Slouching Towards Gomorrah
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4 days ago · The solution is to reverse Bork’s community-killing consumer welfare framework and return to real antitrust regulation, like what we had in part from Senator John Sherman’s time until the Supreme Court and Reagan put Bork’s bizarre theory into practice. Next Sunday: Solution: Break Up the Internet Giants. Your weekly excerpt from one of ...
2 days ago · And that's what Robert Bork called the “ consumer welfare standard.” And you could draw a direct line from that to replacing the 10,000 civic leaders who ran dry goods stores in every town with Walmart. And on to Amazon. Yeah, that's right. And then we had a technological revolution that built on top of this new framework.
1 day ago · As Robert Bork warned in a 1978 article: The bill pretends to create a real set of courts that will bring ‘law’ to an area of discretion. In reality, it would set apart a group of judges who must operate largely in the dark and create rules known only to themselves.
While it may have been around in various forms over time, it's modern incarnation can somewhat be traced to Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia, and I feel like it's only really taken off in the last 15 or 20 years. I think this may be in part because of the Internet just making it so much easier to do research.
5 days ago · He has written 10 books on topics as diverse as politics, music, and smart appliances. He is a contributor to The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, National Review, American Conservative, and Diario ...
3 days ago · The intellectual foundations for this U-turn were laid at the University of Chicago by such scholars as Robert Bork, whose sneering dismissal of the legal and economic logic in cases like United States v. Von’s Grocery helped doom his Supreme Court nomination in 1987. The political foundations were laid in the 1980s when President Ronald ...
3 days ago · Professor Meese joined the William and Mary faculty in 1995 and was a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia in the 2001-2002 academic year. He was the Cabell Research Professor of Law in 2001-2002, 2011-2012, 2013-2014, 2014-15, and 2018-19, and was the Tazewell Taylor Research Professor in 2016-17.
