Me on Oza on fundamental legal change: juris.jotwell.com/can-law-spea...

Thank you @justtheory.bsky.social for having me! And for all the work that goes into this wonderful podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eing...

The 2026 Legal Philosophy Workshop program is now available. We hope you can join us in Chicago @chicagokentlaw.bsky.social! @hadassanoorda.bsky.social @raff-donelson.bsky.social @gowder.io @almadiamond.bsky.social @sgaloob.bsky.social @ksifferd.bsky.social @yaromeir.bsky.social

I'm trying to be back on the internet but it's bleak out here. I'm giving up for today. I leave this offering: a (poorly taken) picture of Pudlo Pudlat's "Saddled Muskox" - look at its adorable footsies! - taken at a recent visit to the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Circulating a call for papers on how consent is used in dance and movement, please share widely! www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/cen...

Thank you @miottoluc.bsky.social and @philosophy-law.bsky.social for this conversation! I loved talking to Legal Phi about my work.

Iris Murdoch, preaching to me on the job market (albeit without gender-neutral pronouns)

Excited to be on the job market with a paper about a question I have obsessed over since 2015: what is going on with foreseeability in contract? I argue two distinct ideas are at work, offering guidance for courts and practitioners and a lesson for theory papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Same.

This fell across my timeline, and it feels very June 2025 to me.

Thank you @lsolum.bsky.social !

Diamond on Hart and Raz on Legal Reasoning, buff.ly/HzbOCsK - Alma Diamond (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Law in Society: Defending Hart (Res Publica) on SSRN.

On father’s day, I’m grateful for this guy, master of the afternoon nap. (That’s a painting by my aunt, we need an aunt day too)

Back from a social media break to share a new piece on the Raz-Hart debate. Thank you to so many who helped with this project, especially @glexareen.bsky.social and @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social. I'm working on a follow up, there's much more to say on all this. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#PhilosophyJobs #Philosophy

opiniojuris.org/2025/04/29/c... My comment on developments in the first prosecution of apartheid as a crime against humanity and the issue of prescription.

You can get yours as well! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawles...

Huge congrats to you both!

This looks really interesting, I am looking forward to reading it.

As markets churn and world orders reset, @jamesftierney.bsky.social and I have a new piece forthcoming in Yale Law Journal that couldn't be more timely. "Trading Acres" traces the risks of farmland financialization and analyzes the role of law in this ongoing rural land grab. 🧵

I'm doing an AMA on Crooked Media's "Friends of the Pod" Discord on *Mon. April 14th* at 3 PM PT/6 PM ET! You can sign up for Friends of the Pod (& get access to the community Discord, & ad-free episodes of some Crooked pods) here: crooked.supercast.com?coupon=Lawless @strictscrutiny.bsky.social

New off the press, will be of particular interest to @philosophy-law.bsky.social, @lawstuff.bsky.social, @anuragdeb.bsky.social and many others link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Stumbled (doomscrolled) into this article from 1984 today: www.nytimes.com/1984/02/05/b...

I took a two month or so break from social media, can recommend. But I am back - I’ve missed you all. Here, have a picture of the puppy attending my contracts seminar this term.

Check out @umichlaw.bsky.social faculty fellow @almadiamond.bsky.social 's review of Tom Adam’s new piece on Criteria of Legal Validity https://buff.ly/4hXfH6F #WomenAlsoKnowLaw #WomeninAcademia

I reviewed Tom Adams's new piece on Criteria of Legal Validity on @jotwell.bsky.social : check it out! (And read Tom's paper, it is great). juris.jotwell.com/clarifying-l...

Join us Mon. Feb. 17th 2pm ET / 7pm UK "A Politics of Belonging" @avramalpert with Alexis Papazoglou on the need for a conception of belonging that enables people to feel comfortable enough to be different. #Philosophy #PhilSky #PhilEvent Register here:

We are now here too! 🥳 Follow us for events on Jurisprudence in Oxford. Here is our termcard, in case you haven't seen it:

In “Bootstrapped: A (Qualified) Defense of Practice-Based Constitutional Argument,” @umichlaw.bsky.social Prof. @almadiamond.bsky.social’s defends such arguments but points out that they must choose between wide and narrow conceptions of legal validity. https://buff.ly/40H1eWx #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

Thank you @lsolum.bsky.social for highly recommending “Hares or Hounds?”. Any and all comments are very welcome.

We're delighted to share our Call for Papers for the 16th London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought, on the theme of ‘States and Spaces' (19th-20th June, LSE). Deadline for submissions is 14 March! For more details: historyofpoliticalthoughtblog.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

A new book by Professor Michelle Adams details the history and impact of Milliken v. Bradley, the Detroit school desegregation case that gained national attention and a Supreme Court ruling in the early 1970s. michigan.law.umich.edu/news/5qs-mic...

Call for Papers: Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, June 2-3, 2025 Please send to junior law faculty (tenured or TT) who might be interested--this year is, loosely, public law and humanities tushnet.blogspot.com/2025/01/call...

New (or revised) Paper out! I explore a tension between two ways in which originalism conceives of "lawfinding". Coming to a law journal near you. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Every recommendation will be to outsource the function to a private equity firm.

Happy to see my piece, “Why Judges Can’t Save Democracy,” reprinted in the Romanian Judges’ Forum Review. You can download it here: bit.ly/3Wb9ag7

Download of the Week: "History's Identity Crisis" by Larsen, https://buff.ly/4hbd3tn - The Download of the Week is History's Identity Crisis by Alli Orr Larsen.

Interesting

Professor Michelle Adams' forthcoming book, The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, was included on @literaryhub.bsky.social 's "Most Anticipated Books of 2025." lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

Find it here! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I am honored to see my work listed here. Thank you @lsolum.bsky.social !

Following her example this week. Happy holidays to all, see you in 2025!

Happy thanksgiving ❤️

Very very much ready to eat a pie.

Check out @dtdeacon.bsky.social 's latest, "Chenery II Revisited," in the George Washington Law Review. www.gwlr.org/chenery-ii-r...

So many wtf moments in Gladiator 2. Sharks swimming in the colosseum was a low point.

Still flooded w ideas from the Just Jurisprudence workshop convened by @saharshah.bsky.social @glexareen.bsky.social & @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social with @vidyakumar.bsky.social @illanwall.bsky.social @maariaris.bsky.social @jd2711.bsky.social @lorenzoz.bsky.social @jenhendry.bsky.social R Tsosie &more

Instagram’s ToS changes in January. It includes waivers of all kinds, including of class arbitration, as one might expect. And it of course also contains the usual arbitration provisions. There’s this opting out procedure, sharing here in case you want to opt out:

The deadline for abstracts for #SLSA2025 @liverpooluni.bsky.social is 18 December! Make sure to send your papers for our stream, 'The Law(s) of the Future', which I am running with @drmitchtravis.bsky.social. How might law look in ages to come? @slsauk.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-202...

Student Chapters of FedSoc should host a debate between professors willing to debate and those not willing to debate at student Fed Soc functions.