Crucial intervention from @azohra.bsky.social and Madiha Tahir lpeproject.org/blog/beginni...

Just perfect on “post-neoliberal” vacuity from @quinnslobodian.com lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

Just perfect on “post-neoliberal” vacuity from @quinnslobodian.com lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...

The FTC is in some ways the most fascinating agency in Trump2 administration. Can't imagine anything comparable out of the eviscerated CFPB. Meanwhile the agency has also throttled back in other areas while embracing partisan hackery in others. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Crucial intervention from @azohra.bsky.social and Madiha Tahir lpeproject.org/blog/beginni...

Well, this pretty much sums up what is going on in wide swaths of the right. nyeditorialboard.substack.com/p/john-catsi...

Incredibly difficult to overstate the importance of this work by @amandaparsons.bsky.social. No quotes. Read the whole piece.

He’s literally saying shadow banks with fewer safety requirements outcompeting (relatively) regulated banks shows that we should remove the safety requirements. Exactly the dynamic that led to deregulation in the 20th century, but much faster. Meanwhile we now have whole literatures about it

"Government actors, including state tax authorities, are being recruited to craft the demand necessary to prop up what is essentially a Ponzi scheme—one worth $5 billion to our current president and his family."

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So Common Good Constitutionalism is basically just caping for Dworkin and then ipse dixit about how liberal political morality is too simplistic and licentious? Then an "actually the original originalism was classical legal thought" case for less 1A protection that doesn't actually engage 1A theory?

Incredible songwriting. An earworm that’s harmonically interesting. Lyrics vivid but obscure. Sounds almost like a classic crooner tune filtered through Monk’s glasses youtu.be/Mxy8TwWrF-0?...

OK I am fully charmed and awed by Silvana Estrada. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHCy...

Just the man I wanted to read on crypto’s ascendancy lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...

this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.

@techpolicypress.bsky.social asked me to comment on the WH's EO on state AI laws. Shorter: its focus on interstate commerce, "truthful AI," & innovation are a flop. The Pres isn't as powerful as he pretends. Enlisting DoJ & FTC won't help; they are bound by law. www.techpolicy.press/why-trumps-a...

rippin www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgqa...

"Postneoliberal" centrism is just "oh shit our old legitimation strategy is running dry, let's slap some new pro-growth policy on there and hope it works."

An yglesias flashback

This is an argument I have made for a while - if you want to allow more new housing development, you'll face a lot less opposition if you protect existing tenants with rent regulation. Nice to have some more evidence to back that up.

Registration closed yesterday (over 400 attendees!), but I heard a rumor that there's a brief grace period. So register if you didn't!

Just thinking about how Adrian Vermeule blocked me on Twitter when I pointed out he was praising Hungary’s shutdown of gender studies some years ago.

All the cool kids are here.

This year, Israel will account for nearly one-quarter of all free travel gifted to Congress members, and AIPAC is overwhelmingly setting the agenda. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/insi... #Palestine #Israel

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Really really good stuff from @econmarshall.bsky.social and @andrewelrod.bsky.social here. Worth a close read. higheredlaborunited.org/media/2025/1...

If Nathan says a paper about price levels is "really good" without a qualifier about how it's also theoretically confused, it's mandatory reading.

The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest. In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵 scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Thing is, the conservative SCOTUS justices have been waiting to do this for their whole careers. They're not going to let anything like practical realities or history and tradition or original public meaning get in the way

Just got word that over 50 students are signed up to attend as well! We’re building

Today, a call to join the next era of LPE: a democratic, independent, member-led organization that will serve as a home for a broad array of LPE work.

LPE 2.0: A New Association to Meet the Times -- lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...

Proud to be part of this effort @lpeproject.bsky.social/@lpeblog.bsky.social! Check out the great lineup for the upcoming ALPE conference and register! And pls consider joining the new org. All info is in the linked post: lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...

A new era for LPE — a more democratic one, not subject to university administrators and not reliant on funder money. LPE lfg lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...

"Let us instead marvel over this: the emergence, starting in the 1980s, of a view that was held with supreme confidence by a group of (mostly) young lawyers, but that was patently inconsistent with settled law..." Yeh, there was a lot of that going around casssunstein.substack.com/p/the-unitar...

the reason its bad to run universities like businesses is that almost all businesses fail on any reasonable timeline of evaluation. hudson's bay made it the longest and even they only got to about half an oxford of longevity

Very thoughtful piece on a topic on which it’s hard to say much new!

I'm so old I remember it was scandalous that banks made up synthetic assets so that investors could gamble on the wager on the future of the mortgage and mortgage security insurance market and that crashed the whole economy

What do we think? Pretty strong anti-bubble sentiment despite the vibes giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The University of Alabama chapter of AAUP stands with students against the closure of [alice] and Nineteen Fifty-Six magazines.

Looking at the schedule, and feeling some serious FOMO. This conference looks truly legendary

I mean I'm sure I'm just missing it, but it's funny to see a case litigating the nature of the FTC and it's all public law scholars arguing about like 18th century English law and mostly hand-wavy discussion of scholarship on the FTC & its evolution

We need a new New School. Exciting developments in social and legal theory are too scattered and not enough in contact with each other. They need to come together, and conferences ain't gonna cut it

So excited for all of this content and hope to see many folks in Richmond for the inaugural ALPE conference! You can still register through December 10th.

Goodness gracious the @a-lpe.bsky.social conference schedule is stacked. Just in the first hour there's a session on how to reconstruct higher ed, critical analysis of corporate law, theorizing informational power, structural reform of the tax system, and I'm out of characters b4 I can even list