Doing a little research and I came across a bunch of articles discussing submitting appellate briefs on CD-ROM. That became ancient history fast.

I'm really thankful to be at an institution that puts students' needs first.

We have to rein this absolute evil shit in.

I am so grateful on days like today. I was tired thinking of all I have to do today and then realized that I am 1) speaking at a symposium about trans rights, 2) watching my students give their final oral arguments, 3) judging an international moot court competition. I GET TO DO THIS STUFF FOR WORK.

Good. She was right and we all know it. But still.

there's now a legitimate debate over birthright clerkships

For me, a big “aha” moment in law school was when I realized that every year, the handful of normal, median-ish guys (they were all guys) who would land huge clerkships seemingly out of nowhere were all officers in the student FedSoc chapter

www.maptap.gg April 13
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Final score: 915

EAT IT, WORLD

6-3: I know it's weird, but yeah, this is part of the Executive Power.

This is my first time hardcore course prepping WHILE grading briefs and finishing a semester. In the immortal words of Lisa Kudrow as Michele Weinberger, I'd like to go . . . away.

I adore dogs and abhor violence but this story makes me reconsider the latter.

Through a little sob, I said out loud "they can't fall!! they'll drown!!" which is not really what I meant, but I was excited.

I reviewed @maybell.bsky.social's forthcoming article, Gossip, in Jotwell @jotwell.bsky.social: legalpro.jotwell.com/lady-whistle...

I was also moved to tears by listening to the crew suggest names for the moon features, but one thing I couldn't help noticing was how vigorously the crew was wiping their eyes. Then I realized: the tears can't fall!!!

It's practice oral argument time in R&W II, and I am once again so heartened by how seriously my students take it. I'm not there--they have upper-level student judges, and they're on Zoom. AND YET probably 65% of them dressed up. Makes my teacher heart grow three sizes.

What kind of Bartleby the Scrivener ass government is this

I would have to take a sabbatical.

Quotes are to indicate that clearly those women were often doing much, much more than that.

I presented on this years ago re: how we define legal writing. The ideas/writing distinction was a lot bigger in older, more sexist times when the men had the ideas and the female staff "transcribed" them. I think a lot of today's genAI talk smacks of a desire to return to that model.

Scrolling through this site it really strikes me how many people think writing is separate from ideas. The writing is the ideas. The ideas are the writing.

ICYMI: My article in The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process—“Democratizing the Judiciary: Why Judges Should Engage ‘We the People’ Through Social-Media Platforms”—is now available online. journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/appellate/ar...

April from Parks and Rec saying “because I didn’t think March 31st existed.”

Not great!!

They HAD to release Chiles on trans day of visibility, didn't they?

Picture of casebook titled “State Constitutional Law: Institutions, Powers, and Rights”

My state constitutional law casebook, which I coauthored with Marcus Garson and Jon Marshfield, is now out! I’m excited to be (mostly) done (though the teachers manual is forthcoming) and to share this with everyone. If you have any questions about the book or might consider adopting it, reach out!

Prepping an online course means I just constantly flip between Canva and Canvas and Prezi and BeepBoop and Flard and AppStack and GRAB! and and and

Intersex Erasure

This will affect far more cis women than trans women, and some female athletes are about to discover they are intersex. My article, Intersex Erasure, explains why these invasive tests are imprecise and unreliable. Available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

While I shouldn't have to do it, this work is significantly more important than seeing how many hours it takes Claude to write an article.

Law students should be free to study in peace without being harassed for their identities. And my job should not include counseling students who were harassed out of restrooms with the support of hateful legislators.