Month: December 2022

Songs of wrongful convictions are as old as country music, including Vernon Dalhart's The Prisoner's Song (1925) and Jimmie Rodgers's  I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now (1933). The most ...

Holly Fernandez Lynch and I discuss clinical research ethics, including challenge trials, research subject payment, and diversity in medical research with co-hosts Rahima Ghafoori and Caroline Gozigian (UVA Law '23).…

My new essay is up on The Hill, explaining how Cassidy Hutchinsons first lawyer paid by the MAGA affiliated First America PAC attempted to influence her testimony for the benefit…

From an email message that I recently received: South Texas College of Law Houston (“STCLH”) invites applications for one or more Visiting Assistant Professor (“VAP”) positions for academic years 2023-25. ...

Updated from last year with Carrie Underwood and Mariah Carey (toward the bottom of the post). Except this one:

 

Glory to the heroes of Ukraine!

My poem on Pierson v. Post, written from the fox's perspective, is out in Hastings Journal on Gender & the Law. The full cite is 34 Hastings Women's L.J. 113 (2023), and…

Congratulations to these faculty members at U.S. law schools who were recently elected to membership in the American Law Institute: Asli Ü. Bâli, Yale Law School Amy Hardberger, Texas Tech…

This is Steven Epstein's ninth and final guest post on his book, Extreme Punishment: The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder. The following is an excerpt ...