Recreation & Risk


Out now! • Bill Childs • Carolina Academic Press


  • New McKamey Manor Materials

    If you go over to Resources, you can see a couple of new documents from McKamey Manor, including what I believe to be the current waiver/release as well as the package of stuff they evidently send participants. Thanks to the filmmakers behind the fascinating documentary “Monster Inside” for sharing these! While I’m recommending documentaries about…

  • Bunch o’ stuff

    If you go look at “Resources,” you’ll see a number of the items that are in the casebook—full complaints, investigation reports, and the like. I’m only putting unreported orders and the like (not published court opinions). Many of these are things I had up on my old site when I was a full-time professor, and…

  • Draft done.

    Currently: 121,651 words and 311 pages (in Word, which will probably come out to about 250 pages published). Now I edit and revise, all to be turned in by December 31. I’m very, very excited about this.

  • So, what’s this about?

    As noted when I set up the site, it’s a bit premature, but I’m starting to think about what will go here. At a minimum, I plan to put full copies of at least some documents I’m excerpting for the casebook. Along those lines, I managed to find (via the invaluable Wayback Machine) my old…

  • Hello.

    I should be doing things like “finishing writing the book” or “editing the book” but instead here I am setting up a site for a book that will, if all goes well, be published next year. This is how my brain works.