Also honored to have moderated an Alumni-Faculty Panel on academic freedom at Princeton reunions that included fellow alums, Jerry Blakemore'76, Alysa Christmas Rollock'81, Jennifer Rexford'91, and Susan Ridgely'96.

Saddened to hear of the passing of Barbara Black. Barbara was my 1L Contracts professor, become Columbia Law's first woman Dean. We shared the same graduate history advisor, the great Edmund Morgan, and regularly got together over the succeeding decades. A wonderful teacher, scholar, and friend.

First snow, NYC

Some photos from the Heptagonal Ivy League Women's and Men's Cross-Country championships this past Friday at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. Congratulations to Princeton on an impressive double victory!!

Truly inspiring reflections by Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson this afternoon at Princeton. My colleague Deborah Pearlstein did a wonderful job leading the discussion. Typically insightful introduction by Princeton President Chris Eisgruber.

High Bridge, over the Harlem River, looking from the Bronx to Manhattan.

Thanks to the NYC Bar for our session on the global assault judges & lawyers, fellow speakers Margaret Satterthwaite, UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Lawyers and Judges; Santiago Canton, International Commission of Jurists; and to the American Association of the ICJ.

Speaking as a Princeton and Yale grad: we stand with you, Harvard!

Undocumented snow people (and animals) mysteriously appear in and around the Columbia University campus.