Expect someone in the administration may have dusted off this 1989 OLC opinion. www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/...

The left says that oligarchs have bought our democracy. They're wrong—oligarchs have bought our republic.

Normally, military members enjoy broad First Amendment rights to share their views on social media or otherwise, but recent guidance following the Charlie Kirk assassination changes that. @frankrosenblatt.bsky.social examines the consequences of this new guidance and what it means in practice.

Thanks to Glenn for the interview and spotlight on our work with The Orders Project

Signing out for now from Jackson, Mississippi. Hope we’re back on Bluesky soon. #firstamendment

Yes please. Thinking of the military law experts who know nothing about genocide but think that any topic relating to armed conflict gives them the final word.

I used to be a U.S. Army JAG at Fort Bliss, Texas during the war years. Now the base is being transformed into an immigration hub. My take on habeas rights for migrants detained on U.S. military bases: globalmjreform.blogspot.com/2025/08/do-m...

Still in the process of organizing faculty exchanges if any other associate deans out there want to coordinate, let me know!

My latest book chapter includes: - why the propensity prohibition in evidence law makes sense - the impact of other evidence like race and appearance that's not gatekept by evidence rules - why Lt Kendrick is more interesting than Col Jessup in "A Few Good Men" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Marko sets it all out if anyone is interested www.ejiltalk.org/no-recognizi...

SEALS FOMO

I always knew he would leave

Missiles and Messages: Characterizing the Use of Force between Iran and Israel opiniojuris.org/2025/07/25/m...

Typical Tesla earnings call: "It's true that revenue is down 30% but did you know that we're actually a [something futuristic] company." Stock price soars

How about, if you’re not a subject matter expert, particularly on int’l criminal law, you just refrain from opining on this matter in the NYTIMES? Also, getting wrapped around the axle on the G word is a distraction from the necessity of stopping the slaughter. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/o...

Starting 4pm eastern today

Best law review article about state constitutional law? There was a thread on the topic heee about a year ago that I can’t find. Thanks!

❗HIRING ❗ Join me at UGA School of Law! We're hiring 4-5 tenure-track or tenured positions. Priorities include torts, Ks, bankruptcy, environmental law, property, *international law* & secured transactions. Send letters of interest & cv/resume @ [email protected]. Feel free to reach out w/ ??s.

No it’s not lawful. Any U.S. expert saying otherwise has failed to fully disclose their interests

Many of my very favorite academics are at Brooklyn

U.S. military lawyers are ideologically diverse. You would expect robust debate on Iran. But so far the only ones willing to share their views in public are those in favor of preemptive strikes and regime change.

Congratulations to the newly selected top U.S. Army JAG officer, who will serve either a four-year term or until LibsofTiktok posts a meme about him

Today's blog post: Case Reveals That Mississippi Courts (Incorrectly) Deem the Victim's Character for Violence an Essential Element of a Self-Defense Claim: tinyurl.com/yb72wk6r

I joined @avindman.bsky.social today to talk about troops, orders, and Los Angeles www.avindman.com/p/flags-forc...

We are recruiting! Multiple permanent assistant professor positions in Law www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND502/a...

Alcatraz ambitions: a massive spending outlay in a deep blue district, and prisoners seek judicial relief through CA9 standards rather than CA5 or El Salvador

When the journal rejections pour in, I think of the scientist who discovered that ulcers are caused by bacteria and not stress, and was told “we’re sorry, we received 67 submissions but can only publish 56 of them”

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I don’t get these. Mythology was always my Achilles Elbow

Gene Fidell on disrespecting the flag www.salon.com/2025/04/06/o...

International criminal tribunals are thought of as unconnected with one another. My new article argues that there is more of a common law to ICL than previously appreciated, based on the interest that nations and militaries show to tribunals that seemingly don't affect them

Exquisite response by Georgetown Dean to interim USA Ed Martin On Martin's threat letter not to hire grads until Martin approves of law school curriculum: "The constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution."

I'm looking forward to this!

Happy to share our thoughts on the TJAG firings. verdict.justia.com/2025/03/04/l...

Legal Theory Bookworm: "We the Men" by Hasday, buff.ly/kbhLGN0 - The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality by Jill Elaine Hasday.

Statement from the National Institute of Military Justice about Secretary Hegseth’s firings of top military lawyers

Worth flagging: Max Goldberg, Security-Clearance Decisions and Constitutional Rights, Yale Law Journal Forum: www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/F7.Goldb...

A *must-read* analysis by @marknevitt.bsky.social. 1. Trump and Hegseth proposed replacement for Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair (Lt. Gen. Caine): He appears not to be qualified under the statute 2. Front-of-mind concern in removal of TJAGs: their legal advice on domestic deployment of U.S. military

Ban on UVA Law

You must be an Eighth Amendment violation because you’re unreasonably fine Happy Valentine’s Day!

Google Maps changed the Gulf of Mexico in a day but a year and a half later still has not changed Jackson's Griffith Street to James H. Meredith Drive

It's Rule 404 day in Evidence

The President “shall take care the laws are faithfully executed.” That’s all.

"A Grieving Widow Wouldn't Travel With a Thong": In Biggest Evidence Ruling in Decades, the Supreme Court Agrees With My New Article and Creates a Constitutional Right to Exclude Evidence tinyurl.com/spmpzhy9

Something something precedent something something in Latin....Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship stands!

NEWS: The Orders Project, which connects U.S. military members with experienced lawyers for issues of potentially illegal orders, has become a part of the National Institute of Military Justice. www.nimj.org/top.html#/

LAST CALL! Papers about individual rights for the 2025 UChicago Con Law Conference: https://buff.ly/4f1i5Yd

Today's blog post: "Mississippi Judge Calls For Elimination of Spousal Testimonial Privilege": tinyurl.com/2p84kpk3

Too bad the best cross examiners AOC and Raskin are in the House