Liss: Anatomy Shapes Interpretation of Text Messages

I always channel Scalia while reading text messages from a boy. After years of failed flirtations and botched texting, I have concluded that men and women apply vastly different canons of construction to text messages. Specifically, how deeply one reads

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Facebook is Lonely, Legal Language is for Friends

Our generation is all about the textual masturbation.
You all know what I’m talking about: Those nights after you strike out at the bar, when you clumsily walk home alone, get into bed, turn on your computer, and go to town

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Leave the Labels for Lawyering; Be Unbiased in Love

I think my religion is cock-blocking me.
Maybe I should clarify. My religious practice isn’t stopping me from having an active dating life (I mean, I’m not the Pope); it’s my religious image that’s the problem. Call me paranoid, but in

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CT Justices Discuss Same-Sex Marriage

On February 1, 2010, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Program in Family Law, Policy and Bioethics welcomed Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Richard N. Palmer and retired-Justice David M. Borden to a panel entitled “State Courts, Marriage, and Social

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Cardozo: Some Kind of Sexual

One must admit that Cardozo’s sexual history does not conform with contemporary standards of heteronormativity. In fact, the best way to describe Cardozo’s personal life would be: queer. Continue reading