Michael Smith's Law Blog

A few weeks ago, Iowa's governor signed a law that she claimed would address the teaching of "critical race theory." Shortly a...

I recently posted a working version of a short article I'm writing to SSRN. It is meant to be the first in a yearly series of articles ...

This post aims to answer a simple question: what is the highest number of amendments to a complaint that has ever been allowed by a court in...

With the Democratic party in control of the House and Senate, discussions have been picking up over whether the District of Columbia will be...

A few days ago, I wrote about Brian Frye's article in Techdirt where he discussed ScholarSift, a new platform for legal research. A br...

I read Brian Frye's Techdirt article, "It's the End of Citation As We Know It & I Feel Fine," where he makes the bold...

I learned from Greg McNeal's Twitter thread (and related blog post ) of an interesting opinion issued by the Michigan Court of Appeals l...