Towns and Counties Great stuff from @danfarbman.bsky.social bit.ly/43u6ld9
Towns and Counties
Shameless Self Promotion
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benjamin levin
@hashtagblevin.bsky.social
prof at WashU Law. teaches criminal law & procedure. papers at https://ssrn.com/author=1660906. occasional thoughts at https://postcardsofthehanging.substack.com/.
Thinking About the Government A call for papers for a @washulawreview.bsky.social symposium this fall bit.ly/4wj8tSc
Thinking About the Government
A call for papers
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Excited to be co-organizing this symposium with my former colleague Sharon Jacobs (@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social) & the terrific folks at @washulawreview.bsky.social. Send proposals, & please share the CFP!
Washington University Law Review@washulawreview.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Washington University Law Review invites submissions for its 2026 symposium, “The Many Faces of the State.” We welcome proposals examining competing conceptions of the state, including the administrative, carceral, national security, welfare, preventive, and surveillance state. See attached.
Always read @hashtagblevin.bsky.social. Especially on our very occasional joint newsletter. substack.com/@benjaminlev...
Precrime, Thought Crime, or Just Normal Crime
Some brief reflections on the Comey indictment
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Precrime, Thought Crime, or Just Normal Crime Some brief reflections on the Comey indictment: bit.ly/3RlAisZ
Precrime, Thought Crime, or Just Normal Crime
Some brief reflections on the Comey indictment
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Long stretch of radio silence on our blog/newsletter, but the new post from @danfarbman.bsky.social is very much worth the wait. Emerson & the false promise of originalism. Give it a read. An Originalist Relation to the Universe open.substack.com/pub/postcard...
An Originalist Relation to the Universe
An Emersonian Polemic
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Legalized Racial Profiling: bit.ly/46Rabyv Flagging an important new op-ed by Daniel Harawa & Kate Weisburd on Noem vs. Vasquez Perdomo
Legalized Racial Profiling
The increasing obsolescence of the Fourth Amendment
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Today from me over at Postcards of the Hanging it's a callback to something I wrote a while ago that feels like it might have some utility amidst...everything we're experiencing right now. Radical pragmatism, etc. open.substack.com/pub/postcard...
A Commons in the Master's House
Thoughts on radical pragmatism and the institutions we inhabit
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As I warned you yesterday, @hashtagblevin.bsky.social and I will occasionally be writing about stuff in a shared space. Read Ben's first post on crime, DC, and who is being kept safe from whom here. open.substack.com/pub/postcard...
Crime in the City
"Public safety" in DC
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Just posted "Crime in the City"--some thoughts on the DC police takeover, crime panics, and "public safety" bit.ly/4gj1fpF
Crime in the City
"Public safety" in DC
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Do you ever find yourself wondering what @danfarbman.bsky.social & I are thinking? If so, you're in luck. We have a new site. Check out the first post from Dan on crisis, pessimism, & possibility.
Dan Farbman@danfarbman.bsky.social · 11mo agoBen Levin and I have set up a place where we can, at irregular intervals, inflict our thoughts on you. My first thing there is an essay on founding moments, the 1850s, Thoreau, and the mess we're in. open.substack.com/pub/postcard...