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My favorite Excess of Democracy posts from 2015

What I enjoy writing here at Excess of Democracy does not always correlate with what others enjoy reading. I'll soon post my year-end report with the most popular posts, but I thought I'd offer a few of my favorite posts from Excess of Democracy in 2015. (For my academic work, my SSRN page is a good place to start. Any my favorite content published elsewhere--a Wall Street Journal opinion piece on the equal time doctrine, and a piece at the Online Library of Law and Liberty about Evenwel v. Abbott--are also not listed below.)

Can foreign governments fund Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign? (Feb. 18, 2015)

The slow, steady decline of the LSAT (Mar. 9, 2015)

Remembering the Armenian Genocide (Apr. 22, 2015)

Visualizing law school federal judicial clerkship placement, 2012-2014 (May 1, 2015)

LSAT scores and GPAs of law school matriculants, sorted by undergraduate major, 2013-2014 (May 4, 2015)

The twenty-two law reviews you should follow on Twitter (June 1, 2015)

Could Evenwel v. Abbott end prison gerrymandering? And other potential implications (June 2, 2015)

Puerto Rico and Electoral College reform (Sept. 8, 2015)

Elbridge Gerry and Ruth Bader Ginsburg on our federal system (Sept. 9, 2015)

A tale of two law school applicant cycles (Sept. 14, 2015)

No, the MBE was not "harder" than usual (Sept. 28, 2015)

Janet Reno, for-profit law schools, and a reversal at the New York Times (Oct. 26, 2015)

What happens after a test-taker fails the bar exam on a first attempt? Some data from Texas (Nov. 5, 2015)

Slopegraphs of recent Iowa caucus polling and results (Nov. 18, 2015)

California bar exam takers are far more able than others nationwide but fail at much higher rates (Nov. 21, 2015)