I was pleasantly surprised to receive an campus-wide email the other day announcing that Eugene Volokh was being brought here to give a talk to the BSC Pre-Law Association. The talk was this afternoon. Volokh's is one of the sharpest minds I know, and it was a great opportunity for my students to be able to listen to him and ask questions. Well, those of my students who came, anyway. He was giving his"Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope" talk, which is well worth your time, in case you haven't read it - it's on his UCLA webste in several versions; here is one of them.