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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · 21d

Definitely wish our law school offered state con law.

State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · 21d

RESOURCE ALERT📌 Wish your law school offered a course in state constitutional law? State Court Report's @skess108.bsky.social put together this must-read compilation of our top explainers on how state courts and constitutions work. Consider it your “State Constitutions 101.”

Law Student Cheat Sheet: Understanding State Courts and Constitutions

As the school year kicks off, we’ve rounded up some of our top explainer essays on how state courts and state constitutions work, protect rights, and influence major U.S. legal issues. Consider it you...

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Cortney Lollar @clollar.bsky.social · 21d

Hot off the presses! In conjunction with @nacdl.org, I’ve written a report that examines criminal restitution in the federal system. The report debunks prevailing myths about restitution & presents recommendations for reform. www.nacdl.org/Document/Emp... 1/2

NACDL - Empty Pockets and Empty Promises: How Federal Restitution Law Fails Everyone

Criminal restitution is intended to have dual goals: victim compensation and offender punishment. The way criminal restitution operates in practice gives short shrift to compensating the average victi...

www.nacdl.org

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Aug 7

I’m not one of them. But don’t inchoate crimes already do that?

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · May 17

For anyone interested, here's a brief explanation of the insane notice practices that spurred this rather unprecedented SCOTUS order

(from @lawfaremedia.org yesterday: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/clas...)

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · May 5

Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.

His argument fails even on its own terms.

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · May 5

It ignores that systemic factors make it much harder for some people to comply
with the law than others. It entrenches the status quo of more cages to threaten punishment by suppressing counternarratives about root causes of crime. It prioritizes feeling safe over being safe.

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · May 5

I posted a draft of Look What You Made Me Do to SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... I argue that criminal procedure coerces defendants into embracing the narrative that their crime was solely their bad choice. That narrative obscures important systemic factors like trauma, addiction, and poverty.

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Mar 27

I’m excited to report that Look What You Made Me Do is now forthcoming in Washington & Lee Law Review.

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · Mar 21

Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: The Alabama House of Representatives Thursday gave final approval to a bill extending paid parental leave to all state and education employees staring July 1, sending the bill to Gov. Kay Ivey.

Gov. Kay Ivey says she will sign parental leave bill for state employees, educators • Alabama Reflector

The bill would give eight weeks of paid leave to a woman who gives birth or suffers a miscarriage, and two weeks to a father.

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Mar 4

A really interesting project that’s currently under submission, for the journal editors out there.

Sharon Brett @sharonbrett.bsky.social · Feb 10

Feels ridiculous to share this given its tangential relation to everything happening in the world, but my latest article, Standing in the Dark, is up on SSRN. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Standing in the Dark

<p><i>Demonstrating standing for injunctive relief in Section 1983 police misconduct cases is undisputedly difficult for civil rights plaintiffs. Under </i>City

papers.ssrn.com

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Mar 4

Usually they say it more metaphorically.

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Mar 4

It felt like deep engagement with the work from folks who read and are trying to improve the piece. What more could a guest ask for?

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Mar 4

What a great conversation with a thoughtful group! Thanks for reading and for your helpful comments, Corey.

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Mar 3

BTW, feel free to highlight this submission for your favorite law review editors. Or even your least favorite. It has been 2.5 weeks and no offers yet. Is this cycle moving slowly for others too?

Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Mar 2

Look What You Made Me Do is currently under submission to law journals. Here’s the abstract.

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Mar 3

I’m not a business law person, but Andrew Verstein has a real knack for letting the rest of us in to complex topics in business law.

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Mar 3

Interesting. Thanks!

Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Mar 3

It’s not, but I’m happy to share a draft. I’ll email you.

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Mar 2

If I can get title help from my daughter or perhaps my students then it might be. At the moment I’m pondering a new paper about legislative exceptionalism for criminal law bills. Miss Americana? All Too Well? Not seeing it. If I were writing about habeas or accomplice liability that would be easier.

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Mar 2

In this article I examine how criminal process flattens the complex narratives of crime into a simple story of defendants making bad choices. It sometimes coerces defendants into reciting this narrative too.

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Mar 2

Look What You Made Me Do is currently under submission to law journals. Here’s the abstract.

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Jan 15

Congratulations! Send them out by snail mail. That’s my vote.

Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Dec 27

This looks like a fantastic event, and I think it’s especially well-timed for folks getting early feedback on their summer projects that they haven’t written yet.

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Dec 24

Building a large langauge model trained on the Alabama Code is a great resource, but we ought to be careful to understand that it still won’t tell us everything about Alabama law. news.ua.edu/2024/11/arti...

Positioning UA for an AI Future

The University of Alabama is taking steps to ensure The University and its students are positioned at the forefront of the AI wave.

news.ua.edu

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Russell Gold @profrgold.bsky.social · Dec 20

Alice Ristroph’s open-source book is fantastic and does cover property crimes. Happy to discuss that or anything else about teaching Crim if I can be helpful.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · Dec 3

Re-reading Bostock on the eve of tomorrow's big trans healthcare case at SCOTUS, I think the law's defenders have their work cut out to explain why Gorsuch's reasoning there doesn't apply to TN's ban on puberty blockers & cross-sex hormones for trans youth. Three points...

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