- The Brutal “Miami Model” for Subduing Protests
- Billmon has been visiting Egypt. Read about his train station and train trip from Cairo to Luxor. Both remind me strongly of one of my greatest travel memories. Egypt is special.
- Via SDFL Blog, Holland & Knight has raised local associate salaries to $120,000 per year. Miami tends to run behind the North East cities with higher taxes and living costs, but this helps close the gap.
- SDFL also has your Padilla case update. It seems the government won’t even give him copies of his own statements while in custody — on the grounds that the information is classified!
- Daily Kos Diarist makes the case that Bush Lied About Abu Ghraib. Interesting to see the “Bush lies” meme propagate and mutate.
Recent Bluessky Posts- Jotwell Courtslaw: Suzette M. Malveaux, Resilience and Judicial Power in the Aftermath of Trump v. CASA, JOTWELL (May 18, 2026) (reviewing Mila Sohoni, In CASA You Missed It, 78 Stan. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2026), available at SSRN (Nov. 25, 2025)), courtslaw.jotwell.com/resilience-a.... May 18, 2026 Jotwell
- According to the Princeton Review, UMiami Law is the nation's #2 most diverse law faculty. www.princetonreview.com/law-school-r... Surprised to learn this, as it's not how we see ourselves. And it kinda makes me worry about the rest of legal academia.... May 17, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- This is a very silly list as proved by Invisible Cities being number 97 instead of being in the top 10. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int... May 17, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Adlaw: Emily Hammond, Putting a Human Face on Administrative Law, JOTWELL (May 15, 2026) (reviewing Matthew B. Lawrence, Second-Class Administrative Law: Lincoln v. Vigil’s Puzzling Presumption of Unreviewability, 101 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1029 (2024)), adlaw.jotwell.com/putting-a-hu.... May 15, 2026 Jotwell
- I want some to have around just in case. May 14, 2026 Michael Froomkin
Holland & Knight’s Florida office has a nasty history of sexual harrassment. Can $120,000 per year compensate for that?