Legal Commentary

How Much Poetry Should a Law Professor Write
I wanted to follow up on some of the later comments in Paul's excellent recent post about what prawfs ought to be doing prior to getting tenure. David Zaring "mildly disagrees" with what he takes to be Paul's suggestion to "write your bliss" and says that a prawf who is inclined to write about his/her favorite poet's views about liberty might have more fun actually writing poetry...

More Property Poetry
While all the cool people are in New York for AALS, I'm sitting here in Tuscaloosa. So I thought that I'd post a little more property poetry. Like my most recent property poetry post (on John Rueben Thompson's poem about...

how do your 1Ls read cases
A poem by Billy Collins, Introduction to Poetry, describes teaching students to read poetry. But it also holds well as an analogy for teaching 1Ls to read cases. Click on the linked poem title, think "cases" where it says "poetry"...

Mild-Mannered Blawger Gets Savage
Until recently, Schenectady, N.Y., lawyer David Giacalone was best known within the blogosphere as someone who combined punditry with poetry. Not just any poetry, but that most simple and natural form known as the haiku...

Poetic License
Australian poet and critic Les Murray has offered a deal to any publisher who wants a "blurb" from him on a new poetry book. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, on February 13th, Murray wrote to the poetry editor of...

The Poet of Property
We've spoken before about property poetry--about poetry of a meadow, about a poem for Virginia's Natural Bridge by John Thompson, editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, and about William Cullen Bryant's Ages...