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The defender general

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The defender general, I just learned, is not a general at the Defense Department (okay, I didn't think that would be it)—that's the title of the head public defender in Vermont, presumably by analogy to attorney general. Those zany East Coasters, with their prothonotaries and their prochein amies and their defender generals.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.