Readers, I am happy to announce that Letters Blogatory is now using ActivityPub, the protocol that powers Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse. The Fediverse is a lot of things to a lot of people, but to me it is a way of microblogging, similar to Twitter, except that there is no algorithm showing……
Readers, this is just a heads-up that you will now see hCaptchas on Letters Blogatory’s subscription and contact pages. Over the weekend, I was going through the messages left on the contact pages in the last month. There were hundreds, and they were predominantly spam. I don’t have time for that. While I already have……
A week from today, Letters Blogatory celebrates its tenth birthday! I confess the anniversary snuck up on me. Ten years and thousands of posts later, I look back and realize just how important writing this blog has been to me, professionally and personally. On the personal side, it’s provided me an outlet to write every……
Some personal news to report: I have been elected a member of the American Law Institute. For foreign readers, the ALI is “the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.” It drafts and promulgates the Restatements of the Law and uniform codes such as……
Readers, you may have noticed a few changes on the Letters Blogatory website recently. For example, you now need to check a box before submitting a comment indicating your consent to my storage of the personal information that comes along with your comment.