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Associate Professor @NYULaw (but views are not my employer’s) | Legal History, Administrative State, New York State Courts | “agenda-driven naysayer whose head instantiates academic ethers”
Was just remembering how, right after Citizens United, I had to sit through so many: “Well actually look billionaires and corporations haven’t taken over elections and in any case the candidate who spends most doesn’t always win!”
If you study legal history, please consider submitting a proposal for the 2026 conference of the American Society for Legal History in Banff, Canada in November! The Program Committee accepts proposals until March 24! #ASLH #legalhistory 🗃️
aslh.net/2026-annual-...
SCOOP: Federal judiciary approves new Supreme Court defender office to help represent indigent defendants at #SCOTUS.
Its full-time director will serve as a counterweight to the U.S. solicitor general in federal criminal cases. The first will be former Kagan clerk and SG atty Ashley Robertson.
One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
Yes yes I know but not *my* articles too right?????
the thing about this is that it would make a huge chunk of New Yorkers who consider free curb space to store their cars to be an inalienable right absolutely nuclear-level lose their shit, but also that group of people voted 95% for cuomo or sliwa anyway
Do it!!!!
This looks so good!
Religion as Private Law (forthcoming @yalelawjournal.bsky.social 2027) is now available on SSRN! Looking forward to comments, questions, and critiques.
You would think from this headline that NC voters are “anti incumbent” who want to “punish the powerful on both sides of the aisle.” But actually this article is about how three Dems who voted with the GOP just got shellacked.
I am going to become the joker.
I would say not a great signal but also doesn’t mean it’s all over by any means. And some law journals — especially specialized secondary journals — may make their selections on a different timeline anyway
It is no accident of language that the presidents’ lawyers do not themselves determine whether he has constitutional authority to act — in other words, whether his wars are legal. Instead, they leave that to him. The president “could decide” is the new OLC theory of war powers.
ICYMI: contains my theory of WTF is going on at the FTC
Triple posting — one time for each of my jobs?
![With nowhere else to turn, the applicants asked us to issue a stay, and we have jurisdiction to entertain their application. Title 28 U. S. C. §1257(a) gives us jurisdiction to review “[f]inal judgments or decrees” that are rendered by a State’s highest court and adjudicate federal constitutional claims, and the Court of Appeals’ February 11 order falls
within that category.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreibhhdcymq4dbg2pzqxsntooytqznjfgrztweju4jb5kdbqpsy6okq)
1/9: In the New York redistricting case, Justice Alito's justification for why #SCOTUS even had *jurisdiction* to issue a stay is based upon a remarkably misleading portrayal of the state court proceedings.
I realize this is technical, but I wanted to write a short thread to explain the shadiness:
Ok ok three jobs: my job job, answering student emails, and answering other emails.
Students if you’re reading this I promise I have not forgotten you!!!!
Ok ok three jobs: my job job, answering student emails, and answering other emails.
Students if you’re reading this I promise I have not forgotten you!!!!
Ok ok three jobs: my job job, answering student emails, and answering other emails.
Students if you’re reading this I promise I have not forgotten you!!!!
I’m thrilled that Georgia State’s College of Law is home to the Emmet J. Bondurant Center for Constitutional Law, Practice, and Democracy! As associate director, and @espinsegall.bsky.social as director, we’re taking GSU to new heights in the field of constitutional law. news.gsu.edu/2026/02/26/n...
@ispsyale.bsky.social is hiring an Executive Director for its Democratic Innovations Program. Very good pay for a super interesting job at a place doing cutting edge research on this and many other topics.
careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/YU...
See what the Dean doesn’t understand is that I really have two jobs: my job job, and then answering email
Today, @jasonbjackson.bsky.social kicks off a symposium on his new book, *Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry: How Capitalist Legitimacy Shaped Foreign Investment Policy in India.*
Economic policymaking, he argues, is best understood as a state-led project of moral ordering of capital.
Pretty magical in Brooklyn this morning
"How American immigration became law enforcement": a 15-minute @vox.com video explainer. "The rights that were won for Americans in the past are vulnerable. We have to fight to retain them." @iehs.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJHg...
NEW PAPER: I have posted a draft of my latest paper on "The Exclusive Powers Presidency" on SSRN. Abstract below!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Article argues that the Roberts Court has recently transformed separation of powers law by centering the President's "exclusive" powers. 1/6
Unreal
Alert: Leah has lost her shoe
PBI-LGA
According to the flight attendant, there are 47 children on this flight. I count 11 kids under 7 just in my row, the row in front of me, and the row behind me.
Wish me luck.