Invitation to Write

[Julie Hilden]

Dear Professors,
As a journalist and former lawyer, I have been reading with great interest
your commentary on Korematsu, the President's powers and other legal issues
in the wake of the terrorist acts.  Earlier I asked the list if anyone would
be interested in writing for FindLaw's Writ, and so I hesitate to repeat the
request, but we have posted several excellent guest pieces by those on the
list (prior to the terrorist acts) and it strikes me that the legal issues
you have raised in the exchanges I have been reading will be of great
importance in the coming weeks.  Thus, I am asking again for Op Ed-style
pieces, of 800-1000 words.  Unfortunately, I cannot offer you compensation,
because our column budget is already filled.  I would be your editor and the
editing process would be straightforward: one edit by me, you look it over
and make final changes, and you are done.
Our regular columnists and Thursday guest columnists will be addressing the
terrorist acts, too, and we have already posted two insightful pieces on the
terrorist acts by Professor Marci Hamilton, and by John Dean last week. (See
writ.findlaw.com).  However, I would like to be able to post as many
different points of view as possible. If you were to write, your columns
would run as the second column Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays, and would
likely also be featured in FindLaw's center for these issues (I need to check
on that but I'm assuming this is the case).  CNN.com is our content partner
and will probably start running our pieces in their law center soon (So far
they have been too overwhelmed with news to do so, however).  If you are
interested in writing, please first check out what Marci and John have
already written for the site (writ.findlaw.com, or click through to Writ from
the findlaw.com homepage) or, if you are responding early next week, what
other columnists have written to date, and then e-mail me with a topic
suggestion, which I ask for mainly to avoid redundancy in forthcoming columns.
I appreciate your time in reading this e-mail, and your consideration. Best
wishes to all,
Sincerely,
Julie Hilden