Just out. My essay defends the idea that it’s coherent to have a constitutional commitment to a general right to liberty

Delighted to see my paper LGBTQ Wedding Party: Conscientious Objections to the Enforcement of Antidiscrimination Law featured in Larry Solum's Legal Theory blog: lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/...

Thanks very much Larry for the post!

Zucca on Humanistic Jurisprudence, buff.ly/MDOTcXn - Lorenzo Zucca (King's College London – The Dickson Poon School of Law) has posted Seeing Law Feelingly-Humanistic Jurisprudence, Poetic Wisdom, and the Future of Law on SSRN.

Makar on Dignity and Prison Law, buff.ly/WVv8U9y - Zina Makar (University of Baltimore - School of Law) has posted The Absence of Dignity in Prison Law (Maryland Law Review, Vol. 84, 2025) on SSRN.

Delighted to see that my paper LGBTQ Wedding Party: Conscientious Objections to the Enforcement of Antidiscrimination Law (Tulsa Law Review, forthcoming) has made it to the list of the most downloaded recently posted papers on Discrimination Law on ssrn papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/...

Great to see my paper LGBTQ Wedding Party: Conscientious Objections to the Enforcement of Antidiscrimination Law in Volume 60 of the Tulsa Law Review at 421-485 (2025) featured in the Gender and the Law Blog lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

My latest paper "LGBTQ Wedding Party: Conscientious Objections to the Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Law" has just come out. Many thanks to so many dear friends and colleagues for comments and suggestions! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This should be an excellent book by Gila Stopler: out soon with CUP www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

My latest paper "LGBTQ Wedding Party: Conscientious Objections to the Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Law" has just come out. Many thanks to so many dear friends and colleagues for comments and suggestions! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy student writing competition

Just under a month until Hart publish the latest output from our Socio-Legal Trajectories project @mpilhlt.bsky.social, this Oñati series edited collection: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega... Publishing June 12, ask your libraries to pre-order! @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social

My Hughes Court volume is now available in paperback, a steal at the low low price of 20 cents a page, or $59.99 (not much more than a decent doorstop would cost!): www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...

Join us at the Montclair Literary Festival tomorrow, Saturday May 3. I'll be presenting my new book published with @mitpress.bsky.social at 10am (warm-up act for Connie Chung!) succeed2gether.org/may3-mlf/

We had a busy few weeks in April celebrating the 30-year anniversary of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. We held a lecture on "The Necessity of International Law" with Professor Tim Sellers

Grateful to @mariannepestana.bsky.social for her unfailing skill in getting to the heart of any issue! It was a pleasure to talk with her on her show produced by ABC/KMET about my new book with @mitpress.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryFg...

Looking forward to this conversation soon. Join us!

This cross-disciplinary book explores the law's diverse ways of constructing the identities and responsibilities of firms and states. States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions by Melissa J. Durkee #LawSky 💙📚 #Jurisprudence

A delight to host John Trenor from Wilmerhale yesterday at the University of Baltimore School of Law. His experience in international arbitration was very valuable to our students.

On April 9th we are celebrating the 30-year anniversary of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, with a lecture by Tim Sellers, CICL's founder, Regents Professor at the University System of Maryland. Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/center-for...

This Thursday we are hosting Darryl Tarver from DLA Piper for our guest speakers' series on Business and Human Rights at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Looking forward to a fascinating conversation.

Please join us this Friday at The University of Baltimore for the Law Review’s symposium on state responses to Dobbs. We are excited that @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social is our Keynote speaker!

It is publication day for "The Rural Lawyer"! This book was such a joy to write. This project started with a bunch of roadtrips to rural law offices to interview lawyers. I learned so much about the rural practice of law and am thrilled to share my findings. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Eisler on 303 Creative v. Elenis and Public Accomodations Law, buff.ly/emFXUn0 - Jacob Eisler (Florida State University College of Law) has posted Discrimination, Private Liberty, and Public Accommodations Law (12 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 479 (2025)) on SSRN.

Intangible Intangibles by Brad Sherman Discusses the dematerialisation of the invention, provides a history of patentable subject matter, and examines how law, science, and technology interact. Out Now #OpenAccess #OA #LawSky #IPSky #IntellectualProperty #TechSky 📚

On April 9th we are celebrating the 30-year anniversary of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, with a lecture by Tim Sellers, CICL's founder, Regents Professor at the University System of Maryland. Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/center-for...

We are hosting a terrific new post at the ASCL's blog by my colleague at the University of Baltimore School of Law John Bessler on "The Curious, Consequential History of "Cruel and Unusual Punishments": ascl.org/the-curious-...

2nd Circuit Rejects Amish Challenge to Removal of Religious Exemption from School Vaccine Requirements buff.ly/Ljt4XvS "The court held that the public health law is neutral on its face and its legislative history does not reveal an anti-religious bias" Stand firm NY & 2d Cir!

Excited to be speaking about Menstrual Justice the University of Maryland Baltimore tomorrow.

An interview about my new book: urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

Book mail is the best mail! Advance copies of my new book arrived today, just in time for #WomensHistoryMonth. In a nation whose Constitution purports to speak for We the People, too many of the stories that powerful Americans tell about law and society include only #WeTheMen. jillhasday.com

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3GPW... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Supreme Betrayal's latest episode: I begin to lay out my take on constitutional foundations, and Seidman has some critical comments that he'll expand on in a later episode: supreme-betrayal-how-the-supreme-court-and-constitutional.simplecast.com/episodes/why...

Corbin on Classroom Ten Commandments Displays, https://buff.ly/4gTZg9Z - Caroline Mala Corbin (University of Miami School of Law) has posted New Judicial Federalism and the Establishment Clause: Classroom Ten Commandments as a Case Study in State Constitutional Protection (Texas Law Review) on SSRN.

It was truly uplifting to visit the Organization of American States last Friday in Washington. Many thanks to my colleague Nienke Grossman for organizing a field trip with students and colleagues there.

@jackbalkin.bsky.social "Private infrastructure owners can act both as speakers and as the governors of other people's speech." If oligarchs can control what I see and say in public, that's a problem for free speech. ATT doesn't censor my calls. Liberals like censorship. The ACLU knew that once

My colleague John Bessler has a piece forthcoming with the British Journal of American Legal Studies on The Forgotten Origins of the “Cruel and Unusual Punishments” Prohibition: legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/bess...

Looking forward to presenting my new book "Coming Clean" at University oif Baltimore in April, with many thanks to @ioannat.bsky.social and her fine colleagues.

We are hosting an event on the Future of the Clean Water Act in Maryland at the University of Baltimore School of Law next Friday. Join us!

Extraterritoriality in Comparative Perspective, new book edited by Hannah Buxbaum: ascl.org/extraterrito...

Delighted to have been elected a member of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law ascl.org/leadership/

Call for Papers: Boston Area PhDs and Post-Docs take note. Submit your papers for the inaugural European Development in a Historical Perspective Conference at CES on May 1, 2025. 📅 Deadline is Feb. 7. ➡️ ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

LCH deadline extended by a week -- now Feb 5! lawculturehumanities.com/event/2025-t...

We have a new post at the American Society for Comparative Law blog:"Intergenerational Continuity: Can Love and Care Be Mandated by Law?" ascl.org/intergenerat...

Here is an excellent paper by my colleagues Colin Starger and Will Hubbard on Outdated State Laws and Automated Vehicles papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Here is another fascinating book by James Whitman 'From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands: The Transformation of Ownership in the Western World': www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Pettit on Concepts of Free Speech, https://buff.ly/3PLWIzW - Philip N. Pettit (Princeton University; Australian National University (ANU) - Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS)) has posted Two Concepts of Free Speech on SSRN.

Getting started on BlueSky with our call for papers for the 2025 EuConst Symposium, which we will host at Luiss University in the beautiful city of Rome on June 24. We welcome abstracts on any theme of European and comparative constitutional law. Application deadline March 3.

just out: The Elgar Encyclopedia of Law and Literature www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elg... you can read the Introduction here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (with ToC) @lpcprof.bsky.social @lawhumanitiesca.bsky.social @juliestonepeters.bsky.social @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @slsauk.bsky.social