New Article: “Empirical Studies of Law and Social Change: What Is the Field? What Are the Questions?”
New Article: Scott L. Cummings, Empirical Studies of Law and Social Change: What Is the Field? What Are the Questions?, 2013 Wisc. L. Rev. 171. Abstract below: The rise of empiricism within legal scholarship has had a profound influence…
New Article: “Closing the Widening Net: The Rights of Juveniles at Intake”
New Article: Tamar R. Birckhead, Closing the Widening Net: The Rights of Juveniles at Intake, 46 Texas Tech Law Review (2013). Abstract below: Should juveniles have more, fewer, the same or different procedural rights than are…
Two items that admittedly have nothing to do with one another. 1) This post, from the blog Slackpropagation, attempts to explain the distinction between geeks and nerds. While the terms overlap (one can be both a nerd and a geek), the basic…
I've noted a few of these points already on Twitter, but here are some items of minor interest to me in this morning's decisions from the Supreme Court. (For more thorough coverage, go to SCOTUSBlog; for my own more thorough thoughts, come…
Justice Stevens's remarks at ACS this weekend have gotten some attention in the blogosphere. But one interesting point I haven't seen noted has been what appears to be a slight revision in his view of Arizona v. Gant. Gant restricted the…