Grant Hayden
@granthayden.bsky.social
SMU Law School professor who does labor law, voting rights, and, somewhat reluctantly, corporate governance. Old man basketball player and lapsed art historian. ⚖️🏀🖼️ Recent book: https://tinyurl.com/bdet4kma Other stuff: https://tinyurl.com/SMUbio
It's nice that his logo makes clear that he'd want to set the state's election system on fire. (this gentleman running to be the state's chief election officer does not seem to know that federal statutes make his proposal illegal, so no, that's not going to happen)
Colorado Times Recorder@coloradotimesrecorder.com · 6d agoOne of his “first priorities” would be to delete Colorado’s voter rolls completely. Every voter in the state would have to re-register – in person – to be allowed to vote.
The fifteenth edition of our labor law casebook is out! We welcome new author Courtlyn Roser-Jones from OSU, who helped streamline the text for use in any 2-4-credit labor law course. Over 60 hypothetical problems with answers included in the extensive teacher’s manual. cap-press.com/books/isbn/9...
This is a great overview of our legal system for new law students and the general reader, as well as those of us already mired in the study of law.
Grant Hayden@granthayden.bsky.social · last wk.The new edition of American Law is out! A comprehensive introduction to the American legal system. And the book I wish I had before I went to law school. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
The new edition of American Law is out! A comprehensive introduction to the American legal system. And the book I wish I had before I went to law school. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Bagenstos on Reconstructing the Civil Rights State Samuel R. Bagenstos (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Reconstructing the Civil Rights State After Democratic Backsliding…...
Bagenstos on Reconstructing the Civil Rights State
Samuel R. Bagenstos (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Reconstructing the Civil Rights State After Democratic Backsliding (forthcoming in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: American civil rights law has always been tied to the project of building a multiracial democracy that guarantees full and equal membership in the community and an equal opportunity to flourish.
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Noncompete clauses reduce workers' earnings. Noncompete clauses also provide no measurable protection against trade-secrets being leaked beyond standard NDAs.
🌟 NEW 🌟 First-of-its-kind analysis from @cmcnich.bsky.social, @jensherer.bsky.social, and @benzipperer.org measures how expanding union membership would boost wages, lower inequality, and benefit communities and democracy. A teaser of what that would mean for workers 🧵 1/
The case for tripling union membership: How rebuilding union power would strengthen workers, the economy, and our democracy
Foreword Imagine union membership tripling in the United States. It may sound radical—if you’ve forgotten history. In fact, more than 1 in 3 private-sector workers belonged to a union in the 1950s. Th...
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Happy this is finally available. Chat MD: can we regulate AI in medicine without relying on aspirations and platitudes alone?
Chat M.D.
Abstract. Large language models (LLMs) such as Claude and ChatGPT are the most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems ever created, and they are bei
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Congressional statute: "There is a Director of National Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President ... Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise." 50 U.S. Code § 3023
It’s very technical but I love this paper and if you have any interest in Marxism or legal theory or some combination of those things you should check it out. scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol88/is...
By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.
Opinion | Ruling by Ruling, the Supreme Court Is Undoing the Civil Rights Movement
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There's a lot of alarmist coverage of the Supreme Court. Rick Hasen does not engage in it. This isn't stuff he'd write lightly.
Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump is directing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prioritize cases of discrimination against white men, but commission staff are "struggling to find complaints with merit"
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship
Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.
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The smarter sycophants already have jobs as columnists for the New York Times and Washington Post.
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoGORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.
After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.
Supremacy
From two acclaimed legal scholars, a new history of the Supreme Court that overturns our most basic assumptions about its role in our democracy, showing how it seized the power it now wields., Suprema...
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There needs to be like 5 "too nice to work" holidays controlled by each state. Like a snow day, you don't get any advance notice. The stations and alerts just put out the message that the next day is too nice to work and everyone is off.
Join @lsiraganian.bsky.social at @redemmas.org on Tuesday, March 24th 2026 for a discussion of The Problem of Personhood!
Lisa Siraganian presents "The Problem of Personhood: Giving Rights to Trees, Corporations and Robots"
Should nonhumans have rights in law and politics?
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I’ve seen enough. No, not the Texas elections. I’m watching the KU basketball game.
Yale Law scholar dismisses and entire field of scholarly inquiry on the grounds that it has not engaged deeply with the law-and-economics literature. It is 6 pages and it cites to only five LPE articles--including none of the articles in the same symposium! lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/defaul...
this is like an episode of Black Mirror. Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees, and will check if employees say “please” and “thank you” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’
Have it your way?
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Happy to share that my latest project, Copyright as Intuition, is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review. Abstract below; I should have a draft on SSRN soon.
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Allegory of Bad Government, 1338–40, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
“Everyone thinks universities have to do what donors want because they pay the bills. But that gets it backward, and not just at Hopkins.” I highly recommend reading this piece. www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...
The Misuses of the University - Public Books
Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?
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