Category: Conspiracy Theories

Bx. Co.

Just ran across this abbreviation for the first time in a court case; it’s used in New York court citations, when the name of the county is included, and it means Bronx County, e.g., “See People v. Brown, 2022 NYLJ LEXIS 1051 (Sup Ct Bx Co.).” There are many references to it, and (less commonly) […]

Penguin Refuses to Stop Publishing Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Book

The Wall St. J. (Jeffrey Trachtenberg) wrote on Oct. 31 (but I somehow missed it): The book is being published by the Sentinel imprint of Bertelsmann SE’s Penguin Random House. “We remain fully committed to publishing authors who, like Justice Barrett, substantively shape today’s most important conversations,” said Adrian Zackheim, publisher of Sentinel, a leading […]

Life Imitates the Volokh Conspiracy

A reader reminded me of this blog post Jan. 24, 2022: Will the Supreme Court Ask Harvard How it Justifies Treating “Asian Americans” as a Homogenous Category? I wrote: “I’m not quite sure what Harvard’s lawyer would or could say if asked why, say, Filipino, Nepalese, and Mongolian applicants are placed in the same ‘diversity’ […]

Dating as a Criminal Law Professor

The eleventh episode (Apple Podcasts link here and Spotify link here) of Strangers on the Internet with co-host and psychologist Michelle Lange has us chatting with Prof. Erin Sheley who brings her personal and professional wisdom to the world of online dating. Erin found love (and indeed, a fiance) on Bumble after dating app adventures […]

Black Survey Respondents on Police Spending

The TheGrio/KFF [Kaiser Family Foundation] Survey of Black Voters (conducted Aug. 24 to Sept. 5) asked respondents, Thinking about police departments in your area, do you think spending on policing should be increased, kept about the same or decreased? The answers: 17% supported decreasing funding, 48% supported keeping it about the same, and 34% supported […]

“Government Employee Speech and Forum Analysis,” by Prof. Randy Kozel (Notre Dame)

Just published, at 1 Journal of Free Speech Law 579 (2022); the abstract: This Article analyzes the institution of government employment as a nonpublic forum. Forum analysis offers a framework for bringing the doctrine of government employee speech into alignment with broader First Amendment principles. It also sharpens the theoretical contours of employee speech law […]