Tuesday, January 28, 2003
just got back
from a roundtable on the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The roundtable was sponsored by my former law journal, the at the Georgetown University Law Center. While the roundtable itself was quite informative, and even jovial (esp. for an international law symposium, which can get rather dry), I have to admit, I left a little depressed. Details to follow eventually.
newsey news
There's an L.A. Times article about Bush's proposal to open the Giant Sequoia National Monument for logging.
Monday, January 27, 2003
random buncha stuff
An article in the Washington Post called "Groups Turn to Judicial System to Fight Efforts By Bush Administration to Relax Protections".
Friday, January 24, 2003
they all know each other
Bryan Garner, author of my favorite style guide (and, er, editor of the most recent version of Black's Law Dictionary, is friends with David Foster Wallace, author of some of my favorite books. It is a small, small world. Though sadly enough, Bryan Garner's fiction is not getting published, despite his many legal publications. But I'm so very very curious!
two things from greenwire
A subscription service, so I won't provide links here. First, there are a bunch of environmental riders in the new appropriations bill that I'll try to summarize in a later entry. Second, Christine Todd Whitman's Scottish terrier, Coors, just died. :(
essay on writ about the affirmative action case
Vikram Amar writes about the Solicitor General's filings in re: affirmative action.
Thursday, January 23, 2003
yay
Lesbian Partner Awarded Sept. 11 Funds.
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
in the news
Feds Decry Fake Environmental Tests, from Associated Press, with quotes from another section of my division.
Also, in the Washington Post, The EPA's Lonely Moderate.
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
anti-terrorism legislation and the chemical industry
The New Republic has an article addressing this topic here.
Monday, January 20, 2003
just got back
And I probably have a lot of other things I should be blogging, but what I really want to do is remind myself to read the Court of International Trade decision addressing whether or not the X-Men are human.
Thursday, January 16, 2003
ohmygodohmygod
I just met Dahlia Lithwick!!!!! A picture and some bloggery will be up on my Dahlia page next week. But for now, I leave to Brussels! Beer and chocolate and Magritte and Peeters and Schuiten----what could be better?
oh hey
"The Punk Jurisprudence of The Clash", on Writ.
whoo!
I'm leaving for Brussels today for a vacation! But before that, I'm hearing Dahlia Lithwick speak! And yesterday, I had three very long conversations (one in person, even!) with other clerk-alums for my judge! It's been good!
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
legal silliness
My friends and I have gotten distracted by this Supreme Court Justice Compatibility Quiz. My order of matching is:
#1 Breyer
#2 Souter
#3 Ginsburg
#4 Stevens
#5 O'Connor
#6 Kennedy
#7 Scalia
#8 Rehnquist
#9 Thomas
Oh Breyer baby.
On a random note, more of my coworkers are getting Stevens than they thought. I think they were expecting Ginsburg.
from the onion
Bush on North Korea: We Must Invade Iraq.
sherry colb's writ article
On the recent California decision discussing rape and the withdrawal of consent during intercourse. I usually like reading Sherry Colb's columns, but here, as with many feminist discussions regarding rape (note: I'm not saying all!), I have a cringey, grimacing reaction to how rape gets discussed solely in terms of males raping females, because it ignores instances of males raping males, females raping males, and, yes, females raping females. This happens to be, by the way, why I cannot sit through most conferences discussing these things.
Unlike various queer legal theorists, though, this does not bother me enough to want them to change the terms of the discussion---I understand the simplicity in being able to frame arguments in terms of male/female (and use different pronouns! so much easier), and I even agree that that encompasses the majority of rape scenarios. Moreover, my legal attention is mostly focused on the environmental arena.
But I personally can't deal with discussions framed in this way. Can't.
Nor can I deal with this statement of hers: "In fact, it may be precisely the desire to dominate and punish a woman who has behaved like a 'tease' that motivates men to force them to continue to have sex after consent has been unambiguously withdrawn. In that sense, the sexual act that proceeds after a woman's withdrawal of consent is no longer truly the 'same' act as that which took place while her partner still had consent." I agree that that could very well be the motivating factor in some instances of rape. But oftentimes when that statement (which, by the way, is not limited to Colb) is made it's used in such a way to imply that this motivation--related to the power of one gender over another--is enough to explain all instances of rape. Which it can't, not if same-sex rape is to be explained.
Sorry to go off on a tangent. I'm actually pretty sure (or at least hope) that Professor Colb's approach is more nuanced than that; after all, she's written many articles on sexual-orientation discrimination as well. But it still bugs me. You know.
Monday, January 13, 2003
in the press
The Sunday Washington Post has an article entitled Justice Department Hiring Changes Draw Fire.
Friday, January 10, 2003
the third part in the amar series on precedent and the supreme court
Here.
hey
The New Republic's Gregg Easterbrook, who I don't always agree with but occasionally do, writes about "America's love affair with sociopathic cars" in a review of High and Mighty: SUVs--The World's Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way, by Keith Bradsher.
Monday, January 06, 2003
more on findlaw about supreme court precedent
This time, from Joanne Mariner.
Friday, January 03, 2003
article
John Dean writes his thoughts on "Why Rehnquist Really Wants Judges to Get a Pay Raise on Writ.
Wednesday, January 01, 2003
more editorials on what we should do about north korea
At Slate and The New Republic.
a really bizarre moment from last night's party
K (introducing me to his date M by giving details of all the stuff they have in common, as well as stuff I'd like about her): [blah blah blah] . . . and M reads How Appealing too!
M: Yeah, I can't believe that guy keeps up with all those cases! He must never sleep.
K: Maybe his associates help.
M: You know, the funniest thing was when he had that link to that psycho Dahlia Lithwick page!
Me: Err . . . that's my page.
M: Oh! I didn't mean psycho in a bad way! I really liked it! It answered all my Dahlia Lithwick questions! She's awesome, and I see her all the time when I go to the Court.
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