Things to Read This Week (6/16)

The Bluebook, the ABA, and the administrative state

O’Sullivan’s Law says that all institutions that are not explicitly right-wing over time become left-wing.

I’m on vacation this week, but here are three things to read:

• The Bluebook: An Insider’s Perspective, by the recent Bluebook Editorial Chair from the Harvard Law Review, M. Burke Craighead. Among other things, student editors felt pressured to adopt the “cleaned up” parenthetical but also wanted to rename it so as not to give Jack Metzler any satisfaction; and student politics led to a last minute decision to add Palestine to the country tables. It does make you wonder who should be in charge of the style guide.

• Civitas Outlook has a symposium on the move against the ABA accreditation monopoly in Texas and Florida.

• And here’s Joel Alicea: Originalism, the Administrative State, and the Clash of Political Theories (“I will show how the main pillars of the administrative state reflect certain progressive politico-theoretical commitments.”)