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...

Nice op-ed by my co-author Ryan Scott www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...

Can anyone corroborate this?

Hello friends. I’m hearing from some wonderful junior folks that this a horrible submission cycle. Is anyone noticing something strange or aware of a shift? Thanks for anything you can share here or via DM.

Professor Scott and I understand that Tommy Thompson was released from federal prison yesterday. Thompson, the finder of the historic wreck of the S.S. Central America, was imprisoned for over 9 years for civil contempt and served 2 years for criminal contempt.

Most cited articles of all time and in last five years from @FloridaLawRev — neat to see it from this perspective. Great group of editors if anyone is considering working with them. www.floridalawreview.com/about

"Just kidding, we don't want to dismiss our appeals voluntarily." - Trump's DOJ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Early in his second term, Donald Trump issued unprecedented Executive Orders against half a dozen private law firms. Four of them -- including my old law shop, @WilmerHale, sued and won in federal district court [1/4]

Crowdsourcing something … my Contracts class wants to know if Zac from North Carolina actually picked up the Liquid Death jet. Does anyone know Zac?

Inflation has gone up enough that we should just rename the dollar stores back to the old “five and ten.”

Take a break from that boring tariffs case to look up the Fifth Circuit's opinion in Roake v. Brumley. Louisiana requires school districts to post the Ten Commandments, and the appeals court in a per curiam opinion thinks it's too early for a preliminary injunction [1/5]

🚨 Law360 picked up on our FOIA lawsuit. ⚖️ @elisebmaizel.bsky.social and I want to read the Trump/Big Law contracts. 📑 In part so we can analyze them, as we did, in short form, here: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=538.... www.law360.com/employment-a...

Important new bankruptcy decision by the Fourth Circuit in DBMP (No. 24-2109) -- relates to my manuscript "Bankruptcy Abstention, available at papers.ssrn.com/abstract=619... (looking for a law review home!). [1/4]

As always, enjoyed chatting with Angelica Serrano-Roman of @bloomberglaw.com about bankruptcy. I don't think a pardon goes as far as Nikola's founder thinks it does. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

Had a great time presenting on Adamant Contemnors at @nusl.bsky.social -- great feedback and now I have even more literatures to review and incorporate into our paper! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/abstrac...

🪶⚖️ Ryan Scott and I just uploaded a new piece on civil contempt to SSRN and Scholastica -- looking for a home in a law review! We tracked down and moved to unseal the "final word" in the longest-lasting and most notorious cases of civil contempt in American history. [1/5]

One of two (!) papers I'm submitting this cycle analyzes bankruptcy abstention. Would love any comments! And for law review editors out there, the piece is looking for a good home. [1/8] papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In his Article, Ben Johnson traces vacatur from English and early American practice to the Supreme Court’s modern uses. He argues modern vacatur (including GVRs, Munsingwear, and vacatur without judgment) expands the Court’s policymaking powers and tests Article III’s limits.

I am researching and teaching about civil contempt of court. This is a wild development. Chief Judge Schiltz of the District of Minnesota ordered ICE chief Todd Lyons to show up in person in court on Friday to explain why ICE was violating court orders. [1/4]

For anyone following the contempt proceedings against ICE, Ryan Scott and I have a paper coming to SSRN on the longest-serving contemnors in American history.

HeinOnline just came out with a new journal ranking that evenly weights several different metrics, including recent cites, old cites, and how often the article has been ACCESSED in HeinOnline.

I reviewed "Unjust Debts" by @mbjacoby.bsky.social for the American Journal of Law and Equality. It's a great book, and if you haven't gotten a copy, you really should! direct.mit.edu/ajle/article...

@alvinvelazquez.bsky.social and I wrote this little thing for the LPE blog, drawing on our shared background as Christian legal scholars. Not enough space to do the topic justice, but some preliminary thoughts here: lpeproject.org/blog/what-lp...

Update: the judge came in and announced that all the cases for the week have gone away, and we’re all free to go!

Reporting for jury duty! 🫡

I had a little hand in organizing this conference. Good times, great work, new friends! www.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/art...

I got to present on fiduciary duties in bankruptcy at the Westbrook conference in Austin alongside Stephen Lubben. An honor to participate in this storied conference! Link to my latest article below in case anyone wants to dive in for edification or litigation 🧐 ilr.law.uiowa.edu/sites/ilr.la...

An honor to organize this conference on "Christian Legal Thought from the Margins" at Pepperdine Law with @jenniferleekoh.bsky.social and @alvinvelazquez.bsky.social So many wonderful brothers and sisters in Christ doing amazing & important work. law.pepperdine.edu/surf-report/...