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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Wake Forest Law Review Publishes "Revisiting Langdell: Legal Education Reform & The Lawyer's Craft"

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The Wake Forest Law Review has published its 2015 Legal Education Reform Symposium volume entitled Revisiting Langdell: Legal Education...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Pat McCrory Should Think Twice Before Trying To Pack The North Carolina Supreme Court

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In this month’s North Carolina Supreme Court elections, Democrat Michael Morgan soundly defeated Republican Robert Edmunds thereby shi...
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Blake Within Blake Within Blake Without End

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As I have written before , the great William Blake magnificently employed signs beyond mere words in his poetry.  His powerful illustrati...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Beyond Words Alone: Poets as Artists of the Intentional

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  In his wonderful The New Book of Forms , Lewis Turco tells us that poets “ focus on mode , on language itself.”   Focusing ...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

LBJ's Villanelle: Old Chamberlain & Chambers of the Heart (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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The Johnson name shall live forevermore At home and overseas.  Of virile heart, I shall not risk the loss of any war. I’ll s...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Cognitive Emotion and the Law

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Many wrongly believe that emotion plays little or no role in legal reasoning. Unfortunately, Langdell and his “scientific” case method ...
Friday, July 29, 2016

Fourth Circuit Strikes Down Discriminatory Provisions of Gov. Pat McCrory's North Carolina Voter Suppression Law

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The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down provisions of Gov. Pat McCrory’s “omnibus” election law requiring photo identific...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Ballade of Charles Sanders Peirce: That Common Measure of the Number Three (An Addition to "The Apology Box")

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      Ballade of Charles Sanders Peirce A "candle" burns a finger, lights a room-- The only sense that "candle"...
Friday, July 15, 2016

Pope Urban II's Double Sonnet: Red Fields and Lucious Palaces (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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        Pope Urban II’s Double Sonnet                                I. Although we were God's advocate below, We were a c...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Wittgenstein's Sonnet: No Pictures See Themselves (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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     Wittgenstein’s Sonnet When I was young, words worked a different way. We hung them round like pictures on a wall To replica...
Saturday, July 9, 2016

Double Sonnet of William James: Grace That Brings Good Order in the Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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            Double Sonnet of William James                                    I .    Descartes, pure mind and body can't ...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Ishmael's Sonnet: Built As "Normal" Boys (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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            Ishmael’s Sonnet                          They called me Ishmael.   I was a first Who wrestled with the "bastard...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Simon Magus: Beyond Your Heaven and Beyond Your Hell (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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        Simon Magus 's Case* Stand back, Jehovah!   I do not concede Your jurisdiction over me. Instead, I’ve secret knowledge sh...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Witch of Endor's Double Sonnets: I Accept No Words for Me Except My Own (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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    Witch Of Endor’s Double Sonnets                             I. I can't deny that I've known sorcery. Men's words ...

Sonnet of John The Baptist (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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              John The Baptist’s Sonnet                     (A nomadic herald) My one principal was God and as His agent my one pr...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Ballade of King John (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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                   Ballade Of John Lackland*             (English king & Richard I's brother) Although I spilled much blood i...

Ezekiel: The Universe Leaps Over Heart & Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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Ezekiel’s Double Sonnet                                                                             (A prophet of the exile)              ...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

The Brexit Vote Was "No" Not "Yes"

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In any reasonable sense of a "federal" referendum, the United Kingdom did not vote to quit the European Union.  (I put "fede...
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Caesar, Antony, & Brutus (Additions to "The Apology Box")

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     Julius Caesar Joins His Cousins Hail cousins in Olympus!*  Like you, I Have intervened throughout the world.  I warred Not ju...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Langdell Defends Langdell With A Villanelle (An Addition To "The Apology Box")

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Though I've gone after Langdell several times in prose ( Exercising Common Sense , Razing Langdell , and Days of Auld Langdell ), I...
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Sunday, June 19, 2016

Daniel: Nighttime Hieroglyphics in the Head (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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        Daniel’s Sonnet    (A Jew “exiled” in Babylon) Through deepest faith, I tapped night's lexicon That Nimrod changed. ...

Augustine: Faith Must Come First (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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          Augustine’s Lines and Acrostic                      (A bishop of Hippo) Si fallor, sum! I no doubt must exist However fr...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Mary Magdalene (Addition to "The Apology Box")

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            Mary Magdalene’s Apology Though fathers of the church might not recall, I was his favored ally over all-- Though I h...