Dorf on Dorf
Adam Liptak has a piece in today's New York Times that refers to my reaction to the DC Circuit opinion in Parker. Liptak doesn't expressly mention the blog but he does quote my conversation with him -- on the declining citation of law review articles by courts. Here are the relevant three paragraphs:
Meanwhile, I'll be on NPR's All Things Considered this afternoon talking about executive privilege -- unless I get bumped. I'll report back on the conversation tomorrow.
Michael C. Dorf, a law professor at Columbia, had a similar reaction to being cited dismissively in this month’s decision striking down parts of the District of Columbia’s gun control law. On the one hand, Professor Dorf said, “there’s no such thing as bad publicity.” On the other, he said it was vexing to see his article caricatured rather than engaged.
The District of Columbia Circuit had, he said, at least tried to engage the legal scholarship on a difficult and important question. He had less sympathy for judges who have given up on the academy.
“The claim by judges that they have no use for law review articles seems to me an anti-intellectual know-nothingism that is understandable but regrettable,” Professor Dorf said.
That ought to win me friends in the federal judiciary!Meanwhile, I'll be on NPR's All Things Considered this afternoon talking about executive privilege -- unless I get bumped. I'll report back on the conversation tomorrow.