I'm sure a formal announcement is forthcoming, but IMO it is taking too long. So I'm taking it upon myself to announce really exciting news. Business x health law scholar @laurenroth.bsky.social is joining the faculty at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University next year!

I'm writing a chapter for a book. No big deal. Except I asked the eds if I could write short fiction rather than another paper about law. They said yes! Museum of Joy is my first attempt at fiction, so I could really use some feedback! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My latest paper, Interpreting Congress, is forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review. I have some time to make additional changes, so please take a look and let me know if you have feedback. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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I realize the thumbnail image in the post below is a graphic for the 2023 NDEL conference. I have no idea how to fix that, but if it matters, NDEL 2025 has a nice graphic as well and in a RADICAL departure from the norm, does not have a subtitle. It is just "New Directions in Environmental Law."

I’ve had the opportunity to work with the executive team at the University of Hawai’i Law Review. They have been professional, gracious, and a pleasure to work with. They are looking for an article or two for their next issue. See below (1/3).

East just six potato chips and people think you have great restraint. Eat six cookies and they don't.

On the other hand, there is no circumstance where I would ever allow a John Mayer song play for more than two or three seconds.

Been thinking about this for a while now…if I’m scanning through the radio, there is no situation in which I would not stop for a Sheryl Crow song.

When it comes to food, do as I say, not as I do! My scholarship is better than my diet.

I gave Bluesky a try about a year ago and it felt very empty. The rumor I'm hearing is that maybe its filling up, so I'm back to give it another try. Say hello!

With 7-year-old twins, my house is sort of like the set of a horror movie. There are teeth strewn all over the place.

In the Transport Rule args, Kavanaugh keeps saying we have to balance the equities on both sides, but doesn't the CAA explicitly put a finger on the scale in favor of environmental and public health protection rather than protecting industry?

I closed my Twitter account but miss it. I miss the discussions we had there; I miss the connections I build there. I'm resisting reopening out of principle (and because who needs a million social media accounts) but!! It's a loss. Anyone else feel this way?

Just discovered a federal court heavily cited one of my articles. My first federal court citation. Woot!

"Results-oriented" you say? What an innovative idea. I guess I should reevaluate my results-aversion research agenda.

Idea: Maybe every car on the #Amtrak should be a #QuietCar.

Think law has a stickiness problem given modern politics? What about private governance? news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...

Article idea: Passive Voice and Constitutional Interpretation.

I did an online harassment training today that asserted bowling is more inclusive than golf or basketball. Isn't that an unnecessarily specific thing to offer? Is it even true? As somebody with little interest in sports, I have no particular opinion, but I was startled by the proposition.

BREAKING

New article w/ Czarnezki & Grimes. We explore the role lawyers play in ESG & ask what role law schools should play in making ESG part of the bus & enviro curricula. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

So many Chevron cases boil down to "Should I do X or should I do Y?" And the answer provided by the law is "Yes." If that's the case, then you need to have a principled debate on who resolves that question: the judiciary or the agency. And it's clear that the the agency is better

This is not great weather for flying around at 30,000 feet without a fuselage, and yet, here we are.

Did you know that in 2012 Congress struck the word "lunatic" from 1 U.S.C. 1?

Not enough scholarship on 1 U.S.C. 1.

My beard keeps getting caught in the zipper of my winter coat. But I’m tenacious and will not trim it. Better to be cold.

My kids turn 7 today and I went to their 1st-grade classrooms to play games, read, etc. Turns out 1st graders are not interested in the demise of the administrative state. But they are much more enthusiastic about class participation than law students.

Where do I self-promote now? On here I feel like I'm talking into a void (a very comfortable but unproductive place to be). Over there I feel gross and afraid. But I've got articles I want people to read!

Absolutely true. Although David is not one of them, I take personal responsibility for converting at least two law profs to the reMarkable. I may not have any impact on my students, but I'm not worthless in the academy!

Come gossip with me! Nov. 16 at the Forest Hills Library 6 pm. All your Shea and Major Deegan needs will be met!

Bernie handled that pretty well though.

Who wants to donate to my new charity? I will be buying headphones and handing them out to people who have their music/movie/phone conversation playing on their phone at full volume.

I may be wrong here, but arguably, if the Dems get involved in this speaker mess, they aren't "coming to the rescue of Republicans," they're coming to the rescue of the country. I don't think letting the GOP further implode is as appealing as it seems.

I have been writing about democracy recently. I was dilly-dallying until I decided it was time to just go for it. So please take a look at my draft article, forthcoming in Villanova L.R. and let me know what you think: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Stay tuned for an excellent series of blog posts on the Environmental Law Prof Blog. The subject is "Living the Good Life in the Anthropocene." Hopeless? Read on to find out. lawprofessors.typepad.com/environmenta...

Please don't demand political litmus tests of Jews wrt their beliefs about the sanctity of Palestinian lives that you do not demand of others. Assuming someone's politics based on their identity -- or putting forward a double standard you don't ask of others-- are forms of antisemitism.

TFW the right word is “fewer.”

This ad copy is art. It's like the winning entry in a one-sentence use-all-the-buzzwords contest. I've read it several times and I still have no clue what it means.

THIS! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I'm working really hard to participate here. This was the best I could come up with because I'm incapable of weighing in on serious world events.

; ) This is a common emoji, right. But this one is not... ; ( Is this because a sad winky face simply does not represent any plausible combination of human emotions?

Help me collect a list of land ethic writers and thinkers who are not white men? The shelves are all Leopold, Berry, Muir, Abbey, Thoreau, and even more modern folks like Wilkinson and Bass and Freyfogle. Who else speaks with a different voice? (I have some, but I'd like your unfiltered list!)