2025 Report to the Editor in Chief of the FIU Law Review

One of my favorite teaching traditions in my first year required course is to issue this poetic challenge to my class of 1Ls:How creative are you?How much are you into Con Law?Write a Con Law Haiku.A haiku records a singular experience, the haiku moment-often referred to as an "aha!" moment-when we realize a subtle, hidden, or unexpected significance in something around us.The study of constitutional law will afford you frequent and numerous haiku moments.Record one of yours in the traditional format of a single stanza made up of three lines of 5-7-5 syllables.You can write about an opinion, a case, a justice, a doctrine, a concept, or any other aspect of your study.Post your Con Law Haiku in the < Section B Blog > on the Canvas website to express yourself-put the title of your poem in the subject line.Read the Con Law Haikus of your colleagues for fun and inspiration and, perhaps, enjoy a moment of Zen.History teaches us that traditions develop and mature and become venerable over time.This teaching tradition of mine is decades old.I have carried it along with me to multiple law schools over my teaching career at Texas Tech University, Drake University, and now Florida International University.I believe that English language 1 haikus about the Supreme Court are an altogether fitting and proper outlet for creative thought and inspired expression while mastering the "queen subject" 2 of the law school curriculum.There is a volume of haikus for law students.3 There is more than