🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Heading to @georgetownlaw.bsky.social for a symposium on legal interpretation and data. I'll be presenting some preliminary empirical results for an early-stage paper, "Is Originalism Common Sense?" Attend virtually! Program and info here: solid-symposium.github.io/2025/#program

Grateful to @dtdeacon.bsky.social for the generous review of my new article at Yale J. of Reg.'s "Notice & Comment" blog. "'Standard Textualism' should be of great interest to the administrative law crowd in addition to the legal theory generalist." Indeed! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...

Over at the Notice and Comment blog, today's Ad Law Reading Room entry is "Standard Textualism," by @jammacleod1.bsky.social. Check it out! www.yalejreg.com/nc/ad-law-re...

"Standard Textualism" (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) got the coveted "Download it while it's hot!" --AND Download of the Week!-- on @lsolum.bsky.social's Legal Theory Blog! Difficult and kind of embarrassing trying to convey to family and friends how excited this made me...

New draft article! “Standard Textualism” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Main claim: Faithful adherence to modern textualism would produce far more standard-like (as opposed to rule-like) law than people have realized. Important implications for textualists AND critics of textualism!

*Tickled* be presenting at today's 2:40 AALS panel, “Methodological Realignments in Statutory Interpretation?” With Katie Eyer, Tara Grove, Richard Re, Brian Slocum & Kevin Tobia! My paper, "Standard Textualism," argues that adherence to modern textualism would produce much more standard-like...

On my way to AALS! Today I’ll moderate the “New Voices in Legislation” panel at 2:40 Exciting work by: —Jon Choi & Nina Mendelson on canons —Beau Baumann on legislative constitutionalism —Sam Simon on coalitional congressional constitutionalism —Joel Johnson on MQD and lenity Join us!

I'm editor of the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory & Philosophy. We're in need of contributors on: (1) Raz, Joseph; (2) Critical Race Theory & Law; (3) Discourse Theory & Law; (4) Empirical Legal Studies; & (5) Law & Risk. If you're interested, let me know via email. #academicsky

Kate Weisburd and I have a new empirical paper out in the Northwestern University Law Review! We ask: what do ordinary Americans believe about how Miranda rights are invoked? t.co/fjpjlJ4vUY 1/4

Excited to comment on Ed Cheng's work at this symposium at Columbia Law next Fri., Nov. 8! Speakers incl. E. Beerdsen, V. Hans, M. Grossman, D. Faigman, S. Diamond Comments by me, J. Rakoff, A. Sood, D. Richman, R. Wexler, D. Madigan Register w/ QR code below!

Call for Papers - AALS Section on Legislation & Law of the Political Process "Emerging Scholars" Panel Deadline Sept. 6, more info below, email me w/ questions! Emerge! Retweet! Thank you :)

Brooklyn Law School is hiring! Lateral and entry-level candidates in Civ Pro, Con Law, and Corporate Law, among other areas. Please feel free to DM or email me with any questions. Full announcement below.

Two essential news items today: 1. I now have tenure at Brooklyn Law! 2. I'm now hiring chair at Brooklyn Law! Too many people to thank here rn, but suffice it to say I'm very thankful and excited. Being a (tenured!) law prof remains my dream job, even if I lack full immunity.

My world-renowned colleague @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social teamed up with a little-known artist named John Legend to write this op-Ed about threats to bail funds in georgia time.com/collection/t...

I’m proud of this coauthored paper, “Redistributing Justice,” with Ben Levin. It’s forthcoming in Columbia Law Review. Up on SSRN now. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New draft! Evidence Law's Blind Spots (forthcoming @IowaLawReview)--check it out if you’re interested in… evidence law OR prior convictions OR race OR law & psych OR ban-the-box and other disclosure rules OR... just check it out here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....