Definitely wish our law school offered state con law.
RESOURCE ALERT📌 Wish your law school offered a course in state constitutional law? State Court Report's @skess108.bsky.social put together this must-read compilation of our top explainers on how state courts and constitutions work. Consider it your “State Constitutions 101.”
Russell Gold
As the school year kicks off, we’ve rounded up some of our top explainer essays on how state courts and state constitutions work, protect rights, and influence major U.S. legal issues. Consider it you...
I’m humbled and honored to receive the Dean Thomas Christopher Award for service to Alabama Law School. It’s an incredible privilege to get to work with amazing students and colleagues.
I’m humbled and honored to receive an award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Development from the University of Alabama Teaching Academy. I’m extraordinarily grateful for my time as a Faculty Fellow there over the past two years. I have learned a ton and met so many amazing teachers.
Fiscally Restraining Criminal Lawmaking is under submission to law journals now. Please send it to your favorite journal editors. Or your least favorite😁. We examine how legislative process could make costs more salient in criminal law, hopefully prompting greater deliberation about benefits too.
Forcing defendants to tell a false tale about their own crime is troubling in its own right. More broadly, stifling counterstories about the role of systemic forces underlying crime and wildly divergent opportunities impedes potential public safety reform.
State Court Report
My article Look What You Made Me Do is now published in Washington & Lee Law Review: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... I argue that criminal process flattens the narrative of crime into one of solely individual actors making bad choices, and it coerces defendants into telling that story.
