Michael Smith's Law Blog

Every once in a while, it's fun to read nonsense online. Through the magic of the internet, one can explore the  finer points of legal ...

...or in any other California city or town for that matter. On November 8, California passed Proposition 64 (text of the Proposition here , ...

From Josh Blackman's Blog , I learned about the remarkably terrible petition for certiorari in  Sigram Schindler Beteiligungsgesellsch...

...by publishing this article , titled Why Did So Many People Flunk the Bar Exam This Year? It begins: The most recent bar exam test re...

Over at Slate , Judge Richard Posner writes about the Supreme Court's opinion in Riley v. California , where the Court held that police ...

For the beginning of my bar review program, I have been going through Kaplan's review sessions for core subjects. I completed the contra...

ABC's upcoming show, How to Get Away With Murder , looks like it will be two things: (1) an overly-dramatic reiteration of the second ha...

Linda Holmes of NPR has an fun article about the upcoming sequel to Man of Steel . The title of the sequel will be Batman v Superman: Dawn ...

It's that wonderful time of my life when I get to pay for a bar prep course. I'm going with Kaplan because they have an excellent de...

The New York Post reports : A little-known New York State law prohibits “selling, serving, delivering or offering to patrons an unlimited...

So reports NBC Chicago , Lawyerist , Outside the Beltway , and Chicagoist . New York Magazine reports on a separate incident. Actually, t...

The Washington Post reports : Since December, the libertarian lawmaker, a tea party favorite, had been working with former Reagan administ...

Early in the existence of this blog, I wrote a general post on bad titles of articles in law journals. I mentioned there that Bryan Garner,...

Via the BBC , I learned that Apple is now reporting national security requests it receives for account information and the number of account...

I am a bit late to the game on this story, but my conflict of laws exam on Wednesday was a bigger priority for me.  But now that the exam is...

The UCLA Law Review recently published its first issue of Volume 61, which contains an article by Gregory Klass and Kathryn Zeiler entitled,...

Today's New York Times has an article by Adam Liptak where he argues that Law Reviews are bad and that student editors of them are poor ...

I have a few "alerts" set up on Google Scholar, with one of them set to notify me whenever something containing the phrase "S...

The New York Times Reports: Hackers took down the sites by inflicting a denial of service, or DDoS, attack, in which they fired Web traf...

This evening, I was talking with one friend about coaching and judging high school debate, and with another friend about parties who repres...