The Golden Rule (them what has the gold makes the rules)
Dobbs, SVB, the Internet Archive, antitrust and the law’s foundation in norms, not consistency.
I’m kickstarting the audiobook for my next novel, a post-cyberpunk anti-finance finance thriller about Silicon Valley scams called Red Team Blues. Amazon’s Audible refuses to carry my audiobooks because they’re DRM free, but crowdfunding makes them possible.
For many Constitutional law scholars, last years’ Dobbs decision on abortion rights at the Supreme Court came as a dismaying shock, because it showed conclusively that conlaw wasn’t a realm of ideologically consistent intellectual foment, but rather, a matter of politics.
Writing for Credit Slips, the finance law scholar Adam Levitin admits to feeling a bit of schadenfreude in that moment. The “blue collar” law scholars in “grubby” banking and money fields have always treated the conlaw set as “slightly clueless toffs”:
As a field, conlaw fiercely resists the idea that their field is “largely a battle of normative opinions, without any quasi-objective touchstone or clearly right or wrong answers.” Finance law, by contrast, firmly roots…
