evanberkow.bsky.social
Writer of SFF (stories in such places as Strange Horizons, Flash Fiction Online, Escape Pod & Crossed Genres). Lawyer. He/him. Rep by Alec Shane.
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Love how 90% of these apparatchiks walk around sounding like Immortan Joe.
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Interesting. Why do you continue to employ Ilan Wurman, a man engaged in dishonest, shoddy, and unethical scholarship in order to score partisan political points? Seems a black mark on your school's reputation.
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Schlocky action movie selection: Air Force One!
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I doubt folks would like my ideal position--membership in the Federalist Society or in groups like UChicago's Edmund Burke Society should result in automatic disbarment (or, for students, failure of character and fitness part of bar).
But hey, charitable bloke that I am, I'm willing to compromise.
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I read Ilan Wurman's op-ed in the Times and, quite frankly, if that's the level of ahistorical, specious scholarship he produces then you should fire him immediately. A stain on legal academia and the legal profession as a whole.
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They're not playing 3D chess, they're blunt but fragile instruments of destruction. If you all acted in solidarity and bowed out as one instead of meekly acquiescing to their tactics, then their sputtering weakness would be exposed. But I guess that's too much to ask of supposed journalists, right?
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I love how the pic you chose directly contradicts the text of your skeet. A+ job, NYT.
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What was it then? Be specific.
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If the very factual premises of an opinion are entirely off-base, then what value is there in the legal reasoning? How should we balance that analysis?
I don't think this approach would reflect well on the Court, but if this approach was widespread I think the conversation would be fruitful.
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Totally agreed. Though I also don't think it helps that many of the songs read as trying to mimic Miranda's originals / style as opposed to forging their own identity.
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Haha. I went to law school with that dude and boy do I have stories!
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Agreed! Carol got two cats when we first started dating and I've never looked back.