September 20, 2005

I'd like to offer our heartfelt thanks to Professors Richard Epstein and Stephen Presser for their contributions to this site in discussing the Supreme Court--from many different angles--following John Roberts's nomination to the Supreme Court. They've each now added a finishing postscript (Professor Epstein, Professor Presser) following the conclusion of last week's hearings. In related confirmation news, it looks like Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid will ignore the professors' advice and vote against the Roberts nomination.

We hope you've enjoyed Professor Epstein and Presser in their discussion as much as we have. Although they ventured across the broad expanse of law--far afield at times from the civil justice issues upon which we focus--it was a real privilege to have such top legal minds exploring the rule of law itself on these pages, which after all are intended to shed insight on how we might make our rule of law more workable.