Monday, December 6, 2010

THIS IS A COMIC BOOK ABOUT FEDERALISM: Have you ever been troubled by whether evidence gathered by Professor X through mindreading is admissible? Whether the Keene Act in Watchmen would pass muster under current commerce clause jurisprudence? The patentability of all those things on Batman's utility belt? Well then, have I got a blog for you. (The only shortcoming? It's not apparently run by Matthew Murdock, who, as we all know, has substantial practical experience with these issues.)

7 comments:

  1. Joseph J. Finn5:19 PM

    This is just grade-A awesome.  Probably mentioned in there somewhere, but one of my favorite bits of fourth wall breaking in Marvel was always that the law firm Jennifer Walters (She-Hulk) worked at specialized in metahuman law.  So naturally, their law library was a complete collection of Marvel comic books (retconned into said comic books having the force of legal documents in the Marvel universe, since they have the stamp of the Comic Code Authority).

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  2. Benner5:34 PM

    The essay on Professor X is probably right on the hearsay and self-incrimination points, but there's a clear 4th amendment issue, under Kyllo v. United States.   You would need mindreading warrants. 

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  3. isaac_spaceman6:21 PM

    Favorite footnote: "Law school famous is like Internet famous except for lawyers and law students." 

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  4. And those two Venn Diagrams intersect at Adam.

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  5. Dan Suitor7:17 PM

    Have they discussed the changes in the tax code necessary to account for gains received as a result of superpowered activity? What about some tort reform in the case of supervillain liability?

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