Margaret H. Zhang

The other piece that had this effect on me recently was
Philip Lee's Critical Race Thinking in a Pro-Black Space: An Asian American Law Professor's Reflections on Teaching at an HBCU.
Highly recommend that one too! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

There are some (rare) law review pieces that I click into and then find myself unable to stop reading. This was one of them! Highly recommend everyone read it!!

Under Faculty Pressure, Harvard FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra Rolls Back Restrictions On Campus Signage | News | The Harvard Crimson The Faculty of Arts and Sciences quietly revised its guidance on campus use rules last week to allow publicly visible signs in private spaces, after months of pressure from faculty who said the guidel...

A win for academic freedom.

Being a professor is a tough job because we have a lot of competing pressures, but remember that we have an obligation to govern ourselves.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

You love to see it.

Autistic girls much less likely to be diagnosed, study says By age 20 diagnosis rates for men and women almost equal, research finds, challenging assumptions of gender discrepancy

Something to take into account on #InternationalWomensDay: Females may be just as likely to be autistic as males but boys are up to four times more likely to be diagnosed in childhood, according to a large-scale study. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

Galvanizing stuff from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.

"You can be thrilled by all the things that are happening and horrified by all the things that should be happening but aren’t."

"Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war."

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

This is incredible crossover content! 😍

Beyond Limits is a tremendous, heartbreaking book. Terrible that Dr. Sella was not allowed to speak, but regardless I hope everyone reads her book!!!!

One reason why the U.S. Constitution might be construed to require Congressional authorization *before* starting a war is that a war, once unilaterally initiated by the President, may be hard to un-start.

Life in Plastic: It’s Not Fantastic

I've covered the plastic industry for years, but reviewing @bethgardiner.bsky.social's new PLASTIC INC for the @nytimes.com was unsettling. You know about Big Tobacco, and how Exxon knew all along about climate change. Plastic really is the next true crime story. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b...

Yay! You are awesome!

Trump Justice Dept. Seeks to Stall State Bar Discipline of Its Lawyers

Pam Bondi doesn't want state bars to investigate ethics violations by DOJ lawyers. This suggests that we need active filing of complaints against DOJ lawyers grossly violating legal ethics. "The state bar holds the key to these people’s ability to wield their sword.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...

The New York Congressional district case is astonishing, for the reasons Sotomayor laid out and that Vladek explains fully here. The court doesn't have jurisdiction over a state law dispute before appeals within the state system have been completed!

I tell my Civ Pro students that procedural rules are complicated and technical because we had to come up with rules that both sides would agree with; they are a compromise. SCOTUS messing with that compromise provides more reason for structural SCOTUS reform.

Excellent Thread by @stevevladeck.bsky.social. Not “hyper-technical.” It goes to the heart of why this Court has forfeited the trust of the parts of the profession who know and care about how litigation is supposed to work.

Incarcerated workers are paid so little, it can take thousands of hours to afford filing fees

"I can only hope that the next time indigent prisoners facing this issue raise nearly $1,000 each just for the opportunity to knock on this Court’s door, my colleagues will choose to open it" heartbreaking

This was well worth the time to read. I hope you do.

I would never send a thank-you letter directly to a judge about a case so im just going to post publicly that I have so much gratitude for the judges who are doing everything in their power to protect the rule of law against unconstitutional actions by this administration, especially re ICE

We don’t kill people for sucking! We shouldn’t kill people for anything really!

Thinking of you today

This was a premeditated attack with no conceivable emergency: the choice to do this is Congress not President. Waging war on Iran is an obvious violation of the Constitution, no different than enacting tariffs (raising taxes) or defunding USAID (spending programs).

These attacks are illegal, insane, and immoral. The power to declare war lies with Congress and they must act to block this immediately.

Take a look at this great fellowship.

We Will Not Be Divided Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

Just saw this and was glad to see it.
notdivided.org

Still grieving.

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.

If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

Remember, most Americans don't even have a form of ID beyond this.

As this report outlines, document control is a favorite way of authoritarians to strip people of their humanity.
freedomhouse.org/report/trans...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

That's NINE "again"s for those keeping track at home of the times the govt has tried to plead workload as an excuse for defying judicial orders.

Luckily the art lives on. If you haven't been to the Magic Gardens, go.