I just posted the current version of my most recent Article, "Conceptual Gerrymandering and the Weaponization of SFFA" to @ssrn.bsky.social. Abstract and TOC are attached below. Comments and (good faith) critiques very much welcome and appreciated. 🧵 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Here’s my new @LPEBlog.bsky.social post about Friday’s FTC decision to stop defending its rule banning non-competes. I also highlight how red & blue states are stepping in to defend worker mobility with new legislation & existing consumer & antitrust laws: lpeproject.org/blog/after-t...

Thank you @lsolum.bsky.social for recommending my new piece, Coercive Settlements, recently published with the George Washington Law Review! @templelaw.bsky.social

A lot of people have assumed Harvard would cave after Columbia did, especially after that piece of @nytimes.com stenography for the administration (and ridiculous Larry Summers tweet) but so far the signs point to the opposite. See below, plus the Brown deal being announced. Hang tough Harvard.

The chapters the author shared with us at the Civil Procedure Workshop last year were so good! Looking forward to reading this.

New paper! This essay takes a step toward developing what I call a "jurisprudence of weaponized interdependence.: Building on @himself.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social's groundbreaking work, I develop an account of the legal processes that facilitate the weaponization of networks. 1/x

Temple Law is hiring this year. We're looking in torts, tax, constitutional law, civil procedure, race/bias and the law, business law, and legal writing. The full ad and application portal is here. I'm chairing the committee; please reach out! law.temple.edu/engage/prosp...

Really badass graffiti spotted in town

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

This is an excellent story, which quotes my @templelaw.bsky.social colleague Laura Bingham. It also provides useful context, showing how the rise of anti-immigrant, technologically powered national security state finds precedents in Obama-era policy. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...

Mask-off racism and fascism from Pinocchiogles — if a New York congressman tried to meddle with local Tennessee politics like this he would lose his hypocritical mind

As folks chew on the new @pewresearch.org analysis of non-voters in 2020 and 2024, I'm here to say that the only time in U.S. history voting was made a legal duty, it happened because conservative incumbents felt threatened by a changing electorate and hoped 100% turnout would save them. 🧵

So pleased after 3+ years of work to see this in print ... Whether you like originalism or not, I've tried to offer insights on why the Constitution uses terms like treaties & compacts (to say nothing of Benedict Arnold's 'sponsion' or Gen. Washington's 'executive' agreement with Lord Cornwallis)

#Unsticking Litigation Science In this symposium paper, the author describes how litigation science and academic science are currently on #divergent paths. Author: Edith Beerdsen Read More: http://spkl.io/63325fAMAL

Thrilled to see a news piece by @science.org on my recent paper. By analyzing p-values across >240k papers, the study suggests that the rate of statistically questionable findings in psychology has declined since the replication crisis began www.science.org/content/arti...

Interesting thread on the politics of science vs engineering

Kind of interesting that (some of) the big-co clients are proving themselves to be more principled than (some of) the law firms.

1. NEW At least 11 major companies are moving away from doing business with the law firms that caved and signed deals with Trump. Even though some of these companies are led by executives who support Trump, they do not feel comfortable having a law firm that caved to threats representing them.

. @inquirer.com, could we get some data on how much revenue comes from these international students? It's probably quite significant. These actions don't affect only the directly affected students. www.inquirer.com/education/tr...

Hey SSRN, is it normal to schedule a paper for distribution 3.5 YEARS from now? Is this a de facto rejection of this classification? @approvemypaper.bsky.social (This paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...)

So what is this "replication" or "reproducibility" language that JD Vance is coopting? I have a paper for you! New on SSRN. Discusses reproducibility issues & argues that we lawyers still have a lot of work to do to improve the use of science in a litigation context. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I forgot about this great story by @cragcrest.bsky.social from 2017. The story, and my comment, are as relevant today as they were then.

We have officially launched the Participatory Law Fund at Temple Beasley School of Law! The fund is devoted to supporting the production of an emerging genre of legal scholarship called Participatory Law Scholarship (or PLS). More info about the application process @ law.temple.edu/academics/in...

An open letter highlighting the co-optation of open science language in the latest Executive Order to justify policies that are, in fact, antithetical to open science principles. Read and consider signing with your support. www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

Consider signing this open letter protesting the cooptation of open-science/"reproducibility" language for antiscientific ends. (1/n) bsky.app/profile/bria...

Important not to lose sight of the fact that the Trump admin is currently asking the Supreme Court to let them strip up to a million people of their current legal immigration status, rendering them undocumented overnight and forcing them to lose the jobs they hold today.

NEWS: Facing litigation, the Trump admin reverses itself on its purge of climate-related websites. The restoration process is "already underway" — and expected to be "substantially complete" in "approximately two weeks." A win for @knightcolumbia.org Doc knightcolumbia.org/documents/2o...

As always, this was great. Thank you, Ed, Julia, @maggiewittlin.bsky.social, and @alexnunn.bsky.social!

“A major company, Microsoft, has dropped a law firm that settled with the administration in favor of one that is fighting it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...

Thursday, noon (in most places), near you - let's go.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

I think Drew Ensign broke Judge Wilkinson

Just amazing.

Utterly repugnant scene

definitely not feeling ok about this

"Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.” There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.” !!!

Very glad to see @temple.edu President John Fry among the signers of this important letter.

Pushback works

"Your honor, when we say 'facilitate the return,' this is what we mean."

Out now in the @nclrev.bsky.social: Strategy for Strategy's Sake. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In a blistering ruling, a federal judge blocks a new executive order from President Trump punishing a prominent law firm that successfully sued Fox News for promoting false claims of election fraud. “The framers of our Constitution would see this as a shocking abuse of power,” the judge says.

Turns out this album exists! With thanks to @misseli.bsky.social - bsky.app/profile/miss...

Princeton University Will Not Change Polices in Response to Trump Administration Pulling Federal Funding, Says School President www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...

Google thinks that the Federal Rules of Evidence are the latest release by famous country band Motion in Limine.

In October 1938, Nazi Germany tracked down about 17,000 Polish Jews and expelled them to Poland, even though many of them were German citizens. (My grandfather was one of them.) There is a direct line between this "Polenaktion" and Kristallnacht, a month later. www.jmberlin.de/en/topic-pol...

Academics & others need to understand a few things. A 🧵 I) First, fascism is not inevitable. Research on autocratic movements show that only about 3,5% of the population need to resist to stop them. Fascism thrives on the silence of the friends. That why visible resistance matters. 1/

🧵: If you're wondering just how intrusive the Trump admin's demands of Harvard were, consider this one: "Every department or field found to lack viewpoint diversity must be reformed by hiring a critical mass of new faculty within that department or field who will provide viewpoint diversity."

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.