"Interrogating the Facts of the Case" is out! It explores what the interrogation-room origin of the "facts" of criminal opinions might mean for our pedagogical treatment of those cases. Fun to engage with Indiana Law Journal editors and multiple brilliant scholars. tinyurl.com/jrb7724k
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Great profile of the extraordinary Quentin Lewis, featuring among other things the work of @krahall.bsky.social and her @cardozolaw.bsky.social students. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/n...
In NY in 2024 we passed the Jury Of Our Peers Act to finally end the complete and lifetime ban of anyone with a felony conviction from being considered for jury service.
Gov Hochul vetoed it.
Sen Cleare and AM Gibbs are working to move it again. Join us www.juryofourpeers.org #JuryOfOurPeers
Professors @sonofdavid.bsky.social and @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social encourage scholars to look to bottom-up sources of knowledge for a richer understanding of the relationships between law, politics, economics, and the material world.
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Today's blog post: Eleventh Circuit Addresses the Admissibility of Rap Lyrics in Criminal Prosecutions: www.evidenceprofblog.com/2026/01/elev...
Great @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social team presenting Rethinking Justice program at #AALS2026 panel on Incorporated Lived Experiences with the Criminal Legal System in the Classroom. Nick Lindsey (2024 Student Fellow), Roz Smith (2022-25 partner), & Jocelyn Simonson. @evehanan.bsky.social moderating.
Lisa Fairfax accepting the Section on Race & Private Law's Patricia J. Williams Award. Observers include Deans Sophia Lee, @aonwuachi.bsky.social, & @rogerfairfax.bsky.social, and the eponymous Prof. Williams, who received (with Peggy Cooper Davis) the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award.
Another excellent panel at #AALS2026. "Property Rights and Racial Dispossession," featuring Jade Craig, @jackchin.bsky.social, Hayward Gordon, Danaya Wright, @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social's Aissatou Barry, and Mitch Crusto.
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John Stinneford concluding his remarks on the original meaning of the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause at an excellent panel on "Bounding the Modes of Punishment" at the AALS Annual Conference #AALS2026, with Profs Resnik, Armstrong, Sakoda, @aaronlittman.bsky.social & @hashtagblevin.bsky.social
Year one folks…
You can comment on this proposed change; so can your students; and so can those who have been directly impacted by the rule. If you’re looking for ideas on teaching impeachment or more information on the proposal, check out my chapter in the forthcoming book “Critical Evidence.” tinyurl.com/3x8kyen4
The proposed Advisory Committee Note is interesting too—what’s left after the DOJ sought cuts in return for their signing on. It indicates that the sanitizing of felony convictions—a kind of judicial “compromise”—is “problematic," since jurors need the name to assess the purported probative value.
The Advisory Committee rejected earlier arguments in favor of abrogating FRE 609 and in favor of deleting FRE 609(a)(1). And yet the sole member of the Committee to vote against moving this more modest change to public comment said he feared that this was part of a two-step process to abrogate 609.
Public comment opens today on a proposed FRE 609 reform! The main change would be the addition of “substantially” to the 609(a)(1)(B) balancing. In other words, it aims to make it harder to admit felony convictions against those testifying in their own defense at criminal trials tinyurl.com/2c6mazxd
“Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office”
Timely paper from law prof Stratos Pahis:
"This Is (NOT) an Emergency: On Trump's 'Reciprocal' Tariffs and the Judicial Decisions Declaring Them Illegal"
Tomorrow at #SEALS2025 I’ll present my forthcoming article “Interrogating the Facts of the Case,” which examines the risks of erasing the interrogation room from the criminal law classroom (& elsewhere). Come find me and co-participants at 8-10am, Magnolia C. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
State supreme courts are a battlefield for pressing issues, from abortion rights to ballot access. But do you know how your court works?
Our guide breaks down the structure and procedures of every single state’s highest court.
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Law professor colleagues: We're hiring! 🗽
Brooklyn Law School is considering lateral hires in several areas, including constitutional law, civil procedure, criminal procedure, evidence, family law, and torts. If you're considering a move and have a special interest in joining us, please reach out!
Such a great panel at Law & Society discussing pedagogy and chapters from the forthcoming book Critical Evidence! Thanks to organizer Anna Roberts and panelists Andrea Dennis, Daniel Harawa, Ngozi Okidegbe, and Rebecca Wexler, with a special shoutout to my co-editor Julia Simon-Kerr!
