Chris Sprigman

(No disrespect intended toward clams.)

The answer is because Democratic leadership has the collective political smarts of precisely one medium-sized clam.

"Jews don't belong in American society."

Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.

But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.

OK, I get that. Maybe we could have the crap be 10,000 words instead of 25,000.

What a sick fucking joke this country has become.

We spent approx. $9B to murder those Iranian schoolgirls so now we can declare victory.

Correct. And (many--#notall!) law professors will rush to justify as "law" whatever power does. And most of them will do it with a straight face, because their tendency to want to justify whatever power does is what got them into legal academia in the first place.

So much of it is such utter bullshit. On the right and the left.

Note, FWIW, that I believe that much of constitutional law scholarship is basically the intellectual equivalent of Ptolemaic cosmology and a waste of effort.

I'd argue that peer review is just as important for non-empirical articles--particularly in public law, where there is a growing wackiness problem that students lack the capacity to deal with.

Maybe. But not until law professors acknowledge how unserious both our current arrangements and our excuses for them are.

ADDING: Ask yourself, how many law review articles make contributions worth the expenditure of 25k words? In my view, a single-digit percentage. Most legal scholarship is unreadable.

So many opportunities to break bad habits! Articles could be shorter. Citation norms loosened ... in line with the practices of more self-confident academic disciplines. And, perhaps most of all, blind review with appropriate pre-review pre-pub restrictions to support blind review. /end

Schools would have to recognize peer review as a scholarly obligation, + set up appropriate rewards for participating in it (advancement, recognition, etc.). At some point law reviews could be defunded and money directed to supporting societies that sponsor the field-expert journals. 2/

This would take a lot of work. If we did it the way other fields do it, the first step would be to organize professional societies in each field within legal academia. And then have those societies start journals and organize peer review from within their ranks. And then ... 1/

There is no excuse for anti-Semitism, period. But it is entirely appropriate to observe the deep pathologies of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and to argue that the U.S. would be better off distancing itself from Israel and directing the billions it gives the country each year elsewhere.

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The decision to end the war will be made in consultation with the guy subject to an ICC arrest warrant for crimes against humanity.

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

"We're marching through the world."

One thing I feel ought to be discussed more is the fact that basically all rural and suburban places in the US are subsidized by cities. They resent cities. They insult cities. They elect politicians who abuse cities. But none of them could survive without cities.

The New York Times would’ve covered the right wing freak out on the front page for days and days and days and days.

Please try to imagine the reaction if our first black president had worn a baseball cap to a military funeral.

A month in Germany has taught me to dislike subway performers. What I want on the subway is peace.

The point is scholarship, which influences thinking in the legal field quite directly--although that is, at least to me, not the criterion. Scholarship can be valuable even if not directly applicable in legal practice if it teaches us something we didn't know before.

Lol.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

100%. But now machines do that.

Online pre-publication already mitigates the timeliness concern. /end