Daniel Rice

Can I also vote to grant you tenure? (congrats!!)

Eagerly awaiting the response, "Bruen's Tenth Amendment Problem's Problem."

Great piece! As a prelude to the main argument, it does a nice job of rebutting sympathetic reconstructions of Bruen. Give it a read!

My latest, "Free Exercise and the Redistribution of Liberty," is now posted (and forthcoming in @yalelawjournal.bsky.social). It argues that free exercise doctrine uses selective market logic to redistribute both public resources and liberty itself.

Comments welcome: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=618...

Had a ton of fun on this panel with @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social, Thomas Saenz, and Reggie Oh!

A student criticizes my attempt to pretext-proof my tenure file

Usually don’t screenshot student evals, but making an exception here

See you there!

I made a point of assigning Muller this semester!

Zachary Clopton named dean of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law He has served the school as interim dean for the past six months

More article placements for everyone else! news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

Happy to announce that my article, "The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Entitlement," has finally hit the press via the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal.

It explores how judges create certain domains where govt is *entitled* to act, even if it means flouting general doctrinal rules.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

I feel like this warranted a push notification

There went your shot at becoming a law dean.

Quite possibly, if a doctrine expressly seeks to implement historical "understandings" or "beliefs"! But admittedly haven't thought about this.

Reposting for the workweek crowd!

I've just posted a draft essay called "Tradition Without Text?" (forthcoming in Duke Law Journal Online). It critiques Dobbs for using crude positive-law proxies to identify "historical understandings of ordered liberty."

papers.ssrn.com/abstract=609...

‘’political free zone’’

Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky in the wild!

This footnote from Foley v. Connelie (1978) should be more widely known:

Yes, both apps allow you to ‘’clone’’ your voice by speaking a few pre-written sentences!

Speechify, Natural Reader, and probably others. Super fun!

You have been known to discharge a composition!

Book recommendation: "The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told" by Keith Richotte, Jr.

This is a wonderful and *highly* entertaining account of the development of Indian law.

I learned a lot!!!

#indianlaw #law #constitution @skystorians @lawsky

Gonna add this to my syllabus on Johnson v. M’Intosh day …

Opinion | It’s 2086. This Is What American History Could Look Like. (Published 2022)

Didn't quite take 65 years! www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/o...

oh my lord

Thanks to @williambaude.bsky.social for flagging Pryor's essay, which is worth a read. (But so are the arguments of his critics!)

Justice Scalia engages in judicial moral prophecy

Judge Wilkinson engages in judicial moral prophecy

Justice John Marshal Harlan engages in engages in judicial moral prophecy

Anyone who seriously engages with this scholarship can't reduce moral prophecy to liberal wishcasting. Trying to avoid future tragedies—avowedly on rule-of-law grounds—isn't "hyperventilat[ion]." (It was good enough for Justice Scalia, Judge Wilkinson, and the first Justice Harlan!)

"Things to Read This Week (1/5/2026)," from the Divided Argument Blog

Wherein a prominent federal judge urges courts not to anticipate future moral judgments, but fails even to acknowledge the only full-length defense of that practice (my "Judicial Moral Prophecy" piece, available here: wustllawreview.org/2023/09/25/j...)

This is basically the teacher’s manual

His vids are a RABBIT HOLE. Wow.