by Katie | May 15, 2017 | Journalism, Law, Social Justice
Image Alt Text: A photograph of Stephen Colbert of the set of The Late Show, conversing with guest John Kerry. On Monday, May 1, 2017, Stephen Colbert, host of The Late Show, unleashed a string of school-yard insults on President Trump that we can assume made our...
by Katie | Feb 24, 2017 | Journalism, Law, Social Justice, Writing Roundup
Image Alt-Text: A photograph of a pair of old-fashioned leather boxing gloves lying on a punching bag. Mostly I’ve been writing about freedom of the press and authoritarianism, but also about the judiciary and separation of powers. Mostly this writing is...
by Katie | Jan 28, 2017 | Law, Social Justice
Image Alt-Text: Monochrome photograph of a stone wall with a metal-barred window with one glass pane shattered. What does it mean for a presidential administration to declare itself at “war” with the U.S. media, to declare the U.S. media an “opposition party”...
by Katie | Dec 9, 2016 | Law, Textbooks
I write a lot of things: novels, essays and journalism pieces, and, as you might not know, nerdy books on nerdy things like legal reasoning, writing, argumentation, and citation. My latest nerdy outing, The Complete Legal Writer, is one of my proudest accomplishments....
by Katie | Dec 29, 2015 | Law, Racial Justice, Social Justice
“Please DON’T. If you don’t care about these issues all of the time. DO NOT FOLLOW ME today. I hate it so much. Thanks.” –Mariame Kaba, @prisonculture, on Twitter on 12/28/2015. Today, in the car, my 6yo son asked me about Tamir Rice. He...
by Katie | Jul 16, 2015 | Law, Racial Justice, Social Justice
Five years ago or so, I wrote and published a scholarly piece on To Kill a Mockingbird. I noted Atticus Finch’s “failure of empathy,” and said that white readers could not—would not—empathize with black characters in the book because of a “fear...
