Michael Plaxton
@MichaelPlaxton
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Law prof. Books: Implied Consent & Sexual Assault; Sovereignty, Restraint & Guidance; Tenth Justice.
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Joined November 2011
1. Get comfortable with statutes - and in particular the Criminal Code. You need to be able to sensibly parse statutory provisions even when no court has looked at them yet. And you will understand cases better when you independently examine the provisions they construe.
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RT @DwightNewmanLaw: Superb French-language panel on campus free speech during afternoon parallel sessions at @RunnymedeSoc (and amazing AI…
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The timeline:
I don't want to be on the most entertaining timeline. Nobody should.
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RT @pojanowski: Great story about @NDLaw JD/Ph.D Dennis Wieboldt who as a 1L started a legal history colloquium in cooperation with the law…
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So is it the same? No. Should it be dismissed as junk food? Also no.
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RT @alexpriou: Midterm Exam for "Beginning of Politics" Why is it imprudent to be proud of your prudence, a lack of cunning to take pride…
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RT @McCormickProf: In my four decades of professional academic life I've observed that Robert Conquest's First Law holds. Most of my collea…
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RT @FeserEdward: An important book by @SohrabAhmari. Reasonable people can disagree about the details, but not about the main point that co…
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RT @ANNVYSHINSKY: I have just received the final confirmation of my degree and will soon be graduating with a PhD @cambridgelaw #EvilLaw.…
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Checks out.
Apropos of recent activity of the executive branch in the United States, @Vermeullarmine and I wrote recently about how shaping the flow of public lucre into civil society can have a profound impact on the cultural and moral tenor of public life ⬇️
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RT @frome_maude: Before she found success as a storyteller, Beatrix Potter created greetings cards, often featuring rabbits in winter. #Boo…
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@ThomasDillonGla @legalstyleblog I wonder if, at a certain point, it should not affect standards of authentication.
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RT @AileenFKavanagh: For anyone who has received negative student feedback, take heart from the fact that Samuel Beckett - winner of the No…
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RT @Caseyco231: Delighted to say I’ll be writing a monograph for Hart’s Studies in Constitutional Law series. The title is “Government La…
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