We had a last minute cancellation: does anyone with policy experience working in federal administrative agencies want to come talk to my HKS admin law seminar tomorrow (Friday 4/17) at 1pm ET about the role of policy experts in federal agencies?
Happy to do remote - DM me if interested!
Yikes
Eye-popping stat here ->
For college grads who “were employed, more than 40 percent held jobs that do not typically require college degrees, the highest level since 2020”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...
no -- this is from a while back but also part of a historical pattern en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_...
Look, I mean, I don't know
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-r...
This is very important to consider
I think “human” instruction has much to offer and in the end many students will be willing to pay a premium for non-AI education
Similar to how exclusive and expensive private elementary schools have abolished screens altogether
But who knows?
No. NO. NO NO NO.
Unlike legislative term limits, justice term limits would likely have healthy downstream effects - specifically limiting the likelihood of the Court becoming ideologically lopsided (as it is now)
We show this in this USC law review paper
chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcont...
This is consistent with what we’ve found in our polling - term limits for Supreme Court justices are extremely popular and enjoy bipartisan popular suppprt
Dare I say it? With the right kind of elite alignment, it could even be “amendment-level” popular support (still unlikely)
seeing two different academic responses to AI in the classroom: 1) the below (go back to basics) vs. 2) incorporate it radically into a re-imagining of teaching
thoughts about how things will go?
AI grading will grade AI generated material…
Can you say more about the annotating? Is that a graded assignment?
Yes
As well, students seem to really appreciate removing AI as a temptation
there’s a feeling it really punishes people trying to do the right thing (ie their own original work)
The flip side - and there is a flip side! - is that writing longer term papers over a longer time frame really forces students to think more deeply and in a way that writing a short 90 min essay does not
However it is harder to see a path forward with longer-form writing in the age of AI
That is a challenge!
mine were in-class essays, so writing/analysis can be done (though you sacrifice some depth). as for readings -- esp books -- that is hard. i teach mostly cases, which resolves that issue.
I shifted almost everything in my fall course into in-class blue book evaluations, with no internet, and I’m glad I did
The students liked it as well
There is more to be done as AI advances but this is the way
The thing about the press conference is that Trump didn't say he would ask Congress to override the Court's decision, which is what a strong president whose party controlled both houses of Congress would do.
what a day to be teaching policy students about the major questions doctrine and why it matters
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
@daviddarmofal.bsky.social Vandy and WashU are on this list!
Quite a list of potential targets:
This + the moment RBG’s death was announced are two moments I will always remember
The place I was, who I was with, the sense that everything was about to change
Things changed - just not in the way I expected!
Former U.S. Attorney @preetbharara.bsky.social on what politicization is doing to the Justice Department and why talented lawyers may no longer want to serve.
This is how institutions erode.
🎧 Full episode (audio) live now
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📺 Full video tomorrow on Youtube
