Cover design for my forthcoming book! Now available for preorder:

Finally got copies of my book, 15 days after publication. Seems fitting. Extolling the value of things like stable norms, practical wisdom, and intellectual humility def feels like too little, too late. Finding solace in fn 71 to ch 6: “Like sap through a leaf.” Here’s hoping.

RT @nathanballan: This new book on legal judgment by @oldfatherc looks terrific.

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Honored and delighted to be the Bookworm’s recommendation of the week!

Here's Prawfsblawg post number three on Judges, Judging, and Judgment (out now!), sketching out some of the book's more prescriptive arguments. More to it, of course, and probably something for just about everyone to disagree with, but this gives a taste:

RT @LittleMammith: Man posting that basic reading comprehension LSAT question and getting 150+ extremely confident, extremely wrong respons…

My second Prawfs post about JJJ, outlining the portions of the book dedicated to diagnosing what ails the judiciary.

RT @oldfatherc: Judges, Judging, and Judgment is out tomorrow. I'm guesting at Prawfsblawg for a few posts about it. The first, a brief or…

Link to buy:

@UVaHoopsRiffs There was a couple week stretch where UVA sat atop the rankings and you could buy a Hoos Number One shirt at Mincers. And then Georgia Tech came to town …

RT @MiriamSeifter: The @WisLRev issue on public law in the states is live! Great essays by @kateandrias, @oldfatherc, @kmtani, Lisa Washing…

RT @Rachel_E_Lopez: From Watergate to Jan. 6th, lawyers have played key roles in efforts to undermine democracy. In my latest, I reflect o…

"Intellectuals are sometimes described as those who have found something more fascinating than sex.” Resonates. All of it. (From Deborah Rhode, The Pursuit of Knowledge)

RT @MjefreyC: Se ve bien, para nuestra materia de Teorías constitucionales contemporáneas. Traten de localizarlo.

@TimJSayer Most of the descriptive/diagnostic portion is US-focused. But the more prescriptive, character-focused portion is more general, and draws on quite a bit on work by non-US scholars (though they are primarily from common-law jurisdictions).

@bachbrian @WillRagatz

@Andrew___Baker I can still see myself looking up at the pair of senior faculty sitting in the back row and coming so very close to introducing them to the class as my parents.

RT @CBHessick: It's hard to know whether posts like these are real or fake. But there is no doubt that teaching and research are the absolu…