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Melissa Murray

@profmmurray.bsky.social

Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Prof. of Law @nyulaw.bsky.social; Faculty Dir. @bwlcnyu.bsky.social; co-host @strictscrutiny.bsky.social; talking head @ms.now; @NYTimes.com bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.

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NYU Law@nyulaw.bsky.social · 3h ago

Together with her co-authors Leah Litman of the University of Michigan School of Law and Katherine Shaw of Penn Carey School of Law, @profmmurray.bsky.social won the 2026 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law for the academic paper, “Unsettling the Presidency.”

Faculty Honors Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, won the American Constitution Society's 2026 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Senate is important, but state legislatures are just as big and, as the post notes, these races are a lot more effective use of your dollar.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3d ago

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

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

Download of the Week: “The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs” by Murray & Shaw The Download of the Week is The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs by Melissa Murray and Katherine Shaw....

Download of the Week: “The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs” by Murray & Shaw

The Download of the Week is The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs by Melissa Murray and Katherine Shaw. Here is the abstract: In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court announced that it was leaving the power to regulate abortion “to the people and their elected representatives.” In the wake of Dobbs, state-level “elected representatives” quickly got to work, resulting in dramatic changes to the abortion access landscape.

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Shannon Heaton@chawkeye.bsky.social · 5d ago

Book 143 📚 for 2026. Look, the MF is guilty and we all know it. This book lays out in precise detail what the strategies might have been if any of these cases had, y'know, actually mattered. But the legal system failed us, bigly. I recommend if you like pain. Available everywhere @ yr #LocalLibrary.

An image of the front cover of the 2023 book by lawyers and podcast personalities Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann, The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary. It's a trade paperback book (that I read), the cover looks like the first page of one of the four indictments against 45/47, with kind of an overlaying bookmark that shows the title, subtitle and author's names. Neither Murray nor Weissmann were involved with the four indictments as a matter of law, they act here as the legal version of sportsball color commentators, showing us how lawyers on both sides of the litigation might act. Y'know, if Earth 2.0 had played out instead of the hellscape we have now.
Shannon Heaton@chawkeye.bsky.social · 6d ago

Book 142 📚 for 2026. With BIG book on temp hiatus, I turned toward one of my reading goals for '26, to learn more about feminist theory (Could use recs on that!). Started with this one, which called out the movement's over-emphasis on white women. Available everywhere, including your #LocalLibrary.

Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · last wk.

Murray & Shaw on Direct Democracy After Dobbs Melissa Murray (New York University School of Law) and Katherine Shaw (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) have posted…...

Murray & Shaw on Direct Democracy After Dobbs

Melissa Murray (New York University School of Law) and Katherine Shaw (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) have posted The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs (Virginia Law Review, Vol. 112, p. 1, 2026) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court announced that it was leaving the power to regulate abortion “to the people and their elected representatives.” In the wake of Dobbs, state-level “elected representatives” quickly got to work, resulting in dramatic changes to the abortion access landscape.

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@imnonna.bsky.social · 3w ago

Same. I’m reading The U.S. Constitution - a Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader by Melissa Murray instead. Much better use of my time…and sanity.

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 3w ago

sounding the Comstock siren for @strictscrutiny.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 3w ago

NEW: Under questioning from Senator Ted Cruz, acting AG Todd Blanche said he would review Biden-era DOJ guidance on the Comstock Act if confirmed to the role. Comstock is an 1873 anti-obscenity law that conservatives want to use to stop the mailing of abortion pills in all 50 states @autonomynews.co