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From the Wall Street Journal (via the Daily Beast):  Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Face Financial Ruin From His Legal Fees: Report The Journal also reports that as FTX’s implosion began, [Prof.…

From an email message that I recently received, regarding a new academic fellowship offered by  the Law and Political Economy Project (housed at Yale Law). The Law and Political Economy…

The New York Times book section recently featured a review of The Essential Dick Gregory. It was thoughtful and interesting, though it might have said a bit more about Gregory’s important…

Born Eleanora Fagan and known as Lady Day, the great Billie Holiday needs no introduction:     Unmistakably and most importantly:     

This is Steven Epstein's eighth and penultimate guest post on Extreme Punishment:  The Chilling True Story of Acclaimed Law Professor Dan Markel’s Murder. The following is an excerpt from Chapter ...

In case some of you write on or think about the use of rhetoric in political and legal settings, here is a link for a recent article relating to the…

From an email message that I recently received: Teaching Fellow, and Lecturer in Law, International Economic Law, Business and Policy (IELBP) - STANFORD LAW SCHOOL STANFORD LAW SCHOOL seeks to ...

This piece has gotten a lot of attention, so I am moving it to the top today. My new essay at The Hill explains how the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision…

Hank Williams originally wrote "Hey, Good Lookin'" for his friend Little Jimmy Dickens in 1951, promising to give him a hit. It took Williams only 20 minutes to write the ...