Beyond excited to be in community with these scholars and artists next year (and to finally finish this book manuscript)!

Blurbs for Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing are in! I'm so grateful to the wonderful scholars who have written them, including this generous first blurb by Monica Bell (thanks @monicacbell.bsky.social!). The book is out in June: www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...

It is amazing how well growing up in the Black Pentecostal tradition prepared me for these dastardly days. Some of us have been preparing for the End Times since the 1980s 🙌🏿

[1/2] A favorite tradition, the Just Security year-end book recommendations, is here! Our editors recommend a mix of books to learn more about some of the issues we cover, and to unwind and recharge for the year ahead. With thanks to our readers and to ... www.justsecurity.org/105991/just-...

In our forthcoming book, @joesoss.bsky.social and I argue that corporations routinely find ways to profit off the needs, desires, and vulnerabilities of incarcerated people & their families. Tablets are a prime example. #LegalPlunder

Here is a somber truth of creative life. If it goes well, people will begin to ask you for things. Each of those things, no matter how kind or flattering or genuine or even beneficial to your own career and finances as well as someone else's, will pull you from your true purpose.

I have been quite vexed by all of this post-election analysis of “shift” that doesn’t report the baseline. Example: Couldn’t this Atlanta outcome be because white Atlantans were already relatively pro-Trump, thus there wasn’t as much *shift* as in other cities and among other groups?

Carrying a nation on our backs #photography #streetphotography

Together with @jtsimes.bsky.social I'm organizing a panel on "Law and Environment" for the #Sociology of Law section at #ASA2025. Please spread the word to law-people working on environmental topics, and environment-people working on legal topics! CFP in the image below:

Just got home from Thanksgiving excursions and couldn’t help attempting the Cynthia Erivo version of that iconic last riff from “Defying Gravity”… The agitated barking from my neighbor’s dog tells me about all I need to know about how that sounded 😭 #wicked #holdingspace #defyinggravity

Do you know about social science that you think criminal defense attorneys should be incorporating into their arguments? Have you written a criminal defense motion incorporating social science? If so, please help us create a national network. Upload your studies and motions to datafordefenders.org

For my first post here: come work with us! Northwestern Law is hiring for our VAP program in the 2025-2026 academic year. This position is a fantastic opportunity for folks planning to enter legal academia. Please reach out with any questions. careers.northwestern.edu/psp/hr857prd...

Extremely excited to sit with this paper!

Academics in their forties

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Sociologist of law: What’s important isn’t the cup on the books, but how it is used in the real world

By the way, #ToniMorrison recorded the audio versions for a lot of her books. And, of course, she was incandescent reader. Lately, I’ve been listening to her read “Beloved” on my walks to campus.

A sweet family photo from Herbert Von King Park in Bed-Stuy, one of my favorite places to hang out in Brooklyn We will survive these crises by leaning and loving on each other #photography #streetphotography

I’ve taken up street photography to expand my work and force myself outdoors. I love it, but I underestimated the harassment aspect If I got paid for every time some strange man has yelled “Big Sexy!” and/or followed me muttering disgusting things, maybe I could get that Hasselblad X2D 100C

I believe in that too, @nikitagill.bsky.social.

Fantastic news! Embry and I do not always agree—indeed, during law school he was one of my favorite sparring partners—but he is a fair-minded person and delightful friend. I am utterly thrilled to see him on the Eleventh Circuit.

A small but non-trivial hill I am willing to die on: The abstract of every empirical paper should include the core empirical findings--numbers included! Not "we find police reduce crime," but "we find that a 1% increase in police yields a 0.4% drop in crime." The abstract isn't clickbait.

Excited to finally be here on Bluesky! The other app had become so toxic that I pretty much stopped posting and engaging there altogether. I look forward to hopefully changing that here. First post is this interesting image I shot in Brooklyn yesterday