Russell Gold

Professor of law @UALawSchool. Alumnus of @gwlaw (JD '08) and @ASU (BA '04, BS '04). My Tweets are my own.

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

Fiscally Restraining Criminal Lawmaking by @leahanelson and me is forthcoming in @WashULRev and up on SSRN: https://t.co/OeTojT75NT. We analyze how legislative tools to promote fiscal restraint could (and occasionally already do) work in criminal law.

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

One suggestion for legislation in a new Congress: A statutory Bivens remedy.

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

Fiscally Restraining Criminal Lawmaking is out in the @WashULRev. @leahanelson and I argue that the tools of fiscal restraint that legislatures use in other contexts could also work in criminal law to encourage more weighing of costs and benefits: https://t.co/6nYUAm32lx.

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

@danepps @VandLRev I have never had a chance to work with @VandLRev. But I’ve had a fantastic experience working with @WashULRev, so feel free to tell your students they’re doing a great job, @danepps.

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

If you're a law professor interested in the lateral market, your first step should be to post an up-to-date CV on your faculty website. Appointments committees wanting to know more about you will look there, and an out-of-date CV is really unhelpful.

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

@OrinKerr This seems right to me. I also think lunches for faculty on some days when there’s no programming are good. Just show up and eat with your colleagues. That may not bring people into the building, but if they’re in the building it will probably bring them out of their offices.

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

We plan to consider candidates in criminal law and procedure, contracts, property, civil procedure, consumer law, business law, tax law, intellectual property, and technology/AI.

Please reach out if you’d like to discuss the positions or Alabama Law.

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

Alabama Law is hiring at any rank! It's a wonderful place to work with amazing students and colleagues. Here are the links for the two job postings:
https://t.co/iCKEuFtXrx
https://t.co/TsPi4anZnC

We’re looking in a broad range of areas…

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

@ProfRobAnderson @an_average_bear What would the “right” magnitude of correlation be? Should it vary from course to course? I would guess that a highly statutory upper level course may yield varied outcomes compared to highly case-law based courses. What about all essay compared to heavily multiple choice?

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

@CBHessick @derektmuller @unc_law @AndyHessick Yay! Congratulations, @AndyHessick!

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

It has been interesting to watch Alabama, Texas, and Florida remove the bar admission requirement to graduate from an ABA-accredited law school. Did they realize that their war on wokeness was following California’s lead?

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

I’m honored to receive an award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Development from the University of Alabama Teaching Academy. I’m extraordinarily grateful for my time as a Faculty Fellow there over the past two years. I have learned a ton and met so many amazing teachers.

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

I’m humbled and honored to receive the Dean Thomas Christopher Award for service to @UALawSchool. It’s an incredible privilege to get to work with amazing students and colleagues.

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

@danepps’s revisions are a big help. His is the Zotero style I use. Highly recommend, and thanks, Dan!

[Dan Epps @danepps]

Law profs/students/anyone doing legal scholarship:

If you're not using @zotero to manage cites and research, you should. An unbelievable time saver.

I've revised the Bluebook style for rendering footnotes, w/ detailed instructions on using Zotero:

https://t.co/FHgW7xlMHM

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

@OrinKerr I tell my students that “invocation” of Miranda rights is a misnomer under existing doctrine and that they ought to think instead of the right to cut off questioning under Miranda (albeit for different lengths of time depending on whether the suspect mentions silence or counsel).

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

In Fiscally Restraining Criminal Lawmaking, we argue that state legislatures should estimate the costs and appropriate money to pay for them before passing new criminal laws or increasing punishments. Is the new law worth the money? We think that question is worth asking.

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

Alabama's legislature passed a new felony for eluding law enforcement. Did they consider how much a new felony would cost our vastly underfunded and incredibly dangerous state prisons? What about for district attorneys or county jails? Not that I can tell.

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

I don't mean to pick on Alabama though. Legislatures do this kind of thing regularly in criminal law. Sometimes they ignore fiscal note requirements entirely. @leahanelson and I take up this issue in a forthcoming article in @WashULRev: https://t.co/OeTojT75NT.

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

...with a publication date of 2026. The prize will be awarded at the 2027 AALS Annual Meeting in New York. Please send submissions and nominations to Professor Samuel Levine at Touro Law Center: [email protected]. The deadline for submissions and nominations is September 1, 2026

[Russell Gold @ProfRGold]

Submissions and nominations of articles are being accepted for the seventeenth annual Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility. To honor Fred's memory, the committee will select from among articles in the field of Professional Responsibility