The election. And then viewer mail on media for scholarship and ideas, suspense and emotional salience in judicial opinions, and a little more.
This show’s links:
Oral Argument 106: Legal Asteroid (http://oralargument.org/106)
Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_for_All_Seasons)
David Souter on the Danger of America’s “pervasive civic ignorance” (video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWcVtWennr0)
Oral Argument 105: Bismarck’s Raw Material (guest Tim Meyer) (http://oralargument.org/105)
Oral Argument 112: Quasi-Narrative (guest Simon Stern) (http://oralargument.org/112)
Popov v. Hayashi (http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/bonds/popovhayashi121802dec.pdf)
Oyez page for NFIB v. Sebelius (https://www.oyez.org/cases/2011/11-393) (select Opinion Announcement, part 1, for the relevant portion of the hand-down)
Oral Argument 113: The Entrails of Fowl (guest Charles Barzun) (http://oralargument.org/113)
Paul Horwitz, On “The Troublesome Use of Photographs . . . and Other Images” in Federal Court Opinions (http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2016/10/on-the-troublesome-use-of-photographs-and-other-images-in-federal-court-opinions.html)
Blackmun’s dissent in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services (https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/489/189#writing-USSC_CR_0489_0189_ZD1)
Jamal Greene, Pathetic Arguments in Constitutional Law (http://columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Greene-J..pdf)
The Oral Argument Index (http://www.hydratext.com/oralargumentindex/)
David Ziff, The Worst System of Citation Except for All the Others (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2862090)