The Perils of Complexity

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  June 9th at 01:35 PM  | 

As a practicing lawyer, I naturally have a professional interest in vague and/or complex legal rules that require lots of expensive legal research, training and experience to understand and explain. But complexity isn’t just costly to consumers of legal services, and thus a burden on business as well as on citizen access to the courts. It’s also a drag on the economy and on personal | Read More »

Jason Linkins Encounters The Hazards Of Blogging A Subject You Do Not Understand

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  May 28th at 07:43 PM  | 

I don’t know whether Jason Linkins at the Huffington Post is a lawyer, but from this post I have to assume not – and that he really should have talked to a lawyer before publishing it. The main thrust of Linkins’ post is his argument that Justice Scalia in his 2002 opinion in Republican Party of Minnesota v. White somehow endorsed the notion that it’s | Read More »