Never do I place more unfounded faith in my bladder than when I am scheduling individual student conferences. I mean WHY did I think I could do four hours back to back? Why do I always do this?!

I really experience the full kaleidoscope of human emotion when marking up drafts of student work.

I cut my mouse clicking finger pretty badly last week so now trying to type is a REAL adventure.

My essay on the Kavanaugh concurrence in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo is now live with the @nyulawreview.bsky.social online. Many thanks to the incredible editors who helped bring this piece to completion (rage-writing it in one week meant we did a lot of work on it post-acceptance!).

I love today's class. I'm introducing persuasive statements of facts, and we see how a person's perception of facts are based on framing and priming. And we do it through a classic piece of exceptional American cinema: the music video for Reba McEntire's The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.

I'm just a country law professor, but I didn't think it was the FBI's job to "rul[e] out non-criminal explanations for activities" when there's no evidence of criminality.

I for one am not excited about the confirmation hearings for Associate Justice nominee Kyle Duncan

This is extreme and horrifying.

One of the things I try to instill in my students is that "constitutional" and "unconstitutional" are not legal terms of art. It's OUR Constitution. We're empowered to have views on it, and to view government action or inaction as consistent with our country's norms, values, and traditions—or not.

It is a natural law of academia that when I have lots of things to work on, many students come to office hours. When I am caught up, they ghost me.

Sunday at Stetson Law, we were honored by a visit from Justice Stephen Breyer. In a conversation with Dean Barros, Justice Breyer offered poignant advice on civility, persuasive advocacy, cultivating fulfillment, and shared values that make us American. He was also hilarious. Such a special event!

A reminder to law students who are interviewing for biglaw firms in the weeks ahead: There are lots of firms out there you could work for. You should carefully consider which firms comport with your personal and professional values—and which ones don’t.

Catherine O'Hara is such a loss.

CORKY WE LOVE YOU WE WANT YOU TO LIVE

You're gonna show Winkie.

Herb Ertlinger's Fruit Wine

I use this clip in class every year to teach students to use case illustrations to show, rather than tell, the reader how the law applies.

As someone who studies police misconduct and has investigated many police departments for misconduct that falls WAY short of what we’ve seen from CBP/ICE this year, this THIS is the “demand” for THIS moment? ….. I’m without words.

I'm not so sure about this. Most legal research and legal writing profs I know are working to instill a healthy skepticism into the AI research process. My sense is most students are very cautious about relying on AI results and see how bad they often are.

I have my highest per capita rate of emphatic nodders in class this semester, and MAN am I thankful. As an emphatic nodder myself, I used to be self-conscious about it, but now I know how clutch those people are.

I've been informed that I've developed a wacky professor reputation because of my tendency to research and highlight papers while on the elliptical in the school gym. Can't stop won't stop.

I spoke to Orion about my long, tortured relationship with tobacco use. The administration's attacks on public health disproportionately affect LGBTQ+ folks in more far-reaching ways than the overt homo- and transphobic attacks we've seen reveal.

I hardly ever start from scratch. I have a separate letter as a guide for how I write letters of a particular type, based on particular types of experiences with students, but I retype everything manually.

Law profs: how often and to what extent do you repurpose recommendation letters for different students/jobs? Do you start from scratch each time or use some form of template?

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

I expressly prohibit my students from using Grok for anything in my course, even when AI use is permitted, and I feel better about that choice every day.

"we didn't ARREST that 5-year-old child, we just DETAINED him because we're deporting his father" is a shitty fucking defense and JD Vance is an embarrassing slimeball

Jim Jordan is the living embodiment of "I have more of a comment than a question."

People who don’t know how to make a PDF: “AI is inevitable.”

Something to think about when evaluating junior faculty: I keep seeing wonderful opportunities to present at international conferences. But many of us cannot safely travel because of the administration's attacks. I have to be VERY careful about travel and worry about the effect on my advancement.

Writing is thinking, so why are universities signing partnerships with companies that outsource the task to LLMs; why are K-12 schools doing the same

I LOVE the first day of school. I LOVE IT. I do a silly icebreaker where I make the students tell me their favorite animals. Every time it 1) gives me great new-to-me critters to research, and 2) leads to emails like "Hi Prof. Wright, I'm in your R&W class (whale sharks) and I have a question . . ."

Terrible restaurant could close unless people enthusiastically embrace bad food, complains chef.

Make em look you in the face, Jay.

Legal education cannot operate like this.

It gets harder and harder for me to talk to students about the importance of standing up for justice when they see so many of us cowering in fear. Law professors and law schools need to be doing much more to protect the rule of law and the integrity of the profession.

Abolish Qualified Immunity.

Please read this. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Law firms: “Law schools need to do a better job of teaching our students how to be lawyers.” Also law firms: “Hey 1Ls, blow off your class reading and #legalwriting assignments from October to February so that you can come to our recruitment dinners and do interviews and complete applications!”

I love supervising students' seminar and independent research papers. I always learn so much! Sometimes I don't love what I learn, but.

When we teach our students how to be lawyers, we are also teaching them how to be human beings. These gloating coins reflect a problem within the profession.

One year I'll learn to give myself more time to grade. Not this year, aparrently. But one year I will.

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.* The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

The Sandwich Trial is the only thing getting me through November grading right now.

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

Yesterday in Shilling v. Trump (the 9th Circuit case about the military transgender ban), the government admitted that it has found no evidence to support any of the "traits" that the Secretary of Defense attributed to transgender servicemembers.

This evening I am having dinner with the 1L professor who inspired me most and who taught me to love teaching. Such a fun full circle moment. <3

You’ll just be minding your own business when suddenly Martha-Ann

Spoken to loud applause at a teacher convention...in 1932, Germany

I teach at a private school that values academic freedom, but this kind of thing absolutely chills my classroom speech. This crap harms us all.