Legal Commentary

Paul blogged, a bit cryptically, about tenure the other day.  I figure, though, if one is facebooking about celebrating tenure with a new iPhone, then one is not worried about keeping the news close.  So . . .  congratulations to Paul!  This is wonderful (if entirely expected) news.

I hope Paul won't be embarrassed if I say -- speaking for many, I'm sure -- what a wonderful citizen-scholar he is.  I know, from his time at Notre Dame, how dedicated he is to good teaching; his academic values are strong; his scholarship is thorough, careful, honest, interesting, and important; and his public interventions -- on this blog and elsewhere -- are unfailingly civil, amiable, and open-minded.  Well done!