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Payvand Ahdout

@payvandahdout.bsky.social

Associate Professor at UVA Law writing (mostly) about federal courts and constitutional law

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

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 dormant constitutional safeguard that the Framers intended to keep the military accountable to the people. The safeguard is the Constitution’s forgotten Two-Year Clause, which prohibits Congress from appropriating funds “to raise and support Armies” for a period longer than two years.

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Megan Stevenson@meganstevenson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excited to share a new paper with @jfischman, just accepted at JEL. We argue that empirical research tends to be biased and overconfident due to a weakness in the dominant econometric framework: insufficient attention paid to humans “in the loop” with the research process. 1/

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UVA Law School@uvalaw.bsky.social · 6mo ago

@uconnlaw.bsky.social’s @insurancelawctr.bsky.social will honor Prof. Kenneth S. Abraham with a symposium on June 5 for his contributions to tort and insurance law, and to mark the 40th anniversary of his first book, “Distributing Risk: Insurance, Legal Theory, and Public Policy.”

Celebrate 40 Years of Influence with Kenneth S. Abraham | Insurance Law Center

A Festschrift in Honor of   Professor Kenneth S. Abraham And the 40th anniversary of his first book, Distributing Risk Hosted by the Insurance Law Center at ...

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Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Larsen & McSweeney Medieval Treatises Alli Orr Larsen (William & Mary Law School) & Thomas McSweeney (William & Mary Law School) have posted Medieval Treatises and the Judicial Search for a Useable Past on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court’s recent turn to history and tradition has…

Larsen & McSweeney Medieval Treatises

Alli Orr Larsen (William & Mary Law School) & Thomas McSweeney (William & Mary Law School) have posted Medieval Treatises and the Judicial Search for a Useable Past on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court’s recent turn to history and tradition has prompted a renewed interest in the far distant past – the laws and customs of the Middle Ages.

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Megan Stevenson@meganstevenson.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Robynn Cox and I have a new paper! It's about the history of predictive algorithms in criminal justice, back in the 1920s-1950s. This paper is the result of five years of research and we're so happy to see it out. 🧵 1/

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UVA Law School@uvalaw.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A paper from Prof. @naomicahn.bsky.social shows how the law often lags behind the development of new technologies, according to @universityofga.bsky.social Prof. Victoria J. Haneman. @taxlawprof.bsky.social @jotwell.bsky.social

Leveraging Trust Law to Protect Child Influencers - Trusts & Estates

Naomi Cahn, Trusting Remedies for the Child Influencer Space: Blocked Trust Accounts and Child Beneficiaries, 17 Drexel L. Rev. 971 (2025).Victoria J. HanemanProfessor Naomi Cahn’s recent article, Tru...

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Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We finally know what happened to DOJ's (frivolous) misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg: It was transferred by Chief Justice Roberts from the D.C. Circuit to Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeff Sutton, and Sutton dismissed it in a ... direct ... memorandum and order just two weeks later:

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