We have long thought that the pedagogical tradition of reading appellate opinions in law school classes sucks all the fun and some of the educational value out of using cases as source material. Consider...
Michael Conklin, Angelo State University, Business Law, has published ‘Be a Lot Cooler if You Didn’t’: Why Judges Should Refrain from Pop Culture References in Judicial Opinions. Here is the abstract. The use of pop culture...
Robert Spoo’s review of Maksymilian Del Mar’s new book, Artefacts of Legal Inquiry: The Value of Imagination in Adjudication (Hart, 2020), appears here in The New Rambler. Professor Spoo writes in part: Maks Del...
DeVaughn Jones, American University College of Law, has published Judicial Racism and Judicial Antiracism: Retelling the Dred Scott Story. Here is the abstract. This Essay retells the Dred Scott story as a set of...
Robert L. Tsai, Temple University School of Law, is publishing Supreme Court Precedent and the Politics of Repudiation in Law’s Infamy (Austin Sarat, ed., University of Massachusetts Press, 2020) (forthcoming). Here is the abstract....
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