Alyx Mark

@lawandsociety.bsky.social

ABF Access to Justice Research Initiative Early-Career Workshop at American Bar Foundation ABF Access to Justice Research Initiative Early-Career Workshop Deadline: Monday, November 24, 2025 About the ABF Access to Justice Research Initiative The American Bar Foundation’s Access to Justice ...

🚨If you are an early-career scholar who researches civil justice topics -- please consider applying to join our next cohort! Participants join an awesome community of A2J scholars (& receive a research stipend!).

Applications due November 24 (bit.ly/abfecw)
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Publish or perish…but what exactly does it take to earn tenure in Law & Courts? 📈👩🏽‍⚖️ Our new article tracks 40+ years of tenure portfolios—spoiler: expectations are rising, collaborations are up, but inequities remain. 👇
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Read It. Cite It. Syllabus It. And use for tenure letters!

FANTASTIC WORK by @abbymatthews.bsky.social @alyxmark.bsky.social and Monica Lineberger!

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🚨🚨 Attention scholars of human rights, international inequality, migration, global health, the environment, international law, or the erosion of democracy -- come work with us! Wesleyan is hiring TT in Global Justice. Position link below & please reach out with any questions! bit.ly/wesglobaljus...

Civil Court Without a Lawyer Is Risky. Why Do So Many People Do It? (Gift Article) It’s dangerous to go to court without legal representation — but more Americans are going it alone.

Fantastic article in the @nytimes.com #nytmagazine today about lawyerless courts and ideas for reforming the civil legal system 👇👇
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:) thank you!

Constitutionalizing the Private Sphere Cambridge Core - Constitutional and Administrative Law - Constitutionalizing the Private Sphere

📚📚New book by @cbambrick.bsky.social "Constitutionalizing the Private Sphere: A Comparative Inquiry" with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. The book examines when courts understand private actors, such as private individuals, businesses, schools, and hospitals, to be responsible for constitutional rights.

a man is taking a picture of himself with a cell phone and the words `` guess who 's back ... back again '' . Alt: a man is taking a picture of himself with a cell phone and the words `` guess who 's back ... back again '' .

It's that time yet again!

Join our writing groups! If you (1) study law and courts; (2) identify as female or non-binary; and (3) are post-PhD/pre-tenure, come hang!

The research is erudite, the conversation perfect, and the vibes immaculate :)

Thanks! If the issue doesn’t get resolved let me know and I’m happy to send you one 🙂

I’m looking forward to my author-meets-readers event at @mpsa.bsky.social with @wmartinek.bsky.social @shanegleasonphd.bsky.social @theclboyd.bsky.social @bonneausays.bsky.social and Hayley Munir. If you’ll be in Chicago, I hope to see you there! end/🧵

If you’re interested in getting your hands on one, @univpressofkansas.bsky.social is currently running a 30% off (and free shipping!) sale on their website with code 24UNMASKED: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700638260/ 8/🧵

And I argue that this has important consequences for how we think about civil legal system reform efforts that seek to improve access to courts and access to justice. In some states, reformers might have more success targeting individual jurisdictions than in others. 7/🧵

For the average court user, this means that the experience of navigating court processes in one jurisdiction may look very different from another. 6/🧵

The consequence of this is that, especially in more administratively decentralized states, directives from high courts and state court administrators take on features of encouragement and suggestion as opposed to of mandate. 5/🧵

It looks different because the tools of court administration may not be controlled from the top down — control over things like court personnel, facilities, data processing, and records management — may be concentrated in individual jurisdictions. 4/🧵

Even though state supreme courts tend to have administrative authority assigned to them by their states’ constitutions (and sometimes via statute), the ability to exercise this power looks really different across the states. 3/🧵

In the book, I examine state courts’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, but do so with an eye to bigger questions about the distribution of the power to make decisions about court operations. 2/🧵

An image of the book cover for "Courts Unmasked: Civil Legal System Reform and Covid-19"

Hi Bluesky friends! I thought I’d use my first-ever post to announce that it’s publication day for my book, Courts Unmasked: Civil Legal System Reform and COVID-19 with @univpressofkansas.bsky.social 🎉🎉 1/🧵