I enjoyed working on this project with @NDLaw student Savannah Shoffner, about my (great) home state's constitution:
THE ORIGINAL MEANING AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE INVESTIGATIVE POWER OF THE GRAND JURY IN THE CONSTITUTION OF ALASKA
@SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Cormac McCarthy’s Platonic Dialogues: The Problem of Suicide in The Sunset Limited and Stella Maris | American Political Thought: Vol 15, No 2 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
To paraphrase @lsolum's "download it while it's hot" . . . "run, don't walk!" to read this new-ish (and short) paper on "The Signs of the Times", by Steve Smith:
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I enjoyed working on this piece, in the Per Curiam feature of @HarvardJLPP, with @NDLaw student Savannah Shoffner, on the original meaning of the grand-jury provisions in Alaska's (my home state!) constitution:
journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/the-ori...
State constitutional law! @JudgeDillard
I filed this amicus brief in a CTA9 religious-freedom case, calling attention to various efforts to evade SCOTUS's decision in Carson v. Makin:
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25-802/3957...
The AALS Section on Law and Religion seeks nominations for the 2025 Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship. This annual award recognizes a paper that has made an outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of law and religion. 1/
With some help from tech-savvy friends, I managed to set up a site that has all of the old content (20+ years!) from the Mirror of Justice blog: @MirrorJustice
www.mirrorofjustice.org
In my experience, a tiny percentage of people who complain about Citizens United (a) have read it and/or ( b) know anything about its actual results.
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Nominations should include the name of the author, the title of the paper, a statement of eligibility, and a brief rationale for choosing the paper for the award. Self-nominations are accepted. Nominations should be sent to Rick Garnett (rgarnett@nd.edu) by December 15, 2025. 3/3
To be eligible, a paper must have been published between July 15, 2024, and November 15, 2025. The author must be a faculty member at an AALS Member School (with no more than 10 years' experience as a faculty member) or a full-time fellow or VAP at an AALS member school. 2/
The AALS Section on Law and Religion seeks nominations for the 2025 Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship. This annual award recognizes a paper that has made an outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of law and religion. 1/
OMG... Jeremiyah Love was swarmed but never down, runs it in for TD. Once again, the armed forces struggling on defense
I hope and expect that #SCOTUS will disapprove the administration’s unauthorized (and foolish) tariffs. I also urge citizens to distrust commentators who suggest that the “conservative” justices act out of loyalty to the President while the “liberal” justices just do law.
Is the Association of American Law Schools failing to live up to the moment for legal education?
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Outstanding. If you google, you’ll see he has some (from the same Source) views about abortion.
