My husband asked, "wouldn't it be funny if after all this they end up losing?" about: A. The stranger things kids in their fight vs. Vecna; or B. Ohio State

🚨 I’ve been keeping this under wraps until published and it’s out today. Do judges with background in law enforcement act differently at bail time? Our groundbreaking NYC study estimates that when they set bail, it is a full 32% higher on average compared to other judges. Check it out and share.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that there are no 4th Amendment rights in your Google search terms. When you search on Google, you tell them your search terms; the government can get those queries without a warrant. The third-party doctrine applies. www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...

This husker volleyball game is not for the faint of heart

I have drop-in hours all day for my students to ask last minute questions before tomorrow's exam, so I'm playing calming instrumental music instead of blaring my normal early 2000s punk pop in the hopes it'll send calming vibes. I don't think it's working.

Oof Notre Dame.

Well if this isn't the most adorable thing ever

I would love to be able to make an Air Bud connection in a legal argument. Just A+ all around. www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...

NEW AP INVESTIGATION: With license plate readers and local law enforcement partnerships, Border Patrol is monitoring American drivers and detaining those exhibiting ‘suspicious’ travel patterns in the U.S. interior. w/ @garanceburke.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/immi...

I’m howling.

Very pleased to say that my new article, "The Two Tests of Search Law: What Is the Jones Test, and What Does That Say About Katz?", has just been published in final form by the Wash. U. L. Rev. You can now download it from here: wustllawreview.org/2025/11/12/t... Abstract below.

Somehow, we millennials are getting blamed for this.

This Nebraska volleyball team is unreal levels of good. Just so much fun to watch.

🚨New article alert! Aaaand it’s a timely one! We tested how Latina immigrants' attitudes toward police and judges differed based on their documentation status and history of family deportations. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/BNE9D... Or read the explainer 🧵 below...

Now do one that shows the ACTUAL change in crime rates too!

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

Happy Constitution Day! Let's celebrate while we still have one

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Great piece. It’s not just NYPD. Your Data Will Be Used Against You They’re Watching You www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Welp I know what quote I'll be putting on the screen when we talk about the role of race in Terry stops

If you have already or will successfully defend a legal psychology dissertation in 2025, apply for the @ap-ls.org Dissertation Award by December 31! Winners will be invited to present their research at the AP-LS Annual Conference in March 2026! More info here: ap-ls.org/awards/awards/dissertation

It's Carpenter day in Crim Pro!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

SCOOP: CBP has had access to more than 80,000 Flock cameras nationwide. Cops said they didn’t understand they were sharing with CBP. Flock has just cut off access: www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...

Just a reminder we're currently open for registration! Stipends still available!

"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search." unreal quote 😭

Anyone care to guess how long my family lasted into the school year before someone got sick?

Middle kid starts kindergarten soon so I promised him & my oldest I'd hang out with them all week & do all the fun things we didn't have time for this summer. I have a whole list of class prep, edits, cites etc I need to do, but I have a feeling I'm not going to regret this. Thankful I can do this!

Nebraska Law is hosting a junior scholars conference for Big Ten schools on Oct 27 & 28! We are excited to welcome scholars with fewer than 10 years of teaching. Lincoln in the fall is a fun place & even better: $500 travel stipends for presenters! Register now: law.unl.edu/big-ten-earl...

This... will not end well www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I've been interested in expectations of privacy for awhile, so the dialogue around the whole Coldplay KissCam thing is wild to me. I'm trying to imagine a criminal defendant arguing a reasonable expectation of privacy in what they did at a concert with thousands of people apnews.com/article/cold...

While boarding my flight, and Gen-Zer called me "queen." This is good, yes?

Yum

Yiiiiiikes

When DHS Secretary Noem suggests "liberating" populations from their elected officials, and you're polite enough to only ask a question rather than shouting "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK????" and you're still taken down to the ground. @padilla.senate.gov

So, the budget bill that passed the House would likely cripple access to law school, medical school, and other unfunded graduate school opportunities by eliminating Grad Plus loans. Students would be forced to use high-interest private loans that lack public service repayment.

Clearly the Iowa SCT didn't read my article: scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclr/vol93/i...

My eye is twitching.

🚨New article alert! Led by law student Ashtaan. Although success for youth on probation is often measured via recidivism, the goal of the JJS is rehabilitation. Are youths’ risks and needs actually being addressed while under court supervision? If so, for whom?🧵 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/CN3BZ...

Grade a paper, eat a reese's egg. Grade a paper, eat a reese's egg. My dentist is going to love me.

Of all the policies I can think of that would encourage people to have children, "menstrual cycle classes" does not crack the top 100

Once again, I was left to wonder: was Pete Hegseth signal chatting military attack plans to everyone but me?? Am I the one that’s insecure, or is it his communication practices that are insecure?

What is the state of open science in the field of psychology and law? Data from Fessinger, McAuliff, and @anthonyperillo.bsky.social at the link below. It’s open access (free to read) from @lhb-apls.bsky.social @apajournals.bsky.social. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

"There's a room here in the Senate named after Strom Thurmond... I'm here despite his speech, I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful." -Cory Booker as he eclipses Thurmond's record for the longest filibuster in US history.

One of my awesome colleagues here at W&L, Professor Catherine Smith, has helped to organize a webinar scheduled for April 9 for lawyers interested in law teaching. Registration link here: udenver.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

My amazing colleagues & students at Nebraska Law have published the inaugural issue of the Nebraska Journal on Advancing Justice, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal. I'm inspired by their hard work & thankful to be at an institution that seeks to advance justice. njaj.unl.edu/volume-archi...

My article, Rethinking the Automobile Exception, is now out with the Univ. of Cincinnati Law Review! This was such a fun article to write about a concept that has infuriated me since law school, and the editors at Cincinnati were wonderful! scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclr/