Linda C. McClain

Very delighted to contribute this essay on @serenamayeri.bsky.social significant new book, Marital Privilege in a new book symposium in BU Law Review Online: www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...
Kudos, Serena!

Judge in Minnesota Says ICE Has Violated Nearly 100 Court Orders

Judge Patrick J. Schlitz: ICE has violated more judicial directives in one month than "some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

Linda McClain - Oral History Project This is "Linda McClain - Oral History Project" by VHC on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

I recently had the chance to participate in the Oral History Project of @mlafineman.bsky.social Feminism and Legal Theory Project and talk about how my involvement with the Project (beginning with the Columbia years) shaped my career and about the Project's broader impact. vimeo.com/1131482196

Keynote by @azizaahmed.bsky.social with commentary by Prof. Michele Goodwin and two panels of amazing speakers. Can attend in person or virtually: app.registrationguru.net#!/portal?eve...

Fall Symposium Fall Symposium

BU Program on Reproductive Justice thrilled to co-sponsor 10/3 symposium, "Risk and Resistance: Feminist Interventions in Health Law, Science, and Policy," celebrating new book by BURPJ co-dir. @azizaahmed.bsky.social w/ @universitypress.cambridge.org www.american.edu/wcl/impact/i...

This beautiful tribute to Dick Fallon brought tears to my eyes. Thanks, @dorfonlaw.bsky.social, for capturing Dick's humility, brilliance, and so many scholarly virtues. Like so many of his students, my daughter feels inexpressibly grateful to have studied with him.

The Princess Treatment There has been a lot of internet talk this week about princesses, and not the Disney kind, all because a certain tradwife influencer discussed going out with her husband for dinner and being treated l...

Here's a witty and apt post by @athenais.bsky.social on why a tradwife appeal to "the princess treatment" by her husband misunderstand princesses, their treatment, and their power! open.substack.com/pub/allisont...

Opinion | The Very American Roots of Trumpism The historian Steven Hahn puts Trumpism in the context of America’s long history of illiberalism.

Important insights by historian Steven Hahn in this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social episode about a long history of "illiberalism" in the US -- similar to pol scientist Rogers Smith on the different strands of the American tradition: Trumpism www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...

Looking forward to this BU Law panel today, with @mayamanian.bsky.social @matiangai.bsky.social and Jackie Dugard on Aziza Ahmed and my Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19. Can watch virtually! www.bu.edu/law/engageme...

Executive Director & Lecturer, BUPRJ, Boston University School of Law - BOSTON, Massachusetts - Boston University Find a career with Boston University

Very excited to announce that BU School of Law and BU Program on Reproductive Justice are seeking an Executive Director and Lecturer to help build the program and train the next generation of reproductive justice advocates. Please spread the word: jobs.silkroad.com/BU/Faculty/j...

As @lsepper.bsky.social argues, there is a long history of arguing that abortion decisions are rooted in religious beliefs (like the challenge to the Hyde Amendment) but the dominant story has been that religious liberty is only at issue in opposition to abortion.

Here's my review for @jotwell.bsky.social of @lsepper.bsky.social on why religious liberty challenges to state abortion bans should succeed (but likely won't) before SCOTUS but may fare better in state courts, like Indiana. family.jotwell.com/reclaiming-a....

Proud of my friend Bill Treanor and proud to be Georgetown Law alum!

Here is my review of Prof. Elizabeth Sepper's informative argument about why religious liberty challenges to state abortion bans should succeed in SCOTUS, but likely won't, but may fare better in state courts.

Agreed. I continued my way through Season 3 of Somebody Somewhere.

Trump has turned us into a predator nation in the world’s eyes.

Trump Live Updates: Supreme Court Denies Bid to Freeze Nearly $2 Billion in Foreign Aid

A piece of good news about US AID. I wonder if Musk will call for impeaching the two conservative SCOTUS justices-- C.J. Roberts and J. Amy Coney Barrett -- who joined the liberals on this ruling?: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Opinion | What Man’s Man Politics Is Doing to America And why Democrats shouldn’t try to “out-cowboy” Donald Trump.

Lots of great insights in this discussion, including the link between "strongman politics" and devaluing/destroying the role of government as doing good things in people's lives: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...

Opinion | There Is No Musk Clause in the Constitution Trump is on shaky ground when it comes to the way he has empowered perhaps the most important figure in the new administration.

There Is No Musk Exception in the Constitution www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

182 law professors have signed on to a Statement of Urgency about the peril of the constitutional crisis that is now upon us. Complete list of signers below. Please read and repost!! Thank you!

DOGE is not a real department.

In order to be a real department, DOGE would have to be approved by Congress.

Pass it on.

Amid Trump’s Anti-Diversity Effort, Black History Month Takes on New Meaning Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, and suddenly the study of the Black experience may feel like an act of defiance.

"Notably missing [from Trump's 2025 proclamation about Black History Month] was a more somber mention of the 'incredible prejudice and hardship' that African Americans have faced, like the one Mr. Trump included in his 2020 proclamation." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

The White House 1/29/25 executive order, Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schools, re-establishes President Trump's 1776 Commission to promote "patriotic education." Here's my critique of the Commission's 1776 Report (Jan. 2020) as partisan & divisive:
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YouTube video by School of Law, Boston University Comstock Conflict in the New Trump Administration

Now available to watch!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngNT...

US Constitution disappears from White House website after Trump takes power Bios of former presidents and a Spanish-language version are also down as the new administration changes the White House website.

Yet another provocation: www.newsweek.com/constitution...

If you can't tune in today, the webinar will be posted later on the website of BU Program on Reproductive Justice:
www.bu.edu/law/academic...

Happening today at noon ET!:

BU Program on Reproductive Justice is cosponsoring this event. Speakers include authors @maryrziegler.bsky.social & Reva Siegel & commentators Serena Mayeri, @dsc250.bsky.social @lauraportuondo.bsky.social and my colleague Nicole Huberfeld.

Join us for a BU Law webinar Friday, 1/17, 12-1:30, "Comstock Conflict in the New Trump Administration," on Reva Siegel & @maryrziegler.bsky.social article, "Comstockery: How Government Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom and May Again Threaten it." www.bu.edu/law/engageme...

I kept one of my 2025 Resolutions and joined Bluesky!