It’s very technical but I love this paper and if you have any interest in Marxism or legal theory or some combination of those things you should check it out. scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol88/is...

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

There's a lot of alarmist coverage of the Supreme Court. Rick Hasen does not engage in it. This isn't stuff he'd write lightly.

Trump is directing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prioritize cases of discrimination against white men, but commission staff are "struggling to find complaints with merit"

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

how much money does the marine corps lose

The smarter sycophants already have jobs as columnists for the New York Times and Washington Post.

Erstwhile LPE bloggers start new academic center 🤩🤩

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.

There needs to be like 5 "too nice to work" holidays controlled by each state. Like a snow day, you don't get any advance notice. The stations and alerts just put out the message that the next day is too nice to work and everyone is off.

Join @lsiraganian.bsky.social at @redemmas.org on Tuesday, March 24th 2026 for a discussion of The Problem of Personhood!

I’ve seen enough. No, not the Texas elections. I’m watching the KU basketball game.

Yale Law scholar dismisses and entire field of scholarly inquiry on the grounds that it has not engaged deeply with the law-and-economics literature. It is 6 pages and it cites to only five LPE articles--including none of the articles in the same symposium! lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/defaul...

this is like an episode of Black Mirror. Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees, and will check if employees say “please” and “thank you” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Happy to share that my latest project, Copyright as Intuition, is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review. Abstract below; I should have a draft on SSRN soon.

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Bad Government, 1338–40, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

“Everyone thinks universities have to do what donors want because they pay the bills. But that gets it backward, and not just at Hopkins.” I highly recommend reading this piece. www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

Always happy to talk to Mary Tuma, who does great reporting for the Texas Observer on the reproductive rights disasters unfolding in Texas. www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-p...

Levitt refutes Leavitt: This was both false and an irrelevant nonsequitur 14 years ago, and I believe it’s both false and an irrelevant nonsequitur today. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

a beautifully written and powerful piece from University of Minnesota Law professor Emmanuel Mauleón on the stakes of how the legal profession responds in this moment. lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Can sanctuary/"woke" cities use bankruptcy to politically resist Trump's cutting off of federal funds? My latest essay, "Bankruptcy as Political Resistance" unpacks that question. In short, it's possible for some cities to do so although the road would be messy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Can avatars deliver babies? Because that’s one of the most pressing needs in said rural communities that are also maternity care deserts.

My New One at @slate.com on the 50th Anniversary of the Buckley v. Valeo Decision: “One Supreme Court Case Is Most Responsible for Our Oligarchy. It’s Not the One You Think.” slate.com/news-and-pol...

Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Last week I discussed my paper "Rebuilding American Higher Education: from an Engine of Inequality to a Pillar of the Public Interest" (coauthored @andrewelrod.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social) w/@perrybaconjr.bsky.social at @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2054... /1

Among the litany of problems with SCOTUS's decision to stay the Texas map: the majority never acknowledges that "the" partisan impetus to adopt the map as a whole does not in any way preclude the improper use of race as a means to get there. Which is exactly what the trial court found. In detail.

oh no starbucks's biggest sales day of the year is this week... 😏

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all. Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.

They are preparing to fight for our freedom.

Dallas today

Four bull elk took time away from mating to join the No Kings protest in Estes Park, Colorado. That’s how serious this is.

This is my effort to collect in one place the top 3 reasons (imho) why 'the free market' should not even be a starting point for analysis - especially normative (legal,policy) reasoning. Also includes a brief account of how the modern idea of the self coordinating market emerged in fits and starts.