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Shooting Blanks

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Matt York / AP Photo The Supreme Court heard a new gun control case yesterday that has 2nd amendment activists thinking they’ve won, but Adam Winkler says that ...

From ADAM WINKLER, The Daily Beast,  3 Mar 2010

Crazy for Tenure

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Huntsville Police Dept. / AP Photo Not getting tenure allegedly drove Alabama professor Amy Bishop to murder her colleagues. Law professor Adam Winkler on the ...

From ADAM WINKLER, The Daily Beast,  18 Feb 2010
Related Topics: Amy Bishop,  Harvard University,  University of Alabama

Corporate Speech Is Not "Free"

Last week, the Supreme Court caused an uproar when it struck down a campaign finance law that barred corporations from making political expenditures. The Court said that corporations are entitled to the same freedom of speech as people. All ...

From ADAM WINKLER, Huffington Post,  4 Feb 2010

Adam Winkler: Obama Was Right About the Gates Arrest

On Thursday, President Obama weighed in on the arrest of African-American Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, saying a Cambridge police officer "acted stupidly" when he arrested Gates for disorderly conduct. The next day, Obama backed down from his ...

From ADAM WINKLER, Huffington Post,  25 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,  Barack Obama,  Harvard University,  Newt Gingrich,  Gayle King

Adam Winkler: Making Off Like Madoff

Right after Barack Obama was elected president, I followed his lead and began reading books on Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Depression. Like the president-elect, I wanted to know what lessons history had for dealing with our dire economic crisis. ...

From ADAM WINKLER, Huffington Post,  22 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Franklin D. Roosevelt,  Bernard Madoff,  Enron Corporation

The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again?) of a Law Professor

Last fall I stood dumbfounded in front of my law school mailbox, a copy of the Supreme Court Economic Review in my hands.  The first item in the table of contents of this illustrious, Chicago-based annual law journal was a note from the editors ...

From ADAM WINKLER, PrawfsBlawg,  10 Jul 2008
Related Topics: George Mason,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  University of Chicago,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush

Obama, the Roberts Court, and the Four Horsemen Analogy

With Senator Barack Obama leading in the polls and general economic conditions favoring the Democrats, speculation has turned to what type of relationship a President Obama might have with the conservative Roberts Court.  In what is quickly becoming a ...

From ADAM WINKLER, PrawfsBlawg,  6 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George Washington University,  U.S. Democratic Party,  E.J. Dionne,  George W. Bush

Adam Winkler: Justice Scalia's Living Constitution

One of the most intriguing aspects of Justice Scalia's opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, the landmark Second Amendment decision handed down yesterday, is its use of living constitutionalism to justify the decision to invalidate D.C.'s handgun ...

From ADAM WINKLER, Huffington Post,  27 Jun 2008

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