I happened to walk by Zuccoti Park in Manhattan yesterday, where the Occupy Wall Street protest is centered. I picked up a few pieces of protester literature. I can't say that I was in any way comprehensive in my collection. Some of the literature ... Read full article
The "corporations are people, my friend" line was quite the momement. But as bad as it sounded, Mitt had a theoretical point. People (as well as other corporations) own corporations and people work for corporations. The problem isn't that ... Read full article
I have a new paper out, Bankrupt Politics and the Politics of Bankruptcy , that examines state bankruptcy proposals and then uses them as a jumping-off point for sketching out a political theory of bankruptcy as a "creditor's armistice," an ... Read full article
Once or twice a year, students from the University of New Mexico School of Law Clinic visit a women’s prison to provide brief legal services to those incarcerated there. We always assumed most of inmates’ questions dealt with family law, so my group, the ... Read full article
Insurance nerds like to point out that insurance coverage is a pre-requisite to a wide range of activities, from starting a business to practicing medicine to driving a car. In this sense, insurers often serve as gatekeepers to fundamental social ... Read full article
Professor Curtis Bridgeman (FSU College of Law) has an article on The Morality of Jingle Mail: Moral Myths About Strategic Default . I have a fundamental philosophical disagreement with the article, but it's got a lot of very good, clear analysis ... Read full article
