This is a reboot of a previous blog that, for various reasons, is no longer in use. (Here's the old blog if you're interested. From time to time I might link to content there.) It's also a continual work in progress, so please bear with me.
I'm a law professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where I teach constitutional law, among other subjects. I've published a couple of books about constitutional law and theory, one called A Matter of Dispute: Morality, Democracy, and Law (Oxford Univ. Press 2011) -- hence the title of this blog -- and another called Precedent in the United States Supreme Court (Springer 2014). I've also published some law-review articles on constitutional law, legal theory, and related subjects.
I'm not exactly sure who the audience for this blog will be, if there even is one. I plan to post on timely developments in U.S. Constitutional law and legal education, perhaps in other legal areas as well. Occasionally I might write a "background" post offering my views on big-picture legal or theoretical issues. My aim is to write posts that are accessible to nonspecialists (I won't always succeed), and so perhaps a likely audience for this stuff would include law students and members of the public with some interest in constitutional law but no real expertise in it. We shall see.
Oh, and I might throw in a few posts about some nonprofessional subjects that interest me: modern architecture and design and photography. (I'll try to spare you any posts about my other passions, Detroit Tigers baseball and University of Michigan collegiate sports.)
My prior experience with blogging suggests I'm not very good at it. I'm used to writing 150,000-word books and 25,000-word law-review articles, and it's tough for me to adapt to a brief, relatively instantaneous format. But that is the model toward which legal scholarship is shifting, I suspect -- shorter, more timely scholarship, often aimed to a broader audience -- and this is part of my effort to shift with it. I apologize in advance for what surely will be periodic long gaps between my posts.
Anyway, thanks to whomever is reading this. I welcome your comments -- negative is okay, polite is essential -- and I hope to occasionally post something that interests you.
Best,
CJP
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