Tim Stanley’s Law Blog

For Little Text Commentary… see this UCD Law video on Google Video. Note: In the battle of the farms… UCD tends to do pretty well (and there is a video on this page as well)…

The story behind the story.

John Ashcroft American Patriot, Republican

Part 1

Part 2

Part 1 of March of the Law Students a documentary about University of Chicago Law Students

Part 1 of March of the Law Students a documentary about University of Chicago Law Students

Here are some videos made by Cardozo Law School that they put up on YouTube. Cardozo is of course home of the Innocence Project run by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. 194 exonerated so far.

Professor Herz giving an Environmental Law Lecture

Professor Hamilton on the Constituion and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Professor Crane on Antitrust

Professor Leslie on Family Law

Professor Sterk on eminent domain and Kelo v New London

Professor Hughes on Intellectual Property Law

University of Chicago Professor Richard Epstein talking at a Federalist Society meeting at George Mason University Law School on Kelo v. New London which allowed public takings of private land to be used by other private parties if the public was benefited and that promoting economic development is a traditional and long accepted governmental function, and there is no principled way of distinguishing it from the other public purposes. Here is Professor Epstein’s commentary on this case adn decision and on takings in general.

KO on the end of Habeas Corpus.

Here is GW Law Professor Jonathan Turley talking with KO about Habeas Corpus and the new law that allows the President to…

… and here is Tucker Carlson in a great Dancing with the Stars video.

Too bad Tucker lost… he was real good.

Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig on the Creative Commons Project

A few videos… I don’t know any of these people, but they all have videos on YouTube… more in the next few weeks.

Judge Popeo for NY State Supreme Court

Jenifer Davis - Circuit Judge Orange County, Florida

Victoria del Pino Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Michael Powers - Illinois. His family supports him, and he is the son of a cop who supports our 2nd Amendment rights.

He gives his overview of how he defines the Rule of Law and where the world is heading…

I start with Justice Scalia in a discussion with students and faculty at the University of Freiburg in Switzerland. Interesting…

This is a clip from last spring before the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld — Guantanamo ruling, in which he dissented on. As Justice Scalia says there may be no end in this war…

And from Jack Cafferty file on CNN — Is President Bush planning on pardoning himself by way of bill that just passed the US House???

The text and other congressional information about HR 6054 - Military Commissions Act of 2006 - can be read by clicking here.

Here is some more information from NPR (audio) on the Senate version of the bill, and at BlogCritics.org - Urgent Legislation (H.R.6054) Contains Hidden Retroactive Presidential War Crimes Pardon… Why? (and read the comments for that post).

The key item (from the NPR site) “The legislation would narrow the range of offenses prohibited under the War Crimes Act. This would protect civilians (such as CIA interrogators and White House officials) from being prosecuted for committing acts that would have been considered war crimes under the old definition. The change is retroactive…”