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Here is the abstract from an article by Richard Lazarus of Georgetown University Law Center on “Justice Scalia and the Faltering of the Property Rights Movement within the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Here is Slate with an article about Medellin, the Mexican Supreme Court and cross-border justice.

In nomination news:

ACSBlog has this post announcing the distribution of this white paper by Goodwin Liu (Assistant Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley) and Lynsay Skiba (J.D. 2005, Boalt Hall School of Law), exploring the record of Judge Samuel Alito in capital cases.

Roll Call has this article (subscription required) on the experiences of Judge Alito’s father in the New Jersey redistricting efforts during the 1960s.