Come on guys, what are we doing here www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/242...

This is why we love to listen. Can't wait for the episode to drop.

Another day aboard the USS Metaphor www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

This is not just a win, and not even just a win that will improve many people's lives. It is also proof of concept of a form of scholarship that Rachel pioneered. (Make sure to read the whole thread.)

This Sunday! Join us in Harrisburg for Trans Day of Visibility 2026! pawins.org/event/2pm-tr...

Hey, reminds me of another organization that I'm sure some of you are familiar with... www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

It was a pleasure to have @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social present her timely and important article, Expert Evidence in Times of Skepticism & Distrust (forthcoming @michlawreview.bsky.social), at today’s @setonhalllaw.bsky.social faculty workshop, sparking an invigorating discussion 🔥🔥🔥

This is unhinged

Darth is back! Spring is truly here.

I have the coolest colleagues

DOJ included fake cites? Holy shit this is embarrassing. The GOP has absolutely devastated the DOJ.

Today is one of those rare days as a lawyer and scholar when the law offers a glimmer of hope. Amazingly, today, the PA Supreme Court held that automatic life-without-parole sentences for 2nd degree murder, including felony murder, amount to cruel & unusual punishment under the PA Constitution.

BREAKING: Judge Brasel converts her TRO to a preliminary injunction in the access-to-counsel case about Whipple in Minnesota. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Why is coming up with an idea and having an AI work it into a full article better than publishing the idea only? That way every reader can decide for himself whether to read the idea as is or to prompt an AI for a blog version, podcast version, law-review version, essay version, ELI5 version, etc.

The full conversation between me and @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. Honestly this was a banger, don't miss it 🔥https://mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/Tressie+McMillan+Cottom+and+Kate+Manne+-+In+Conversation/1_jnqspogr/401928122

Great news!

Wow wow wow. Pa Supreme Court just ruled that mandatory life without parole for second-degree murder is unconstitutional.

They were put in place by the Federalist Society to “not understand.”

This is art

"Scrub jays are the only Florida bird species that live nowhere but Florida. Therefore, Colosi’s attorneys argue that the birds cannot be protected by federal law. By its very nature, they say, federal law must involve more than one state."

Finally some sanity. Hopefully all the other firms will follow suit.

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

UPDATE: The ACLU of NY has responded to this unreal admission — noting the "far-reaching" implications, "including a possible motion for reconsideration of" Judge Castel's September 2025 decision in the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...

I always teach my Torts students that tort law’s power lies in the realization that just one jury in one geography can be the spark to law reform and societal changes that have structurally stalemated for years in legislative chambers. I think this verdict is such a sea change.

There are both good and bad reasons when deciding whether or not to go to law school. The one I heard today is the silliest though: "It won't prepare you for an AI future."

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Walk directly into the sea after having to write this, do not pass go, etc

Zero Americans benefit from this. All of us, every Conservative and every Liberal American, are watching our future hobbled. Shattering a treasured national asset: our former status as the top destination for global talent, hard-wrought by generations of visionary Republicans and Democrats.

The tip of an AI iceberg that's soaking our civilization in stupidity

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

Folks, if you were following Hend because she used to be someone else, I get it. But it's time to cut her loose

🧵 Intensifying its ongoing attacks on higher education in general and Harvard in particular, last week DOJ sued Harvard for alleged Title VI violations, seeking cancellation of future grant payments and reimbursement for past ones. The lawsuit is highly problematic, as I explain on the blog. /1

Great article for those interested in Qualified Immunity (also those interested in the role of precedent/non-precedential Opinions)

1000% agree. Question: What are some other basic Word skills that should be in every lawyer’s toolbox? Asking as a prof teaching great future lawyers. #AppellateSly #LawSky

"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?

As of about 20 minutes ago, the jury in the New Mexico v. Meta case found Meta liable under the Unfair Practices Act for thousands of misleading statements, awarding $375 million in penalties. I'm watching the docket for the verdict form to be entered—nothing yet www.wric.com/news/u-s-wor...

This is consistent with the views of the young people I know. My kids don't want to go anywhere near AI.

Also, just to state the obvious, these questions indicate the judge has no inclination to discuss or decide on the First Amendment issues raised by Anthropic, which is not surprising given what a slam dunk the supply chain questions are.

"im a law professor and grok said this was real" should be an immediate disbarring. if this guys your lawyer you're getting the death penalty for jaywalking

I hope no one needs an MRI this year. The world's largest producer of liquified helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got a notice that our supply for the year will be at least cut in half. No one could have predicted this (unless they thought about it).

this may be a little lawyer-brained of me to get worked up about but f'real, I spent much of yesterday's oral argument like "Jesse what the fuck are you talking about" bc it was just thoroughly detached from anything resembling legal analysis

This right here is one of the issues I see as an educator. Getting students to understand that they have to develop expertise WITHOUT AI before they can use it well is going to be more and more challenging, I fear.

When I was earlier in my career, I remember feeling so upset when I had an idea and someone else had the gall to research and write about it before me. And then I realized that the “having the idea” was not the work.

The problem isn't that Showalter used Claude to help him write an article. The problem—which was obvious from the first description of his process that he shared with Orin Kerr—is that Showalter outsourced not just the writing to Claude, but the thinking as well. Garbage in, garbage out. 24/

Private equity has been fantasizing about the capture of education for decades. This is the deepest they’ve ever gotten their tendrils into it.

The people who finally got their wish of overturning Roe v Wade are absolutely seething over this. (Though it’s not like they’re giving up.) Informative reporting from one of NPR’s actual health journalists, not the religion reporter they often assign to this beat

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this is as far as I got before my spirit attempted to leave my body I gotta hand it to him though--incredible work producing something that can elicit wtf reactions from both me (lawyer/author, originalism hater) and The Husband (software engineer, AI hater) in our professional capacities