Law Professor, Fordham Law School, criminal law & punishment. Author of Criminalizing Disobedience (Oxford University Press, 2026)
New York, USA
Joined January 2012
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Léa Seydoux tries some of the finest French and British delicacies for ELLE UK.
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We remember Professor Andrew von Hirsch, whose work shaped thinking on punishment and criminal responsibility.
A valued member of the Institute of Criminology and the Faculty of Law, he leaves an enduring legacy in his ideas, teaching and generosity.
crim.cam.ac.uk/news/andreas-…
ALT A photo of Professor Andrew von Hirsch, sitting at a desk and writing notes.
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It is with great sadness that I learn of the death of Andreas von Hirsch. He was a powerful and original proponent of retributivism in the theory of punishment and a cultured and engaging individual.
I fondly recall many enjoyable lunches with him in Cambridge. It was an honour to serve on the appointments panel for the Cambridge chair in penal theory and ethics named after him.
RIP
crim.cam.ac.uk/news/andreas-…
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🦔UC Berkeley's computer science department just posted its worst failure rates in years. 35.3% of CS 10 students got F's in spring 2026, up from under 10% in prior semesters. Professor Dan Garcia says the primary driver is a "vast increase in academic dishonesty" through LLMs. Students use AI to complete assignments, never learn the material, then fail exams. His office hours, once full, are now empty.
My Take
Companies are firing experienced engineers while the pipeline that produces new ones is being gutted by the same technology. Students use AI to bypass the hard part of learning, show up to exams without the understanding, and fail. One professor discovered a student's linear algebra class had an "open AI" policy for homework and exams. That student then couldn't do basic linear algebra in the next course.
Both ends of the workforce are eroding at the same time. Senior engineers are getting cut to fund AI spending. Junior engineers are graduating without the skills because AI did their coursework. And the companies spending trillions on these tools haven't connected those two facts yet.
Hedgie🤗
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NEW ARTICLE: Fourth Amendment law recognizes a buffer zone around the home—so-called "curtilage," that cops can't enter outside an "implied license." SCOTUS says this is all intuitive and found in social norms.
But is it? We decided to ask people.
BONUS: Lots of pictures!
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feel very fortunate that there was no AI around to bail me out when I was stuck on various pieces in my 20s
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French sociologist Alexis Spire has a book out called "Legitimate distrust" (Légitime Défiance in French) where he documents the loss of trust in state institutions over the last decades. Amazingly the French equivalent of the IRS is one of the only state institutions whose rate of approval goes up upon interacting with it, unlike the police or the justice system. They go out of their way to be nice apparently.
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Reworking the plot of LATE SPRING, Yasujiro Ozu’s masterpiece LATE AUTUMN stars Setsuko Hara—no longer the ebullient ingénue—as serene and composed widow Akiko whose daughter Ayako becomes the unwitting subject of an orchestrated matchmaking.
Screens next Fri 3/6 on 35mm.
Just announced! A crowning achievement from Yasujiro Ozu’s late period, LATE AUTUMN is an Ozu melodrama par excellence—observant, witty, and unrelentingly tragic in the face of life’s vicissitudes.
LATE AUTUMN screens in 35mm on 3/6: japansoc.org/lateautumn
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NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to see why they're so good at the Winter Olympics & i was yelling BC IT'S COLD THERE
then she went to a little ski jump for kids & was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
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Writing forces your brain to coordinate memory, reasoning, and meaning-making simultaneously.
Every time you write, you rewire toward clearer thinking. Every time you let an LLM do it, you rewire toward consumption.
ALT An editorial discusses the significance of human-generated writing in research, emphasizing its role in thinking and understanding.
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"Abolition Then and Now"—our winter 2025 issue—is now available! Read it on @ProjectMUSE: 🔗 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56302
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not sure why hamnet tries to appeal to modern audiences with “grief” when shakespeare’s play centers on an issue much more relevant today: a dispute over land belonging to denmark
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I don't write about politics, but as a Minnesotan, I endorse this message from @chkbal 100%. Conditions here are grim, folks. Whatever your views on immigration policy, what ICE & CPB are doing to this community is unAmerican.
See the Society for the Rule of Law Institute's statement on what's happening in Minneapolis:
societyfortheruleoflaw.org/s…
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Lee on Reasonable Doubt and Implicit Bias, legaltheoryblog.com/2025/11/… - Youngjae Lee (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Reasonable Doubt and Implicit Bias (Criminal Law and Philosophy) on SSRN.
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See the #NYFF63 selection NOUVELLE VAGUE at FLC, presented on 35mm through Thursday!
🎟️: filmlinc.org/nouvelle
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In the latest edition of FLC Luminaries, NOUVELLE VAGUE director Richard Linklater discusses his wildly entertaining passion project which transports the viewer back to 1959 and the making of Jean-Luc Godard's BREATHLESS.
Watch the full episode: filmlinc.org/luminaries
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Goodnight Diane Keaton,Annie Hall.
1946-2025 RIP
from Woody Allen’s Annie Hall
#sadday
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In the last few years we've seen:
- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk
Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.
The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.