Bs Mixing and Electric Dipole Moments in MFV

We analyze the general structure of four-fermion operators capable of introducing CP-violation preferentially in Bs mixing within the framework of Minimal Flavor Violation. The effect requires a minimum of O(Yu^4 Yd^4) Yukawa insertions, and at this order we find a total of six operators with different Lorentz, color, and flavor contractions that lead to enhanced Bs mixing. We then estimate the impact of these operators and of their close relatives on the possible sizes of electric dipole moments (EDMs) of neutrons and heavy atoms. We identify two broad classes of such operators: those that give EDMs in the limit of vanishing CKM angles, and those that require quark mixing for the existence of non-zero EDMs. The natural value for EDMs from the operators in the first category is up to an order of magnitude above the experimental upper bounds, while the second group predicts EDMs well below the current sensitivity level. Finally, we discuss plausible UV-completions for each type of operator.Comment: 11 pages; v2: references adde

The Doctrine of Prior Restraint Since the Pentagon Papers

The purpose of this speech is to examine how the doctrine against prior restraint has evolved since the Pentagon Papers case. I intend to demonstrate that while traditional antipathy to prior restraint has for the most part remained strong, several recent cases foreshadow a dangerous expansion of well-established exceptions to the doctrine. To understand fully the significance of these recent cases, I will begin this lecture with a general discussion of the historical origins of the doctrine against prior restraint. I will then proceed with a critical overview of the landmark Pentagon Papers case, more formally called New York Times Co. v. United States. The remainder of the discussion will focus on five Supreme Court cases decided since the Pentagon Papers decision - Pittsburgh Press Co. v. Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations, Southeastern Promotions, Ltd. v. Conrad, Young v. American Mini Theatres, Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart, and Snepp v. United States - as well as three recent lower court decisions involving national security considerations: United States v. Marchetti, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. v. Colby, and United States v. The Progressive

Tolerance Theory and the First Amendment

A Review of The Tolerant Society: Free Speech and Extremist Speech in America by Lee C. Bollinge

On The Craft and Philosophy of Judging

A Review of The Ways of a Judge: Reflections from the Federal Appellate Bench by Frank M. Coffi

Property Rights in Constitutional Analysis Today

The concept of property rights in Supreme Court constitutional analysis today is in flux. It has been and is undergoing change—a change more rapid than those of us who have concentrated our attention on other personal rights can imagine. That this process of change raises anew some fundamental issues of justice is not surprising; the institution of property has always done so. Perhaps the change is simply a swing of the pendulum, as the quote from Justice Frankfurter suggests: individual property rights assume greater importance as a state moves toward a laissez-faire economy or away from a regulated one; they tend to have less significance when the state takes on a welfare cast. Perhaps change in viewing property rights under the Constitution is inevitable since the very philosophical concepts underlying property rights, if they are not mutually conflicting, at least constitute a spectrum of relationships between the individual and the state which secures those rights. This spectrum inevitably reflects political ebb and flow. From the Washington Law Review Jurisprudential Lecture Series

In Ignatian Footsteps: Translational Learning for Educating and Training Adults in the 21st Century

Each fall, countless people of various ages, ethnicities, and intentions begin a college education at a variety of American institutions of higher education. Higher education has long been viewed as the doorway to the American dream; a ‘social good,’ in economic terms, that promises benefit to the American masses. Studying under higher minds in traditional and non-traditional college and university settings is an opportunity afforded to nearly any person of ability in the United States. Indeed, higher education touches nearly every aspect of American society, from research and biomedicine to technology and the arts