Is it time we bring ABS to the Supreme Court?

He is the Angel Hernandez of Chief Justices.

Opinion | The Founding Father Has Issues With the Office of the Presidency

My favorite thing about this essay is the implication that if George Washington were given the choice to go big or go home, he would have chosen to go home. And I simply love that.

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Indeed. It’s unimaginable that Dolan would have made such a statement.

Stay safe! We know that scary feeling here in Omaha.

This is the ten-day in Omaha. 🤦🏻‍♂️ And we just logged the second warmest winter on record.

Police chief Marge Gunderson is one of the best characters ever. Period.

Ten Commandments Cases: Learning from Reformation Coercion - Michigan Law Review The Supreme Court’s recent embrace of “historical practices and understandings” in interpreting the Establishment Clause has emboldened states to challenge forty-five years of precedent prohibiting Te...

The Supreme Court's "history and tradition" test ignores the European religious coercion that refugees brought to America and that shaped the Founders' worldview. My essay recovers this forgotten history.

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Ten Commandments Cases: Learning from Reformation Coercion - Michigan Law Review The Supreme Court’s recent embrace of “historical practices and understandings” in interpreting the Establishment Clause has emboldened states to challenge forty-five years of precedent prohibiting Te...

My new essay in Michigan Law Review Online: When states mandate Ten Commandments displays in classrooms, they replay a coercive dynamic from Reformation Europe—Catholic processions that forced Protestants to publicly reveal their faith or face persecution. 1/2

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Lisa Feldman Barrett - How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain YouTube video by The Brainwaves Video Anthology

It also connects well with Lisa Feldman Barrett's research on emotions as the subjective labels for the interior sensations produced by the body's preparation for action. Understanding this biological process has helped me manage my emotions and mental well-being.

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Thank you for sharing this! I have been practicing non-dual meditation for the last two years, and her talk resonates with my experience. In fact, meditation helps with any internal feeling: anger, fear, anxiety, craving, etc.

Great work!

And somehow if you dare to express your frustration to the list, you’re a neo-McCarthyite. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Part 1: So You Want to Be a Compliance Professional? Advice for Law Students - Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers | Paul McGreal 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁 (𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗶𝘅 𝗜𝘁) Picture this: A Fortune 500 company discovers years of illegal bribes by a star salesperson. The General Counsel asks t...

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Also, the more you explore the Reformation (or as some historians say, Reformations plural), you see striking parallels to modern practices. It has helped me to look beyond the peculiar course the Reformation took in England to see the wider context.

Thank you! I am excited to share this research in such a timely forum.

of faith designed to identify and marginalize religious minorities. By recovering this history, this Essay demonstrates that classroom religious displays violate not just modern sensibilities but a historical understanding of religious freedom that refugees carried to American shores.

sixteenth-century Catholic processions that forced Protestants to choose between betraying their conscience or marking themselves for persecution. Like modern students confronting state-mandated religious texts, Reformation-era dissenters faced orchestrated tests

Yet, these states advance a version of history that mistakenly ignores European religious persecution that shaped how the Founders understood the establishment of religion. This Essay remedies that error through a novel historical analogy:

The Supreme Court's recent embrace of "historical practices and understandings" in interpreting the Establishment Clause has emboldened states to challenge forty-five years of precedent prohibiting Ten Commandments displays in public schools.

My essay Ten Commandments Cases: Learning from Reformation Coercion, will be published in Volume 124 of the Michigan Law Review Online. Here is a link to the current draft:

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The abstract appears in the following thread.

Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers. Edition 121 Dear friends, Welcome to the 121st edition of Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers. This week, Adam Balfour takes a fresh look at a well-worn phrase, tone at the top.

Thrilled to publish my essay “The First US Law School Course on Compliance: Its Origins and Evolution” in the most recent edition of the Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers newsletter!

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Thank you for this suggestion! I’ve used Notebook LM only sparingly, but this gives me a reason to explore its full potential as I do research this summer.

Some of my colleagues and I use the Volokh template, which is single spaced.

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Interest here, too!

Love a good fruit cake! My fav is from the Collin Street Bakery.

Great one! I think my favorite comes from one of my guilty pleasure songs — Livin’ on a Prayer by Bon Jovi.