rabies. RABIES.

personally I don't use AI in writing because I enjoy the process — yeah, even the parts when I want to rip all my hair out! — but hey, here's another good reason to abjure AI: it'll plagiarize www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

what does Claude know that we don’t

I spoke to the Houston Chronicle about Flock, and… well… paywalled but it worked for me in reader mode) www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

just posted a new book chapter I’m working on for a forthcoming edited volume on trade secrecy in data and data infrastructure. it’s about Shotspotter, Flock Safety, and the consequences of private firms’ enclosure of law enforcement infrastructure. check it out!

just posted a new book chapter I’m working on for a forthcoming edited volume on trade secrecy in data and data infrastructure. it’s about Shotspotter, Flock Safety, and the consequences of private firms’ enclosure of law enforcement infrastructure. check it out!

just finished book 22 of 2026, easily the most unhinged novel I’ve read recently, 10/10 5 stars highly recommend

SAVING MILLIONS ON IT SERVICES AND SOFTWARE CONTRACTORS BY BRINGING IT IN HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wake up babe, new internet law case just dropped

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Cornell Law School's @gshans.bsky.social on "First Amendment Balancing" -- new in @knightcolumbia.org's series on "Reconstructing Free Expression" knightcolumbia.org/blog/first-a...

life is short. I’m not spending it reading someone’s robot article about how robots are required by the constitution and i‘m sure as hell not debating its merits online

As we consider Bob Mueller's legacy, here's the cover profile I wrote about him in TIME on his 10th anniversary as FBI director. ti.me/2L7TEhH

stares in First Amendment

I think this is a depressing approach to the production of knowledge

I am SO EXCITED to read this, for two reasons. First, I have been utterly baffled about why it is that this account has been largely left out of legal scholarship. Second, I've felt like I'm on a lonely mission to bring history into law and tech scholarship and I'm selfishly relieved to have company

three of these cities are just far flung suburbs of the DFW metroplex, in which it’s true that job opportunities abound (along with hours-long commutes)

gonna start writing law review articles longhand in notebooks like Lauren Groff

do any of the legal scholars or social scientists on here use @obsidian.md or a similar zettelkasten tool

Chilling effects are hard to measure or document. They are what doesn't get said over here, because of some gvt action over there. But pieces like this are a small part of making visible what is obvious: right now, chilling effects are everywhere www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

adding up everything we spent on childcare in 2025 like 💸😩💸

a mitzvah!!!!

fun job alert

happy to be at Cornell to talk about How Tech Took Over! it’s gorges

being at war with Iran is the thing that makes me feel unsafe on the subway

just posted a new paper, How Tech Took Over, to SSRN. It's about how decades of legal and policy interventions made the tech industry an essential partner in public governance. I map the kinds of functions tech cos are performing today, and I argue that their activities are salient to con law.

how is this not a straightforward right of publicity problem???

I reviewed The Ordinal Society, by @marionf.bsky.social and @kjhealy.co, for jotwell. I think this is one of the most important books for law and tech scholars, and yet it says almost nothing (explicitly) about law, which makes it a special treat to read!

just posted a new paper, How Tech Took Over, to SSRN. It's about how decades of legal and policy interventions made the tech industry an essential partner in public governance. I map the kinds of functions tech cos are performing today, and I argue that their activities are salient to con law.

fondly remembering the piece I wrote nine years ago about how maybe Trump was so incompetent he’d break executive war powers. Damn I was so young and naive

I know, I know, we have to take AI very seriously. But also Outlook just tried to autocomplete my name as “Heather” so…

not junior but this is my worst cycle ever, and I’ve been submitting for nearly a decade.

wish I were as good at anything as Isaac Chotiner is at making people look like assholes

I initially moved to Texas in 2005. In every election since, Dems have insisted that we finally have a candidate who is going to take up Ann Richards’ mantle and turn the state blue. If it turns out the guy to do it is someone I went to college with and don’t even remember… lol 🫡

I spoke to the LA Times about Flock, the VC-backed surveillance tech company that overpromises and underdelivers on public safety

the past thirteen months have been an object lesson in chilling effects: that threats and bullying can and will deter ppl from exercising their expressive and associative rights. this is true even when ppl aren’t being directly targeted (yet) because they anticipate possible future attacks

this feels like an extremely Huffines thing to do

choosing not to take on a new project i don’t have time for rn

what will happen if I drink an espresso at 4:15 pm LET’S FIND OUT!!!!!!!

maybe this is going to be an unpopular take but here goes: legal scholarship is particularly, perhaps uniquely, vulnerable to this problem, for a few reasons. first, few of us are actually trained in any kind of scholarly method; we are mostly trained lawyers and self taught legal scholars 1/

jawboning meets the military industrial complex

china bad because of state surveillance america good because of corporate surveillance that also gets wielded by the state

weekend vibe

I guess I appreciate that I am updating the syllabi for *both* Internet law and crim pro with identical materials

a PSA for legal scholars who aren’t allergic to tech

maybe this is a spicy take but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with normal people owning stocks and running for public office. actually we should want normal people to do both things!

so distracted by submission angst that I just burned a pot of hardboiled eggs

According to an organizer, “all signatories are full-time employees, and nearly 30% are Google Cloud workers.”

I’m at the law conference I’m at the political economy conference I’m at the combination Law and Political Economy Conference