Month: May 2025

At least for now. I had not been following Commonwealth v. Garafalo, but it is an interesting case in the latest battles over "trafficking creep" and the  Massachusetts Supreme Court…

In the latest example of Goodhart's Law, a recent paper finds evidence that researchers are purchasing citations in order to boost their citation metrics. From the paper: In this study,…

Orin Kerr reminds us of the joint statement by law reviews, back in 2005, to limit article length. The plan, shall we say, didn't work :-) Updated 5/26: Over at…

My first post on Woody Guthrie's "Deportee" was in 2018. It was timely then and it is sadly even more timely now. On January 28, 1948, a plane crashed in ...

Reuters spoke to 7 biotech executives, investors, & consultants who said that "the staff departures & policy changes at the FDA had prompted some firms to consider launching trials in…

David Eichert is collecting pedagogical material about conflict-related sexual violence. If you are willing to share, please send syllabi, lesson plans, etc to davideichert@gmail.com. See the attached announcement for more…

By now many of you will have already seen the news that a Magna Carta "copy" owned by Harvard Law School is actually an original. But in case you didn't…

Over at Balkanization, Mark Tushnet recently had a lovely post about Justice Souter. The part that caught my eye, though, wasn't really the main point of his post, yet I…