First bit of advice on the academic hiring front: don't sweat the good but imperfect job-talk paper.
Unsolicited Advice on the (Legal) Academic Hiring Market #1
Don't sweat the imperfect job talk paper
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Constitutional Law Prawf @ University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Formerly YLS, Cornell Law, DOJ. (Account does not represent opinions of my employer) . . . Also, vintage menswear enthusiast . . .
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@alvinvelazquez@alvinvelazquez.bsky.social · 2h agoMy latest essay "Using Business Law to Build Labor Power" is out in the Harvard CR-CL Review. It suggests four ways that unions could use business law to increase worker power. My thanks to the many great people who provided me feedback on this. journals.law.harvard.edu/crcl/wp-cont...
If you live in a city with a good cinema, I ~highly~ recommend going to see Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s The Samurai and the Prisoner. It’s not going to get a big run, but it might be the best film of the year.
Kind of a key lesson that’s going to be looming over my DOJ Reconstruction project I’ve been cooking.
Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 5h ago7/ But we should be clear about the structure of previous reform efforts--and what caused their successes and failures--as we think about new ones.
I feel like the next two years are going to be millennials razzing their more conservative family members in the family chat with memes of an ascendant communism.
Michigan Election Results Live Updates: Abdul El-Sayed Wins Democratic Senate Race in Michigan
Dr. El-Sayed, a progressive former public health official, narrowly defeated Representative Haley Stevens, a moderate, in a bitter campaign dominated by the politics of Israel.
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Sachs has an interesting thread in the other place. But I don’t think any model works for opposing incursions on higher ed unless they impose costs on the folks at the gate. If your model depends on persuading red state lawmakers, I don’t think that is 2030s thinking.
1/2 My new side speculation is trying to understand the lives of law review articles. Like @asumrall.bsky.social and I wrote this paper about judicial self-aggrandizement. It's really top heavy. Like it's been cited in the Harvard Law Review forward more than once (I think). . .
1/3 Just as a thought experiment, if you kept the House of Representatives the same but scrap the Senate, replacing it with a six-member upper chamber divided evenly between the two parties, so that each party is guaranteed 3 seats elected nationally, every 4 years, what results?
The on-the-ground reporting in the press right now baffling. There will be a former elections official who will say, “we need bipartisanship and small incremental reforms.” I feel such a chasm w/ these people b/w that and when they’re like “the Republic is collapsing before our eyes.”
For the love of Hanuman, THIS. It's not just that a circular firing squad is unhelpful at this moment; it's also that academics of all people ought to be open-minded about ways of knowing other than their own and ought to be respectful of expertise.
Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · yesterdayAs a meta-point in the academia discourse of today, it's a strange time for professors to dismiss the value of entire disciplines. That plays perfectly for those who want to wreck higher education (and who happen to have a lot of governmental power right now).
ICYMI—I think I found perhaps the most underrated @lpeproject.bsky.social article so far. A great piece of LPE & legal history!
Beau Baumann 🍎@beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2d agoEvery now and then, I read something and think, "well shit, that's amazing." Usually, that piece in question will already have a built-in fanbase. But every now and then, I do some digging and see that it's flown under the radar. Such is the case with an article that's prompted me to ask . . .
ICYMI—I think I found perhaps the most underrated @lpeproject.bsky.social article so far. A great piece of LPE & legal history!
Beau Baumann 🍎@beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2d agoEvery now and then, I read something and think, "well shit, that's amazing." Usually, that piece in question will already have a built-in fanbase. But every now and then, I do some digging and see that it's flown under the radar. Such is the case with an article that's prompted me to ask . . .
Bumping this essay to note that the underlying article is now out for submission to journals: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Industrial Policy as Competition Policy
<p>Throughout U.S. history, and especially in the present era, the government has shaped markets by giving advantages to some firms over others<span>—a version
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Jeff Gordon@jeffgordon.bsky.social · last mo.Industrial policy is often in tension with competition - a problem I call "the dilemma of picking winners." In this essay and the associated working paper, I propose a framework for doing industrial policy without entrenching the winners. lpeproject.org/blog/the-dil...
This is a great set of proposals for congressional reform: wethedoers.org/how-to-fix-c...
How to Fix Congress
In our last post, we described the two primary drivers of Congressional dysfunction: over-centralization of decision-making, and lack of capacity. Party leaders have monopolized the procedural tools ...
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Every now and then, I read something and think, "well shit, that's amazing." Usually, that piece in question will already have a built-in fanbase. But every now and then, I do some digging and see that it's flown under the radar. Such is the case with an article that's prompted me to ask . . .
Is this the most underrated LPE piece so far?
On Rohde and Parra Herrera's "Law as Architecture"
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So….read the piece. Whether one agrees or disagrees, or whether it’s another case of “stuck in the middle with you” (apologies to Gerry Rafferty), the authors provide a useful framing. Just as an example, if law can be thought of as architecture, what the hell kind of house has SCOTUS built?
Beau Baumann 🍎@beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2d agoEvery now and then, I read something and think, "well shit, that's amazing." Usually, that piece in question will already have a built-in fanbase. But every now and then, I do some digging and see that it's flown under the radar. Such is the case with an article that's prompted me to ask . . .
Every now and then, I read something and think, "well shit, that's amazing." Usually, that piece in question will already have a built-in fanbase. But every now and then, I do some digging and see that it's flown under the radar. Such is the case with an article that's prompted me to ask . . .
Is this the most underrated LPE piece so far?
On Rohde and Parra Herrera's "Law as Architecture"
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What happens when you’re bold enough to send the librarian some of the “essential” reads of the last decade for print acquisitions.
Caught myself from my perennial typo. Every time I write “Du Bois” I want to to add an e at the end like I’m talking about the town in Idaho. 😂
Beau Baumann 🍎@beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2d agoI think Against the Profit Motive and Du Bois on the Freedmen’s Bureau are classic and essential. Note what Parrillo ~doesn’t say~ Is the world of carrot-and-sticks administration at all comfortable with extent theories of administration in the juristocracy today?
Late to the party, but I liked this piece by Jeff Gordon on how Slaughter relates to the 22nd Amendment. I'm embarrassed to admit that I never really thought about the 22nd Amendment in this terrain.
Balkinization: Trump v. Slaughter and the Twenty-Second Amendment
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Read this piece while I was in the hospital and was really blow away by it. It's one of my favorite pieces in legal history this decade.
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Writing a piece with the line, "The UET was violently murdered in less than half the time it took to construct." I figure that will anger somebody. And I just can't bring myself to delete it.
Read this piece while I was in the hospital and was really blow away by it. It's one of my favorite pieces in legal history this decade.
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Late to the party, but I liked this piece by Jeff Gordon on how Slaughter relates to the 22nd Amendment. I'm embarrassed to admit that I never really thought about the 22nd Amendment in this terrain.
Balkinization: Trump v. Slaughter and the Twenty-Second Amendment
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
I’m getting too invested in my 12-year old niece’s middle school drama. She called to give me the tea and I got heated. All I can say is that there is a middle school in New Jersey where the children have been coached to “never put their shit in writing.”
I cannot fully communicate the low esteem in which I hold these people.
They’re right that you need a new political equilibrium. But you only get there by imposing costs on the forces set against higher Ed. That’s the only language they understand.
Luke Herrine@lookheron.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is the strategy: portray the increasingly brazen conservative attack on independent unis as a set of reasonable and majoritarian "concerns" & make it easier for uni execs to do their job if they agree to "reform" their schools
(whispering) post-publication peer review via non-exclusive curation