ANOTHER ACADEMIC ITEM: So in my mailbox today was a just-published law review with my article Constitutional “Incidents”: Interpretation in Real Time. The article (coauthored with fast-rising conlaw star Brannon Denning) is about the application of the “incidents” methodology used by international law scholars to constitutional questions that come up under circumstances where a Supreme Court opinion isn’t possible.

I’m quite pleased with how it turned out — but the original manuscript was written two or three years ago, and the piece is only now winding up in print. It’s sort of the opposite extreme from blogging, on the instant-gratification scale.

I sent out two pieces (one of them quite short) this summer. It’ll be interesting to see how long it will be before they appear in print.