Legal Commentary

Happy Monday all. It was great to see so many of you (around 200 or so across the course of the evening) at the Co-Op/Prawfs Happy Hour this past Thursday in NOLA at the Whiskey Blue Bar at the W. Special thanks to Lane MacDougall, the bar's general manager, and his crew, including Brett and Madison, for helping the evening succeed. 

As I think back to the few days in New Orleans and the surprisingly good panels I attended, I'm wondering if others think the intellectual content this time was a bit meatier. Also, feel free to share funny stories overheard or witnessed in the comments. 

Two quick requests. If you told me that you were interested in guesting while we were in Nola, please follow up with an email to let me know which month works for you and I'll add you to the schedule. Also, as I mentioned at the Criminal Justice Section Luncheon, there are a few spots available for persons to appear as "readers" for a few book panels (on books by Wayne Logan, Vera Bergelson, Don Dripps, and Chris Slobogin) or as paper presenters in the shadow Crim Law conference, which Alice Ristroph and I are trying to facilitate, at LSA this May in Chicago.  Please let me know if you are interested and not otherwise participating already at LSA. 

It's a new semester at FSU as of today, and I'll be teaching a couple sections of crim law on T/W/TH. I did this "double up" last spring, and I think it worked out pretty well. I'm experimenting with some new pedagogical matters this semester and I'm curious to see how it goes. For instance, in the past, I've required students to write questions and respond to other students' questions pre-class on TWEN. This semester I'm giving them the option to do that, and providing an incentive to do so, rather than requiring it as part of their participation grade.