Thinking Like a Community
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the disappointing, but not unexpected, outcome of Happy the Elephant’s case. Taken with similar attempts to imbue animals with legal personhood, this can
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AB 2730 Proposes a Prison-Release Continuum
Good news! AB 2730 (Villapudua) is on its way to the California Senate. The gist of the proposal is: This bill would would, subject to appropriation by the Legislature, create the California Antirecidivism
My Chesa Recall Punditry: The View from Bayview-Hunter’s Point
Last night provided me a unique vantage point on the Boudin recall effort: I was an inspector at a polling station in Bayview-Hunter’s Point, which is a neighborhood with a
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied on the Appellate Level: Eisenberg vs. the Third District Court of Appeal
Not being on Twitter, while glorious, has its drawbacks; I would not have found out about this story if not for my colleague Paul Belonick, who came upon it through
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Emotional Labour of Conducting Research
At the LSA Annual Meeting in Lisbon, I will be the discussant for a panel about the emotional toll o...
July 15 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm WESTSherlock Holmes & The Birth of Crime Science
“Watson, you know my methods,” says Sherlock Holmes. But where did these methods come fr...
August 2 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm PDT