I'm very happy to announce that I'm hosting the THIRD Annual Democracy and Public Law Works-in-Progress Conference at Michigan State from April 2–3, 2027. The registration portal is below, where there's additional information about the schedule and timing. msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

For a very long time I have been getting people to see how there is a battle to become the “platform for policing” and what that means to the legal system. This article gets it. It’s worth a read to see our AI driven policing future. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Computer cops

Inside the big business of selling AI to the police.

theverge.com

Very honored to be recognized as Researcher of the Year @setonhalllaw.bsky.social @setonhall.bsky.social. 2025–2026 has been an important year, both personally and professionally, and I’m incredibly grateful.

Spring-inspired offprints! (Thank you @vandylaw.bsky.social Law Review) If you’d like to join me in thinking more critically about the future of holistic criminal justice reforms in an era of algorithmic governance, give it a read (tinyurl.com/5cfjnku8) #AcademicSky #AI #CriminalJustice

Extremely grateful to @lsolum.bsky.social for highlighting Anti-Holistic Algorithms 🙏🏻! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Ravid on Holistic Rehabilitation and Algorithmic Risk Assessment Itay Ravid (Villanova University - Charles Widger School of Law) has posted Anti-Holistic Algorithms (78(6) Vanderbilt L. Rev. 1765 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article presents a critical tension in modern criminal…

Spring-inspired offprints! (Thank you @vandylaw.bsky.social Law Review) If you’d like to join me in thinking more critically about the future of holistic criminal justice reforms in an era of algorithmic governance, give it a read (tinyurl.com/5cfjnku8) #AcademicSky #AI #CriminalJustice

Can holistic criminal justice survive algorithmic governance? Another new 📄 of mine, “Anti-Holistic Algorithms,” now out with the @vandylaw.bsky.social Vanderbilt Law Review, grapples with this question (ssrn: shorturl.at/eyZhu) abstract 👇 & short thread 1/6

Feedback welcome! Would love to hear any thoughts on this piece, which is the third installment in a series of papers on victimized offenders in domestic settings.

Widener Law Commonwealth@widenerlawcw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Congrats to Professor @buchhandler.bsky.social on the acceptance of “Excusing Abused Parents” in Ohio State Law Journal. The article examines how failure-to-protect laws overlook domestic abuse and proposes a new affirmative defense for at-risk parents. Read more: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is going off into production today @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I can’t wait to share it with the world next spring. A story of land, property, and social policy, told via Chicago’s farms and gardens, past and present.

Can holistic criminal justice survive algorithmic governance? Another new 📄 of mine, “Anti-Holistic Algorithms,” now out with the @vandylaw.bsky.social Vanderbilt Law Review, grapples with this question (ssrn: shorturl.at/eyZhu) abstract 👇 & short thread 1/6

Happy to share that Developmental Evidence Rules is forthcoming in the California Law Review! What would it mean to take childhood seriously in evidence law? This article takes up that question.

Ally beat me to it, but excited to share that "Perinatal Palliative Care & Abortion," co-authored with @amwhelan.bsky.social, is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review. Abstract below and it will be up on SSRN as soon as SSRN allows...

Ally Whelan@amwhelan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Excited to announce that “Perinatal Palliative Care & Abortion,” co-authored with the fabulous @jillwieberlens.bsky.social, will be published with Virginia Law Review… SSRN draft coming soon 😊

My latest with the @ucdavislaw.bsky.social Review argues that plaintiffs’ lawyers can refuse harmful NDAs by defining the scope of representation at the outset and reclaiming their role as both advocates and stewards of justice. Check it out: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @templelaw.bsky.social

Thrilled that my article with William ("Chip") Carter, An Originalist Critique of Fetal Personhood, is now forthcoming in the Pennsylvania Law Review!!! It was weirdly fun to spend months buried in 19th century dictionaries & Locke's writings. We are still editing but hope to have it online soon!

My latest article with the one and only @spenceroverton.bsky.social called “Digital Ethnonationalism” forthcoming in University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Here is the papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Very excited that @gelbach.bsky.social & I will be publishing "Bruen's Tenth Amendment Problem" in the @uchilrev.bsky.social! Our central arg is that Bruen's erasure of unexercised powers violates the 10th Am's preservation of existing State power. Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My latest, "Free Exercise and the Redistribution of Liberty," is now posted (and forthcoming in @yalelawjournal.bsky.social). It argues that free exercise doctrine uses selective market logic to redistribute both public resources and liberty itself. Comments welcome: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=618...

My latest article, "In Praise of Generative AI," is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review! In it, I present accounts from the Worst People You Will Ever Meet In Law in which they praise generative AI and all the extra terrible behavior it enables: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thrilled to share that 𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑑 has found a home with the Yale Law Journal. This piece examines parental liability regimes and parental rights, and how they are connected by a shared logic that harms children and families. Thank you to all those who read drafts and offered feedback!

Another new article of mine is officially out: “(Re)Individualizing Criminal Law,” (67 B.C L. Rev. 255 (2026): lnkd.in/eR9eF7Fv Abstract 👇 & v. short 🧵 1/6

The Article argues that algorithmic risk assessment tools are reshaping criminal law itself by moving the focus away from the foundational principle of subjective culpability. I explore these shifts & ask: can the system restore its commitment to that principle? Let me know what you think! 2/6

@brettfrischmann.bsky.social, Maša Galič, Katrina Geddes, Eve Hanan, Paul Heaton, Sarah Lageson, @marklemley.bsky.social .bsky.social, Evelyn Malave, Sandy Mayson, Nicola Padfield, @frankpasquale.bsky.social, Teri Ravenell, David Schwartz, David Sklansky, Sarah Swan, Christopher Yoo 4/6

This one has been long in the making and benefited from the wisdom and advice of many (apologies if there is someone I missed): @gilatjbachar.bsky.social, @IsabellaBanks, @nbanteka.bsky.social, Matthew Bruckner, @buchhandler.bsky.social, @erincollins.bsky.social, @m2dempsey.bsky.social, 3/6

@lawandsociety.bsky.social 2024 Ann. Meeting; The Criminal Jurisprudence & Philosophy Seminar U. Cambridge; & the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law & Howard University School of Law Faculty Workshops. The BCLR editors were incredible - thank you! 6/6 END!

the participants at the Stanford-UPenn-Northwestern Junior Faculty Forum on Law & STEM; ABA-AALS Criminal Justice Roundtable on Criminal Law and Technology: @profferguson.bsky.social, @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social & Melanie Reid; CrimFest 2024; Privacy Law Scholars Conference Europe 2024. 5/6

Another new article of mine is officially out: “(Re)Individualizing Criminal Law,” (67 B.C L. Rev. 255 (2026): lnkd.in/eR9eF7Fv Abstract 👇 & v. short 🧵 1/6

Hey GW Law (or other DC folks)! I'll be doing this panel with some really smart people exploring various legal issues about what's happening in Minnesota right now. Come check it out!

Breaking my partial social-media hiatus w/3 new papers: Missing Children Discrimination (Wis. L. Rev 2025(4)) w/ Tanisha Brown— shorturl.at/5rl86 abstract 👇) Anti-Holistic Algorithms (forth. Vanderbilt L. Rev) (Re)Individualizing Criminal Law (forth. B.C. L. Rev) More soon on SSRN—comments welcome!