It is my custom to mark Thanksgiving on Legal Theory Blog by expressing appreciation and gratitude. This year, I would like to express my deep gratitude to my parents, Pamela Byard Solum and Clayton Lawrence Solum. Sadly, my father passed away a few years ago. My mom who is 82 continues to teach and say patients in her practice as a psychotherapist. As I write this, I am in the guest bedroom in her home in Whittier, California–just a few miles from where I grew up in Monterey Park.
Both my mother and father encouraged my somewhat eccentric teenage interest in the law–allowing me to take long bus rides so that I could study in the Los Angeles County Law Library. They endulged endless trips to the late great Pickwick Bookshop in Hollywood and the still flourishing Vroman’s Bookstore in Padadena, and listened with astonishing patience as I shared my enthusiasm for tradeable pollution rights and constitutional federalism at the dinner table.
And thank you to the readers of Legal Theory Blog!