Thankful that I was able to connect with @jillwieberlens.bsky.social during her visit to Seton Hall Law! Very engaging presentation (and book) on stillbirth and the law.

🚨🚨🚨New article with @jennoliva.bsky.social, forthcoming in @uclalawreview.bsky.social Discourse: Veteran Disability Hierarchies. Now on @ssrn.bsky.social! On disability as mitigation in veterans’ treatment courts and the politics of service-connected compensation: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Is it really denouncing the U.S. Supreme Court so much as doing exactly what state constitutions and courts should be doing: expanding the protections owed to its citizens??

Thrilled that my book chapter, "Mask Shaming: On Private Enforcement and Disability Politics," in print as part of the important @nyupress.bsky.social book Regulating the Body: Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law, ed. by the legendary Austin Sarat & Susanna Lee! 1/3

So excited to see this list of forthcoming scholarship from my colleagues @setonhall.bsky.social! It’s been a productive year for so many of us, and it’s possible that I even have a few pieces on this list too 💜 law.shu.edu/news/seton-h...

Delighted to be quoted in the important @theguardian.com piece by @aglantz.bsky.social about the very concerning changes in anti-discrimination policies at the VA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So excited for the four new tenure-track colleagues joining us at Seton Hall Law, including two clinicians to lead our Transactional Law and Medical Legal Partnership Clinics and two doctrinal professors to teach in the areas of health & environmental law! law.shu.edu/news/seton-h...

We've discussed this a bunch on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social. SCOTUS's opinion tomorrow will not address the substantive question of whether 14A confers birthright citizenship. It'll address whether and in what circumstances universal injunctions are an appropriate judicial remedy. . . .

What a group, what a conference!! Thanks to Liz and all of the organizers of this year's Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference!

I wrote about Pres. Trump’s attempt to use school discipline as a tool for racial exclusion: thehill.com/opinion/civi...

The conversation around this new Lilo & Stitch movie is killing me. Why would Disney put such a loaded, complicated topic in a kids’ movie?? It was not well thought out.

Between this and the expected NJ Transit strike, it’s beginning to look a lot like a road trip and binge watching tv summer 😩😭 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/u...

New sins just dropped???

My Article, Equity for American Indian Families, is now live in Volume 109 of the Minnesota Law Review! Thanks to the editors for their support and hard work on this rather involved piece. 🧵 minnesotalawreview.org/article/equi...

Early on, I warned people. Constitutional law scholars who haven’t actually studied Indian law shouldn’t be in on this part of the conversation because they don’t get the nuances. If you want to learn more, I rec this piece from Greg Ablavsky & Bethany Berger. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

What’s it called when the government knows more than the experts in the field?

your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

Child. Trafficking. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...

They told us their plans ahead of time. In those plans, they made comments about countering family separation by sending US citizen children back “home” with their parents. I’m not saying it’s acceptable or that we ignore it. But when they tell you who they are, believe them.

I am so happy for my @setonhall.bsky.social colleague Doron for this amazing opportunity!

Incredibly proud of the Seton Hall Law faculty for publicly taking a stand in these difficult times.

Proud to stand with more than 40 law professors from New Jersey law schools in an op-ed explaining why President Trump's interim appointment for U.S. Attorney is unqualified for the position. www.law.com/njlawjournal...

In true law professor fashion, I walked into the US Supreme Court and asked where I could find Justice Brennan’s portrait. I had to find it on my own. Meanwhile, the statue to colonialism was just right there, front and center. Two Americas 🤣🤣

Yesterday, I visited the US Supreme Court and National Museum of the American Latino with @setonhall.bsky.social’s The Joseph A. Unanue Latino Institute and Seton Hall Law’s LEO Fellows Program. Thanks to my colleague Melanie Perez-Vellios for her work bridging these programs & for the invite!

A little late, but on Thursday, we had the opportunity to celebrate the release of my @setonhall.bsky.social colleague Solangel Maldonado’s book The Architecture of Desire. Thanks to Rebecca Godsil, Serena Mayeri, Ndjuoh MehChu, and Michael Coenen (moderator) for rounding out this discussion!

Though adoption can be the right solution for both pregnant people and those looking to build their families, the for-profit adoption industry essentially extracts children from people in dire circumstances to place with those who can pay the exorbitant fees. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...

Thrilled to be on a panel with three brilliant health law scholars @lindsaywiley.bsky.social @christinasho.bsky.social & Sara Rosenbaum! We discussed Section 1557 and the game of tag-of-war between administrations on its implementation @setonhallhealthlaw.bsky.social symposium on the ACA at 15 💪

Arab countries reject Gaza displacement as ethnic cleansing, but Israeli officials say they are working on plans to make it happen, and polls suggest most Israelis are open to the idea.

jewish person here. this is not the way to end antisemitism. full stop. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/n...

A federally funded database helps track long-term, missing-person cases. Yet an NPR investigation finds that even in states legally required to use it, more than 2,000 people haven't been added.

it is truly wild that, as the authors here note, every argument against the plain text reading of the citizenship clause requires twists, turns, contortions and leaps that would make simone biles look like an amateur

"Power is power." --Cersei Lannister

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

I know what you’re thinking: We should mirror the United States government based on how this website is run.

I never expected they would be on the mark, so I can say that RFK has met all of my expectations!

Wow. Hazel Dukes was an institution unto herself. Rest in Peace, Ms. Dukes. gothamist.com/news/hazel-d...

What we aren't reckoning with is that his constituents undoubtedly, with their full chests, believe that he is talking about "those who don't deserve it, unlike us who totally deserve it." Until we get to the root of that selfishness steeped in white supremacy, this nonsense will continue.

Something that’s just so weird to me is how *white* the spaces in legal academia are when it comes to talking about birthright citizenship. This debate—super white and male. The volleys online—also super white and male. Perhaps it speaks to the whiteness (and maleness) of the con law space. 1/2

It reminds me of the people in college history classes who would defend slavery by talking about how it was "good for the economy." A lot of evil things are good for the economy, but money--and the ability of the wealthy to make more of it--shouldn't be the base line for morality.

I, too, used to be a fan of Walker Texas Ranger.

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: Trump said "Social Security would not be touched." Now the Trump admin proposes a 50% cut in Social Security employees. This will absolutely gut SSA's ability to serve everyone who depends on the program - which is everyone. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Medicaid is a lifeline for many people who receive social security payments. Medicare does not cover much at all, so seniors and disabled people are forced to apply for a secondary insurance. For many, Medicaid covers that gap AND it covers nursing facility care. Medicare does not.

I love the events our students host at @setonhall.bsky.social Law School! Always something fresh, poignant, and inspiring! From tonight’s “Definitely Earned It” (DEI): The Black Experience in Law panel hosted by our Black Law Students Association.

Native Americans born in the United States are U.S. citizens, and ICE cannot arrest them for immigration violations or deport them.

Three decades after legislation pushed for the return of Native American remains to Indigenous communities, many of the nation’s top museums and universities still have thousands of human remains in their collections. Check on institutions near you with our database (just updated):

To be clear, this applies to the state's artificial insemination statutes. This area of law is very muddy, and this would provide a great deal of legal clarity for the realities of many modern American families using IVF, etc. No one is removing gender from parenting. www.yahoo.com/news/wiscons...

With a measles outbreak growing in West Texas, and cases popping up across the country, experts say vaccination is your best protection. And it's not just for kids. Some adults may need a booster.

What’s wild is that it would be illegal for Starbucks to consider racial quotas in hiring. However, these percentages are more likely in line with the available workforce in a given area. And if we’re going off US population, Starbucks could stand to hire more people of color based on those numbers.