Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School. Teach constitutional law and torts, write on religious liberty and equal protection.
Columbus filmmaker sues Ohio State professors, claims his constitutional rights were violated
Columbus filmmaker sues Ohio State professors, claims his constitutional rights were violatedMichael Newman said when he was shoved to the ground by Ohio State associate professor Luke Perez in February 2026, it violated his 1st and 4th amendment rights.www.wosu.org
"‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation," via the WSJ. Gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Kim Davis is in quite a mess. She owes $500k and is being sued for assets she's alleged to be hiding. But much of that mess is also a direct result of choices made by her lawyers, which I think can serve as a warning to activist litigators in future cases. joedunman.substack.com/p/kim-davis-...
Kim Davis, the Ill-Served ClientAttorney Responsibility For the Mess She's Injoedunman.substack.com
I owe my career to this faculty. Words can’t describe how awful this is.
James Fallows TierneyBrian Leiter wrote about faculty layoffs at my university. leiterreports.com/2026/07/29/i...
Another reminder, since no one in Congress appears to care: These strikes are a campaign of unlawful murders, and the Administration hasn't offered any plausible argument to the contrary. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
67 boat strikes. 221 dead. The cocaine hasn’t slowed, officials report.The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.www.washingtonpost.com
Bruce performs "Streets of Minneapolis" at the ACLU Biennial Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., where he received the ACLU Ralph Ellison Award for Defenders of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the Arts, Business, Science, and Sports.
"Streets of Minneapolis" Live at the ACLU Biennial Leadership ConferenceYouTube video by Bruce Springsteenyoutu.be
A BIS analysis argues the AI buildout is outpacing prior infrastructure booms and warns, “The larger the boom, the deeper the eventual bust.” Their model suggests that investment is 50% above the efficient level. www.bis.org/publ/work136...
Whoa whoa whoa … Do you mean to tell me that striking a deal with Donald J. Trump does *not* buy you everlasting peace?? Surely no one could have foreseen this! Certainly not lawyers who get paid millions to make deals for a living!
Trump Administration Subpoenas Law Firms, Escalating Pressure Campaign (Gift Article)The uneasy truce between the administration and the law firms it cut deals with last year has erupted into a pitched legal battle behind closed doors.www.nytimes.comWould be curious to hear what law professors with experience teaching asynchronous classes, or law school administrators overseeing such programs, might have to say about how this dynamic impacts formative assessments in asynchronous law school classes (whether in JD, LLM, or masters programs).
Andrew Heisswoof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.
Is it unusual for an incoming law school dean to be banned from federal court for a year? Asking for a friend (Florida International University) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A lawyer has now spoken separately to the 3 men who were w/ Salgado Araujo in the van when he was killed. All 3 contradict ICE’s account. All 3 say no ICE vehicle was ever in front of them and that agent just got out of the car and started shooting from the side. No ICE agent was wearing a body cam.
"Justice Thomas’s principal dissent in Trump v. Barbara rests on a discredited method: original-intent originalism…Justice Kavanaugh’s separate opinion raises a different, and in some ways more troubling, set of problems of its own."
The Dissents in the Birthright Citizenship Case Were Even Crazier Than You ThoughtTo mangle the text, they mangled originalism too.harrylitman.substack.com
Fascinating, not just for what it reveals about AI use but also for what it (potentially) reveals about the impact of AI use on learning. The final scores weren't just way below the midterm scores but also way below the historical average.
Kieran Healylol
You know what else doesn't move that fast? Historical scholarship. morninganswerchicago.com/randy-barnet...
Grant: "Though the government has plenty of ways to promote its own viewpoint, puppeteering every university professor in the state is not one of them."
BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Let us all, again, in 2026, pledge to dedicate our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor to protecting and defending the rule of law and resisting arbitrary power.
You can’t do rushed, sloppy, and inaccurate historical work to change legal rules we all live under and not be treated as a player in the president’s political game. If a historian did that, they’d be called a hack, and not taken seriously thereafter. Why should the bar for law profs be lower?
The Supreme Court has been dodging cert petitions in vaccine exemption cases for several years now. It granted, vacated, and reversed (GVR’ed) a Second Circuit decision — see below. And now CA2 has responded, saying to the Justices, in effect: if you really want this, you have to come and get it.
Dorit ReissYesterday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed that New York's removal of its religious exemption from its school vaccine mandate did not violate the First Amendment. I will write a deeper dive later. Here is the decision: ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/OP...