Ryan H. Nelson

Excited to announce that my new article, Pre-Arbitral Red Tape, is now forthcoming in the UC Irvine Law Review! Draft available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....

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It’s a wrap on COSELL 2025 (Colloquium on Scholarship on Employment & Labor Law) hosted by Seton Hall Law. Photos are from the panels on work in digital spaces & work law under the Trump admin. Thank you to 70+ scholars from around the country for sharing your work! See you next year in Berkeley!

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My wonderful colleague Tim Glynn and I were thrilled to present the Miller Award for a senior work law scholar to Catherine Fisk (@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social) & the Zimmer Award for a junior work law scholar to @nelsonryanh.bsky.social (South Texas Law) at the 2025 COSELL at Seton Hall Law🏅🏆

By denying trans people's court orders, Texas DPS flouts the Constitution The executive branch -- including Gov. Greg Abbot, Attorney General Ken Paxton and all of DPS -- doesn't get to choose which judicial orders it honors

I wrote about this back in August when a state agency tried to flout court orders: www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl....

Opinion | There Is No Musk Clause in the Constitution Trump is on shaky ground when it comes to the way he has empowered perhaps the most important figure in the new administration.

I’ve got a piece in today’s @nytimes about Elon Musk as walking/talking violation of the Constitution’s appointments clause: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...

My new article, Queer Accommodations, is now in print! It explores the accommodations that queer workers need to do their jobs, focusing mostly on trans and non-binary workers.

www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journ...

“We Are in a Constitutional Crisis”: Statement of Law Professors and Law Teachers [Please read, sign, and circulate to colleagues as you see fit. Letter and list of signatories will be released to media on or about February 24. Many thanks.] The undersigned are professors and teach...

Law professor friends, please consider signing on to this important letter!

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EEOC tells its workers to halt LGBTQ+ discrimination claim processing The news comes just days after the Trump administration’s controversial purge of Democratic officials at the commission.

The hits keep on coming www.hrdive.com/news/eeoc-te...

Work Law’s Domain Abstract

Just posted a draft of my new article arguing that we don’t really know how far work law reaches, such blindness causes significant problems, and overcoming those problems would be especially difficult: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Feedback welcome!

I woke up to emails many law students’ forthcoming federal internships were revoked without notice or an opportunity to be heard. Depending on the language of their job offers, this may violate the 5th Amendment’s Due Process Clause. See Goetz v. Windsor Cent. Sch. Dist.