It has been hard to let go of this one, but I just bit the bullet and submitted my latest article, "Participatory Law Scholarship," via Scholastica Law Review: @scholasticahq.bsky.social. Updated version now up @ssrn too! I think that you'll either love it or hate it, but hope you'll at least give it a chance!

Very exciting to see Kirsten Mullen’s and my book From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (#FHTE) second edition as Amazon top seller in Income Inequality category.

Welcome back, everyone! We hope you all had a great winter break!

Very cool! #FHTE second edition is now Amazon’s top seller in the Income Inequality category.

A starred review from Publishers Weekly for my forthcoming book! I am over the moon! (In bookstores on June 13, but you can preorder now. And you can read the review here: bit.ly/3lycGSw)

First chapter preview available here for The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice on the long-term consequences of the failure to de-Confederatize U.S. society: amazon.com/Black-Reparati…

"With much national wealth and commerce utterly dependent on slavery, in the North as well as the South," any proposal for abolition "would have been a political non-starter." Apparently, ChatGPT, however, is in thrall to white supremacist myths online. politico.com/news/magazine/…

Sophia Z. Lee has been named dean of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, effective July 1, 2023. Lee, currently a professor of law with a secondary appointment in history, has been a member of the Penn Carey Law faculty since 2009. bit.ly/3zuGSBB

So excited and proud that the phenomenal duo of Michele Goodwin and gregoryshaffer, giants in their respective fields of health law and international law, will be joining us at Georgetown Law.

Mine was more rectangular and had a green leather cover. I got it for Christmas when I was 9 years old. I couldn't have been more excited. To be able to be in my room & listen to the music I wanted to listen to. I've never been happier. It's so easy to please kids.

Forgive me for a bit of self-promotion, but since both ASA and ASC are in Philadelphia this year, I wanted to remind folks that I wrote a book about Eastern State Penitentiary, the early US prisons, and Pennsylvania's role in early penal reform. cambridge.org/core/books/dev…

Wow! Great to see Kirsten Mullen’s and my second edition of From Here to Equality back as the top seller in Amazon’s Income Inequality category. UNC Press Awards

This was indeed stunning news. All that you say about him is true. I always felt his affection and support for me and I loved the work that he did. He was a friend in the truest sense of the word. I cannot believe he’s gone, either.

The whole purpose is to minimize the evils of slavery by emphasizing some alleged “bright” spot.

Happy Halloween! 🎃 The Criminal Law Association and Phi Alpha Delta hosted a Trunk or Treat this month for the OCU Law community 👻

Visitors to museums should *absolutely* feel confronted. They should feel respected, and not be presented with more than they can safely handle. But they should find their boundaries challenged.