The violent crime rate is a little over half of what it was in the 1990s, an astonishing societal transformation that the general public has essentially forgotten

Just posted a draft article I co-authored with CJ Ryan titled 'The Decline & Fall of the US News Rankings' to SSRN. It provides empirical evidence that prospective law students don't find the US News rankings particularly salient. Thoughts welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

A minute to sunset—Shabbat Shalom, y’all!

Spotify is trying to push a singer called Young Jesus at us and, friends, the music is just awful.

We just got back from #Furiosa and wow—amazing! Some bits were a little glitchy but overall just a fabulous movie.

Holy shit

Two years ago today, 19 fourth-graders and two teachers were shot and killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas by an 18-year-old armed with an AR-style rifle.

Seventeen more people were injured and face a lifetime of recovery that no one should ever have to bear.

Pet peeve: Why does everyone have to say they’re 'screaming' rather than laughing. We don’t need to scream at everything, people.

Grading growth: I used to be one of those 'plow through all the exams all at once' people, but now I'm finding that grading ten a day works nicely for me. I don't get fatigued. I don't get bored. I get it done fast then move on with my day.

My now traditional last day of class beer!

Yup, this is me, too!

I had evals from my crim 2023 class that said I wasn't happy enough while teaching. Essentially I'm supposed to smile more and be warmer.

Evals are gendered and racist loads of garbage.

It's pretty shocking to see supposed victims' rights attorneys and their supporters who are more concerned with helping prosecutors get convictions through unethical/illegal means than just about anything else.

Maybe they should just call themselves prosecutorial support staff?

'By the age of 14, he had survived the Holocaust; by 44, he was an Israeli diplomat; now, at the age of 94, Theodor Meron recommended the ICC seek arrest warrants of Israeli and Hamas leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity'
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Ugh, Garbage Grove sending its finest

Maybell, don’t fight with idiots on Twitter—GRADE!