law and policy
Pinkerton and Teles on the Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement
Steven Teles at Johns Hopkins recently published The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law. He talks with James Pinkerton about the subject of his work on Blogging Heads TV.
Must Read Literature: Posner, How Judges Think
Last night I got my copy of Judge Richard Posner’s How Judges Think which was released well… today (damn Amazon’s fast).
I only allowed myself time enough for the first chapter before study-guilt caught up with me, but I’m getting excited about this one -
Judicial preconceptions are best understood, we shall see, with the […]
Gault @ 40 Symposium at the University of Houston Law Center
We’re hosting an upcoming symposium at the Center for Children, Law & Policy on In re Gault a landmark 1967 Supreme Court Case finding a right to counsel for juveniles accused of crimes.
The case involved a 15-year-old boy, Gerald Francis Gault. After a trial in juvenile court, Gerald was placed in a “training school” for […]