Posts by Kim Krawiec

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…

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…

The BBC has the story here: An unregulated sperm donor, who claims to have fathered more than 180 children around the world, has been denied increased parental rights for a…

As I noted in an earlier post, I had a number of conferences, lectures, and workshops this semester. All of them were really wonderful and I felt extremely grateful to…

Brian Leiter reports on this very funny book review funding statement by my former Duke colleague, Michael Munger, in the Journal of Value Inquiry:  For reasons that are literally incomprehensible,…