Legal Debate

This Blog Is Shutting Down

2007-03-04T21:30:00.000-08:00

For several reasons, I have decided to shut down this blog:

(1) I am starting a new job and will not have time to post here.

(2) This blog was intended to educate high school debaters on last year's topic and is pretty much obsolete.

(3) I have discovered that people are citing posts made here as evidence in college debates, which was never my intent. Accordingly, I will be shutting this blog down and removing previous posts. Hopefully, this will put an end to the practice of citing this blog in debates.

Lindsay

Hiatus and Evidence

2006-09-27T05:35:00.000-07:00

Two notes:

(1) The reason for my extended hiatus from blogging is that I am clerking for a federal judge. Sorry bout that.

(2) To clarify, I do NOT intend that anything on this site be read as evidence in a debate. This site is merely meant to clarify certain legal questions for the debate community. In my opinion, evidence should be peer-edited, or at least edited by someone. Nothing on this site has been edited or checked by anyone else. I recommend that you do NOT use anything posted here in an actual debate.

LH

Qualifications and Disclaimers

2005-09-19T10:51:00.000-07:00

I am a Lecturer in Law at the University of Miami School of Law. I teach one course entitled Legal Research and Writing and one course entitled Civil Rights Litigation Strategy. I attended Harvard Law School (J.D. 2003) and the University of Southern California (B.A. 2000). I clerked for United States District Judge Alan S. Gold (Southern District of Florida) from 2003-2004, worked at Jenner & Block in Washington D.C. practicing mostly appellate litigation, and am now teaching before I begin clerking for Judge Rosemary Barkett (Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals) in January 2006.

Debate-wise, I debated for four years at the Greenhill School and for three years at the University of Southern California. For several summers, I taught at the Michigan Classic.

My qualifications may be found at: http://www.law.miami.edu/facadmin/faculty/lharrison.htm

Disclaimer #1: None of the statements on this blog reflect the views of the University of Miami, nor the views of any of my former or future employers.

Disclaimer #2: I work occasionally as a judge and part-time, pre-round coach for Carrollton (School of the Sacred Heart). Nothing in this blog is available exclusively to Carrollton debaters, nor do any of my posts exist for the purpose of providing evidence for debaters.

The Purpose of This Blog

2005-09-18T10:54:00.000-07:00

Welcome!

This blog intends to provide a forum for high school debaters debating this year's Civil Liberties topic to engage in discussions with law professors about the topic. Many of the arguments that reoccur year after year in the debate community are areas where law professors have special expertise: federalism, presidential powers, separation of powers, the hollow hope, critical legal studies, etc.

My hope is that this forum functions as a site for clarification of debaters' questions about the law, as well as a site for argument innovation.