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Friday, January 23, 2026

Did Donald Trump go to prep school with Citizen Kane?

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I just re-watched the masterpiece  Citizen Kane  (1941) , and a line I'd never noticed before dropped my jaw. I'm teaching a seminar...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Rescission of law dean offer prompts valid angst, but political ire over higher ed impunity is long time coming

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Waterman Hall, University of Arkansas Larry Miller via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 Legal academics is aflutter over the rescinding of an offer of t...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

'We're Going To Need You To Come In On Saturday'

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Something I've never missed about law practice is having to assign a 15-digit client-matter code to every six minutes of my billable day...
Monday, December 15, 2025

'How Beautiful We Were' when 'They Poisoned the World': What I've been reading, 2025 edition

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It's been since the pandemic that I wrote an installment of "What I've Been Reading." With some time to spare in transit r...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Author of 'Surviving Your Friend's Cancer,' law alumna Kayleigh Ellison made world better, brighter

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Kayleigh's relentless smile, from the UMass Dartmouth soccer roster I'm sad to hear and to share news of the death of Kayleigh Dawn...
Monday, November 3, 2025

7 years since shocking hate crime, civil rights suit over Nantucket public meeting surfaces racial tension

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Nantucket African Meeting House, 1880 Nantucket Historical Association A shocking hate crime of vandalism on storied Nantucket Island in 201...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Small-town Star Trek museum teaches American cultural history, limits of fan fair use in copyright law

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I have the con at the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour , Ticonderoga, N.Y., Oct. 2025 (all photos RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 ) The sl...