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March 27, 2013 - When Chief Justice Roberts asked if President Obama had the courage of his convictions during oral arguments regarding the Defense of Marriage Act, he echoed Professor Alan Meese, who asked the same question over 2 years ago. Read the blog.

March 21, 2013  - Professor Alan Meese argues why Congress should reject the efforts of Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz to overregulate the use of drones. Read the blog.

March 20, 2013 - According to Professor Alan Meese, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit "struck a blow for economic liberty, efficiency, and consumer welfare," in its decision in St. Joseph Abbey v. Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors. Read the blog. Meese's blog was referenced on March 25 in the blog Truth on the Market in a post titled "Meese, Mellor & Rowes on Economic Liberty and the Fourteenth Amendment."

March 6, 2013 - Professor Alan Meese posted a blog titled "On Drones, Due Process and U.S. Soil" during Senator Rand Paul's nearly 13-hour filibuster.

March 5, 2013 - Professor Christopher L. Griffin, Jr., and Georgetown University Law Center Fellow Dov Fox share their views in a blog titled "Greater Disability Protection Doesn't Mean Less Selective Abortion" as guests on The Blog (Huffington Post).

February 24, 2013 - Professor Vivian Hamilton shares her thoughts on "Why States Should Ban Adolescent Driving" on Concurring Opinions.

February 19, 2013 - Professor Timothy Zick, author of a new book titled The Cosmopolitan First Amendment, Cambridge Univ. Press, forthcoming, 2013, SSRN) writes about the book's inquiry into the non-domestic aspects of expressive and religious liberties on I-CONnect.

February 1, 2013 - Professor Alan Meese's Bishop Madison blog featured a post titled "Let's End the Subsidy for High Tax States."

January 30, 2013 - Professor Vivian Hamilton argues why we should raise the marriage age on Concurring Opinions.

January 22, 2013 - Professor Jason Solomon's 2012 Emory Law Journal article (SSRN) on the civil jury was highlighted on Jotwell. Reviewer Suja A. Thomas of the University of Illinois College of Law wrote that it was a "joy to read and should be widely cited."

January 22, 2013 - Professor Vivian Hamilton completed an interesting series of posts on Concurring Opinions that argue that the voting age should be lowered in the United States.

January 7, 2013 - A number of blogs and websites reposted or discussed Professor Alan Meese's December 31 blog post on Robert Bork's singular influence on antitrust law. Truth on the Market praised the blog as a "terrific tribute." Volokh Conspiracy noted that it "explains why ... Bork likely had an even greater effect on antitrust law than on the popular debate over constitutional interpretation."  Other blogs or sites taking note of the post included Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog, The #Antitrust Daily, Chillin' Competition (which called Meese's blog the "best post on Bork's contribution to antitrust law"), International Center for Law and Economics, and Point of Law.com.

January 1-31, 2013 - Erieblogging: Each day this month Professor Michael Steven Green posted an un- or underexplored question about this landmark decision on PrawfsBlawg. They were simultaneously posted on his CivPro blog.