“The point is not just that it’s good to be liked. I’m sure that helps, but I’ve seen people secure great jobs due to their accomplishments as scholars and scientists, even if they weren’t especially popular. Instead, the point is that it’s bad to be disliked — even by a small proportion of people.

Poland’s largest privately owned hotel group is offering couples a novel incentive to conceive during a stay, as part of an effort to help reverse the country’s plunging birth rate.”

RIP to one of the best. Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died apnews.com/article/jane...

As the saying goes, there are no atheists in foxholes. And there aren’t many libertarians in a financial crisis.”

“Scientists have adapted cloning technology to create human eggs from skin cells and a donor egg, potentially opening a new route to motherhood for women who are infertile.”

“While Trump's Supreme Court nominees behave like other Republican nominees on the Court, Trump's lower court nominees are twice as likely to vote in favor of the government as nominees of other Republican presidents”

Is an agreement still a contract if it’s signed under threat of jail? In Contract or Prison, Sadie Blanchard argues incarceration-alternative contracts fail under classical contract theory. Full discussion on Taboo Trades: [link] 👉

“Forcing somebody to attest that you weren’t coerced doesn’t make what’s happening any less coercive.” — Sadie Blanchard (@NotreDameLaw) on the Taboo Trades Podcast. (As you’ll hear, Sadie & I disagree on the coercion point but agree on other issues)

Just posted a new essay with @williambaude.bsky.social and Sam Bray - "Remedies for a Constitutional Crisis" (forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Join me and @uvalaw.bsky.social 3L, Kyndall Walker, as we discuss "Contract or Prison," in The Chicago Law Review, with @notredamelaw.bsky.social Professor Sadie Blanchard

Join me and @uvalaw.bsky.social 3L, Kyndall Walker, as we discuss "Contract or Prison," in The Chicago Law Review, with @notredamelaw.bsky.social Professor Sadie Blanchard

Literally this comic

Who knew that flight sharing was a taboo trade? And that expense sharing was permitted, but not compensation? So we must argue about what is compensation? Not me (reminds me of the remuneration/compensation divide in blood)

Available now for pre-order! I'm told that chapter 2 is especially good. 😉

The arc of history turns towards technology. I didn't expect recommendation #2, although I've heard it discussed. #econsky #medicine #gender marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/reco...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I’m on Substack, discussing some of the issues and readings I’m covering in my Repugnant Transactions course this year. Join me there if you’re up for hearing about blood, our first segment this year

"Even though women’s enhanced agency is an important factor in determining fertility in most developed nations today, its role in altering birth rates has depended on a related element. That factor is the ability of women to be assured they can reap the financial and personal 1/2

at one point Albania was on the brink of civil war after the collapse of pyramid schemes that had sucked up roughly half of GDP, and now that is only the *second* stupidest thing the country has done.

Very cool

Friday’s post: Professor Geoge Cohen provides a close look at a classic opinion from Judge Cardozo, _Sun Printing_. He says Judge Cardozo got it wrong. We report; you decide. www.contractsprofblog.com/2025/09/teac...

Tiah McCreary: American hero 🤣

“Federal officials will for the first time fire one of the organizations responsible for coordinating organ donations in the United States, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Thursday.”

"Rules state that stones must come from naturally occurring island slate, however some were found to have been ground into a "suspiciously circular" shape to help them bounce on water." via @alroth.bsky.social

I think criminal adultery laws should be repealed but I’m not sure they couldn’t withstand a constitutional challenge. Unlike the other sex laws, adultery laws purport to protect a third party.

"Criminal adultery laws remain on the books in Maryland & police and prosecutors occasionally charge under them. The article mentions that legislatures must repeal laws to eliminate them from the books; it does not mention that charges or conviction could not withstand a constitutional challenge."

Join me & @uvalaw.bsky.social 3L Denise Azadeh as we discuss the End Kidney Deaths Act w/ Elaine Perlman

Join me & @uvalaw.bsky.social 3L Denise Azadeh as we discuss the End Kidney Deaths Act w/ Elaine Perlman

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"To some extent, traditional thinking about date etiquette hasn’t changed: According to the LendingTree survey, 32% of Gen Z believe that the man should pay for the first date in a heterosexual relationship, while 18% think the person who asks should pay.(Nearly 31% think the cost should be split.)"

All the credit goes to @andrewkjennings.com!

How do venture capitalists respond to startups in the adult, alcohol, gambling, cannabis, weapons, and other sin industries? My article "Vice Capital" (w/ @kimkrawiec.bsky.social) is now published in UC Irvine Law Review! scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/faculty-arti... 1/2

Just noticed on my recent reread this concluding sentence to Peter Jaworksi's piece, Bloody Well Pay Them: "It’s in us to give, rather than merely take. Now is the time for us to contribute." I'm looking at you Canzuk--still takers, 5 years later

Just noticed on my recent reread this concluding sentence to Peter Jaworksi's piece, Bloody Well Pay Them: "It’s in us to give, rather than merely take. Now is the time for us to contribute." I'm looking at you Canzuk--still takers, 5 years later

I'm making my way to Substack!

In more cannabis news: “The former Suntory chairman Takeshi Niinami, who resigned this week over allegations that he bought a supplement that could be illegal in Japan, has declared his innocence, saying he used the product to cope with jet lag and had never taken it within Japan’s borders”

I'm making my way to Substack!

The site of Hitler’s bunker is now a parking lot, but still draws tourists marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/dark...

It's here!! 🎉

“A conservative and staunch royalist who has been a kingmaker in Thai politics over the past decade, Anutin, 58, is best known for his support for the decriminalisation of cannabis.”

Finally!

"How does one make a game that is 90% dead time interesting? Fortunately, baseball, dull as it is, generates a lot of statistics, and so one can devise endless ways for people to bet on baseball." 🤣