The govt jst invested $1b 2 replace aging Indian Health Services facilities tht have been on a list since 1993. It marks the single largest investment by any admin in updating IHS facilities, but also calls attn. To just how underfunded IHS has been.
New Essay on ICWA compliance and enforcement from leading ICWA appellate litigator, clinical director, law professor, and my mentor @katefort.bsky.social!
Just going to link my latest article here. It contextualizes the birthright citizenship order and the pronatalist movement within the great replacement theory and conservative family policy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I had a wonderful time discussing my work-in-progress (The Indian Child: Somebody's Property, A Nation's Citizen) at the AIL Workshop at Michigan Law today. Engaging this topic with emerging Indian law attorneys and scholars gave me a great deal to think about!
When your plane arrives at Newark Liberty early AND you don’t sit on the tarmac for 30 minutes for some random reason 🤌🏽
Something about high impact litigation: never trust ANYONE’S take on an opinion within minutes of a federal court dropping it. Those opinions can be hundreds of pages long & the case experts have yet to dissect it. People are rushing to deliver a scoop without barely having the facts.
Overall, I agree. But the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship guarantee is very much about reproduction, even if its text doesn’t explicitly mention “parent” or “domicile.”
I discuss this in my new article, Reproducing Citizenship: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
If anyone is interested in hosting a presentation/conversation on this paper, please reach out!
This article also considers some of the logistical issues surrounding the order including maternal healthcare, reifying family discrimination through its application, creating a noncitizen regime that provides for the exploitation of families, and perpetuating cycles of poverty.
By reproducing the conditions of Dred Scott and applying them to the “mythical illegal immigrant,” one who is often coded as Latine and/or Indigenous and who can never truly belong in the USA, the government is picking its citizenry—not the other way around.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, I situate the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship guarantee within family law. I argue that the Trump Administration’s birthright citizenship order is an attempt to control reproduction and the family.
I’m thrilled to announce that my article, Reproducing Citizenship, is now available in the Georgetown Journal of Gender & the Law!
Article here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
More info below 🧵
Congrats, Nila!
Thankful that I was able to connect with @jillwieberlens.bsky.social during her visit to Seton Hall Law! Very engaging presentation (and book) on stillbirth and the law.
🚨🚨🚨New article with @jennoliva.bsky.social, forthcoming in @uclalawreview.bsky.social Discourse: Veteran Disability Hierarchies. Now on @ssrn.bsky.social! On disability as mitigation in veterans’ treatment courts and the politics of service-connected compensation: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A Hannibal meme? In 2026?!?
Perfect. 10/10. No notes. Wishing you much luck and prosperity this cycle!
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
Is it really denouncing the U.S. Supreme Court so much as doing exactly what state constitutions and courts should be doing: expanding the protections owed to its citizens??
A calico cat next to a book called Regulating the Body Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law Edited by Austin Sarat and Susanna Lee .The cover is black with a statue of lady justice with mask and gloves.
A calico cat next to a book called Regulating the Body Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law Edited by Austin Sarat and Susanna Lee .The cover is dark grey with a statue of lady justice with mask and gloves.
The table of content for the book Regulating the Body Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law Edited by Austin Sarat and Susanna Lee .
Abstract: Wearing face masks has been an important strategy to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Yet this practice has also been highly politicized since the beginning of the pandemic. In this chapter, I explore how shaming tactics—the stigmatization and public disgrace of the norm violator—have been used to regulate masking. This strategy highlights how mask policies in the U.S. have depended on private enforcement throughout all stages of the pandemic; that is, enforcement by laypeople rather than public entities. I trace this phenomenon through early, top-down mask mandates, to the present moment, after universal mask mandates have been lifted, and masking has shifted to become an individualized disability accommodation. While paying close attention to how norms about mask wearing intersect with gender and race, I highlight dichotomous approaches to private, ideologically-driven, enforcement of public health policy: as the Right has doubled down on shaming people for wearing masks, people in the disability community have reacted by enforcing mask wearing in public spaces and holding people who they see as members of the in-group (activists and allies) accountable. This chapter thus contributes to the legal debate on shaming as a law enforcement tactic, as well as to the understanding of how disability law plays out in everyday life.
Thrilled that my book chapter, "Mask Shaming: On Private Enforcement and Disability Politics," in print as part of the important @nyupress.bsky.social book Regulating the Body: Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law, ed. by the legendary Austin Sarat & Susanna Lee! 1/3
So excited to see this list of forthcoming scholarship from my colleagues @setonhall.bsky.social! It’s been a productive year for so many of us, and it’s possible that I even have a few pieces on this list too 💜
law.shu.edu/news/seton-h...
Delighted to be quoted in the important @theguardian.com piece by @aglantz.bsky.social about the very concerning changes in anti-discrimination policies at the VA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
One of my biggest critiques of law profs is that we are notoriously bad at communicating with the general public—and that extends to exactly what you’re talking about here.
So excited for the four new tenure-track colleagues joining us at Seton Hall Law, including two clinicians to lead our Transactional Law and Medical Legal Partnership Clinics and two doctrinal professors to teach in the areas of health & environmental law! law.shu.edu/news/seton-h...
We've discussed this a bunch on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social. SCOTUS's opinion tomorrow will not address the substantive question of whether 14A confers birthright citizenship. It'll address whether and in what circumstances universal injunctions are an appropriate judicial remedy. . . .
Thank you so much, Doron! And yeah, I thought that was a perfect inscription for you 😃
What a group, what a conference!! Thanks to Liz and all of the organizers of this year's Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference!
I wrote about Pres. Trump’s attempt to use school discipline as a tool for racial exclusion: thehill.com/opinion/civi...
The conversation around this new Lilo & Stitch movie is killing me. Why would Disney put such a loaded, complicated topic in a kids’ movie?? It was not well thought out.
