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Ira Robbins
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Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law. Author/Editor of Prisoners and the Law (Thomson/Reuters, 2024); Habeas Corpus Checklists (Thomson/Reuters, 2025). Doing my best to make some good trouble.
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I'm delighted to share my just-published essay, "Still Here: Reflections After Fifty Years of Teaching Law". Comments welcome!
Still Here: Reflections After Fifty Years of Teaching Law - American University Law Review
75 Am. U. L. Rev. 1 (2025).
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November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Delighted to share my most recent contribution to the legal literature: "Criminal Abortion and Citizen's Arrest," published in the Social Justice Issue of the Utah Law Review. Comments welcome!

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April 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Trump's 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada will suspend the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, *which Trump negotiated in 2018*
January 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Biden Issues Pre-Emptive Pardons to Guard Against Trump’s Reprisals
President Biden, hours before leaving office, used his executive clemency power to protect people targeted for reprisals by his successor, including Mark A. Milley, Anthony S. Fauci and Liz Cheney.
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January 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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January 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Supreme Court Denies Trump’s Last-Ditch Effort to Avoid Sentencing
Donald J. Trump is scheduled to face a New York judge on Friday morning after being convicted of 34 felonies. His punishment will be largely symbolic.
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January 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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December 20, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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Live Updates: Dominique Pelicot and 50 Others Guilty in Rape Trial That Shook France
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December 19, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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Another Federal Judge Reverses Decision To Retire, Ruins Trump’s Plans To Fill His Seat
U.S. appeals court judge James Wynn, an Obama appointee, is the third judge to change his mind about retiring since Trump won reelection.
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December 17, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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And in 1938, it was Adolf Hitler
December 12, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency
The president is also pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. The move follows a pardon for his son Hunter, who was prosecuted for gun and tax crimes.
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December 12, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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December 6, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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Opinion | Hunter’s pardon isn’t the issue. What matters are pardons for everyone else.
Trump’s campaign of revenge must be blocked.
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December 5, 2024 at 2:59 PM