Thanks to @cmulligan.bsky.social (Brooklyn Law School) for a terrific final Ideas Lunch of the semester. We loved hearing about “Data Property, Bailments & Descendibility” and ending the term with such a thoughtful conversation.

Worth it for the comments.

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

Great to see “Founding Era Translations of the US Constitution” cited in the New York Times. We're a better, stronger country when people of different perspectives and backgrounds choose to work together to form a "vollkommenere Vereinigung." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...

Do I know any law&tech folks going to AALS this year who think about algorithm regulation in some form?

Brooklyn Law School is hiring a tenured chair in Entertainment Law, and I’m heading the search! Drop me a line if you’re interested or have any suggestions!

Something completely different: HLS’s Alex Chen & I just posted "Parafamily," forthcoming BU L Rev, abt how the legal sys can move away from assuming all families are nuclear & embrace varied supportive arrangements, incl. nonsexual & polyamorous ones. ssrn.com/abstract=4782332

Tomorrow, our affiliated fellow @cmulligan.bsky.social presents at our Ideas Lunch: "Data Property & Digital Sales". Don't miss it! Thursday, January 25, 2024 at noon ET Email [email protected] for zoom details

Attn law profs: SEALS has created a portal for those scholars who are interested in visiting at other schools (feels a bit like a match program). Such a great idea and service to the law prof community. You can register here: sealslawschools.org/hiring/visit...

Who all is going to AALS?

Hot takes on the Rahimi oral argument: Justice Kagan asks SG Prelogar what would be helpful for SCOTUS to clarify in Rahimi after Bruen, and Prelogar essentially gives my wishlist: (1) Clarify the whole original public meaning matters, not just historic regulations;

Just spoke at an insightful symposium about the Supreme Court’s test in NYSRPA v. Bruen, organized by NotreDameLRev & Duke Ctr Firearms Law. With the oral argument in the Rahimi case coming up, I wanted to share some of my thoughts from the conference here.