Paul McGreal

Great work!

Maybe “town hall” was a description of the location and not the event. 😁

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I’ll bring the popcorn!

And somehow if you dare to express your frustration to the list, you’re a neo-McCarthyite. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Since Grok is now the main participant in the exchanges, have we technically reached the singularity?

It might be appropriate to decide based on a cost-benefit analysis. 

Thought about this a lot after Dobbs. There, Alito embraced 18th C misogyny as tradition (Scalia did this too in his US v. VA dissent). In Est Clause cases, however, he rejects anti-Catholic laws (eg, Blaine amendments, which were post-14A) as prejudice. Pure hypocrisy.

I second that recommendation! And it’s been renewed for a second season!

An adjacent show, IMHO, is Slow Horses, which has a new season coming out this fall.

Also, the more you explore the Reformation (or as some historians say, Reformations plural), you see striking parallels to modern practices. It has helped me to look beyond the peculiar course the Reformation took in England to see the wider context.

Thank you! I am excited to share this research in such a timely forum.

of faith designed to identify and marginalize religious minorities. By recovering this history, this Essay demonstrates that classroom religious displays violate not just modern sensibilities but a historical understanding of religious freedom that refugees carried to American shores.

sixteenth-century Catholic processions that forced Protestants to choose between betraying their conscience or marking themselves for persecution. Like modern students confronting state-mandated religious texts, Reformation-era dissenters faced orchestrated tests

Yet, these states advance a version of history that mistakenly ignores European religious persecution that shaped how the Founders understood the establishment of religion. This Essay remedies that error through a novel historical analogy:

The Supreme Court's recent embrace of "historical practices and understandings" in interpreting the Establishment Clause has emboldened states to challenge forty-five years of precedent prohibiting Ten Commandments displays in public schools.

My essay Ten Commandments Cases: Learning from Reformation Coercion, will be published in Volume 124 of the Michigan Law Review Online. Here is a link to the current draft:

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The abstract appears in the following thread.

On a related point … IMHO, any professor who gives a “racehorse exam,” where students are not expected to finish, should not be teaching. Full stop. And that would include at least one of the profs I had as a 1L at SMU (course name rhymes with shorts).

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Thrilled to publish my essay “The First US Law School Course on Compliance: Its Origins and Evolution” in the most recent edition of the Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers newsletter!

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Thank you for this suggestion! I’ve used Notebook LM only sparingly, but this gives me a reason to explore its full potential as I do research this summer.

Some of my colleagues and I use the Volokh template, which is single spaced.

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of ancient wisdom.” He goes on to say that this nonsense had a “lunatic coherence” that has allowed it to persist. Well said.

With all the recent public commentary about God and the sexes, I found this quote in MacCulloch’s The Reformation apropos: “What Christian theologians asserted about men, women and sexuality was nonsense, but it was ancient nonsense, and humanity has always been inclined to respect the assertion …

Interest here, too!

Good point. Even the Pope couldn’t destroy the Jesuits when he suppressed the Society of Jesus for a few decades. They are hearty souls.

Good to hear the wonderful news! I’m on a five-year rotation due to polyps, and it’s no big deal and tremendous peace of mind.

Great thread! Thank you for putting this together and sharing it!

I replied that their rejection had left me with the impression that they didn’t want to publish the piece. I never heard back.

A law rev once rejected me within a week. About a month later, I accepted an offer from another rev. Two weeks later, I got an offer from the original rev. When I told them that I accepted an offer at another rev, they asked why I hadn’t withdrawn my article, laced with a tone.

I published the Canvas site for an asynchronous course last week. As I reviewed the Welcome page this week, I saw that under the heading “Learning Objectives,” the only text that appeared was, “To be added later.” The text was highlighted, presumably so I wouldn’t forget. 🤦🏻‍♂️ I guess now is “later.”