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judicial opinions
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Law & Humanities Blog
Khan on Metacritique and Black Lives Matter Judicial Opinions
By christinecorcoslawlit-blogspot-com
Almas Khan, University of Mississippi School of Law, has published Metacritique and Black Lives Matter Judicial Opinions in Law and Critique / Recht und Kritik (Greta Olson et al., 2025)…
Original Jurisdiction
Judges’ Casual Writing Embraces Slang—And Not Everyone’s A Fan
By David Lat
(image generated using ChatGPT)This article is an expanded version of a piece that originally appeared on Bloomberg Law, part of Bloomberg Industry Group, Inc. (800-372-1033), and appears here with permission.In…
cearta.ie
Mammoth judgments, and how to stop them
By Eoin
While I was procrastinating over coffee this morning, a post by Hilary Young on LinkedIn drew my attention to an article by her colleague Paul Warchuk on the “trend of…
On Brief: Iowa's Appellate Blog
A statistical review of the 2025-26 Iowa Supreme Court term: “The Incredible Shrinking Judicial Opinion”
By Matt McGuire
[This article by Matthew A. McGuire was originally published in the August 2026 issue of The Iowa Lawyer magazine.] The last four Iowa Supreme Court terms—from the 2022-2023 term to the…
Legal History Blog
Corcos on Tocqueville in Canadian Judicial Opinions
By Dan Ernst
Christine A. Corcos, Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, has posted The Uses of Alexis de Tocqueville's Writings in Canadian Judicial Opinions, which appears in Moréteau on Law,…
SCOTxBlog
New stats feature: Who has written (and who has not) for each argument sitting?
By Don Cruse
A new, grid view of the Court’s argument sittings The tl;dr is: I’ve added a new feature to the website that lets you quickly see which Justices have written opinions…
Southern California Appellate News
"Dead data walking"
Justice Raphael's latest in the DJ is titled Dead data walking about how a certain statistic is repeated in "dozens of California opinions." But are courts using this statistic, and…
Southern California Appellate News
Judicial writing articles
Yale Law Prof. Justin Driver has "The Insignificance of Judicial Opinions" in 113 Cal. Law Review 2181 (2026). Also on judicial writing, see "The Situation: Horsefeathers! - A federal judge…
North Carolina Appellate Practice Blog
What is a Concurrence Dubitante?
In 1904, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Robert M. Douglas wrote a separate opinion in a case called Westbrooks v. Wilson, 135 N.C. 400, expressing some reservations about the majority’s…
Legal Theory Blog
Khan on Black Lives Matter Judicial Opinions
Almas Khan (University of Mississippi School of Law) has posted Reconstituting the Canon: The Rise of the Black Lives Matter Judicial Opinion on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article…