It truly is an honor just to be nominated

Arriving in my mail today was a copy of the latest issue of The Green Bag, and the cover letter informed me that “my recent work was nominated as an example of excellent legal scholarship” and received “an honorable mention” in the Green Bag‘s second annual Almanac & Reader.  Since I have have a whole lot of recent work (not just on this blog, but also in more traditional scholarly fora), I turned to the “Recommend Reading” section giddy with anticipation about which work of mine had earned me this great honor.

I was pleased to discover that I was one of 17 persons with a “long article” mentioned in the  “Recommend Reading” section of the new Green Bag.  And I was even more pleased that the article selection is a piece that is one of my personal favorites, but among my least cited, explorations of the Blakely and Booker revolution: Beyond Blakely and Booker: Pondering Modern Sentencing Process, 95 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 654 (2005).