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🔊 Listen Now: Implications Of The DOJ Targeting The President’s Critics Fresh Air on NPR One | 45:15

Here is my interview on Fresh Air on @NPR.org with @tonyamoore.bsky.social regarding Comey indictment and what it means for DOJ. one.npr.org?sharedMediaI...

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On Friday 10/3 at 3 PM ET (aka THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL DAY), I'm going to be doing a Substack Live with ... Katie Phang! On Taylor Swift, the law, & more.

@katiephang.bsky.social

Tune in!!

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The final issue of Volume 123, Issue 8, is now live on our website! Make sure to check out these engaging pieces by Rebecca Wexler, Fred O. Smith, Jr., and Edward Webre Plaut at michiganlawreview.org/archive/.

It’s great to have you here! Thank you for visiting!

I always learn from Sherrilyn & Jamelle and am so happy we could have this conversation about Redemption - and to try to inform people about Redemption & the Supreme Court's role in it - on the podcast for people to hear.

Please listen!!

(Oh, & yes it's timed for Roberts's 20 years on the Court.)

A 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme court Louisiana v Callais could roll back what remains of the Voting Rights Act, putting the future of America’s multiracial democracy at stake

ICYMI: My SCOTUS term preview in the Guardian. It focuses on the Voting Rights Act case - and how that case illustrates the long-running campaign against Reconstruction & civil rights that appears in much of what SCOTUS & POTUS do. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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"A must read for anyone who has ever had a bad experience haggling for a car."

Direct Hit by Daniel A. Crane, (@umichlaw.bsky.social), Coming Soon

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Comey’s Indictment Subverts Justice: Barbara L. McQuade Now that former FBI Director James Comey has been criminally indicted — just days before the expiration of the statute of limitations — it is fair to ask why. Charges filed at the command of the…

The Comey indictment turns justice on its head. My thoughts in @Bloomberg
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Two Michigan Law Students Selected as 2025 Kouba Prize Winners for Papers on EU Law and International Peace and Security | University of Michigan Law School Isobel Blakeway-Phillips, ’25, and Michael “Mike” Tiu Jr., LLM ’25, are the 2025 recipients of Michigan Law’s Jon Henry Kouba Prize, which recognizes the best paper or papers on European Union law or ...

Congratulations to Isobel Blakeway-Phillips, ’25, and Michael Tiu,Jr., LLM ’25, the 2025 recipients of Michigan Law’s Jon Henry Kouba Prize, which recognizes the best paper or papers on European Union law or on international peace and security among nations.

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"The Federal Communications Commission’s recent push to have ABC suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show was a First Amendment disaster that has dire implications for everyone who values free expression."

Professor Len Niehoff in the @detroitnews.com

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Very excited for this!

Opening Doors with AI: How Free Law Project and the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse Are Reimagining Legal Research Exploring how AI can unlock court data, we partnered with the Clearinghouse to look at ways to make legal research smarter, faster, and more accessible.

Alongside @umichlaw.bsky.social, we spent six months analyzing the ways AI could fit into CourtListener and the Civil Litigation Clearinghouse. The goal was to see how AI could make our systems smarter, faster, and more accessible. Read the outcomes here: free.law/2025/09/25/c...

Top DOJ post goes to legal newbie as dept targets political foes President Trump has put one of his personal lawyers in a top DOJ post. That lawyer, Lindsey Halligan, is now leading investigations into Trump's political foes. MSNBC’s Jason Johnson reports on Trump’...

Thanks to @thebeat.msnbc.com for having me on to talk Trump's power grab over law enforcement - and how that's been facilitated by the Supreme Court's fetishization of the unitary executive theory: www.msnbc.com/the-beat-wit...

Fellowship in Race, Law, and History | University of Michigan Law School

The Program in Race, Law, and History at Michigan Law will award up to five 2025-2026 academic year fellowships to students enrolled in JD, PhD, and other terminal graduate programs at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

For more info and to apply: michigan.law.umich.edu/resource-cen...

Featuring insights from Member Scholars Alexandra Klass of @umichlaw.bsky.social & Dave Owen of @uclawsf.bsky.social.

Michelle Adams Wins Stone Book Award for The Containment: Detroit, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North | University of Michigan Law School Professor Michelle Adams’s book exploring a landmark school desegregation case is the 2025 winner of the Stone Book Award from the Museum of African American History Boston | Nantucket.

Professor Michelle Adams’s book exploring a landmark school desegregation case is the 2025 winner of the Stone Book Award from the Museum of African American History Boston | Nantucket.

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Trump Cries “Terrorist” to Silence Dissent Trump's new order is a hollow threat under the law

Trump‘s designation of antifa as a terrorist organization is a cynical and lawless stunt. My thoughts in Stay Tuned Substack. 
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YouTube video by Harvard Law School Noah Feldman and Richard Primus on “The Oldest Constitutional Question”

Last week, I sat down with Noah Feldman to discuss my new book *The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power.* Good questions from law students at the end. You can see the conversation below.

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Leah Litman on an unhinged SCOTUS and expanding the Court Leah Litman on what's happening with the Supreme Court and how Democrats should respond.

Thanks to Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social for doing a piece on SCOTUS - and including my thoughts on it! madness.ghost.io/leah-litman-...

Pam Bondi Isn’t the President’s Enforcer The Justice Department is meant to serve the public, not the Trump White House.

Ethical prosecutors act without fear or favor. Or on orders from the White House. My thoughts in @Bloomberg.
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Now out in print -- my essay with some thoughts on science and democracy in public health: repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcont... .

Tune in for my conversation with Skye Perryman @democracyforward.org on legal news

and THEN listen to hear all 3 of us + Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social talk ... the great KBJ!!!

The Michigan Law community welcomes four new research and teaching fellows to the faculty this fall, bringing diverse backgrounds in taxation, history, regulation, and beyond.

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Crossing the Rubicon: Assembling a Litigation Colossus in Mass Torts - Michigan Law Review In 2021, Arizona created the alternative business structure (ABS), which allows nonattorneys to own a firm that provides legal services and actively participate in firm management. Scholars have argue...

Arizona’s Alternative Business Structure allows nonattorneys to own law firms. While many debate its effects on the attorney-client relationship, Professor Samir Parikh reveals a bigger concern: the rise of a vertically integrated “litigation colossus.” Check out Professor Parikh’s MLR Online piece:

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The Oldest Constitutional Question | Interview: Richard Primus Originalism through the lens of sola scriptura.

On Advisory Opinions, Sarah Isgur and David French speak with me about enumerated powers. The segment begins 43-44 minutes in, depending on format. This was a good conversation among people with different approaches to constitutional interpretation.

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Michigan Law’s LLM Students Represent 14 Countries | University of Michigan Law School As the 2025–2026 academic year kicked off, a cohort of 23 students arrived at Michigan Law from every corner of the globe for one year of study in the master of laws (LLM) program.

Earlier this month, we welcomed a cohort of 23 students to Michigan Law from every corner of the globe for our LLM program.

Get to know this year's LLM class: michigan.law.umich.edu/news/michiga...

Trump files defamation and libel lawsuit against New York Times President accuses the newspaper and its reporters of defaming him in a book and three articles he said were “false and defamatory.”

“This is mostly a press release masquerading as a lawsuit."

Professor Don Herzog on President Trump's $15 billion lawsuit against The New York Times.

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Get to Know Michigan Law’s JD Class of 2028 | University of Michigan Law School There aren’t many places where a financial analyst, an aquatic biologist, and a circus school graduate would cross paths on a daily basis. But Michigan Law isn’t like other places. For these and 340 o...

There aren’t many places where a financial analyst, an aquatic biologist, and a circus school graduate would cross paths on a daily basis. But Michigan Law isn’t like other places.

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