A blog by James Grimmelmann.
Twenty years ago, Edith Wainwright watched her lover Jack hang for a murder he didn’t commit. Even though three eyewitnesses claimed they saw someone who looked like Jack at the scene, Edith knew he was innocent: the two of them were together the night of the murder. But Jack refused to testify in his defense, and made Edith swear never to tell another soul where he had been. He was willing to…
There are four principles you can live your life by:
I regret to inform you that there is even more to the story of how Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff backed his car into a student. I also regret to inform you that Cornell’s Board of Trustees has made things worse.
I’ve changed my mission statement. The old one read:
What is knowledge? To know something is to correctly understand the world, so knowledge must involve the coming together of truth and belief.
Here in higher education, the capitulations will continue until morale improves. After Columbia’s shameful deal with the Trump administration last summer, I pledged not to donate to the university or to perform any service for it unless and until it repents and atones. Since then, several other universities have followed suit. I want to focus on two—Northwestern and Cornell—that raise similar…
This is the story that I tell when people ask me how I got into Internet law. Like all of its kind, it’s a polished and refracted version of what actually happened. Still, for all the misremembered details and conscious omissions, it bears a resemblance to the truth.
I was a few years ago old when I learned that these were all distinct:
I learned today that Mala Htun, professor of political science at the University of New Mexico, died in January, after living with cancer for several years. She was the TA for my college course in the political economy of economic development. I could not now name most of my TAs, but a few of them stood out, as though everything about them was drawn with a surer hand and brighter colors. Mala…
Jason Koebler, ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can’t Do Anything About It, 404 Media (Oct. 28, 2025):