Why I Write in the Margins of Law
Somewhere between a bench synopsis and a counter-affidavit, I started keeping notes that did not belong in either.
What this blog is
- Close readings of legal problems worked through in practice, not summarised from textbooks.
- Arguments that are still being refined. Some will be wrong.
- A record of how I think, not what I have done. The CV handles that.
Not case notes. Not research memos. Something closer to thinking out loud about why a judge reasoned the way they did, whether a drafting choice in an agreement would survive a dispute, or what it means to study law in a system still sorting out its own identity.
This blog is that margin, made public.
The posts here are close readings of legal problems, observations from practice, and arguments that are still being refined. Some will be wrong. All of them will be honest.
If you are reading this while considering me for something, the writing is the point. A CV lists what I have done. This is how I think.