Wow, thank you Emily Hammond for a very thoughtful review of "Second-Class Administrative Law"! adlaw.jotwell.com/putting-a-hu...

I'm so bad at social but wanted to share my take on the marijuana rescheduling order, so here's screenshots of my thread at the other place (why didn't I start here? I'd lost my password...)

This is a super interesting and important take. Concerns about a standing army bar the way we are funding the military.

Matthew Lawrence@mblawrence.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Some key takeaways from new work with @marknevitt.bsky.social: 🚫Funding the military long term through reconciliation is unconstitutional 🚫Long-term military funding in OBBA is unconstitutional ❓Maybe ICE funding too 🚫Tapping the Judgment Fund for defense procurement contracts is unconstitutional

Some key takeaways from new work with @marknevitt.bsky.social: 🚫Funding the military long term through reconciliation is unconstitutional 🚫Long-term military funding in OBBA is unconstitutional ❓Maybe ICE funding too 🚫Tapping the Judgment Fund for defense procurement contracts is unconstitutional

Just Security@justsecurity.org · 4mo ago

The Framers included a structural check on standing armies and military power in the Constitution. Matthew B. Lawrence and Mark Nevitt (@marknevitt.bsky.social) argue it is now time for its revival:

This is a fantastic paper -- well worth your time to read!

Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Lawrence and Nevitt on the Two-Year Clause and Military Appropriations Matthew B. Lawrence and Mark Nevitt (both Emory University School of Law) have posted Reviving the Military’s Term Limit (G.W. L. Rev. (forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article argues for the revival of a…

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Seriously, is there any better city to visit than Cleveland?Lake/vibe/food/people. Was a treat to get to do my first-ever keynote, at CSU law health insurance symposium today. Presented joint work w/ Allison Hoffman that I’m excited about. Thanks for having me!

Thank you Prof. Matthew Lawrence (Emory University School of Law) for joining us for today’s Ideas Lunch and sharing your talk, “Platform Polarization?” We’re grateful for the thoughtful conversation and for the chance to engage with your work!

Abby Moncrieff introduces Mark Hall and Joan Krause for an awesome opening panel at CSU Law’s health law symposium. Awesome lineup.

Was awesome to present at @yaleisp.bsky.social today and kind of amazing to realize yesterday that my twin brother Dave would be on a panel at Thurmond Arnold across campus at the same time. That has to be a first, right? Btw I presented “Platform Polarization?” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I love creative conlaw scholarship. Kessler and Pozen have a great article up on “epistemic discovery” as a first amendment theory that could gain real traction protecting a range of conduct from AI use to experimentation with psychedelics. tinyurl.com/3rz6k5bx.

Here’s the crux of why I think it’s right to call many social media apps “addictive” regardless whether or when “social media addiction” gets added to medicine’s Diagnostic & Statistical Manual:

Next up for social media may be a settlement or court ordered remedy. But we need to be careful that the relief is genuine and stops the harm. For one take on how, see my piece with a group of fantastic coauthors—“Social Media Harm Abatement.” nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The debates about DHS and Iran appropriations assume the long term slush funds the OBBA gave the president for ICE and military ops are constitutional. That premise is mistaken, as @marknevitt.bsky.social and I explain in our draft, now forthcoming in GW Law Review! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

For the past year or so, I've been working on a project for the Administrative Conference of the United States on best practices for drafting regulatory preambles in light of recent developments in judicial review. The draft report is now available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/

If you’re tired of incremental marijuana rescheduling announcements and interested in the root problem with drug scheduling, or how to fix it, check out my new piece with Dave Pozen, just out in Science! SSRN version here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

But if AI does what we are told shouldn’t it lower the cost to a handful of journals of collaborating on their own alternative? Even that they run in parallel to scholastica, as a way for interested authors to give them money directly?

Can we find a solution to the AI in law reviews ”problem“ that involves redirecting the rents Scholastica extracts from law schools (and lawyers/law students who want to publish, of course) toward the students who do all the work? Hate to think of scholastica owners profiting off students’ toil.

I know at the end of the day the work is really not about recognition but it is still rewarding to see my name in this ranking. I just remember all the struggle that went into the pieces underlying this. Thanks to Rob Willey and Melanie Knapp for putting it together. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

At the 2026 National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars. The Rehnquist Center at Arizona Law puts together a great program. Neat to see tomorrow’s debates forming…and the sunsets aren’t bad.

Avi Sholkoff and I collected legal opinions leading up to the ongoing social media trial, as well as legal scholarship on addictive design, at Harvard’s Bill of Health blog here: tinyurl.com/8by82vpe

Is compulsive use of social media more like watching too much TV or getting hooked on slot machines? Kevin Yan and I bring lessons from drugs and gambling to debates about social media, including whether “addiction” is the right word when we talk about social media, here: tinyurl.com/mryv7js6

Hot off the presses, Dave Pozen’s and my new piece in @HarvLRev on what is broken in how we regulate marijuana, kratom, opioids, and other drugs—and how to fix it. Admin law meets public health meets LPE meets drug law meets harm reduction. Check it out! harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

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The United States makes bad choices when it comes to psychoactive drugs. Under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), U.S. drug law has simultaneously fueled mass incarceration, inhibited needed access,...

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Readers, today is the exciting launch day for my book! How to Tax the Ultrarich bit.ly/4rk6wBM In partnership with the great economic policy team @rooseveltinstitute.org A few threads will follow. 1st, the key takeaway: even w/ *this* Supreme Court, we can tax wealth at the federal level. 1/12

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At this moment, the incessant & chaotic attacks on freedom can make collective action feel daunting, even impossible. While collective & sustained action is never fail-proof, it has disrupted the admin's violent takeover. A thread on how coordinated, systemic resistance blunts Trump's tyranny: 1/

Wow, thanks Josh for the shout out!

Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hugely important piece by @mblawrence.bsky.social on the future of GAO and why you should care. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/is-t...

I have a piece in lawfare today about a wonky but important issue—the selection of a new Comptroller General and future of both “Congress’s Watchdog” and the (badly needed) stabilizing force in federal spending it provides. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/is-t...

Is the GAO the Next Battlefield in the Fight for Separation of Powers?

The expiration of the comptroller general’s term is an opportunity for Congress to reassert itself, or retreat further.

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Happy "just circling back on this" day to those who celebrate.

I’m honored to join the @oneillinstitute.bsky.social's Center for Addiction and Public Policy, Taleed El-Sabawi, Regina LaBelle, and other colleagues for the "Winter Institute on Addiction Policy and the Law” CLE event on February 9-10, 2026. Register (zoom or live): web.cvent.com/event/e921a3...

Excited to be launching and co-teaching this new course at Emory Law. If you've got ideas for articles/books/strategies/challenges to share with students to help them use law to change the world for the better, despite all that stands in the way, please do share! law.emory.edu/news-and-eve...

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