I'm losing the ability to contrive law school exam hypotheticals that are more absurd than the actual news

PSA www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/m...

Last session of #WIPIP2026, and Alex Roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social asks “are we human, or are we brands now?” Or “I curated this look, so I must own it!” - Litigating Personal Brand: Intellectual Property & Construction of the Self

obsessed with the flyer for our feb. 26 @clicatnusl.bsky.social event on influencer law join us! 🤩

Wonderful workshop. So grateful for this community, and conversation. Thanks @jeannefromer.bsky.social , Barton & crew!!!

One of the beauties of writing is that language is so subtle. You might think that 'I apologise' means the same as 'I'm sorry'. But just try switching the two next time you're at a funeral.

Fordham Law is proud to share that 12 members of the Law School's faculty & staff are presenting at #AALS2026 this week. Check out where to find them: https://news.law.fordham.edu/blog/2026/01/05/fordham-law-faculty-take-the-national-stage-at-the-2026-american-association-of-law-schools-conference/

So @tobymorton.bsky.social is a national treasure and Hilton is fucking up royally with this nonsense. www.hiltonice.com cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social

My 4-year-old overheard me telling my sibling, “America’s in big trouble.” Later he said, “America needs to not break stuff and use its inside voice.” Chaos solved with preschool logic. Proud Dad here.

Congratulations to Fordham Law Professors Norrinda Brown, Gowri Krishna '06, and Catherine Powell on being named 2026 Association of American Law Schools section award winners. Read more: https://lens.aals.org/article/2026-section-award-winners/ #AALS2026

Good. This is insane.

London in the good old days - before everyone's feet pointed forwards.

I got rhythm I got free songs I got Pluto who could ask for anything more I got Mickey in the funnies I got his dog who could ask for anything more Old man Disney? I don’t mind him You won’t find him round my door I got free works I got Faulkner More soon next year who could ask for anythin more

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer https://theonion.com/zohran-mamdani-refuses-to-share-plan-for-making-rich-richer/

Fabulous scholar, fabulous piece! So grateful to have Ela at Fordham!

Fordham Law's proud to announce that Angela DeVolld, director of Public Interest Scholars and Fellowships, Clinical Prof. Mariam Hinds, & student Olivia Loomis '26 have named to the Association of American Law Schools (@theaals.bsky.social)'s 2025 Pro Bono Honor Roll, for their indiv. pro bono work.

The thieves made a bisque escape.

So, I purchased the center and the land it sits on — the best $2 million I can imagine spending. 🧵 6 of 9

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

Omg. Over and over and over and over and over and over and sometimes so often it happens to the same people multiple times and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and sometimes so often it happens to the same people multiple tim

New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

Never waste a table of contents

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

Required reading

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some trivial good news: someone was courteous and self-aware on the subway in moving her stuff out of the way of the door so others could get past, in advance of the stop.

I just smile and say “good luck”

Just realized I need to suspend my habit of asking students I know “hey, how’s it going?” when I pass them in the hallways for the next two weeks.

I'm a fan of profs looking back on their past articles and pointing out their weaknesses. (I've suggested before that senior profs should write articles, "Where I Went Wrong.") Here, Penn's Dave Hoffman does that with one of his well known articles. Kudos. profhoffman.substack.com/p/not-my-bes...

"Bird Stand" US Patent 12245583

You'll never guess what this is in response to

starting a return to semi-normal after two weeks/two countries/two papers on dramatically different subjects by teaching... Palsgraf. what a magnificent streak. is it about duty or causation? idk, down the rabbit hole we go!

Listening to music on my flight and under "Easy and Chill" is an album called... "Climate Change."

Everything you need to do is dramatically easier when you are happy. Contrary to popular belief, unless you are deeply selfish, being happy does not lead to inaction. Depression and fear lead to inaction. Anger leads to rash, destructive, self-serving action.

anyone else having problems with Westlaw? keeps logging me out when i try to access... a statute.

Feels like a good time to also remind gen X & elder millennials (or, really, anyone T-Swift age & up) that you may be due for another measles shot if you only got one. www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and...

Pertussis (whooping cough) cases have exploded in the US in the past 2 years. Get your Tdap if you’re due (every 10 years for adults) BTW, as of this morning, it looks like all the case counts for 2024-25 have been scrubbed from the CDC website 🫠

so much about this case is judges in extreme distress

I keep on proposing law students need media training.

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”