On Treason: A Citizen's Guide to the Law, officially released today!.

Looked up the original of Holmes's Path of the Law speech. A bit jarring to compare the end of the speech with the item that immediately follows it.

RT @carltonfwlarson: Brilliant performance by pianist George Li of Vladimir Horowitz's insanely difficult arrangement of "The Stars and Str….

Delighted to announce that On Treason: A Citizen's Guide to the Law is being released today in paperback by @eccobooks. As accusations of treason increasingly pervade public discourse, this book helps clarify what treason is, and what is not.

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. My book, “The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution,” documents the struggles around the rule of law during this bitterly divisive period.

Added a profile at the other place; same username.

It's not quite as wild as John Tyler having a living grandson, but I was amazed to learn today that Grover Cleveland has a grandson who is only 72. (h/t @jessicaklowe) .Grandson of Grover Cleveland on Trump's shattering of historic record

A couple of UC Davis undergraduates have been interviewing professors all around the world about their areas of interest. Very much enjoyed speaking with them on "Discovering Academia.".

A pleasure to appear on the Roots of Reality podcast.

Did someone say shouting fire?. ‘Shouting Fire in a Theater': The Life and Times of Constitutional Law’s Most Enduring Analogy by Carlton F. W. Larson :: SSRN

Appalling. The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books - The Atlantic

I’ve always disliked the gratuitous insertion of “you know” into casual conservation and thought it a largely modern irritation. Well, here’s John Jay in a July 6, 1776 letter to Edward Rutledge: “We have a government, you know, to form; and God only knows what it will resemble.”.

Really looking forward to this!!.

This anecdote is in Volume 31 of the Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, from the State Gazette of North Carolina, Oct. 6, 1788. (3/3).

The “whole assembly shook with applause, echoing and re-echoing sounds on sounds.” "Bumclangor" is a new one for me, but I like it. If you're writing faux eighteenth-century poetry (or law), and "fart" just doesn't work for your rhythm, "bumclangor" will do nicely. (2/3).

In the 1788 NC ratifying convention, a Federalist was interrupted by an anti-Federalist who, “presenting forward his brawny buttocks,” discharged "a dreadful bumclangor, emitting a thick tophetic stench more foetid and pestiferous than the . steams of . Lake Avernus.” (1/3).

RT @KinseyAndrew: Imagine being so bad that you made Dick Cheney vote for a Democrat. Anyone who was alive in the early 2000s should know….

RT @DavidPepper: Vance has 1/6th the experience in office as Quayle had when picked to be VP. 1/7th of Sarah Palin. Less than 1/8th of K….

Jobs that are not on my legal resume:.Guide at a dinosaur museum.Transcribing handwritten recipes.Running the spotlight for a beauty pageant.And three and half years working at Harvard Law School, where I made deliveries for the copy center in the basement.

[Corrected post]: Only two presidents were previously state attorney generals, Martin van Buren and Bill Clinton. Kamala Harris would be the third.