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by Michael Froomkin
Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law
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Jotwell- Ending CPS home searches’ evasion of the Fourth Amendment December 8, 2022 Josh Gupta-Kagan
- The Swift Completion of Their Appointed Rounds December 7, 2022 Roger M. Michalski
- Healthcare as Policing December 6, 2022 Elizabeth Joh
- Commonsense Consent and Contract Law December 5, 2022 Eyal Zamir
- Movement on Judges December 2, 2022 Leah Litman
- Against Government’s Reification of Business Secrecy December 1, 2022 Margaret Kwoka
- Blenderlaw
- a ukrainian student at miami law in her own words June 3, 2022
- canefunder for ukrainian students April 15, 2022
- george bermann on international arbitration and eu law February 25, 2022
- peter lederer August 10, 2021
- comments on carbon border tax proposals July 30, 2021
- international arbitration in the us and the americas: webinar next week April 16, 2021
On the first article, one might note that they’re was no clear and present danger about having knives on planes (!) Before 9/11 either. In fact, I once had a United crew laugh at me because I reported that the guy across from me was carving fruit with a knife. Clear and present dangers are almost always in hindsight. That’s what makes the phrase so insidious in it’s usage. (And do you also support Reason’s stance on no masks for children?)
Your second citation is just a one paragraph opinion made by someone who knows advisory nothing about military retrograde motions. They’re was very clearly no cogent plan, and everybody knew the Afghan government would fall. It has already been collapsing all over the rest of the country for months. It’s the Afghan way. It’s the cultural way that tribal societies work and always have in that region. To say there was a great plan, but that it could not account for that obvious contingency is to admit that there was NO plan worth having.