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December 2018

1. 31 DecThe Year of Living Shamelessly
2. 30 DecWhat Cause Were You Marching For?
3. 30 DecCrack, Baby, Crack
4. 29 DecIf Not Diversity, Then What?
5. 28 DecShort Take: Or Mind Your Own Business
6. 28 DecGuilt By Representation
7. 27 DecDark Pleas, Light Pleas, No Pleas
8. 27 DecNever Leave Home Without It
9. 26 DecJacqueline Hart, The Censor Holding The Purse Strings
10. 26 DecShort Take: After The Fun Stuff
11. 26 DecStare Rape Is Now Official, Honestly
12. 25 DecA Christmas Miracle, 2018
13. 24 DecThe Effort To Kill Social Media On Campus
14. 24 DecExpungement Cures The Symptom, Not The Disease
15. 23 DecDefaults And The Battle To Defend Them
16. 22 DecBig Cannabis And The Corner of 168th and St. Nicholas
17. 22 DecMichelle Alexander’s Morality Play
18. 21 DecCan 83 Complaints Be Wrong?
19. 21 DecSpeedy Trial Waits For No Drunk
20. 20 DecShort Take: Severing Moonves
21. 20 DecYakety Yak (Don’t Talk Back)
22. 19 DecShort Take: Nothing To Hide
23. 19 DecJudge Aquilina’s 156 Errors
24. 18 DecWaPo’s Alternative To Cross
25. 18 DecNot Worth Killing
26. 17 Dec10,000
27. 17 DecA Grand Futile Gesture
28. 16 DecInformer 3838 Had Strong Feelings And A Lot To Tell
29. 16 DecShort Take: Apple Warming
30. 15 DecEmpathy, For Real
31. 15 DecProgressive unTaxing
32. 14 DecThe Mob Didn’t Hate Judge McDaniel
33. 14 DecThe Trauma of Reasons
34. 13 DecAfter Sentence, The Pressure On University of Texas-Dallas (Update)
35. 13 DecThe Age Of A President
36. 12 DecAnecdotally Yours, The “Victim” Scolds Lara Bazelon
37. 12 DecThe “Her” That Cost Him His Job
38. 11 DecKopf: A Very Short Take On Vengeance At Sentencing
39. 11 DecShort Take: So Much For The Children (Update)
40. 11 DecThe Amy, Vicky and Andy Fine
41. 10 DecYour Feelings Or Your Life
42. 10 DecAbby Honold Act: Another Name, Another Bad Law
43. 9 DecShort Take: Colour My World
44. 9 DecWASP-ish
45. 9 DecThe Courageous 80 of Chapel Hill
46. 8 DecSeaton: No Justice in David Miller’s Death
47. 8 DecRevenge of the Nerds: Sexism In The Extreme
48. 8 DecSocial Science Owns Itself
49. 7 DecPorn Censored, Women And Gays Affected Most
50. 7 DecDespite Confession And DNA, The Jury Hung
51. 6 DecThis Time, It Was A Criminal Trial
52. 6 DecThe Second Prosecution Gamble
53. 5 DecBetter Law, Worse People: Title IX and First Step Act Edition
54. 5 DecThe Voodoo Of Voir Dire, Now With Statistics
55. 4 DecTuesday Talk*: Damned If You Do, Sued If You Don’t?
56. 4 DecWhen The “Bar” Is An “Association”
57. 3 DecTwo Sides Of Twitter: Dumb And Dumber
58. 3 DecThe Rape Kit Revenue Stream
59. 2 DecShort Take: The Secret Life Of A Social Media “Influencer”
60. 2 DecFor Title IX, Harvard Rules The World
61. 1 DecGrand Master Fairstein, Then Not
62. 1 DecTake Care, Ian Samuel (Updated)

November 2018

1. 30 NovThe Last Joke On Facebook
2. 30 NovMichael Cohen And The Forgotten Problem
3. 29 NovShort Take: The Manafort Alternative
4. 29 NovThe Second Title IX “Power Grab”
5. 28 NovBook Review: Cass Sunstein “On Freedom”
6. 28 NovOn Freedom: Questioning Sunstein’s Assumption
7. 28 NovWhy No One Answers The Letters
8. 27 NovShort Take: Don’t Ask, Don’t Test
9. 27 NovShall The Meek Inherit Reform?
10. 26 NovThe Marshall Project’s Seal of Junk Approval
11. 26 NovFear and Bubble Wrap
12. 25 NovWhy Won’t Black Men Vote Right?
13. 25 NovShort Take: The Sixth Year Fraud
14. 24 NovOnly Hope He Acts With More Restraint
15. 24 NovPolice Union Challenges Krasner’s Giglio List
16. 23 NovWho Signs The CJA Voucher?
17. 23 NovConfessions: Deadbeats or Judgments
18. 22 NovRemembering Thanksgiving
19. 22 NovFrom The Atlantic
20. 21 NovDespicable, But Not Federal: Female Genital Mutilation
21. 21 Nov“But It’s Not A Criminal Trial!”
22. 20 NovTuesday Talk*: The Thanksgiving Talk
23. 20 NovAre Sex Offenders Categorically Unworthy of Rights?
24. 19 NovBut For Video: Sued All The Time
25. 19 NovShort Take: The Disgraced Judge’s Palimpsest
26. 19 NovThe Education To Poverty Pipeline
27. 18 NovThe Title IX “Double Jeopardy” Question
28. 18 NovBut For A Selfie: Cristopher Precopia Lucked Out
29. 17 NovThe ACLU And The Zombie Apologists
30. 17 NovRestoring Meaning To “Harassment” On Campus
31. 16 NovThe Joys of Outrage
32. 16 NovThe Horrors Of Subjecting “Survivors” To Cross
33. 15 NovCongress Is Set To Pass The . . . TRUMP!!!
34. 15 NovThe Rachel Rollins Solution
35. 14 NovAmerican Blasphemy
36. 14 NovProcessing Fear, Killing Roberson
37. 13 NovThe Lure Of Cameras And The Hot Mike
38. 13 NovPledging Allegiance To Get The Job
39. 12 NovThe Problem With Dick
40. 12 NovScholars, Unfiltered
41. 11 NovBut For Video: When The Cop Didn’t Rape
42. 11 NovLhamon’s Confession: She Gamed The Narrative
43. 10 Nov“Due Process,” Tar Heel Style
44. 10 NovThe “Third” Lawyer’s Dilemma
45. 9 NovChesterton’s E-Fence
46. 9 NovThe Next Generation Gap
47. 8 NovThe Persuasive Value Of “Shut Up And Listen”
48. 8 NovThe Right To Freedom And The Patrol Car Door
49. 7 NovChanging The Head On The Corpse
50. 7 NovWhat Do We Do Now?
51. 7 NovRights, Subject To Social Media Approval
52. 6 NovA Vote To The Death
53. 6 NovVan Wagner: A Lawyer’s Personal Stare-Down with the Opiate Epidemic, Part 2
54. 6 NovVan Wagner: A Lawyer’s Personal Stare-Down with the Opiate Epidemic, Part 1
55. 5 NovDelta State Isn’t Delta House
56. 5 NovThe Vote “For”?
57. 4 NovPapers, Please
58. 4 NovThe Simplest Solution
59. 3 NovThe Abrams Proof: Question At Your Peril
60. 3 NovThe New Wobblies Of Google
61. 2 NovShort Take: Neighbors, Canadian Style
62. 2 NovA Trick Question
63. 2 NovThe Very High Price of Redemption
64. 1 NovBecause It’s Not About “Decency,” But Control
65. 1 NovSpare The Rod, Rape The Child

October 2018

1. 31 OctThe Angry Mob Within Google
2. 31 OctMilwaukee’s Judge David Borowski Needs To Go
3. 30 OctReaders Mailbag, Volume 4,592
4. 30 OctShort Take: When Law Is A Mere Distraction
5. 30 OctThe Mentor Who Wasn’t
6. 29 OctBut For Video: The Jay-Walking Death Spiral
7. 28 OctFollow The Money, College Edition
8. 28 OctConsent Matters? So What?
9. 27 OctLaw Without Douglas
10. 27 Oct16 Months, And What Do You Get?
11. 26 OctFool’s Gambit: The “Ethics” Of Negotiation
12. 26 OctWhen Good Ideas Come From “Awful” People
13. 25 OctThe Rest Of The Story
14. 25 OctThe One That “Got Away”
15. 24 OctShort Take: The Fair Umpire
16. 24 OctYancy Is Right, He Is “Sexist”
17. 24 OctThe Fallacy of the Axios Binary
18. 23 OctRegret At Harvard
19. 23 OctExtralegal Affairs
20. 22 OctIf Greyhound Refused
21. 22 OctIs There Really A “Right To Know”?
22. 21 OctYou’re Ugly and You Dress Funny
23. 21 OctDo Cameras “Educate”?
24. 20 OctSomething About Maddie
25. 20 OctShort Take: The 8% Solution
26. 20 OctTears For The Sad Judge
27. 19 OctShort Take: Where Is The Love?
28. 19 OctNY Punts On Substantially Hearsay
29. 19 OctJudge, Baby Judge
30. 18 OctShort Take: Warren’s Truth
31. 18 OctBiscayne Park’s Slam Dunk
32. 17 OctThe Zombie Study That Just Won’t Die
33. 17 OctAre Civility And Political Correctness The Same?
34. 16 OctTuesday Talk*: Can You Believe And Still Defend?
35. 16 OctThe Bail Bludgeon Response
36. 15 OctShort Take: The Change Du Jour: 52 States
37. 15 OctBelieve The Accuser In Little Rock
38. 14 OctShort Take: The Survey Says
39. 14 OctBut For Video: A Child’s Inadvertent Brush
40. 13 OctShort Take: A Cold, Hard Pass
41. 13 OctNothing To Be Proud About
42. 12 OctYou Mad, Bro?
43. 12 OctToo Diverse At Harvard
44. 11 OctMachado: Get Local Judges Out of Adoption of Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors
45. 11 OctShort Take: Due Process Isn’t Dead Yet, UC Santa Barbara Edition
46. 11 OctJudge Keller Refuses To Turn A Blind Eye To The First Amendment
47. 10 OctShort Take: Kentucky Trooper Offers To Fight “Like A Regular Citizen”
48. 10 OctIf Socialengineering, Why Not Jurisengineering?
49. 9 OctTuesday Talk*: Keep To The Left
50. 9 OctThe Ignominy of Our History
51. 8 OctCrashing The Court: Kavanaugh and Consequences
52. 8 OctWhen The Prosecutor Won’t
53. 7 OctShort Take: The Avenatti Factor
54. 7 OctWhite Women Can’t Jump
55. 6 OctKopf: Top Ten Reasons Why I Wish I Attended Georgetown Prep
56. 6 OctKavanaugh and the Tyranny Of The Minority
57. 5 OctThe Battle For Kavanaugh Hill
58. 5 OctCalifornia Mandates Warm (Female) Bodies
59. 4 OctThe Word Salad Spinner
60. 4 OctAlvarez’s Simple Twist of Fate
61. 3 OctPresumed To Believe
62. 3 OctHarvard’s “All-Purpose” Title IX
63. 2 OctTuesday Talk*: Don’t Kavanaugh Me, Bro
64. 2 OctPrickett: The Shooting of Lyndo Jones and the Trial of Derick Wiley
65. 2 OctTexas: Reinvent Free Speech On Revenge Porn
66. 1 OctBetter Cross, But Hardly The Cure
67. 1 OctComey Toys With Your Emotions

September 2018

1. 30 SepShort Take: Sucks To Be Leland Ingham Keyser
2. 30 SepShort Take: Sucks To Be Mark Judge
3. 29 SepShort Take: Helen Pluckrose, Liberal
4. 29 SepThe “Literally Dozens of Women Literally Weeping” Rule
5. 28 SepThe Last Picture Show
6. 27 SepThe Worst Possible Forum
7. 27 SepThe Only Fact You Need To Know
8. 26 SepAlaska’s Judge Michael Corey, The Next Persky?
9. 26 SepExcuses As Proof
10. 25 SepShort Take: Optics, But Substance Too
11. 25 SepShort Take: The Sincerity of the Eleventh Time
12. 25 SepIf #MeToo Goes Gray
13. 24 SepThe Garland Payback
14. 23 SepSchools Have Rules: Pig Party
15. 23 SepThe Confusion of Relative Burdens
16. 22 SepClasses Are Canceled
17. 22 SepTwo-Buck Chuck
18. 21 SepA Witness’ Conditions
19. 20 SepBalko’s Half An Epiphany
20. 20 SepThe Worst Evidence (Until It Serves Your Cause)
21. 19 SepAre SCOTUS “Term Limits” The Solution?
22. 19 SepFord’s “Dear Chuck” Letter (Update)
23. 18 SepTuesday Talk*: The Price of (Academic) Freedom
24. 18 SepDeath Of Denial
25. 17 SepKavanaugh And The Dems’ Hail Christine
26. 16 SepStand Up And Be Heard
27. 16 SepDeVos’ Folly
28. 7 SepGoing Cafe To Cabaret
29. 7 SepThe Constitution Will Survive, If We Deserve It
30. 6 SepShort Take: Dissent-err-y
31. 6 SepPublius, The Snitch
32. 5 SepTuesday Talk*: The Wages of Sin
33. 4 SepThe Argument Unmade In Vermont
34. 4 SepThe Con Of The Victim
35. 3 SepLabor Day 2018
36. 3 SepThe Forgotten Laws of Abortion
37. 2 SepThe Four Horsedudes of the Bropocalypse
38. 2 SepCan California Eliminate The “One Free Grope” Rule?
39. 1 SepShort Take: Getting The Joke
40. 1 SepJudge Willett Lets Loose On QI

August 2018

1. 31 AugSilence Of The Lambs, California Edition
2. 31 AugBe Careful What You Wish For, Califorinia Edition
3. 30 AugLeaked Title IX Rules: What’s To Discuss?
4. 30 AugThere Is No Louis CK Issue
5. 29 AugKopf: E.A. Cook III
6. 29 AugCan David Cole Save The ACLU?
7. 28 AugTuesday Talk*: Rudy, For The Defense
8. 28 AugFantasy Reparations
9. 27 AugLarry Tribe, Originalist
10. 27 AugThe Sins Of The Father
11. 26 AugShort Take: An Imperfect Storm
12. 26 AugThat Gut Feeling
13. 25 AugThe Nature of Rats
14. 25 AugNo Butts For Frieden
15. 24 AugNikki Yovino: Two Lives And Three More Months
16. 24 Aug48 Hours In Georgia
17. 23 AugThe Intersection Of Alameda County And An Old Deaf Woman
18. 23 AugWhich Hunt?
19. 22 AugFrom The Obvious To The Inane
20. 22 AugSlavery Exists In Prison, And It’s Constitutional
21. 21 AugSeaton: An Unrung School Shooting Issue
22. 21 AugMeyer-Lindenberg: An Ode to Better Partisans
23. 21 AugWill DoJ Add Students To SORA?
24. 20 AugA Four Finger Welcome Home
25. 20 AugGoldberg’s Dilemma: When The Rapist Is A Woman
26. 19 AugThe Link Rots From The Head Down
27. 19 AugRehabilitating Ronell
28. 18 AugUp Or Down, Nobody Wants To Take The Punch
29. 18 AugMy Time In Twitter Jail
30. 17 AugNYU Sued Over Handling Of Prof. Avital Ronell’s Sexual Abuse (Update)
31. 17 AugTennessee To DoJ: Make Brady Real Or Else
32. 16 AugBret Royle Accused Of Misconduct For Being Too Truthful
33. 16 AugChemerinsky Is Wrong: A Woman Can Be President
34. 15 AugAnother Commission: Will Cuomo Veto It?
35. 15 AugDeadnaming The Dead
36. 14 AugShort Take: Supreme Court Impeached!
37. 14 AugShort Take: Goldberg’s Liar
38. 14 AugProf. Avital Ronell And The Lie of The Feminist Academy
39. 13 AugThe Hype And The Naxos Reality
40. 13 AugNebraska To Use Fentanyl For Execution (Update: 8th Circuit Decision)
41. 12 AugSeaton: Billy Ray’s Barbaric Demise
42. 12 AugWrath Unprovoked (plus bonus reminder)
43. 12 AugEnemy Of The People
44. 11 AugMoffat County To Social Justice: We Support Our Own
45. 11 AugAre Speedy Trials Now Settled In The Bronx? (Spoiler Alert: No)
46. 10 AugAn Unfeminist Excuse
47. 10 AugThe “Affective Fallacy” Made Me Do It
48. 9 AugFrom Bathrooms To Bedrooms, A Study Shows
49. 9 AugJudging The Show Trial
50. 8 AugPublius, The Mutt
51. 7 AugTuesday Talk*: College Cross
52. 7 AugMentoring Isn’t Magic, But It Is A Gift
53. 6 AugShort Take: More Time For The Non-Killer?
54. 6 AugNo Appeal From The Court of Public Opinion
55. 5 AugAbolish LIES
56. 5 AugWill The ABA Be “Fixed” With New And Improved Laundry Detergent?
57. 4 AugSeaton: Four Years A Rapist
58. 4 AugShort Take: The Regulators’ Kill Shot
59. 4 AugL’affaire Jeong
60. 3 AugThe Chill In the Air At University of Michigan
61. 3 AugEveryone’s “Complicit” And That’s Just Fine
62. 2 AugShort Take: Speech, Frustration and Red Tape
63. 2 AugDoes Code Count? (Update)
64. 2 AugPart Of The Constitutional Bargain
65. 1 AugJosh Blackman’s Excellent Fight For Free Speech
66. 1 AugDavid Surratt Demands An Apology

July 2018

1. 31 JulTuesday Talk: Bot or Overlord?
2. 31 JulProsecuting Pointlessness
3. 30 JulUnderneath The Robes
4. 30 JulThe Kopf Story Written, But Not Quite The Kopf Story
5. 29 JulA Sensitive Moment
6. 28 JulAll Shook Up
7. 27 JulVitamins, A Field Test And Deputy Dolt
8. 27 JulGrand Jury “Declines” To Indict Ismael Lopez’s Killers
9. 26 JulFrisco’s Straws: No Free Lunch
10. 26 JulExcuses, Inc.
11. 25 JulKopf: My Short Response To The Response
12. 25 JulThe Crime You Read About
13. 24 JulTuesday Talk*: From The Mouths Of Babes
14. 24 JulThe Stop Light of Pedagogy
15. 23 JulRacism’s Awkward Rules
16. 23 JulShort Take: Chase Bank Apologizes For Its $169,876 “Inconvenience”
17. 23 Jul“Terrorist” Isn’t What It Used To Be
18. 22 JulShort Take: Sense and Sensibilities Redux
19. 22 JulCampus Sexual Assault: An Epidemic of Absurdity
20. 21 JulAnother Fine Mess, Judge Kopf
21. 21 JulJournalist, Heal Thyself
22. 20 JulKipling: As If
23. 20 JulThe Problem With “Make The Cop Pay” Solution
24. 19 JulTo Save The Jury Trial, Must We Kill The Plea Bargain?
25. 18 JulKopf: Footnote 239
26. 18 JulMachado: 10th Circuit Upholds Judge Kane’s Stripping Kefelegne Worku Of Citizenship
27. 18 JulIs Methadone Mom A Murderer?
28. 17 JulABA: We Was Robbed!!! (But Keep It To Yourself)
29. 17 JulImpermissible Examples: Burning Friends For A Byline
30. 16 JulKavanaugh And The Other SCOTUS
31. 16 JulActing Reasonable
32. 15 JulShort Take: The N-Word In Evidence
33. 15 JulJust The Facts
34. 15 JulConfessions of a Made Man
35. 14 JulSilly Indictments and Russia’s Crimes
36. 14 JulCan Rule 8.4(g) Survive As A “Professional Speech” Code?
37. 13 JulThird Circuit: TSA Falls Into The Crack
38. 13 JulShort Take: Who Would Harm Rodolfo?
39. 12 JulThe Other End of the School To Prison Pipeline
40. 12 JulCarter and the Squishy First Amendment
41. 11 JulYale Law Students: People Will Die If He’s Confirmed
42. 11 JulWhat Would Otter Jesus Do?
43. 10 JulTuesday Talk*: Public Pretenders
44. 10 JulThe Most Important Thing To Know About Brett Kavanaugh
45. 9 JulCy Vance And The Half-Baked Cop Scheme
46. 9 JulThe ABA’s Last Gasp
47. 8 JulMark Bennett: Playing Voir Dire To Win
48. 8 JulSusan Greene, Powerless For The Moment
49. 7 JulThe Supreme Court’s Mattresses
50. 7 JulUnethical To Prosecute “Evil” Law?
51. 6 JulLegal Aid Society Lost
52. 6 JulAdvocacy Cannot Be The Offense
53. 5 JulThe One And Only Justice
54. 5 JulReading Is Not Fundamental
55. 4 JulJuly 4th and the Other Independence Day
56. 4 JulThe New York Times’ New Low
57. 3 JulTuesday Talk*: Is The Gender Gap For Real?
58. 3 JulEllie Johnson’s Plan B
59. 2 JulShort Take: Toobin’s Bomb
60. 2 JulLawrence Crosby: A Black Man And His Car
61. 2 JulIf Facebook Says It Was Rape
62. 1 JulLiptak Down: The Last Lawman At the NY Times Falls
63. 1 JulThe Democratic Socialist’s Day

June 2018

1. 30 JunTime For A Hoe Down
2. 30 JunHeterodox Academy Has No Vulgarian Auxiliary
3. 29 JunShort Take: The Pervs Of Lanier Middle School
4. 29 JunIt’s Not Good, But It’s Not Murder
5. 28 JunKennedy Gone, Who Will We Destroy?
6. 28 JunAfter Janus, Public Sector Unions Get Their Due
7. 27 JunSpeech, Sex and the Neo-Victorians
8. 27 JunTrumpLaw and the Travel Ban
9. 26 JunCalifornia’s Easy Fix Easily Circumvented
10. 26 JunHarvey Weinstein Faces The Propensity Test
11. 25 JunPrickett: The Price Of Leon Valley’s First Amendment Retaliation
12. 25 JunNew York City’s 13% Solution
13. 25 JunRedacting The “N-Word”
14. 24 JunThe Public Life of Burritos
15. 24 JunFriends, Principles and Honesty
16. 23 JunShort Take: 85 At A Time
17. 23 JunCarpenter and the Walrus
18. 22 JunShort Take: Don’t Be A SAP
19. 22 Jun114 Days Inexplicably Lost
20. 22 JunYogesh Patil and the Offense of Defense (Update)
21. 21 JunA Man-Hater’s Defense
22. 21 JunLeaked ACLU Rules of Engagement
23. 20 JunJesse’s Girl
24. 20 JunExecution, When The Jury Feels Prison Might Be Fun
25. 19 JunShort Take: A Pitch and a Whiff
26. 19 JunBrady and the Bargained Plea
27. 19 JunTuesday Talk*: Do What For The Children?
28. 18 JunShort Take: Co-Opting “Social Justice” Into The Rule of Law?
29. 18 JunA Gun Alone
30. 17 JunShort Take: Literal But Nonsensical? There’s An App For That
31. 17 JunTolerable Cruelties (Update)
32. 16 JunSometimes The “Victim” Is A Killer
33. 16 JunEven Cartoonists Serve
34. 15 JunShort Take: The Malleability of “Due”
35. 15 JunThe Unbearable Wrongness of Bazelon
36. 14 JunDebate Epilogue: A Gentleman’s Lament
37. 14 JunDebate: Maybe Civility Wouldn’t Hurt
38. 14 JunDebate: PC, At Best Inauthentic Babble, At Worst Dangerous Obfuscation
39. 14 JunAbelove Dismissed; New York Attorney General Reached Too Far
40. 13 JunTuesday Talk: National Academies Of (Social) Science Has The Answer
41. 13 JunJudge Carlton Reeves And The Wrong Way To Make A Point
42. 12 JunShort Take: Hysteria and the Federal Bench
43. 12 JunA Quasi-Correction On Undefined Cyberbullying
44. 12 JunHouston’s Public Defender, Alex Bunin, Under Attack (Update)
45. 11 JunA Warning, Revisited
46. 10 JunHamilton-Smith: Letter To Gay
47. 10 JunPogo Is Still Right: Fight, Twitter, Fight (Update)
48. 9 JunShort Take: Hackers Killed The Video Star
49. 9 JunDumb Enough For Alexa
50. 8 JunShort Take: Masterpiece Lost
51. 8 JunThe Lesson of New York City’s Elite High Schools
52. 7 JunA Byrd’s Eye View
53. 7 JunProstitution And The Rubber Option
54. 6 JunBad Cops And Vagabonds
55. 6 JunGood Looking Lies
56. 5 JunCyberbullying, Undefined
57. 5 JunVote “No” On Persky Recall
58. 4 JunCorrupt Intent Plus A Platitude Equals What?
59. 4 JunShort Take: A Moron And His Gun Are Soon Parted
60. 4 JunWhen The Right Eats Its Own
61. 3 JunShort Take: The New Nuthouse
62. 3 JunSunday Musing: Majority Rules
63. 2 JunSeaton: A Penny For Your Court-Appointed Attorney Thoughts
64. 2 JunA Defense of Qualified Immunity?
65. 2 JunHow The Tail Wagged LawDog
66. 1 JunPrickett: No Place For Courtroom Intimidation By Cops
67. 1 JunShort Take: Unleash The Dog?
68. 1 JunRestitution and Resurrection Are Not Mutually Exclusive

May 2018

1. 31 MayHousekeeping: A Broken Lock
2. 30 MayShort Take: The $4 Billion Dollar Message
3. 30 MayBut For $1 Bail
4. 29 MayTuesday Talk*: Elon and the MuskBros
5. 29 MayWithout Guns, It’s Knives
6. 28 MayMemorial Day 2018
7. 28 MayOtte: A Casualty Of Allegheny County’s Chief Public Defender
8. 28 MayMatthew Charles And The Crack
9. 27 MaySeaton: More Hollow Promises For Tennessee’s Indigent Defense Waltz
10. 27 MayShort Take: Shaun King’s Mystery Theater
11. 27 MayRich Man Bail
12. 26 MayShort Take: Harassment and the ACLU Menace
13. 26 MayPolitics and Brain Surgery
14. 26 MayThe Baby Bust: When Goldberg Shunned Malthus
15. 25 MayShort Take: Why Does Gov. Jerry Brown Hate “Law and Kierkegaard*”?
16. 25 MayShort Take: The Flaccid Commerce Clause
17. 25 MayKeith Mumphery’s Dropped Pass
18. 24 MayShort Take: Neither Mugshots Nor Schadenfruede Is A Crime
19. 24 MayThe Spice of An Experienced Lawyer
20. 23 MayThe Epic Failure Of Arbitration
21. 23 MayShort Take: The Alternative To Crashing The System
22. 22 MayWhat Will Lawyers In Arizona Have To Say About It? (Update)
23. 22 MayKatyal’s Not-Too-Practical Indictment
24. 21 MayWhere Did All The Dads Go?
25. 20 MayThe Valenti Mystique
26. 20 MayBrill’s Blame
27. 19 MayThe 30-Year Itch (Update)
28. 19 MaySchlossberg: Disgust, Disrepute and Discipline
29. 18 MayShort Take: Stunted Development (or wigging out)
30. 18 MayCancel The Victim Show
31. 17 MayThe Trope Of The “Making Of A Nazi Trope”
32. 17 MayNo Saint In The City
33. 16 MayThe Only Possible Inference
34. 16 MayThe Meek Shall Inherit Twitter
35. 15 MayWho Wears Short Shorts?
36. 15 MayConfession of Error
37. 14 MayThe Weed Numbers, Explained
38. 13 MayShort Take: Is It A Principle?
39. 13 MayThe Immutable Characteristic Of Blue
40. 12 MayMoneta’s Choice
41. 12 MayWhen Ira Glasser Ran The ACLU
42. 11 MayDebate: Abolish All Gender Prefential Laws For True Equality
43. 11 MayDebate: Let Boys Be Boys (And Girls, Too)
44. 11 MayStuff You Need To Know, Volume 9,823
45. 10 MayMoraff: The Politics of Victimhood
46. 10 MayA Horrific Crime That Didn’t Happen
47. 10 MaySeattle To Void Pot Convictions
48. 9 MayThought Outlaws
49. 9 MayShort Take: Bail Out Your Dead
50. 9 MayDon’t Make Them Kill The Weed Doggies
51. 8 MayTuesday Talk*: The Bullshitization** of Real Work
52. 8 MaySchneiderman’s Fall
53. 7 MayShort Take: The Nipple of What’s Easy
54. 7 MayCuomo’s Bludgeon and the NRA
55. 6 MayShort Take: Skakel Reversed And Why Mickey Never Got His TV Show
56. 6 MaySeis de Mayo
57. 5 MayShort Take: A Faustian Whitewashing
58. 5 MayCivility and Strongly-Held Beliefs
59. 4 MayThird Floor, Ladies’ Lingerie
60. 4 MayWhen District Attorneys Become Gods
61. 3 MayTrump Walking and Talking
62. 3 MayYale’s Not Done With Khan
63. 2 MayShort Take: The Acceptable Applicant’s Answers
64. 2 MayThe New and Improved ACLU
65. 2 MayRegularity In An Aberrant White House
66. 1 MayAcquittal Won’t Save Him From The Registry

April 2018

1. 30 AprAn Advisor Says What?
2. 29 AprShort Take: Under The Rock
3. 29 AprLawyer In The Middle
4. 28 AprLaquan McDonald, Smeared In Death
5. 28 AprJaworski and the Rumor Mongers
6. 27 AprCosby Convicted, But Why?
7. 27 AprShort Take: The Internet’s Silver Lining
8. 26 AprMichael Cohen and the Fragile Fifth
9. 26 AprA Common Sense Jury
10. 25 AprA Rando Named Randa
11. 25 AprDNA’s Itinerant Nature
12. 24 AprEvidence Subverted: Will Cosby Get A Fair Trial?
13. 24 AprCUNY National Lawyers Guild “Explains”
14. 23 AprShort Take: Empirical Guidelines? Nonsense, Judge Bennett Says
15. 23 AprThe Masked Avengers of Newnan
16. 22 AprGay* Advice
17. 22 AprWhen “Welfare Check” Costs a Teenager’s Life
18. 21 AprShort Take: Implicit Starbucks
19. 21 AprThe Narcissism Of The Platform Hijacker
20. 21 AprDefending Speech From His Knees
21. 20 AprShort Take: Funding Indigent Defense By Defunding Innocence
22. 20 AprElijah Smith Complied (and was shot dead anyway)
23. 20 AprShort Take: Franklin Bynum, Socialist To Judge?
24. 19 AprSchneiderman’s Pardon Play
25. 19 AprTexas Revenge Porn Law Unconstitutional
26. 18 AprThe Rat Prof Cometh
27. 18 AprYour Right To The Internet
28. 17 AprTuesday Talk*: The Hannity Exception
29. 17 AprWeed and The Lies We Tell Ourselves
30. 16 AprHarvard In The Eye Of The Tiger
31. 16 AprShort Take: Wrong Views Wrongly Destroyed
32. 15 AprFingerprints, Not Just For ID Anymore
33. 15 AprRunning, Running But Why?
34. 14 AprThe People’s Interest Or What?
35. 14 AprThe Root of the Problem
36. 13 AprBennett: Washington Adopts Rules For Anti-Bias Jury Selection
37. 13 AprSneaking Habeas Through The Ninth
38. 13 AprJosh Blackman And The Guy Who Wanted To Hear
39. 12 AprFake Facts And Rational Basis
40. 12 AprZombie Law Reviews Won’t Die
41. 11 AprShort Take: Zuck in a Suit
42. 11 AprAttorney/Client Privilege And A Broken Taillight (ACLU Update)
43. 10 AprStanford: Title IX In Perpetuity?
44. 10 AprRaiding Cohen: The Crime and The Optics
45. 9 AprInsulating The Judiciary From Partisan Politics
46. 9 AprGovernment’s Hands-Off Censorship
47. 8 AprShort Take: Monkey In The Middle
48. 8 AprThe Not-So-Massive Scheme Revealed
49. 7 AprCoffee At The Crack Of Dawn
50. 7 AprVideo Finally Emerges, Only To Be Buried Again
51. 6 AprImmigrants Aren’t Prison Slaves
52. 6 AprJudicial Gender Bias Has Its Benefits
53. 5 AprTriggered, But Not Close Enough
54. 5 AprSentencing Desormeau
55. 5 AprSaheed Vassell, Good Shoot Or Execution?
56. 4 AprSurprise! John Oliver’s Take on Immigration Court Needs Work
57. 3 AprTuesday Talk*: What More Should Cops Carry?
58. 3 AprThe Limits of “Palpably Unreasonable” (Update)
59. 2 AprShort Take: Iowa Admits A Legal Fiction
60. 2 AprMcKinley Down
61. 1 AprJudge O’Neill’s Conflict
62. 1 AprThe Nasty And Necessary Bond

March 2018

1. 31 MarShort Take: Roseanne Reboot, Reviewed
2. 31 MarSo Sad At Harvard Law School
3. 31 MarThe Whorls Of Justice
4. 30 MarIn Memoriam: Judge Stephen Reinhardt, 1931-2018
5. 30 MarWhen Due Process Is Measured By A Judge’s Values
6. 30 MarShort Take: Deaf Can’t Be Helped
7. 29 MarCheap Lawyers, No License
8. 29 MarCensus And Consensus
9. 28 MarShort Take: Does Dauber Not Grasp The Concept of Appeals?
10. 28 MarRepeal Or Replace? Not So Simple
11. 27 MarTuesday Talk: Equal Rights For Victims (Update)
12. 27 MarCassell’s Empirical Call To Be Unconstitutional
13. 26 MarPeeps, Uncensored
14. 26 MarColleges Discover GIGO
15. 26 MarPlea First, Indict Later
16. 25 MarShort Take: No Amnesty For Twitter
17. 25 MarWill Cravath “Get” Parole?
18. 24 MarGreg Prickett: Show Me Your Hands! (so I can shoot you)
19. 24 MarShort Take: A Weighty Question
20. 24 MarTrafficking In Bad Law
21. 23 MarShort Take: The Three Faces Of Eve
22. 23 MarCool Prosecutor Tricks: Conviction Integrity Units
23. 23 MarWhy Won’t We Care (When We Want You To)?
24. 22 MarLessons of A Modern Moot Court
25. 21 MarDoes Gideon Harm Poor Defendants?
26. 21 MarTwisting Amendments That Begin With “F”
27. 20 MarTexting In The First Degree
28. 20 MarRacial Income Disparities: Outcomes Without Explanations
29. 19 MarStudying At The Library of Harm
30. 19 MarThe Appeal of Children
31. 18 MarJosh Blackman: The Supremacy Sham?
32. 18 MarShort Take: Bitter Writers, You’re Not Atwood
33. 18 MarEven In Canada, Lawyers Defend Clients
34. 17 MarReinventing Atticus
35. 17 MarThe Judge Aquilina Show
36. 16 MarNo Reason To Investigate If You “Believe The Victim”
37. 16 MarMurder By Empty Words
38. 15 MarEnd Immunity For The Dirty Prosecutor
39. 15 MarBad News Or No News
40. 14 MarShort Take: The Doctor Is Not In
41. 14 MarWhy Dead Black Guys Aren’t News Anymore
42. 14 MarKansas Sex Offender Registry, But No Sex Offense
43. 13 MarKentucky State Police: Write When We Tell You To Write
44. 13 MarInstead Of A Medal, 15 Months In Prison
45. 12 MarAt The Intersection of Farrakhan and Reality (Update)
46. 12 MarThe Bus From Baltimore
47. 11 MarShort Take: A Thousand Words
48. 11 MarVerschlimmbessern*
49. 10 MarLawyers, Guns and Bad Faith Arguments
50. 10 MarShort Take: Civility or Surrender?
51. 10 MarMute Court: Trump’s Precedential Twits
52. 9 MarShort Take: Conor’s Corner
53. 9 MarBouie and Bari, The “Real Threats”
54. 9 MarKhan Acquitted, Yale Condemns Anyway
55. 7 MarTuesday Talk*: Looks Like Who?
56. 7 MarNo Hayek In Higher Ed
57. 6 MarShort Take: NYPD’s 319 Secrets
58. 6 MarA Paean To Judicial Bias?
59. 6 MarOscar’s Curious Legal Advice: Inclusion Rider
60. 5 MarShort Take: The Respectable Racist
61. 5 MarWhen Donna Backed Tamika
62. 5 MarThat’s Entertainment
63. 4 MarA Panel Ad Hominem
64. 4 MarLife Imitates Art?
65. 3 MarSins Of The Teachers’ Union
66. 3 MarDersh’s Biggest Enemy
67. 2 MarShort Take: History, Deluded
68. 2 MarShould Payback Be A Bitch?
69. 2 MarBill Otis’ Big Gig
70. 1 MarRehabilitating Monica
71. 1 MarPushing The Prosecutor Problem

February 2018

1. 28 FebThe “Nazis” and Civil Society
2. 28 FebDone, Done, Dunn
3. 27 FebTuesday Talk*: Is Innocence Just Himpathy?
4. 27 FebJudge Cabranes’ Zarda Concurrence: Just Do It
5. 26 FebFun Time Rules
6. 26 FebA House Built of Sterner Stuff
7. 25 FebShort Take: Truth (Or At Least Truth To The Teller)
8. 25 FebEvery Panic Has Its Profit
9. 25 FebTake The Fifth, Please
10. 24 FebThe Battle of 5Pointz
11. 24 FebParkland’s Unheroes
12. 23 FebThe Perjury Trap
13. 23 FebThrowing Distance of True Is False
14. 22 FebYoung Love In The First Degree
15. 22 FebA Broken Boy’s Reasons
16. 21 FebConstitutional Orphans
17. 20 FebWill Judge Weinstein End Collars For Dollars? (Update)
18. 20 FebDance of the Snowflakes
19. 19 FebThe ABA’s 7.7 Million Reasons
20. 19 FebDamore’s Concerted Critique
21. 18 FebWhat Krasner Should Have Said
22. 18 FebBelieve The Victims (of the SPLC)
23. 17 FebThe Park Avenue Jail
24. 17 FebThe Meaning Of “Take A Look”
25. 16 FebShort Take: His Wokeness Responds
26. 16 FebShort Take: Mueller’s “Reprehensible” Pit Bull
27. 16 FebKing-Maker?
28. 15 FebShort Take: A Cop’s Weighty Burden
29. 15 FebAll The News That’s Woke Enough To Print
30. 14 FebA Failure to Communicate: Clarity v. Offense
31. 14 FebAutism Doesn’t Care About Good Intentions
32. 13 FebSJ At 11
33. 13 FebShort Take: Stephen Mader, The Cop Who Didn’t
34. 13 FebWhy, Wu?
35. 12 FebShort Take: Plea First, Brady Never
36. 12 FebShort Take: Demon Porn
37. 12 FebSentencing Regrets, Too Late (Update)
38. 11 FebYong’s Very Social Science
39. 11 FebWhich Rights Are Left?
40. 10 FebTigano’s Seven-Year Itch
41. 10 FebThe Thing About Woody
42. 9 FebMille 60
43. 9 FebDrunk And Foolish Knows No Gender
44. 9 FebAbility To Pay Bail Held A Constitutional Consideration
45. 8 FebSpray First, Riot Later
46. 8 FebThe Doormat Dilemma
47. 7 FebThe ACLU’s New Right
48. 7 FebTuesday Talk*: Trump and Treason
49. 7 FebThe Uninvited and the Disinvited
50. 6 FebBook Review: Radley Balko’s and Tucker Carrington’s The Cadaver King and The Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
51. 6 FebShort Take: Clean and Dirty in Texas
52. 6 FebSpecial Pleading of Women Silenced
53. 5 FebShort Take: A Peacock Too Far
54. 5 FebCatharine MacKinnon, Mother of the Mob
55. 4 FebThe Persky Recall: Below The Buried Lede
56. 4 FebShort Take: The Scent of a Rose
57. 3 FebWhat If It Was Your Daughter?
58. 3 FebIntegrity, To A Point
59. 2 FebThe (Burger) King’s Speech
60. 2 FebThe Return of Richard Rosario
61. 1 FebShort Take: Virtuous Words
62. 1 FebWill Boys Be Boys?
63. 1 FebWhy Toy Guns

January 2018

1. 31 JanMake No Law: Ken White @Popehat
2. 31 JanKopf: Victim-Impact Statements and Judge Leben’s Appalling Promotion of Judge Aquilina’s Sentencing Circus
3. 31 JanMiddlebury’s Dirty Thirty
4. 31 JanShort Take: Bailey and Motte
5. 30 JanEven Chemerinsky Condemns Stanford Law Prof Michele Dauber
6. 30 JanSplit-Second Decisions: What Name To Make Up?
7. 29 JanShort Take: Poverty At Home
8. 29 JanCoastie’s Conviction By Loaded Jury Tossed
9. 29 JanFree Speech, Micromanaged
10. 28 JanShort Take: The Vagina Vote
11. 28 JanSocial Justice? You Were Warned
12. 28 JanCosby Moves To Dismiss
13. 27 JanAn Indisputable Opinion About Maple Walnut Ice Cream
14. 27 JanThe Carceral Lies We Tell Ourselves
15. 26 JanRape And The Neuroscience Apologist
16. 26 JanRed Light, Green Light, When You Need A Cop In Detroit
17. 25 JanSeaton: Judge Rosemarie’s Baby Advocacy
18. 25 JanJudge Aquilina’s Moment
19. 24 JanShort Take: “So You’re Saying,” Jordan Peterson Edition
20. 24 JanSoliciting The #MeToos They Want To Print
21. 23 JanTuesday Talk: Do They Stand A Chance?
22. 23 JanShort Response: Because We’re Angry
23. 22 JanShort Take: Bringing Up Baby To Be Killer Cops
24. 22 JanNature v. Nutjob: Loving Science With A Caveat
25. 21 JanShort Take: Cool March, But Why?
26. 21 JanWho Broke The Sentence-O-Matic 1000?
27. 20 JanIan Christensen: Alt-Legal In The Weeds
28. 20 JanThe Last Logon
29. 19 JanMommy Dearest
30. 19 JanFlorida Bar: Intimidate All You Want
31. 19 JanCuomo’s Magical Mystery Bail
32. 18 JanNo, Aziz, Means No
33. 18 JanShort Take: Leave Alford Out Of It
34. 18 JanHirono’s Perjury Trap
35. 16 JanWe’re All From “Shithole” Countries, Mr. President
36. 13 JanParty Time!!!
37. 12 JanHow Progressives Make Enemies
38. 12 JanButterfly Had Enough
39. 11 JanShort Take: A Deep Freeze in Elgin
40. 11 JanMoira Donegan’s “Shitty” List
41. 10 JanIs Cash Bail Done in Manhattan?
42. 10 JanXir Back
43. 9 JanPrinceton And The Peculiar Grasp Of Honor
44. 9 JanDaddy Issues
45. 8 JanDeath of the Kiddie Clerkship
46. 8 JanConnecticut’s Carceral Cries
47. 8 JanThe Vice-President’s Gown
48. 7 JanTweaking The Meritocracy
49. 7 JanThe Poorest Common Denominator
50. 6 JanShort Take: Have We Lost The Lawyers?
51. 6 JanWhen Any Offense Will Do
52. 5 JanShort Take: Somebody’s Doing Something BAD!!!
53. 5 JanWright And Wrong
54. 5 JanThe Sessions Memo and Blunt Force Trauma
55. 4 JanCaptives Of The Tone Police (Update)
56. 4 JanProgressive Punishments, A Conundrum
57. 3 JanKopf: An Old Male Judge’s Reflections On A Supposed #MeToo Moment
58. 3 JanThe Cartersville 63
59. 3 JanIt Was Never Just About Bathrooms: Volokh’s Experiment
60. 2 JanShort Take: Remembering The Sokal Hoax
61. 2 JanWhy The NRO Got “Stop and Frisk” Wrong
62. 2 JanA Note To Arthur
63. 1 JanPrawfs on the Twitters