Great Blogs

Professor Douglas Berman's blog, Sentencing Law and Policy, which I have linked permanently on my site, is by far the best I've found. Today he features a conference at the New School in New York on the topic of Crime and Punishment, available here: [The invited speakers and the topics to be discussed (detailed here and here) are truly amazing. A detailed agenda can be found at this link,] This is a truly amazing line up of great thinkers and abstracts to guide you further, if that is what turns you on. This conference is happening next week in New York.

Also, Doug's permanent links to Criminal Law blogs provide more than enough for astute students of this topic (and legislative assistants) to begin to get their daily digest of must read stuff. Also, there is a reason that Doug has placed these links in the order that he has on his site.

What's In A Name?

I noticed the incongruoussness in the fact that my blog is still called "Monthly" (I've been posting a monthly newsletter on this site). Now that I think I will be posting more often as a blog than "monthly" I've decided to change the title to "Z--The Legal Blog and Monthly"--keeping the designation of "monthly" out of respect for the monthly paper copy that will still be going into the prisons by old fashioned snail mail.