Seen at a rest stop in Scotland. Geoffrey’s story seems to be missing a chapter … !

After a superb inaugural conference at Pepperdine Law last fall, we are excited to partner with Emory Law for Year 2! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My son likes puzzles and saw these connections immediately. Such a proud dad/Contracts professor 🥲

Great write-up from Natalie Weger at Bloomberg Law on Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). Enjoyed talking with her for this piece. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

The 11th Circuit preserves the preliminary injunction against the Stop WOKE Act. A few years ago, I wrote about Florida’s attempts to get rid of critical legal theory and how I find it useful in my own teaching: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Glad to see more people remembering the legacy of Roger Williams! www.christianitytoday.com/2026/06/the-...

Happy 250th, USA! 🇺🇸

Without looking it up, how many of us know the U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled that the union was perpetual and that the articles of secession were null and void? I confess I didn’t know, and I don’t remember learning it in law school. No spoilers in the comments!

Earlier this month, the Rhode Island AG's office issued a report on child sexual abuse in the Diocese of Providence, and then Governor McKee signed a bill that opens up old sex abuse lawsuits. The law takes effect on July 1, 2026. Well ... [1/2]

Camp Mystic filed for bankruptcy today, reporting over $10 million in liabilities. Last July 4, a flood killed 28 people at Camp Mystic on the Guadalupe River. A Texas investigation concluded the camp's plans were inadequate. The case is Dkt. No. 26-bk-90621 (SD Tex).

Just posted an updated version of my draft article on how student loans stabilized US higher education spending for two generations through a sort of anti-politics, but undermined its own stabilizing qualities over time, helping to open space for the current crisis papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We are having a raging family debate about the answer to this trivia question. I’m right and they are all wrong.

Vaterwitzangst is the low-grade feeling of dread you get when your dad is lining up a bad joke and you can’t quite see it but you also can’t stop it either. Happy Father’s Day!

🔔 Happy Juneteenth aka Jubilee Day! My little scholarly contribution, "The Spirit of Jubilee," is now available. I talk about the Bible, debtors' prisons, the abolitionist movement, Juneteenth, student loans -- plus some old songs and some new poems. digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/lawreview/vo...

Mike Sacasas at the Christian Study Center at UF convened Professors Ana Siljak, Lillian King Abadal, and myself to talk about Pope Leo's new encyclical on artificial intelligence, mechanization, andwhat it means to be human. Record-breaking attendance and a lot of fun. Link below.

We talked about citing oneself, but have we talked about citemaxxing?

UF Law is releasing grades today, so I thought I would reshare my shortest and most popular work, "How to Read a Law School Grade," adapted from an e-mail I wrote as a Harvard Law student now more than 10 years ago. Link: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=468...

🎺BYU Law Review just released the Law & Religion issue of its 51st volume, and it's a banger. Ok, yes, my Essay "Spirit of Jubilee" is finally out. But my illustrious neighbors in the volume are Steven Smith (U San Diego), Jennifer Koh (Pepperdine), and Audra Lyn Savage (Wake Forest).

Resharing this short essay ... everyone is thinking about whether requiring the Ten Commandments is against the law. But is it against the faith? canopyforum.org/2026/05/22/f...

For anyone in🌴Gainesville🦎this week, I'm on a panel discussing Pope Leo's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas.

Enjoyed presenting at Nevada Law on whether solvent debtors can file for bankruptcy. Working on a paper going through 150 years of history (and loads of pragmatism) on this question.

Gross. Also, the report says that the judge initially suggested that the clerk who blew the whistle was lying in retaliation for being chastised for poor work. The judge all but threatened to end a young lawyer’s career to avoid being caught? Private reprimand seems too light.

@JamesJNani of @bloomberglaw just put out this write-up of the YesCare bankruptcy in MD Fla. We talked about providing healthcare in prisons and what the bankruptcy might uncover. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

New encyclical on artificial intelligence from Pope Leo: www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

My latest essay on the Ten Commandments legal dispute: "For the Word of God is Posted and Passive." canopyforum.org/2026/05/22/f...

Years ago, for the NYT Wordle game, my dad challenged us to come up with four five-letter words that use twenty different letters. A few days ago, my list came in handy.

Do I know anyone who works in Arabic calligraphy / Islamic art?

If you want to know what a “jubilee” really is, I wrote a long essay all about it. Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Congrats, UF Law class of 2026!

Great article by @nicholemanna.bsky.social about Armor Health, a prison healthcare company sued over and over again for dangerously inadequate healthcare. Armor Health tried to reinvent itself through a Florida insolvency proceeding in 2023. www.propublica.org/article/armo...

I made another Spotify playlist, called "K is for Contract." One hour of songs literally or dubiously connected to contract law. 1Ls, no, it won't help you on the final. open.spotify.com/playlist/39N...

Prison healthcare co YesCare just filed for bankruptcy in MD Fla (No. 26-01087). YesCare was "GoodCo" in Corizon's "Texas Two-Step," while "BadCo" Tehum filed in Texas in 2023. The filing continues to erode the viability of the Two-Step as a restructuring strategy.

My latest on the 📜Ten Commandments 📜 posters in public school classrooms. "Winning" might mean spreading some bad teaching about the power of God's Word. papers.ssrn.com/abstract=672...

When a rich and powerful man is obsessed with putting up his image and opposes taking down images of rich and famous men that we now agree were horrible, it makes me think he is worried about what the clarity of hindsight will do to his legacy.

Now this is interesting. The press is reporting that the DOJ adopted Trump's tone in the attached motion to dissolve the injunction against Trump's White House ballroom. I have a more nuanced view. 🧵

I hear the federal courts like dictionaries, but they don't cite this one very often. Why not? It can be very useful: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...

New question (and then I think I’m ready to move on): if a state required its public schools to put this up as a poster, would that violate the Establishment Clause?

Donald Trump shared an AI image of himself as Jesus Christ and now claims he was meant to be a doctor. Trump, who claims to be a Christian, doesn’t recognize Jesus. Trump doesn’t recognize Him in art, but he also doesn’t recognize Him in the “least of these.” Matthew 25:44-45.

Ok, Donald Trump says he thought he was a Red Cross doctor, not Jesus. I asked Chat GPT to generate two images, one of Trump as a doctor and one of Trump as Jesus. Can you spot the difference?

As someone who went to both law school and divinity school, I have loads of words for this post by the President and none of them are flattering.

Easter is about Jesus’s victory over sin and death, not cursing, war crimes, and mocking other religions.

Most liberals and progressives today have made their peace with the fact that lawmakers of past generations were more conservative than they are. Do conservatives recognize that some generations of past lawmakers might have been more radical than they are?

Happy April 2nd! My Essay on the Ten Commandments went live on the Washington and Lee Law Review Online yesterday, but I didn't think you'd believe me yesterday! scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlulr-online... [1/3]

Always a pleasure to chat with @randilove.bsky.social of @bloomberglaw.com about the next big bankruptcy case possibly to reach the Supremes. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

Shout out to all the clever No Kings signs here in North Florida except the one that says: “St. Augustine: Rejecting Kings Since 1565.” Felipe II of Spain would be very confused.

Roger Williams Law hosted a virtual panel with Steven Green, Lynette Labinger & Kayla Toney on the Establishment Clause and whether a case from my hometown in RI, Ahlquist v. Cranston (1st Cir. 2012), would be decided differently post-Lemon. Here is the prayer from the banner at issue.

The conclusion of the Mueller Report (which I read in full) was that Bob Mueller couldn’t declare Trump innocent, given all the acts of obstruction they uncovered, but that he also couldn’t formalize any accusations against Trump, because he was the President….

Curious about how courts today might rule on the Cranston West prayer banner case? Join me and a great group of panelists at @RWULaw to discuss 1A jurisprudence. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🪶I have two new papers coming out: "Bankruptcy Abstention" is forthcoming in @bulawreview.bsky.social (2026) and "The Hidden Law of the Adamant Contemnor" (with Ryan Lee Scott) is forthcoming in @ucdavislaw.bsky.social (2026). papers.ssrn.com/abstract=619... papers.ssrn.com/abstract=619...

New blog post covering my forthcoming book chapter, entitled Distress-Proofing Social Enterprises. clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2026/03/12/w...