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The Green Bag @thegreenbag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“DOGE v. ICE” and “Let’s Kill All the Lawyers” from Roll of Law Games, by Greg Jacob. Read about it in the Green Bag: The Story Behind the Game greenbag.org/v29n3/v29n3_... The Making of the Game greenbag.org/v29n4/v29n4_...

Photo of both sides of Roll of Law Kickstarter announcement card

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Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We need more talented cricketers in Iceland. If you can play a bit and have an Icelandic grandparent or fifth cousin, get in touch. If you have even watched some films by Baltasar Kormákur, we will think about it.

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Jack Metzler (cleaned up) @scotusplaces.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A few years ago I wrote this short article for @thegreenbag.bsky.social which has some fun explanation about the history of Groundhog Day. A sample below but you really need to read the whole thing with the footnotes and everything papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

For those who aren’t familiar with the latter term, Candlemas is “a Christian Holy Day commemorating the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. It is based upon the account of the presentation of Jesus in Luke 2:22-40.” The celebration, held on February 2, involves a mass to which congregants bring candles to be blessed and then used for the rest of the winter.23 According to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, that celebration evolved to one involving weather prediction, as reflected in an old English folk song: If Candlemas be fair and bright, Come, Winter, have another flight; If Candlemas brings clouds and rain, Go Winter, and come not again.24 This tradition eventually made its way to Germany, where they introduced a hedgehog seeing its shadow as the bellwether of the weather.25 And — again, according to the Groundhog Club — when German settlers came to America and found it lacking for hedgehogs, they settled on the closest hibernating mammal at hand and thus we have Groundhog Day.26 Given that context, it seems likely that Shiras used the word “ignorant” to mean “uninformed,” and was simply describing people who still called the holiday “Candlemas Day” as uninformed of the superior tradition involving groundhogs.27

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The @thegreenbag.bsky.social Justice Scalia bobblehead, as you probably know, has him stabbing a pencil into a Lemon per his Lamb's Chapel concurrence. (And, of course, "this wolf comes as a wolf," per Morrison v Olson.) greenbag.org/v8n4/v8n4_ex...

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Charlie Oldfield @cworeds.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Always a good day when the latest issue of the @thegreenbag.bsky.social arrives. And extra good when there’s a little something extra.

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Jack Metzler (cleaned up) @scotusplaces.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Years ago I wrote this hilarious article about how Justice Holmes did the makers of Schlitz dirty when he rejected the company's trademark claim against Southern Select beer, but for some reason @thegreenbag.bsky.social rejected it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Label of Southern Select's obvious ripoff of Schlitz's label (also pictured)

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The Green Bag @thegreenbag.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The print edition of the 2025 Green Bag Almanac & Reader goes into the mail next week. The "Exemplary Legal Writing" lists are here: greenbag.org/almanacs/GB/...

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The Green Bag @thegreenbag.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Well (it is *not* an easy jigsaw puzzle) done and attractively done!

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Accompanying puzzle @thegreenbag.bsky.social by the indefatigable Ross Davies

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The Green Bag @thegreenbag.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The latest GB2d is in the mail, with a small something extra for extravagant subscribers.

front cover of the new issue of the Green Bag

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The Green Bag @thegreenbag.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Well done JF&HE! In the same spirit, we'd like to think: "Citations should be accurate and unobtrusive. Authors may use any form they like. We do edit to keep footnotes from looking like goulash."

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The Green Bag @thegreenbag.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A great judge, a true wordsmith, and an author any editor would enjoy working with.

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Legal Style Blog @legalstyle.co.uk · 11/03/2025

I **ADORE** this little article from Green Bag by a federal judge explaining how he first coined a word and then worked to use it in an opinion so it could make it into Black's Law Dictionary greenbag.org/v13n2/v13n2_...

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lcgriffin.bsky.social @lcgriffin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

@thegreenbag.bsky.social Bobblehead Chief Justice Roberts visited Constitutional Law today. We talked about his opinion in the Affordable Care Act case. He is holding broccoli, which was a key part of the opinion. 🥦

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The Green Bag @thegreenbag.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The new issue of the Green Bag is in the mail. It includes New York Court of Appeals Judge (ret.) Albert M. Rosenblatt's play about New York's ratification of the U.S. Constitution. You can watch the first public performance here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2-C...

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The Green Bag @thegreenbag.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Are you wondering what kind of gift might make a lawyer happy? Maybe something that's often interesting, sometimes amusing, and occasionally uplifting: A subscription to The Green Bag. greenbag.org/subscription...