Anna Roberts

Year one folks…

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

And the full report: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

People around the country are protesting on Labor Day: maydaystrong.org

You can comment on this proposed change; so can your students; and so can those who have been directly impacted by the rule. If you’re looking for ideas on teaching impeachment or more information on the proposal, check out my chapter in the forthcoming book “Critical Evidence.” tinyurl.com/3x8kyen4

The proposed Advisory Committee Note is interesting too—what’s left after the DOJ sought cuts in return for their signing on. It indicates that the sanitizing of felony convictions—a kind of judicial “compromise”—is “problematic," since jurors need the name to assess the purported probative value.

The Advisory Committee rejected earlier arguments in favor of abrogating FRE 609 and in favor of deleting FRE 609(a)(1). And yet the sole member of the Committee to vote against moving this more modest change to public comment said he feared that this was part of a two-step process to abrogate 609.

Public comment opens today on a proposed FRE 609 reform! The main change would be the addition of “substantially” to the 609(a)(1)(B) balancing. In other words, it aims to make it harder to admit felony convictions against those testifying in their own defense at criminal trials tinyurl.com/2c6mazxd

Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office The university also is pausing a scholarship program which honors its first Black female graduate, Sadie T.M. Alexander.

“Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office”

Timely paper from law prof Stratos Pahis:

"This Is (NOT) an Emergency: On Trump's 'Reciprocal' Tariffs and the Judicial Decisions Declaring Them Illegal"

Tomorrow at #SEALS2025 I’ll present my forthcoming article “Interrogating the Facts of the Case,” which examines the risks of erasing the interrogation room from the criminal law classroom (& elsewhere). Come find me and co-participants at 8-10am, Magnolia C. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Your State-by-State Guide to Every State Supreme Court - Bolts Bolts breaks down the structure, selection procedures, and functions of each state’s highest court.

State supreme courts are a battlefield for pressing issues, from abortion rights to ballot access. But do you know how your court works?

Our guide breaks down the structure and procedures of every single state’s highest court.
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Law professor colleagues: We're hiring! 🗽

Brooklyn Law School is considering lateral hires in several areas, including constitutional law, civil procedure, criminal procedure, evidence, family law, and torts. If you're considering a move and have a special interest in joining us, please reach out!

Such a great panel at Law & Society discussing pedagogy and chapters from the forthcoming book Critical Evidence! Thanks to organizer Anna Roberts and panelists Andrea Dennis, Daniel Harawa, Ngozi Okidegbe, and Rebecca Wexler, with a special shoutout to my co-editor Julia Simon-Kerr!