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7 Jul 2015, 11:21 am by Steven I. Platt
President Obama lamented and vented, not necessarily in that order, the senseless and tragic slaughter of nine innocent people in their church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a deranged and racist also not necessarily in that order individual, whose racist ideology and imbalanced mental condition could have been a warning of his hate-filled criminal intent ... [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 3:17 pm by Steven I. Platt
As the executive and legislative branches of our federal government approach yet another “crisis” that they created by setting up a partial government shutdown of one of our most important departments — Homeland Security — our “leaders” are, as usual, spending too much time developing talking points and not enough time figuring out how to make our increasingly fragile representative democracy work. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 3:26 pm by Steven I. Platt
As Gov.-elect Larry Hogan fills posts in his incoming administration, it would behoove him to pay attention not only to the qualifications, but also the management style of the men and women who seek appointive office at the highest levels in the new government. [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 2:22 pm by Steven I. Platt
As the Ferguson, Missouri, community along with the rest of the country reacts to the decision of the St. Louis County grand jury not to indict police officer Darren Wilson, the secrecy of its deliberations for months and the lack of accountability that has inevitably accompanied it should raise serious questions about the utility of the aging institution of the grand jury. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 1:51 pm by Steven I. Platt
In recent years, courts have been faced with an ever-rising tide of litigation. Many of the issues raised by a good portion of this litigation go to the very heart of our political, economic, social and cultural order. [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 2:46 pm by Steven I. Platt
The most valuable lesson that I learned as a result of being lucky enough to have been appointed and [read post]
4 Sep 2015, 1:18 pm by Steven I. Platt
I have previously written about the dangers of allowing political theater to ... [read post]
30 Oct 2014, 3:13 pm by Steven I. Platt
As the general election for governor and virtually all of the state and local offices in our state except the Baltimore mayor and City Council approach, it is clearer than ever how the manner in which campaigns are conducted affects the initiation and implementation of public policy once the election is over. [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 7:14 am by Steven I. Platt
My last column described the cultural, economic and structural changes in the legal and business communities that have transposed Alternative Dispute Resolution from a “cross-practice” litigators engage in when they are contractually required or court-ordered to do so to a fully-integrated but increasingly separate and distinct set of dispute resolution services to be offered by ... [read post]
21 Dec 2022, 3:31 pm by Christopher J. Walker
Since 2015, I’ve had the privilege of serving as co-editor, currently with the brilliant Miriam [read post]
4 Dec 2020, 8:37 am by Steve Lubet
I have this new piece up today on The Tropics of Meta: From Border Ruffian to Florida Man: The Evolution [read post]
6 Jun 2018, 4:29 am by Edith Roberts
” At The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Steven Mazie observes that “[s]ix months [read post]
26 Nov 2019, 4:11 am by David Bilinsky
♫ If not today Maybe tomorrow If not tomorrow Maybe in a week No matter how far I push it It needs [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 7:57 am by Jamie Baker
Rainwater, Steven G. Platt, Scott T. McMurry, and Todd A. [read post]
19 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by Ronald D. Rotunda
more permanent SCIF, such as one at the Department of Defense about 10 feet from my office there when I [read post]