I'm so excited about this year's line up for our external faculty workshop series, y'all! We'll be welcoming Guy-Uriel Charles (Harvard), @pbaronmiller.bsky.social, @richardalbert.bsky.social, @valenabeety.bsky.social 1/2

🎧 AI is changing how we work, how we make art, and how we access healthcare. @jennoliva.bsky.social joined Taonga Leslie on #BrokenLaw to explore how AI and algorithms are being used to restrict access to healthcare & how lawyers and patients can advocate for greater fairness and transparency.

Prof. @valenabeety.bsky.social talks about the progress made by the newly established Indiana Innocence Project. Great work being done by Indiana University faculty and students! indianapublicmedia.org/news/iu-stud...

A huge thanks to @brnnewsfacts.bsky.social for interviewing me about my recently published Indiana Law Journal essay, Regulating Healthcare Coverage Algorithms available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

theconversation.com/how-artifici... @jennoliva.bsky.social

Purdue is trying to ban the student newspaper from using the university's name in its title and ending preferred campus access--in the name of institutional neutrality.

Our latest on ways that states can provide better heath data sanctuaries to at-risk populations (spoiler alert: stop sharing data with health care criminalization states & stop collecting sensitive healthcare info). Thanks to my co-authors @lizchiarello.bsky.social & Wendy Bach

JUST IN: Democrat John Ewing has defeated Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert, a Republican who was running for a fourth term. Ewing, who currently serves as Douglas County's treasurer and will be Omaha's first Black mayor, leads Stothert 56 to 44 percent with most ballots counted.

A man checked out 100 books on Jewish history, Black history, and LGBTQ+ education from a library only to burn them

I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

NEW, from me: Shaken baby syndrome--a diagnosis that has resulted in wrongful convictions across the country--continues to shape criminal prosecutions and child welfare investigations, under the name "abusive head trauma." My story of what happened to one family. www.propublica.org/article/shak...

Unreal. The Brox DA's office found this man innocent but "the presiding judge refused to dismiss the conviction, arguing that it would set a precedent to undo scores of other convictions. [He indicated] that if he did, the floodgates of other appeals would open." www.amny.com/new-york/bro...

What Happens if Fannie and Freddie Go Private? www.refinblog.com/what-happens... via @refinblog

"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...

As a first gen college student, the child of an immigrant, & an USMA grad that was privileged to have an expansive, rigorous, and eye-opening, taxpayer-funded academy education just some three decades ago, this is so heartbreaking.

A huge thanks to @inquest.bsky.social for publishing my new essay. This piece is inspired by a longer law review article (The "New" Drug War) that I wrote with Taleed El-Sabawi, and was published by the Virginia Law Review last fall located here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We're excited to host the 3rd discussion in the B10 Law Schools' "Rule of Law in 2025" series tomorrow. Join @valenabeety.bsky.social, @katieeyer.bsky.social, @deborahwidiss.bsky.social, and @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social's Marc Spindelman for "Rearticulation of Sex and Gender." go.unl.edu/ruleoflaw

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

“The lab report that says they found gasoline is bullshit. Every part of the state’s case rests on that.”

Pay attention to this, friends. Especially these days, you really don't want your genetic information floating around out there unprotected.

Thanks so much @proftracythomas.bsky.social!

Great news! "Vanderbilt Law School to establish 'innocence clinic' for the wrongfully convicted": fox17.com/news/local/v...

A key takeaway from Columbia should be that compliance does not buy safety. Unis are viewing the admin's attack on higher ed as a prisoner's dilemma (best strategy: comply), leading to a collectively worse outcome. The only way out is collective action, & unlike true PD, unis can coordinate action.

Depending on how potential fed contributions to Medicaid go down, states with the lowest per capital income likely have the most to lose. This is because the Medicaid FMAP (fed matching assistance percentage) subsidies lower income states at higher rates. Here are the states w/the highest FMAPs:

FINALLY!!!!!!! @innocenceproject.bsky.social

Thanks @academemagazine.bsky.social for publishing. As an untenured #law prof, I am vulnerable in this #political #climate. But if I wait another year for #tenure, I may not have another chance. Readers may not either. Thanks @americanbar.org speaking up on Mon. academeblog.org/2025/02/03/o...

How can we reimagine safety? @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social is hosting Director @mattytheglue.bsky.social to discuss his film as part of Prof Yvette Butler & IU Journal of Law & Social Equity symposium on liberatory lawyering, with support from the IU Black Film Archive. Join us Wed! #reimaginesafety

Presenting my paper “Unfit”: Gender Ableism & Reproductive Wrongful Convictions today - thanks for the wintery welcome Chicago, @mary-anne-case.bsky.social workshop on the regulation of family, sex, and gender, & Jamelia Morgan as commentator. Hope the paper is spicy enough to warm up this place! 🔥

Blind Injustice, an inspiring new 90-minute opera, follows the Ohio Innocence Project’s efforts to overturn the convictions of six people who were wrongly convicted. NYC– save 10% on select seats now with code BLIND10: t.co/tc3FE7vOZT

This means a defendant like Pam Lanier, whose case we covered on Undisclosed, could claim, like the defendant in Andrew, that the prosecution's attempt to portray her as a "black widow" under the doctrine of chances violates the Constitutional right even if it satisfies the rules of evidence.

In today's blog post, I lay out a roadmap for criminal defense attorneys to object using the Supreme Court's newly recognized Constitutional right to exclude evidence: tinyurl.com/576jchs6

Thrilled to share that our client, Manuel Cucuta, was released yesterday after serving nearly three decades in prison. Just in time for his first Thanksgiving with family in 27 years. law.wisc.edu/newsletter/F...

Whether it's volunteering at a local school or taking soup to a sick neighbor, improving the welfare of others can also improve our own physical and mental health, a sizable body of research shows.

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

Latest from the 😺📖 Advance Reader Cats 📖😺 Ruby says Uncredited: Women’s Overlooked, Misattributed, and Stolen Work is the kind of book you can really sink your teeth into! www.infinite-women.com/books/

So happy to have my friend Amanda Knox join us on the board of The Innocence Center! @amandaknox.com

While this action is not the broad repudiation of the death penalty that North Carolina needs, I am grateful to Gov. Cooper for his careful review and commutations in these 15 cases. #CommuteTheRow governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...

Under a new law, New York will become the first state in the nation to offer paid time off for prenatal care or any medical care related to pregnancy. The law takes effect tomorrow. gothamist.com/news/expecti...

Happy holidays. In medium-warm weather but loving the view and we made shrimp burritos to celebrate.

It's been a long journey but I'm really thrilled that my book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States has an official home with Cambridge University Press, which will be publishing it through its trade program. Excited to see it in print & hopefully make an impact!

I just posted a new long form article to SSRN called Broke(n) Governments and Disaster's Dollars. You can find it here...https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5049554.

Exclusive: 60+ lawmakers call on Biden to use his clemency powers to help "the elderly and chronically ill, those on death row, people with unjustified sentencing disparities, and women who were punished for defending themselves against their abusers.” theappeal.org/biden-commut...

Massachusetts unfairly caps compensation for wrongfully convicted people at $1 million no matter how long they were imprisoned. Here, the jury believed Mr. Sullivan should receive $13 million for the 26 years he spent in prison, but he will not receive that. www.bostonherald.com/2024/11/20/m...

If you can give, start off your Thanksgiving by helping Manuel get back on his feet after 27 years of prison time he started serving as a child.

Proud to have helped share such good news this week from the Wisconsin Innocence Project. I was moved to tears when the photos came in late last night. (Second release this semester!) law.wisc.edu/newsletter/F...

Happy Birthday to Patsy Mink, the first woman of color to ever serve in Congress, the first Japanese-American woman licensed to practice law in Hawaii, the first Asian American to run for President, and the co-author of the landmark Title IX Amendment of the Higher Education Act!

In “Bodies of Evidence: the Criminalization of Abortion and Surveillance of Women in a Post-Dobbs World,” Stephanie Pell and I discuss the way medication abortion complicates antiabortion strategies and the effect it may have on criminalization. djclpp.law.duke.edu/article/bodi...

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