Just saw this @greerdonley.bsky.social piece on SSRN. Haven't read it yet (downloaded!) but from the abstract it looks smart & interesting. In utero embryo fetus as property. I've LONG been irked by the law's unwillingness to call human "stuff" (not humans) property. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🙋‍♀️ i’ll be looking at removing the need of medical translation services, using artificial intelligence to replace medical translators and communicators, and the massive implications this could have on health equity and patient ooutcomes. RSVP to [email protected]

I have just seen a woman walking around with a taxidermied rooster. It is time to depart Portland. #ASBH2025

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

My new essay is in the University of Chicago Law Review Online: “Children and the Cars That Watch Them.” Autonomous vehicles promise freedom for kids, but also bring unprecedented surveillance. Parental consent isn’t enough; we need substantive limits. lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archi...

A Rainy Monday Night in Cleveland, Ohio

My op-ed on Oklahoma's likely unconstitutional "wokeness" exam for incoming teachers from California and New York: www.oklahoman.com/story/opinio... In essence, this lazy exam is nothing more than a publicity push for PragerU, with Oklahoma acting as a legitimating device.

Not only will this amount in completely preventable death, illness, and injury, but the financial costs will be astronomical. The cost of administering a vaccine pales in comparison to the cost of treating a patient in the ICU for days or weeks.

Tuesday's final light over the Chicago Lakefront.

Friday’s Vibrant Sunrise over Cleveland, Ohio

My mitochondrial DNA decays every time I listen to RFK, JR. talk. Maybe he can see it in real time while in airports.

I am delighted to share that my job talk paper, Bias and the "Low Bar" of Relevance, will be published in Volume 114 of the California Law Review (forthcoming 2026). Feedback and comments on this draft (available on SSRN) are welcome and deeply appreciated! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I photographed a Lake Erie Sunrise in Cleveland, Ohio and this is what I got

What's the Story, Morning Glory. Today's magnificent sunrise in Chicago.

Just in time to teach Torts on Monday, a new piece from @profcrobertson.bsky.social and @wendyepstein.bsky.social. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Beginning my class prep in earnest for Second Amendment this fall, and cannot recommend enough that others in the same boat read or assign @brianlfrye.bsky.social's "The Peculiar Story of United States v. Miller." www.law.nyu.edu/sites/defaul...

law professors will be like "i know i'm out of time" and then just...keep talking

If you would stop in the middle of the bar exam to help someone in a health crisis, even if it meant a failing score after months of study/risking your job, etc - YOU are who our profession needs most. THAT is zealous advocacy. THAT is moral fiber. Don’t ever let the ghouls beat it out of you.

Just read this book by Augustine Bazterrica. Very disturbing, but a brilliant book. A lot to process. Quite a commentary on human morality and cruelty.

Terrific 🧵 reiterating critical pts I’ve mentioned on here repeatedly. Bottom line is that humanities classes have terrific ROI in higher ed, have vocational outcomes AND lifetime earnings at least as good as most STEM subjects. As Dr. Ginsberg notes, cutting humanities is pure ideology.

and to my grandchildren, i leave my unread pdfs

The moment has arrived! The final version of "Birthright Citizenship and the Dunning School of Unoriginal Meanings," co-authored by @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and me, is live on the Cornell Law Review Online website. Check it out! publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/20...

Today is the Race to Mackinac

12:01am on Friday morning. Lightning hitting both Sears Tower and the Hancock Building in Chicago.

Another view from this past weekend in Chicago.

With so much of the public health and health care system in turmoil, why not worry about another problem?! A warning about the looming threat of public health law vacuums from me and my wonderful colleague @profgoldberg.bsky.social. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Dr. Weinmeyer and I are working on this concept of “public health law vacuums” and seeing what, if anything, it can help with! #PHLaw

Two years ago, @lsepper.bsky.social famously said about academic summer plans, "Everything seems possible in May." Given the state of the nation, I say "DREAM!" Plan a conference with an unlimited budget. Promise your editor TWO volumes of your questionable idea. Download every PDF you can. LIVE!!!

SCOTUS to hear oral arguments in the Braidwood v. Becerra case on Monday. Want to know more about Section 1557, the preventive health mandate of the ACA, and how stereotypes re prevention creeped into earlier decisions? Read my article Penalizing Prevention: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

So proud of Caprice, a brilliant scientist & a tremendous leader! She is the 2nd Black woman to earn their PhD in the OSU astronomy department; the first was Dr. Kiersten Boley last year. I am excited to see all the great science they will do in their careers! artsandsciences.osu.edu/news/astrono...

Northwestern is an important research university across all fields, including the humanities, social sciences, and public health, and Chicago, Illinois, and the nation are the better for it.

My entire life, I have been fascinated by American history and attracted by the imperfect idealism of Anglo-American law. That's why I went to law school and why I teach law. Yet, we have law professors who don't understand the past and don't care about the values. They think I'm the problem though.

Help Needed: I'm going up for tenure next cycle and need to provide a list of five potential external reviewers for an article I wrote on a civil procedure issue (fraudulent joinder). Any civ pro/fed courts scholars want to help a junior faculty member?

So excited for today’s symposium on reproductive health privacy @ Iowa Law. jgrj.law.uiowa.edu/symposium-2025 ready to learn from great speakers @michaelrulrich.bsky.social @jillwieberlens.bsky.social @lizchiarello.bsky.social @staceytovino.bsky.social Alex Rosenblat, Adi Youcht & Phoebe Jean-Pierre

Amazing talk by University of Iowa College of Law Professor @anyaprince.bsky.social on state abortion reporting law.

It’s interesting doing a Title IX compliance training while reading an article about the return of Andrew Cuomo in Trump’s America.

This is not "deporatation," especially when we're talking about American citizens. This is kidnapping and human trafficking.

I've posted an updated version of my article on state due process protections! I've added an appendix listing every state with a brief summary of their due process protection scheme. And I've moved a few states around in the section classifying each state's approach: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Law professors. Stop it. Think first. It’s publish and perish over at Yale Law School. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The president may not serve a third term. Period. Full stop. No. Next.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Philly’s tallest mural, located at 18th and Market Streets in Center City! Standing 23-stories, it was created in 2015 by New Orleans-based artist MOMO. #PhillyMurals The project was part of a city-wide exhibition from Mural Arts Philadelphia…

Such a treat presenting at the Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Cr Inst for Health Law, Bioethics and Policy Symposium Mar 20th! My topic parsed the conceptualization of the In The Best Interest for pregnant persons post Dobbs. Many thanks to Prof Rebecca Feinberg for this wonderful Symposium

“The Patient Practitioner Relationship in a post Dobbs US landscape” was an enjoyable article to write. Thanks to the wonderful editors at the Pace Law Review for all of their work. And my awesome co-author @scottschweikart.bsky.social

Really excited about the new project @benjaminabarsky.bsky.social and I are starting! And a HUGE thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social and @jamesbrandt.bsky.social for their support of this post on what we’re calling the new carceral public health law. lpeproject.org/blog/the-new...