@gshans
Clinical Prof., Cornell Law School. That brown gay law prof who makes ice cream & laughs too loud. Currently mired in the Constitution, speech, tech, clinical legal education, and the legal profession. Not the best but pretty good. Always MI ✋🏾
“Danielle Citron, a prominent privacy expert who teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law, topped the ranking for the second time in as many years. This time she was joined by six other women in the top 10”
SCOOP: Federal judiciary approves new Supreme Court defender office to help represent indigent defendants at #SCOTUS.
Its full-time director will serve as a counterweight to the U.S. solicitor general in federal criminal cases. The first will be former Kagan clerk and SG atty Ashley Robertson.
Is the premise of this story that the mayor should make lighthearted video content about an ongoing criminal investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
As a former East Bay resident, this is incredibly depressing. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
I reviewed The Ordinal Society, by @marionf.bsky.social and @kjhealy.co, for jotwell. I think this is one of the most important books for law and tech scholars, and yet it says almost nothing (explicitly) about law, which makes it a special treat to read!
Principles for thee but not for me
I taught Rust v. Sullivan, Legal Services Corporation v. Velazquez, and Walker v. Sons of Confederate Veterans today. I did take some pleasure in seeing my students as turned up into knots as I am about the intersection of unconstitutional conditions, government speech, and viewpoint discrimination…
There are signs that at least some federal judges are getting tired of the Trump administration simply ignoring court orders
""The Trump administration is using the threat of detention and deportation to suppress speech it disfavors"--@carriedecell.bsky.social on CITR v. Rubio, the case we filed this morning www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...
Wait, is this 2nd circuit or just SDNY on remand? I assume that Upsolve will appeal again to the 2nd Circuit though perhaps with a more uphill battle.
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Honored to find out that I am on this list of top-cited legal scholars again this year: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Lots of others on this list whose work I deeply admire, including @jessicaclarke.bsky.social @miriamseifter.bsky.social @jdmortenson.bsky.social and many others! Congrats, all!
You don’t think you’re good at that as well? 🤔😘
Today @cogwbur.bsky.social published my op-ed with Neil Richards. We argue in favor of the proposed MA privacy legislation with strong data minimization rules. Surveillance advertising leaves both consumers and small businesses worse off. It only helps Silicon Valley. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
"An Intercept analysis finds that every member state of the Board of Peace has been rebuked for human rights violations, including many by Rubio’s own State Department." What a sick joke Trump is. theintercept.com/2026/03/02/t...
DOJ has asked a federal appeals court to un-drop its challenge to lower-court rulings that President Trump illegally targeted law firms he disfavored.
Judge Lewis Liman (brother of Doug Liman) has ruled that the federal government can‘t unilaterally end congestion pricing, giving the MTA yet another court win on congestion pricing
How does LPE relate to law and econ and legal realism? The University of Chicago L Rev. recently held a symposium on LPE and L&E, so I grabbed the chance to set out some ideas -> papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
My friend & colleague @nelsontebbe.bsky.social has an Article on "First Amendment Inversion," just recently published by the Texas Law Review. It documents a fascinating and important shift in how different political groups have conceptualized free speech: texaslawreview.org/first-amendm...
I just emailed my colleagues about this; truly baffling timing. The only thing I can think is that someone finally realized what the preclusive effects would be of yet another loss. Of course, we all already knew that eight months ago, so… 🤷🏾♂️
Victory
The war against Iran is unconstitutional, as I explain on the blog. Trump has already missed the 48-hour deadline for a written report required by the War Powers Resolution. These illegalities compound the war's violation of international law.
theonion.com/this-war-wil...
Every day I despair a little more.
I want Democratic candidates for office to understand just how much voters do not like the Supreme Court, and are dying to elect representatives who are actually committed to doing something about it
no takebacks
Paramount, Warner Bros deal would unite film, news and social media forces in the age of Trump
My analysis for NPR:
www.npr.org/2026/02/27/n...
newrepublic.com/article/2069... One of my star clinic students is quoted in this article. We have had a great experience working alongside our neighbors to reign in mass surveillance in Ithaca this year.
