NEW: Here, finally, is my new draft article on the Supreme Court's Chatrie decision. I think the ruling is tremendously important to Fourth Amendment law—and here's why.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
It's often rumored on college campuses that concrete 'brutalist' buildings, built in the late 1960s and 1970s, were designed to suppress riots. (Some say this about @StanfordLaw's Crown Quadrangle, opened 1975.) Apparently not true, though.
slate.com/human-interest…
Judge Hand refers to his professors as "men all but one of whom are now dead," raising the question, which of Hand's professors from the 1890s was still alive in 1958?
Answer: Samuel Williston, who died in 1963 at the age of 101.
With the new academic year beginning, it's time to re-post my favorite passage about law professors: In 1958, the great Judge Learned Hand, then in his 80s, gives a set of lectures at Harvard Law School and reflects on his professors there in the 1890s. "Go ye and do likewise."
With the new academic year beginning, it's time to re-post my favorite passage about law professors: In 1958, the great Judge Learned Hand, then in his 80s, gives a set of lectures at Harvard Law School and reflects on his professors there in the 1890s. "Go ye and do likewise."
Dear students: Please know that your professors over 50 have no idea which message any particular emoji is sending, and that they interpret it as <general emoji thingy>.