That's a wrap on Volume 33! Special thanks to our Editorial Board members, staff, and authors for making this publication possible! Check out the full volume here: wm.billofrightsjournal.org/?page_id=673

Hello all, Today is the official launch of the open-source contracts casebook I worked on with several fantastic scholarly collaborators (Guy Rub, Ethan Leib, Tal Kastner, Matthew Bodie, & Pamela Bookman). It's been a labor of love over many years. contractscasebook.org

Boy, do I have a famous debate in legal philosophy for you.

Sunshine and smiles in Oxford ☀️📍 Each summer, the FSU College of Law offers a legal studies program at the University of Oxford in England. A truly unique way to study law where history and learning meet. 📚🏛️ Photo Credit: DeeDee Leverett & Morgan Hughes

🧵 I've been writing something on the intelligence & national-security applications of frontier AI models. This is an experiment in seeing what one of them, OpenAI's o3-pro model, might be able to do in an area relevant to national security.

FSU Law’s Professor Nadia Banteka Featured in CNN’s James Craig Trial Coverage. “But as the adversarial system evolved in the 19th and 20th centuries, jury questioning largely disappeared,”she told CNN in an email Learn more: cnn.it/4f85LqD

FSU Law Professor Michael Morley was featured this week in ABC Miami's coverage of a high-profile ruling on the City of Miami's attempt to delay 2025 municipal elections. "if push comes to shove, the court can just enter injunctive relief" Read more: bit.ly/4lGLKK5

NEW ARTICLE on SSRN: "The Practice of Executive Constitutionalism," by me and Conor Clarke (forthcoming in Virginia Law Review). Check it out! (Link in next tweet to avoid being crushed by the X algorithm).

Please join us in cheering on our incredible FSU students as they prepare to take the bar exam starting tomorrow. You can leave a message of encouragement law.fsu.edu/bar-success to help lift their spirits and remind them they’re not alone on this journey.

FSU Law is proud to be recognized once again by The Princeton Review as one of the top law schools in the country! FSU Law’s strong community and faculty support continue to earn national recognition. Thank you to everyone who makes it possible.

Childhood home of HLA Hart, Harrogate, Yorkshire 🇬🇧

It seems like there is not enough of a policy response to the fact that, with 57M miles of data, Waymo’s autonomous vehicles experience 85% less serious injuries & 79% less injuries overall than cars with human drivers. 2.4 million are injured & 40k killed in US accidents a year

This didn’t happen. Indeed, the book is on the mandatory reading list, as is the topic of the Holocaust more broadly. One Florida school did pull a *graphic novel* based on Anne Frank; right or wrong, the charge there was that it “minimized,” not focused on, the Holocaust.

Ahem #GoNoles FSU Football

I’m a big fan of Portuguese blue tile.

Paul Caron's hanging up his blogging hat reminds me of this very fun conference, almost 20 years ago, when law blogs were the new and big thing in the legal academy. Howard Bashman Lawrence Solum Eric Goldman (he/him) Paul Caron

youtube.com/watch?v=-t2ONj… Election law is evolving, are courts keeping up? Jacob Eisler shares insights from the recent Election Law Conference at Florida State, exploring how scholarship is reshaping debates on representation, capitalism, and campaign finance.

You just love to see it:

Join us Oct. 16 at 12:30 PM EST for a teleforum hosted by FSU's Election Law Center! Panelists Amy Howe,Atiba Ellis, Ned Foley, and Jason Torchinsky will unpack the U.S. Supreme Court's oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais - a pivotal case at the intersection of the Voting

Stained-glass staircase with abstract geometry by Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944.