Newly published article on #contracts #consent adhesive #arbitration agreements, incl #comparative discussion of US v EU, UK, Japan contracting away #7thAm & #dueprocess in "jury waiver" forum selection consent-to-jurisdiction #SecuredTransactions papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

What reduces deaths from climate change? Economic growth, much driven by tech—including mobile phones, crop breeding, vaccines, and yes, AI. By Bill Gates  link in comment

National Guard in DC:

European universities starting their fall semesters now makes me wonder how they can start nearly 2 months after US universities yet manage to finish in spring only a week or two after US schools

The AI boom has exposed America’s electricity crisis. Regulators can’t keep up, but entrepreneurs can. New Hampshire just passed a bill freeing off-grid providers to deliver power without the usual bureaucratic roadblocks. Competition and innovation—not monopoly utilities—are the way forward.

(European food + American music) > (American food + European music)

Red Sox are in the Bronx on an October night—good to know with all the craziness in the world that some things continue as they should

Inflation and immigration

A few years ago, my team looked at household sizes around the world. The household size experienced by the average person ranged from 2.7 people (in Germany) to 13.8 people (in Gambia). www.pewresearch.org/religion/201...

"Roughly three-quarters (73%) of H-1B workers whose applications were approved in fiscal 2023 were born in India. A majority of approvals every year since 2010 have gone to workers born in India." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Trump's abuses lend additional weight to the great economist Ronald Coase's classic 1959 argument for abolishing the FCC. We don't need a govt agency that licenses broadcasters, and such an agency is inherently dangerous to liberty: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Listening to Democratic Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro interviewed on a podcast and thinking he sounded more conservative than I would have guessed. Then I realized it was Ben Shapiro being interviewed.

A university distinguished professor of law at the University of Kansas says President Donald Trump's use of tariffs is destroying international trade law and will result in harm to the U.S. economy and global standing. via @kansasreflector.com

I've repeated this quote before, but Stanley Rosen is reputed to have once said in a grad seminar at BU: "You liberal grad students think postmodernism is cute, but just wait until the right gets a hold of it."

Interesting corporate #arbitration post, including a Delaware law that makes me wonder about FAA preemption

#USOpen now is a good match, enjoy

This is one of the rare times I’ll disagree. They definitely imagined Trump. Half the Federalist Papers are about Trump.

Woke up early today and took my coffee out to the deck for something I have not felt in months – – a morning chill

This is why physical media is still so important.

The younger nation is not as wise as the mother country but has the flexibility and energy to learn and adapt and persist

Good morning #SEALS2025! Nice place to present my research on #arbitration agreements in #bankruptcy and other #insolvency cases and to learn about several other areas of law from friends ranging from University of Kansas School of Law colleagues to international visitors

I agree with the first half of this sentence and would like to learn more about the second half

As a daily subway rider, it’s horrifying to see just how indifferent so many people are to forcing their music and videos and calls on other people. It’s such an obvious thing that the breakdown of that norm really is reflective of the selfish coarsening of our me-focused society.

Roads today full of moving trucks – end of July still common time for leases to end and home sales to close

RIP Ozzy, who died today Black Sabbath was not my thing, but this sort of befuddled calling for Sharon was kind of endearing youtube.com/shorts/mWFKG...

#Antitrust & grocery prices x.com/erikhovenkam...

10-time All-Star Steve Garvey asked "As a professor at #KULaw, do you do anything with #arbitration?", so we discussed his Supreme Court case, MLB Players Assn. v. Garvey, 532 U.S. 504 (2001).

Decades of protectionist trade polices are the reason that Coca-Cola does not use real sugar in its US product. Sugar costs twice as much in the USA as in free-trade countries. sweetenerusers.org/wp-content/u...

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

House prices, interest rates, federal deficit, tariffs, immigration

Work from home increases consumption of breakfast cereal. Results from my empirical study

Plane landing that prompted the most passengers to clap in my experience was memorable Flight from Rome to NY in 1987-still Cold War After thunderous applause upon landing in NY, pilot explained it by welcoming the Soviet Jewish refugees to America Felt like Ellis Island & fall of Berlin Wall

Asking ChatGPT or similar to summarize a book seems to me a fine thing to do, often And I say this as the author of books Sometimes the value (subjective value to you the reader) of reading more than AI's summary is not worth your time.

Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" is probably the greatest-ever July 4 speech. And it is NOT a denunciation of the Declaration or the Revolution, but an indictment of failure to live up to their principles: reason.com/volokh/2020/...

Collecting money judgments is an important and interesting area of law I teach every year, so interested to see cross border debt collection (judgment enforcement) in today’s The Wall Street Journal gift link www.wsj.com/business/sex...

Good to pause and smell the flowers— literally or figuratively. For me today it’s a Southern #magnolia in Kansas

This is correct & why I have long advocated a Grand Bargain in which the US goes metric in exchange for the rest of the world adopting a temp system suited to humans who experience 0° as very cold and 100° as very hot

My outline of what a broad, consistent defense of bodily autonomy entails: reason.com/volokh/2022/...

Looking at the bright side here, Trump has not persuaded most Americans to dislike our allies. Like whatever he says (which can swing wildly), most of us just go on knowing that they are our allies.

If you don’t know who this was, you might enjoy the results of typing into your music search bar “dance to the music“ or “I want to take you higher“

Persuasive gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...

Balance is of course the trait most associated with Stalin, who was known for wanting young people to be exposed to a variety of ideological views

It was only a matter of time. It's always only a matter of time. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

US universities may see a decline in foreign students, but US #Bankruptcy courts seem to be holding their own in attracting foreign companies. Brazilian Airline Azul Files Ch. 11 To Cut $2B Of Debt www.law360.com/bankruptcy/a...

TIL some mediators charge $18,000 a day

Paul: They started out at 145% got down to 80% now 30%. It is 30% more than we have on currently. It will be a 30% rise in goods coming from China, and somebody will pay that, it will be the consumer.

The problem here is the over-borrowing, because trade (comparative advantage) is in fact the recipe for prosperity

Well informed voters expected much of what Trump has done, but low-information voters:

Interesting partisan differences amidst lots of bipartisan consensus: