is open to...

"The Hazy Faith-based Future"

Posted on March 11, 2008
Christianity Today reports on what the three remaining presidential candidates have said so far concerning the future of funding for faith-based social services and of questions concerning their autonomy. Obama seems the most skeptical, McCain the most positive: no surprise...

More on the Minneapolis school program

Posted on March 10, 2008
Professor Scott FitzGibbon of Boston College Law School, an avid reader and fan of the Mirror of Justice, has offered his thoughts on Rob?s interesting postings on the GLBT proposals for the Minneapolis public schools and requested that I share...

McCain denounces anti-Catholicism, Cites Hagee's Role

Posted on March 10, 2008
That was the headline from the Catholic League this morning. And, this is their email: "It was reported over the weekend that Sen. John McCain denounced anti-Catholicism and explicitly mentioned Rev. John Hagee?s role. McCain said that ?I repudiate any...

The Death Penalty, Revisited

Posted on March 10, 2008
This article, in this morning New York Times, is worth reading. Aversion to Death Penalty, but No Lack of Cases By ALAN FEUER They are an ignominious bunch: two Bronx heroin dealers who murdered an informant, a father and son...

Kmiec's response: A clarification

Posted on March 10, 2008
With respect to Prof. Kmiec's response to my recent post -- about the Court, Sen. Obama, etc. -- a quick clarification: I did not say that my friend Doug Kmiec's "interest in Obama" was "supremely odd." Those (somewhat cutesy) words...

Doug Kmiec Responds to Robby George and Rick Garnett

Posted on March 10, 2008
March 9, 2008 Why the Supreme Court should be irrelevant to Senator Obama?s candidacy Douglas W. Kmiec [Professor of Constitutional Law and Caruso Family Chair in Constitutional Law, former Dean and St. Thomas More professor of law at The Catholic...

More on the President's Veto

Posted on March 09, 2008
Responding to Jamie Smith?s comments, Jonathan Watson writes: ?As a quick note - the bill President Bush vetoed was H.R. 2082 - It's the general appropriations intelligence bill. This was not a veto of Sen. Kennedy?s bill, S. 1943, which...

Poverty and Abortion

Posted on March 09, 2008
An interesting discussion, here, complete with charts and stuff. (HT: Vox Nova).

The veto and consequentialism

Posted on March 09, 2008
It seems to me that we could think about the President's decision to veto the bill that would have limited the CIA to those interrogation techniques authorized by the 2006 Army Field Manual in (at least) two ways. First, we...

The President's Veto

Posted on March 09, 2008
Jamie Smith, a student in my Jurisprudence Seminar, has these thoughtful comments and questions in response to the President's veto of a bill that would have banned various interrogation techniques, including waterboarding. "I was stunned to learn of President Bush's...

Responses re GLBT curriculum

Posted on March 09, 2008
Several readers have written thoughtful responses to my two posts (here and here) on the GLBT curriculum in my daughter's school district.

Pluralism, Religion and the Law

Posted on March 08, 2008
I just returned from Seattle, where Seattle University School of Law hosted a fine symposium yesterday: Pluralism, Religion & the Law: a conversation at the intersection of identity, faith and legal reasoning. Among the speakers were MOJ'ers Steve Shiffrin and...

"American lives" vs. "hardened terrorists"

Posted on March 08, 2008
We talk a lot on MoJ about the law's pedagogical function. There is also, I would suggest, a powerful pedagogical dimension to this veto.

Allen on Women in the Church

Posted on March 07, 2008
John Allen's latest NCR column includes this interesting reflection on the role of women in the Church. What will we see first: a woman president or women priests? That's an easy one. Since there's no doctrinal bar to a woman...

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