Eric Fish

Robynn Cox and I have a new paper! It's about the history of predictive algorithms in criminal justice, back in the 1920s-1950s. This paper is the result of five years of research and we're so happy to see it out. 🧵 1/

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

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Now forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review, my latest work rethinks how information should get shared in criminal cases, and why we need to look beyond the celebrated Brady doctrine if we are serious about improving the fairness of criminal discovery. 🧵🔽

Opinion | A Grand Jury Will Indict a Ham Sandwich? Not in the Trump Era.

Read the outstanding law review article by Chesa Boudin and @ericfish.bsky.social linked in the piece—GJ reform is an absolutely necessary bulwark against tyranny. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/o...

Should’ve been titled Bemidji

Thrilled to share that 𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑑 has found a home with the Yale Law Journal. This piece examines parental liability regimes and parental rights, and how they are connected by a shared logic that harms children and families. Thank you to all those who read drafts and offered feedback!

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Chester A. Arthur

Bob Dylan needs to do the right thing and give his Nobel Prize to Cormac Mccarthy

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Supreme Court Refuses to Allow National Guard Deployment in Chicago

Another data point (hopefully): www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

This does seem basically right, sadly

I thought I was just getting good at it :(

Fish & Keller on the Crime of Undocumented Presence Eric S. Fish (University of California, Davis - School of Law) & Doug Keller have posted Fabricating the Crime of Undocumented Presence on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In 2025, the Trump Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel declared that it is a federal crime simply to be an undocumented immigrant. But Congress has enacted no such crime. Congress has made it a crime, codified at 8 U.S.C.

Fish & Keller on the Crime of Undocumented Presence

Eric S. Fish (University of California, Davis - School of Law) & Doug Keller have posted Fabricating the Crime of Undocumented Presence on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In 2025, the Trump Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel declared that it is…

That sandwich looks good. Was this a chicken and pickle sandwich year?

Just posted a draft law review article written with @dkeller.bsky.social. It concerns the Trump Administration's efforts to turn being an undocumented immigrant into a permanent criminal status. Available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

in fairness, polygraph tests don't work

Kudos to @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social L.Rev. for doing this. And to @jessicasilbey.bsky.social

My latest article, Policing Children’s Data, is out today. It offers a comprehensive look at how law enforcement accesses children’s digital information and challenges the assumption that parental consent is enough to protect kids’ privacy.
📖 Read more: wustllawreview.org/2025/11/12/p...

I recommend muting liberally!

time to update the ol’ jury nullification lecture

Heh, well I guess the TRUE insiders come up less overt ways to claim originality. Audiences upon audiences.

I think in both instances there are multiple audiences, and "respectfully"/"this article fills an astonishingly gaping vacuum in the literature" provides a strategic signal to certain outsider audiences, while being presumptively ignored by insider audiences.

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My new essay is in the University of Chicago Law Review Online: “Children and the Cars That Watch Them.”

Autonomous vehicles promise freedom for kids, but also bring unprecedented surveillance.
Parental consent isn’t enough; we need substantive limits.

lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archi...

I suspect the sign is mostly in response to ICE’s practice of tricking people into consent searches: www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/ice-ruses/

The sign is pretty good evidence in the suppression hearing if/when the cops testilie that they got consent for the search

You went blueskiral! I didn’t think it was possible!