I know everyone’s all down on articles and blah because of AI, but in the last week I have been reading like 5 really amazing pieces that have been or will be submitted this cycle. Slop can’t crowd out the incredibly cool work out there, if we do our job of reading/uplifting it!

Out: notable endorsements In: wife-forward campaigns Never change, RI

The various jobs I have taken with two kids four and under = not for the faint of heart. Autoreply is getting dangerously close to “I’m crying and will respond to you when I can see”

Dear Outlook: I never want to "snooze" an email to have it arrive at 3 in the morning.

I think this an underrated YIMBY angle: absent a lot more (revenue-generating) infill development, there's about to be a tidal wave of suburban bankruptcies and/or significant service scalebacks in the coming decades.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4w ago

Washington has an utterly insane provision in its constitution saying that cities can only increase property taxes by 1% a year, and predictably, a bunch of cities are going broke.

Out 7/7: An essay collection on the challenges, risks, and opportunities of this historic moment in American law and governance. Featuring essays by more than 50 Harvard Law School faculty members, including Stephen Breyer, Jill Lepore, & Annette Gordon-Reed. mitpress.mit.edu/978026206043...

[entrepreneurishly] here at the richest university you can imagine we've charted a brave new vision: what if we got rid of books

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

If one of you could throw me a cite to break the curse, I'd appreciate it

Help me crowdsource: best blog posts/articles/videoed-advice on developing and writing books? Not sure I'm actually doing that, but I feel like I have a good sense of the article development process by now + the luxury of some reading time this summer, so hoping to learn from the best (you).

*University governance debate roils* Meanwhile me on graduation day, in my administrative job:

when ur students were sadder in class than u thought

Boy Crying While Saying 'I'm Fine'

ALT: Boy Crying While Saying 'I'm Fine'

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Time to retire, really can’t go up from here

Regrettably accurate

Such a delight to work with @stanlrev.bsky.social on this—come for the poaching poem, stay for the property arguments.

Stanford Law Review@stanlrev.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In her Essay, @maureenebrady.com posits the Supreme Court has a level-of-generality problem in cases like Wolford v. Lopez and Bruen. Brady argues courts should be transparent about how their choices reintroduce means-ends reasoning. Read more here: review.law.stanford.edu/online/prope...

My favorite CoPilot story is when CoPilot told me it could help me solve a problem if I forwarded a bunch of emails to it at CoPilot@harvard.edu. So I did, then it told me it couldn’t see them. On further inquiry, it confessed it did not have an email address.

When did you know your research idea was in trouble

Thanks Jake! The silver lining of learning about the 2nd amendment against my will = all the great people doing work over that way

Jake Charles@jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Property law expert extraordinaire @maureenebrady.com has an excellent new post up this morning at the @dukefirearmslaw.bsky.social's blog: The Level-of-Generality Problem in Wolford. firearmslaw.duke.edu/2026/03/the-... Like her longer piece (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....), it's a must read!

The Montana Supreme Court just upheld laws meant to address the state’s housing crisis, after homeowners sued to block the legislation. @hls.harvard.edu's @maureenebrady.com wrote about the case.

Montana’s Housing Crisis Fix Survives Constitutional Challenge

Homeowners favoring single-family residences sued to block legislation meant to increase housing supply and bring down home prices.

statecourtreport.org

Was this made specifically for me? Can the rest of you see this or is this the end

Hotel NIMBY lady is back, this time with facts—from a study of TripAdvisor reviews in Atlanta and New Orleans, superb comps for my MA suburb. Up next, I’ll be studying the rise of vampire-human relationships using Goodreads

Molly Brady@maureenebrady.com · 9mo ago

This might be a new one, which in zoning land is saying something

I’d really like to meet the legend responsible for putting together the Harvard Gazette subject lines every morning

NEW: Kelo may be settled, but courts continue to grapple w/ limits on eminent domain. Drawing on debates from 19th century state conventions, @maureenebrady.com shows how necessity historically structured private-use takings, offering a framework for thinking about public use today & going forward.

The Path Not Taken in Federal Takings Law

Debates from 19th century state conventions explain why some constitutions allow takings for "private use."

statecourtreport.org

Caught in the snowday/first day of teaching backlog: Thanks to @statecourtreport.org at @brennancenter.org for this chance to discuss some of my research on the "private-use" takings provisions in state constitutions, statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...;

The Path Not Taken in Federal Takings Law

Debates from 19th century state conventions explain why some constitutions allow takings for "private use."

statecourtreport.org

My 4yo fell and split his head open at school. He asked for a popsicle, and the principal said “but your bump’s on the back of your head, popsicles are for bumps in your mouth.” He told her, “but my bones go all the way to the front.” He enjoyed the popsicle and I’m very worried about my future

"Unenclosed land" is not PROPERTY OPEN TO THE PUBLIC how do you people listen to supreme court arguments I'm going on mute

I don't listen to a lot of arguments but...uh...the petitioners in Wolford just fell into like 368 problematic traps

My teaching scaries dream of the semester has arrived: I showed up and @lessig.bsky.social (their con law teacher) had actually just done the exact same class, down to Pierson v. Post. I feigned a coughing attack to cover my panic

In 2016, I wrote this mission statement at a seminar for new faculty at UVA. As true today as it was then! (And still on my bulletin board.)