It's pretty hard to overstate the importance of Wood's scholarship in defining our understanding of the nature of the American constitutional founding. One of the very rare cases where the term "giant" was fully justified.

TPM@talkingpointsmemo.com · 2mo ago

Gordon Wood Dies at 92

Looking forward to Jaclyn Neo's book on Pluralist Constitutionalism forthcoming with OUP. Here is a preview on ssrn: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Just received my copy of this wonderful book by @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Can’t wait to read it!

Wonderful performance of West Side Story yesterday at the Lyric Theatre in Baltimore by the Washington National Opera

Thanks Larry!

Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tourkochoriti on Social Media Platform Regulation in the US and the EU Ioanna Tourkochoriti (University of Baltimore School of Law; Harvard Law School; Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law) has posted Social Media Platform Regulation in the US and the EU: Towards a…

Lim on Equitable Progress and the Regulation of AI Daryl Lim (Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson Law; Fordham University - Fordham Intellectual Property Institute) has posted Equitable Progress and the Regulation of AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This chapter argues that equitable…

Yesterday’s concert at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Bartok and Mendelssohn was truly excellent!

From our wonderful event celebrating the Declaration of Independence at the University of Baltimore School of Law

My paper "Social Media Platform Regulation in the US and the EU: Towards a Divided Internet?" has just come out with the NYU Journal of IP and Entertainment Law. All articles included in the same issue look extremely interesting: jipel.law.nyu.edu/jipel-vol-15...

Looking forward to this terrific event today celebrating the Declaration of Independence at the University of Baltimore School of Law! www.ubalt.edu/about/newsro...

Delighted to receive the Saul Ewing Award for Outstanding Teaching in Transactional Law for my International Business Transactions Class (with focus on business and human rights) at the University of Baltimore School of Law's Annual Awards ceremony earlier today!

Delighted to hear that the National Washington Opera is coming to the Lyric theater in Baltimore! Can't wait to attend performances there.

Barth on Religion, Conscience, and AI at Work Whittney Barth (Emory University — Center for the Study of Law and Religion) has posted Assessing New Frontiers: When Religion and Conscience Meet AI at Work on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Artificial intelligence presents pressing legal, moral,…

Barth on Religion, Conscience, and AI at Work

Whittney Barth (Emory University — Center for the Study of Law and Religion) has posted Assessing New Frontiers: When Religion and Conscience Meet AI at Work on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Artificial intelligence presents pressing legal, moral, theological, and ethical questions for the workplace and beyond. Scholars have documented instances of algorithmic discrimination based on protected classes, including religion and several established—and some new—religious groups have issued theological position statements addressing the advent and trajectory of AI.

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My paper "Social Media Platform Regulation in the US and the EU: Towards a Divided Internet?" forthcoming with the NYU J. Intell. Prop. & Ent. L., is now on ssrn: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., University of Alabama School of Law, has published The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Comparative Constitutional Analysis of Whistleblowing Speech, the Government's Managerial Doman, and the Imperatives of Democratic Self-Government at 110 Minn. L. Rev. 205 /

Heinze & Herrenberg on No-Platforming and Academic Freedom Eric Heinze (Queen Mary University of London, School of Law) & Tom Herrenberg (Open University of the Netherlands) have posted The Case against No-Platforming: Campus Hate Speech and Academic Freedom, forthcoming in Eric Heinze, Natalie…

Heinze & Herrenberg on No-Platforming and Academic Freedom

Eric Heinze (Queen Mary University of London, School of Law) & Tom Herrenberg (Open University of the Netherlands) have posted The Case against No-Platforming: Campus Hate Speech and Academic Freedom, forthcoming in Eric Heinze, Natalie Alkiviadou, Tom Herrenberg, Sejal Parmar and Ioanna Tourkochoriti (eds), The Oxford Handbook on Hate Speech (Oxford University Press, 2026), on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

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My wonderful colleagues prepared a news post on the announcement of my election as a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law: www.ubalt.edu/about/newsro...

Really looking forward to seeing the third volume of the Cambridge History of Rights! www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

The Cambridge History of Rights Volume 3 | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Delighted to hear the news that I have been elected an Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law: aidc-iacl.org/en/ Congratulations to all other newly elected members. A delight also to learn that my colleague Tim Sellers was elected Titular Member of the Academy!

The final version of Constitutional Democracy in Crisis? II is now at Oxford University Press. The most comprehensive study of democratic decline and resilience. Thanks to Mark Tushnet, Sandy Levinson, and Antonia Baraggia. All publicity is good. TOC here. balkin.blogspot.com/2026/03/cons...

Delighted to host @adambarea.bsky.social, Director, YouTube Legal for a guest seminar yesterday on YouTube's content moderation practices as part of our Business & Human Rights Guest Speakers' Series. Thanks very much Adam for sharing your extremely interesting insights on the platform's policies!

We are hosting a new mini-symposium on the ASCL blog on Michaela Heilbronner's excellent book: "The Failures of Others - Justifying Institutional Expansion in Comparative Public and International Law". Here's the first post by Roberto Gargarella: ascl.org/arguments-fr...

Arguments from Failure, Judicial Intervention and Democracy - American Society of Comparative Law

[Editor’s note: this is the first of 4 posts commenting on Michaela Hailbronner’s new book, Acting When Others Aren’t. Arguments from Failure in Comparative Public and International Law, Cambridge Uni...

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"He was best known for introducing in the early 1960s the notion of a “public sphere.” He theorized that democracy emerged and could only ... exist in a healthy form if there was a space that was outside the control of the state, where deliberation and the exchange of ideas could freely occur." 2/

Gal Beckerman (NYT, gift link 🎁): "Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism..., arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society." 1/20 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers

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Humanity is so lucky he actually existed and gave us such amazing works!

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 5mo ago

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96. https://to.pbs.org/4bbc9gw

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🤓 On Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 14:00-15:30 CET, we will be discussing Anna Fruhstorfer's anticipated monograph, Constitutional Change under Autocracy, just out with Oxford University Press.

A pleasure to be co-organizing with MedChi this event on Vaccine Mandates at the University of Baltimore School of Law next week. Join us! Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A pleasure to be co-organizing with MedChi this event on Vaccine Mandates at the University of Baltimore School of Law next week. Join us! Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My book is finally out open access,dealing w arguments from failure, i.e. when institutions act in legally problematic ways because others have failed to do their job. It is comparative & should be interesting (I hope), even if it doesn't hold all the answers. www.cambridge.org/se/universit...

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