Prof of Law @CornellLaw; alleged Bluebook Jedi, actual swim mom; into courts & con law; opinions my own, duh
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📢 Check out @NwULRev's upcoming symposium "Equitable Traditionalism & Constitutional Law," which I'm glad to have helped organize.
Keynote convo with Judge Stephanos Bibas. Participants & moderators in 1st comment.
If you'll be in Chicago Fri, Oct 23, please join us! 🔗⬇️
Please join us for our annual symposium, Equitable Traditionalism and Constitutional Law, in partnership with @TAMULawSchool's Center on the Structural Constitution on Friday, October 23, at @NorthwesternLaw. Illinois CLE credit pending. Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/cTx2…
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RIP Richard Posner.
He was an intellectual colossus and (outside of academic fights) a sweet man from whom I learned a lot.
But more importantly, he married my wife and me when we eloped 31 years ago.
It was a doubly stressful moment for a young academic—meeting Posner for the first time, and eloping.
“The only material question,” Posner said as he pulled a folder of wedding ceremonies from his desk, “is whether you want an allusion to a divine being.”
"Yes, please” said my dear bride, “we’re getting our marriage blessed in church when we get home.”
Posner the impish atheist looked at us with a twinkle and married us before God.
(And we did indeed have the wedding officially blessed a month later.)
Much love to Richard Posner and condolences to his family.
My @WisLRev essay w/former student Katharine Cooney was just cited in an interesting federal case about whether county sheriffs could challenge a state law forbidding them from working w/the federal govt on immigration enforcement. Bourgault v. Hochul, 2026 WL 3333708 (N.D.N.Y.):
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For more on important questions concerning local governments' ability to sue as plaintiffs in federal court, check out our essay at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.….
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If you're interested in being a law professor, or just want to know how law professors think, I did this podcast series of 15 interviews, "The Legal Academy," back in 2020. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
🏊♂️ Son's first swim meet as an 11YO after crushing his last year. Yall swim parents know how tough this is.
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Was not expecting full frontal nudity in the Elizabeth Holmes "documentary," You Can See Everything. Although I guess it was right there in the title...
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I don't think that's totally settled?
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Yesterday while I was at lunch, Claude deleted a year of con law lecture notes and my current syllabus.
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A Halloween tradition for Virginia lawyers: watching four hours of random online CLE videos before midnight
I doubt Prof Blackman & I define "conservative" & "right of center" the same way each other do. I'll just say, as I often do, that I consider myself right of the median law prof & left of the median Scalia clerk. Which yes, includes a wide swath of the ideological spectrum. GOOD.
Supreme Court Clerks Who Become Law Professors (2012-2026) reason.com/volokh/2026/10/29…
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Delighted to be in Chicago today at a fantastic symposium on “Equitable Traditionalism and Constitutional Law.”
Please join us on Friday, October 23, at @NorthwesternLaw for Implications for Administrative Law, one of the panels in our annual symposium, Equitable Traditionalism and Constitutional Law, partnered with @TAMULawSchool. Register Here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/cTx2…
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The setting for this morning’s argument before the Colorado Suprrme Court. It was a complete treat to argue in front of a room of very engaged high school students. Other courts (including, dare I say it, federal courts) should do this too.
