Grant Hayden

There needs to be like 5 "too nice to work" holidays controlled by each state. Like a snow day, you don't get any advance notice. The stations and alerts just put out the message that the next day is too nice to work and everyone is off.

Lisa Siraganian presents "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots" Should nonhumans have rights in law and politics?

Join @lsiraganian.bsky.social at @redemmas.org on Tuesday, March 24th 2026 for a discussion of The Problem of Personhood!

I’ve seen enough.

No, not the Texas elections. I’m watching the KU basketball game.

Yale Law scholar dismisses and entire field of scholarly inquiry on the grounds that it has not engaged deeply with the law-and-economics literature. It is 6 pages and it cites to only five LPE articles--including none of the articles in the same symposium!

lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/defaul...

That’s just maddening. @matthewtbodie.bsky.social and I wrote a book critiquing the law-and-econ arguments for the core features of shareholder primacy, and did so taking the standard precepts of economics and social choice theory as given.

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ Have it your way?

this is like an episode of Black Mirror. Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees, and will check if employees say “please” and “thank you” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Happy to share that my latest project, Copyright as Intuition, is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review.

Abstract below; I should have a draft on SSRN soon.

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Bad Government, 1338–40, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

The Misuses of the University - Public Books Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

“Everyone thinks universities have to do what donors want because they pay the bills. But that gets it backward, and not just at Hopkins.”

I highly recommend reading this piece.

www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

Ken Paxton’s ‘Shoddy’ Prosecution of a Midwife Is Part of a Strategy to Expand His Power. Low-Income Houstonians Are Paying the Price. Maria Margarita Rojas is the first healthcare provider charged for abortion care under Texas’ strict criminal ban. Her attorneys say the state has no evidence—yet her clinics remain shuttered.

Always happy to talk to Mary Tuma, who does great reporting for the Texas Observer on the reproductive rights disasters unfolding in Texas. www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-p...

Levitt refutes Leavitt:

This was both false and an irrelevant nonsequitur 14 years ago, and I believe it’s both false and an irrelevant nonsequitur today.

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Whistling at the Edge of Law The whistle is sounding in Minneapolis. The question before the legal profession is whether we will hear it, amplify it, and act accordingly, or instead insist that the ground eroding beneath our feet...

a beautifully written and powerful piece from University of Minnesota Law professor Emmanuel Mauleón on the stakes of how the legal profession responds in this moment.

lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...

Thank you for your service.

Rock Chalk!

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Can sanctuary/"woke" cities use bankruptcy to politically resist Trump's cutting off of federal funds? My latest essay, "Bankruptcy as Political Resistance" unpacks that question. In short, it's possible for some cities to do so although the road would be messy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Can avatars deliver babies? Because that’s one of the most pressing needs in said rural communities that are also maternity care deserts.

My New One at @slate.com on the 50th Anniversary of the Buckley v. Valeo Decision: “One Supreme Court Case Is Most Responsible for Our Oligarchy. It’s Not the One You Think.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Open Letter to Minnesota Law CommunityJanuary 25 January 25, 2026 To the Minnesota Law Community: We, the undersigned faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School, write in our individual capacities to address the federal government's ongoin...

Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Trump Is Destroying Higher Ed. Here’s How Democrats Can Rebuild It University of Utah professor Marshall Steinbaum says American higher education should be reformed so we don’t have well-funded colleges for rich students and underfunded ones that lower-income people ...

Last week I discussed my paper "Rebuilding American Higher Education: from an Engine of Inequality to a Pillar of the Public Interest" (coauthored @andrewelrod.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social) w/@perrybaconjr.bsky.social at @newrepublic.com
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Among the litany of problems with SCOTUS's decision to stay the Texas map: the majority never acknowledges that "the" partisan impetus to adopt the map as a whole does not in any way preclude the improper use of race as a means to get there.

Which is exactly what the trial court found. In detail.

oh no starbucks's biggest sales day of the year is this week...

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all.

Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.

They are preparing to fight for our freedom.

Dallas today

500+ protesters (plus elk) in a town of 5900 is a pretty good turnout.

Four bull elk took time away from mating to join the No Kings protest in Estes Park, Colorado. That’s how serious this is.

🦌 🦌 ANT(ler)IFA 🦌 🦌

This is my effort to collect in one place the top 3 reasons (imho) why 'the free market' should not even be a starting point for analysis - especially normative (legal,policy) reasoning. Also includes a brief account of how the modern idea of the self coordinating market emerged in fits and starts.