Sorry I've been missing

Unfortunately, I will remain missing for another month or so. By then, I will have finished my dissertation, taken the bar exam, and will be just settling in to my new home and clerkship. Since I have no subscribers right now, I trust my absence will go unnoticed. take care!

Welcome to my law and philosophy blog

"When it comes to the law, nothin' is understood." So says Dragline, the character played by George Kennedy in Cool Hand Luke. As I finish up law school, and prepare to start my clerkship, wherein my colleagues and I will labor under the fiction that law is quite well understood, Dragline's quip, used to settle a dispute in a wager, seems extremely apt. He argues that the indeterminacy of law makes his interpetation, rather than any other, the authoritative one. This form of reasoning is not novel nor, unfortunately, is it all that rare. But I will do my best to avoid it, so far as possible, in my posts here.


So, welcome here. I'll try to put up a substantive post soon, perhaps about Adam Liptak's article in today's NYTimes, Are Law Reviews Irrelevant? [Times Select].