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Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Making Good Sense: Pragmatism’s Mastery of Meaning, Truth, and Workable Rule of Law

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Here is the abstract for my latest article forthcoming in the Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy. In the article, I try to take a m...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Addition to Strings of Thought 5-19-2018

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Hermeneutics                                 To Gadamer Though eye must squint, eye must explore the bird Who plays at the horizo...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

Why Legal Writing Is "Doctrinal" and More Importantly Profound

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It is high time that we end the disparate treatment of legal writing professors and the use of such disparaging labels as "non-doctrina...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (2/7/18)

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2/7/18 A legislative bill or other proposal isn’t simply a string of words on a page. Instead, a legislative bill or other proposal involve...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (1/30/18)

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Legislative Intent 1/30/18  Legislative “intent” lies in legislatures’ speech acts and not legislators’ speech acts.  That is, legisl...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (1/21/18)

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Speaker Meaning 1/21/18 “Original” speaker meaning includes the unexplored.  Imagine I buy a netted device I categorize as “my hammock...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Strings of Thoughts

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Recognizing I’ll never have time to put in finished prose or verse all the things I’d like to explore, I’m starting some strings of thought...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

The Inherent Inseparability of Doctrine & Skills

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A quick screen shot of my brief bit in Linda Edwards' fantastic new book The Doctrine Skills Divide: Legal Education's Self-Inflic...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

Speaker Meaning and the Interpretation and Construction of Executive Orders

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Here is an abstract of my latest article posted on SSRN : ABSTRACT: This Article explores the interpretation and construction of execu...
Monday, July 10, 2017

President Trump & Word Association

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As a lover of words, I am of course interested in the following Quinnipiac poll which asked responders "What is the first word that co...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Embracing Life: Shakespeare and "Existentialism"

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              Sartre claims that existence precedes “essence,” that “being-in-itself” is thrust upon us, that we have our subse...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

A Sonnet on the Jerusalem Cross

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For me, the Jerusalem Cross is endlessly inspiring:   Christ before Paul; the Kingdom that’s within; the wisdom of the Buddha; Will...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

"Nature Hath Framed Strange Fellows" William Shakespeare and Natural Law

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A. Introduction                            Natural law theorists might turn to The History of Troilus and Cressida to start ...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Shakespeare and Legal Positivism

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            Despite his limited formal education, Shakespeare’s works display a great deal of legal knowledge. [1]   As a part of Shak...
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Sunday, March 5, 2017

Gorsuch and Originalism: Some Critiques from Logic, Scripture, and Art

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(This blog combines, expands, and end-notes two prior blogs)
Monday, February 27, 2017

Neil Gorsuch? Originalism and the Ten Commandments

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Current Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch claims that judges should “apply the law as it is, focusing backward, not forward, and lookin...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Parsing Babble in North Carolina's HB-2 and Calling Out the Need for Immediate Repeal

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Read here my parsing of ambiguous bathroom provisions in North Carolina's HB-2 and the immediate need to repeal the flawed statute i...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Rethinking The Elect

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                            The Elect Take that long-suffering slave:   if she instead Were master, could descent dissent and shed ...
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Sunday, February 5, 2017

Ekphrasis & Prose: Sonnet Translations of Poe & Hawthorne

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I sometimes wonder whether a prose piece should have been verse from the outset.  Could the deep meaning have been more effectively capture...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Originalism and the Fall of Icarus

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Well, here we go again. With Neil Gorsuch as the current Supreme Court nominee, once more we hear praises of “originalism” as a judic...
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Saturday, January 7, 2017

Two Performance Review Mantras (“Mercy and Truth Are Met Together; Righteousness & Peace Have Kissed”)

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I. Mantra For Myself I smile if I have shown a light. I smile if I if I have aimed at right. I smile if I have done...
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...