On Monday, the Senate passed the Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment Act of 2026 by unanimous consent. The bill expands access to small business bankruptcy (subchapter V) and wage-earners bankruptcy (chapter 13), and I think it's a good idea. [1/5]

Guys, maybe the reason the AI likes to use em-dashes is because -- hear me out -- it's trying to write like me.

☝️🚨 For anyone analyzing the Second Trump Admin's Executive Orders or the EEOC "investigation" of 20 Big Law firms, Elize Maizel and I got a quick essay out (1st??) making a few imporant points about them. www.californialawreview.org/online/trump...

Ethics & Independence in Trump’s War on Big Law — California Law Review

In his second term, President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the nation’s largest law firms. Through a series of executive orders and highly unusual EEOC (Equal Employment Oppor...

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🪶My latest paper dives headlong into the question of whether the Bankruptcy Power contains an insolvency limit. The answer is YES, but the tricky bit is what kind of insolvency. Looking for a good home through Scholastica and will be up on SSRN later this fall.

For scholars who track their h-index, do you know what your “fulcrum paper” is? That’s what I’m calling the paper that isn’t one of the h papers now but with the fewest number of additional cites would become part of h+1.

Following the fiasco from Washington State, and this statement from the Bar says that the Yakima Convention & Event Center “has released” a statement that addresses the cause of the technical failure. I cannot find the statement … has anyone seen it? www.wsba.org/news-events/...

Someone is using AI to draft emails feigning interest in my scholarship in an attempt to spearphish me. They haven't asked for a wire transfer yet, but I can smell it. So that's happening now.

Law profs doing bad things for democracy have gotten (and should get) attention recently. But a brief shout-out to Prof. @jackchin.bsky.social: He wrote a law review article flagging this issue 20 years ago; some brilliant attorneys eventually read it and litigated it . . . and won.

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A federal judge has ordered Virginia to restore the voting rights of thousands of people who were illegally barred from voting under the 1870 Virginia Readmission Act, the law that readmitted Virginia into the United States.

“This is too much data. Can you show me fewer data?”

Ed Boltz just put out this thoughtful analysis of my research on bankruptcy, defamation, and the First Amendment (and dug into some nuances of the Code I hadn't appreciated). Thanks for the shout-out, Ed, and appreciate the deep dive on chapter 13 practice.

Apropos of nothing, I’m working with an interdisciplinary team on virtue for business entities, and it’s not at all clear how virtues can be transmitted or inherited or passed among individuals, groups, entities, and societies, no matter how many thousands of years you get.

Seen at a rest stop in Scotland. Geoffrey’s story seems to be missing a chapter … !

After a superb inaugural conference at Pepperdine Law last fall, we are excited to partner with Emory Law for Year 2! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My son likes puzzles and saw these connections immediately. Such a proud dad/Contracts professor 🥲

Great write-up from Natalie Weger at Bloomberg Law on Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). Enjoyed talking with her for this piece. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

Buy Now, Pay Later Has Bankruptcy Attorneys Adjusting Tactics

Kristen Paras wanted to hop on the Peloton craze in 2020. So the Ohio resident used a buy now, pay later loan to split the purchase into equal installments.

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The 11th Circuit preserves the preliminary injunction against the Stop WOKE Act. A few years ago, I wrote about Florida’s attempts to get rid of critical legal theory and how I find it useful in my own teaching: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Glad to see more people remembering the legacy of Roger Williams! www.christianitytoday.com/2026/06/the-...

The Colonial Hero and the Country Star - Christianity Today

Both Roger Williams and Johnny Cash believed they could best serve God and country by remembering which was which.

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Happy 250th, USA! 🇺🇸

Without looking it up, how many of us know the U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled that the union was perpetual and that the articles of secession were null and void? I confess I didn’t know, and I don’t remember learning it in law school. No spoilers in the comments!

Earlier this month, the Rhode Island AG's office issued a report on child sexual abuse in the Diocese of Providence, and then Governor McKee signed a bill that opens up old sex abuse lawsuits. The law takes effect on July 1, 2026. Well ... [1/2]

Camp Mystic filed for bankruptcy today, reporting over $10 million in liabilities. Last July 4, a flood killed 28 people at Camp Mystic on the Guadalupe River. A Texas investigation concluded the camp's plans were inadequate. The case is Dkt. No. 26-bk-90621 (SD Tex).

Just posted an updated version of my draft article on how student loans stabilized US higher education spending for two generations through a sort of anti-politics, but undermined its own stabilizing qualities over time, helping to open space for the current crisis papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We are having a raging family debate about the answer to this trivia question. I’m right and they are all wrong.

Vaterwitzangst is the low-grade feeling of dread you get when your dad is lining up a bad joke and you can’t quite see it but you also can’t stop it either. Happy Father’s Day!

🔔 Happy Juneteenth aka Jubilee Day! My little scholarly contribution, "The Spirit of Jubilee," is now available. I talk about the Bible, debtors' prisons, the abolitionist movement, Juneteenth, student loans -- plus some old songs and some new poems. digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/lawreview/vo...

Mike Sacasas at the Christian Study Center at UF convened Professors Ana Siljak, Lillian King Abadal, and myself to talk about Pope Leo's new encyclical on artificial intelligence, mechanization, andwhat it means to be human. Record-breaking attendance and a lot of fun. Link below.

We talked about citing oneself, but have we talked about citemaxxing?

UF Law is releasing grades today, so I thought I would reshare my shortest and most popular work, "How to Read a Law School Grade," adapted from an e-mail I wrote as a Harvard Law student now more than 10 years ago. Link: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=468...

🎺BYU Law Review just released the Law & Religion issue of its 51st volume, and it's a banger. Ok, yes, my Essay "Spirit of Jubilee" is finally out. But my illustrious neighbors in the volume are Steven Smith (U San Diego), Jennifer Koh (Pepperdine), and Audra Lyn Savage (Wake Forest).

Resharing this short essay ... everyone is thinking about whether requiring the Ten Commandments is against the law. But is it against the faith? canopyforum.org/2026/05/22/f...

"For the Word of God is Posted and Passive" by Christopher D. Hampson - Canopy Forum

An SB 10 compliant Poster. Photo by author. The Ten Commandments are almost certainly headed back to the Supreme Court. Over the past couple of years, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas have all passed st...

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