Prof. David Skeel's Blog
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Less than the Least
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We are both law professors and evangelical Protestants – a weird
combination in our time. We hope it’s also an interesting combination.
We plan to write about the things that interest us, professionally and
personally: crime and criminal justice (Stuntz), corporate governance,
credit, and bankruptcy (Skeel), the culture wars, politics, literature
and the arts, and other topics.
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New Book of Essays on Bill's Work
"The Political Heart of Criminal Procedure: Essays on Themes of William J. Stuntz" has just been published by Cambridge University Press: here. The book is based on the papers written by a number of the country's top criminal justice scholars for...
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Orin Kerr on The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
I've been meaning for weeks to link to a very thoughtful review by Orin Kerr of Bill's book on the Volokh Conspiracy blog: here. Orin gives an excellent summary of the book and its importance, then concludes by asking, among...
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Another View on American's Bankruptcy--Skeel
A friend sent an interesting email offering a less sympathetic view of bankruptcies like the American bankruptcy. With his permission, I thought I would quote it in full here:"David: I read your post. But it seemed to me that AA filing was,...
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Was it Immoral for American Airlines to File for Bankruptcy?--Skeel
The former CEO of American thought so. He's seems like an admirable leader, but I think he's wrong about bankruptcy. Here's a little blog post elaborating on that theme....
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Richard Posner's Review in The New Republic
Richard Posner's review in the current New Republic is here. More on this and the other reviews soon....
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More Great Reviews
There are a number of new reviews of Bill's book, in addition to Justice Stevens' review in the New York Review of Books and Lincoln Caplan's review in Democracy mentioned in earlier posts. I'll start adding them to this post. As...
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Stuntz Book Event and NYRB Review
A very belated post to note that there will be a book event for The Collapse of American Criminal Justice at Harvard Law School at 3pm today for those who are in the area. It should be wonderful. (Check the...
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The Eurozone Crisis--Skeel
Earlier this week, I wrote an op-ed on the Eurozone crisis that was inspired by a wonderful conference in Iceland two weeks ago, and follows up on thoughts from an earlier blog post. The op-ed is here....
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Occupy Wall Street--Skeel
My favorite piece on the Occupy Wall Street movement thus far is a commentary by John Gapper in last Thursday’s Financial Times. (In good capitalist fashion, FT puts articles behind a paywall, so I can’t link to the commentary here). For Gapper,...
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The Suskind Book--Skeel
My first reaction to the reviews of Ron Suskind’s new book about the Obama administration’s handling of the economic crisis was that it mostly seemed to confirm widely held views, such as the perception that President Obama and Treasury Secretary...
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