Federal agencies generally don’t consider constitutional challenges to statutory provisions in rulemakings or adjudications. In a new paper (on SSRN and forthcoming in U. Chi. L. Rev.), I explain why agencies can—and should—consider those challenges. Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A lot of great writing advice packed into a short essay. Check it out! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

1/x Really excited to say that my job talk paper, “Remembering Congress in the Myers-to-Humphrey’s Interregnum,” is coming out through the Pennsylvania Law Review. I am dying to work with Penn’s outstanding editors to bring this paper to the finish line. Thanks, y’all!

Clinicians are often unavailable, ineffective, or both, Professor @nicholson.bsky.social writes in the Emory Law Journal. Alternative structures will be necessary for AI to assist, he says. Price recently answered five questions on the issue: michigan.law.umich.edu/news/5qs-pri...

Late to this—but just started watching The Pitt and it’s just brilliant. Some excellent truths about the state of healthcare in the US and some compelling bioethics questions being grappled with. No spoilers tho I’m only on S1E3!

"The Capture of the Congressional Intelligence Committees" is forthcoming from the UC Irvine Law Review! It argues that Congress's intelligence oversight committees have become the intelligence community's biggest boosters on Capitol Hill. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My book is available for pre-order! Get your copy here: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine: Reminder: this turnaround is after .@DrMakaryFDA, speaking anonymously, called Moderna brazen and unethical. www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f... via @statnews.com @lizzylawrence.bsky.social

"The law is the only sure protection of the weak and the only efficient restraint upon the strong. When impartially and faithfully administered, none is beneath its protection and none above its control." President Millard Fillmore in 1850.

“The thing you’re outsourcing here is deliberation, and deliberation is the capacity you need to see your rationalizations clearly.” blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/the-last-t...

Excited to visit @anthonymkreis.bsky.social ’s alma mater!!

Beautiful: Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too Puerto Rican Sign Language is not the same as American Sign Language. Celimar Rivera Cosme will uniquely capture the rapper’s slang for the game’s deaf viewers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/a...

Thank you @madhupai.bsky.social for always sharing your invaluable educational resources 🙏

New blog post! In November, I was honored to deliver the inaugural Tamar Frankel lecture at Boston University Law School. These were my remarks: www.businesslawprofessors.com/2026/01/corp...

Are there Fourth Amendment limits—and if so, what are they—on taking a person's picture and uploading it to a facial recognition database during a Terry stop for immigration violations? No cases on this. And without a Bivens remedy, I'm not sure there will ever be any cases on this.

Delighted that my book on the history of birthright citizenship in the United States will be published by One Signal/Simon & Schuster! Looking forward to working with Abby Mohr, and very grateful to my fabulous agent, @jkpapin.bsky.social.

It's that time of year! Tulane Law School invites applications for its Forrester Fellowship position, which is designed for promising scholars who plan to apply for tenure-track law school positions. The Forrester Fellow is full-time faculty in the law school and... 1/4

Physicist/chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett invented non-reflective glass in 1938. It revolutionized optics & led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. First woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. She was born #OTD in 1898. #WomenInSTEM #inventor

“Companion AI raises ethical concerns about the nature of these relationships, their impact on human socialisation, and potential harms such as mental privacy invasion or manipulation. These AI companions may become ‘Ersatz Others’.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Despite extensive criticism, the much-maligned concepts of “techno-fix” + “techno-solutionism” remain poorly defined and readily conflated. In this open-access article, @spillteori.bsky.social and I do a bit of conceptual engineering to add further clarity. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

One day maybe we wont be wowed by techno-solutions. news.mit.edu/2026/pills-c...

This new Atlantic piece cites my work with @afedercooper.bsky.social, Amy Cyphert, and others in discussing the complexities around AI memorization of training content www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Had no idea that #Cheer was not considered a #sport in some states. The Princeton High School cheer team qualified for #Nationals (in Orlando) this year- first time ever! Pls help them get there! www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

FINALLY @scholasticahq.bsky.social gives a year-end wrap up that lists the most popular article keywords according to frequency! blog.scholasticahq.com/post/trendin...

Surrogacy is ethically and legally complex. When things go well, it’s an amazing thing. But when things go wrong, they can go REALLY wrong, leaving financial, physical, and mental devastation in its wake.

The argument that poverty and crime are caused by intellectual deficits and lack of self-control was made regularly by leaders in eugenics like Walter Fernald. This is Fernald in 1912, giving a lecture about "The Burden of Feeble-Mindedness" printed in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.

Had no idea that #Cheer was not considered a #sport in some states. The Princeton High School cheer team qualified for #Nationals (in Orlando) this year- first time ever! Pls help them get there! www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

Are there any US medical professionals looking to escape to a common sense country? British Columbia Canada is hiring. Get your fresh start here, we have resources to help you come to Canada. applicants.healthmatchbc.org/JobsBoard/HM...

ICYMI—my essay on the gross distortion of family law in the context of abortion and gender-affirming care for minors—politics take precedence over the well-being of adolescents. yalelawjournal.org/essay/who-de...

Congratulations to Professor Nicole Buonocore Porter @WM.edu Law School for winning the AALS Section on Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies' 2026 Chai Feldblum Award!

Wrapped up my first semester as a Jaharis Fellow teaching the #Law and #Ethics of #AI in #Healthcare at @depaullaw.bsky.social 🎉What a joy and privilege this class was to teach! Looking forward to teaching Health Equity and the Law in the spring.

Nice explanation here on medmal and AI from @davidasimon.bsky.social health.usnews.com/health-care/...

Exam hypos writing themselves these days. cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...