Archive for January, 2009

Remembering Judge Arnold

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Rick Garnett, a former Richard Arnold clerk and now a law professor at Notre Dame Law School, posted the following remembrance on PrawfsBlawg in 2007:  PrawfsBlawg

Book preview on Court-O-Rama

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

A book preview (thanks for the plug) is available at the blog court-o-rama.org, billed as “the least dangerous blog.” Click here for \books\

Unpublished opinions – the debate continues

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

The debate over citation to unpublished judicial opinions and their precedential value has been prominent in academic literature since Richard Arnold’s panel opinion in Anastasoff v. United States.  The debate has spread from the federal circuits to some state judiciaries.  Here is a link to a bill proposed in the Arkansas legislature on the subject [...]

Speaking engagements – book promotion 101

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

On January 9 in San Diego, I joined two other biographers on a panel sponsored by the Legal History Section of the American Association of Law Schools.  I spoke about my forthcoming biography of Richard Arnold.   Joel Friedman of Tulane Law School discussed his recently published book on Judge John Minor Wisdom.  Anne Emanuel of [...]