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SMU Law School professor who does labor law, voting rights, and, somewhat reluctantly, corporate governance. Old man basketball player and lapsed art historian. ⚖️🏀🖼️ Recent book: https://a.co/d/6UVA0sj Other stuff: https://tinyurl.com/SMUbio
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Elon should just give Harvard $2 billion.

Proving yet again that employers' return-to-office demands are not about efficiency or productivity. They are all about power. "YOU WILL WORK WHERE I TELL YOU TO WORK!" Yet again, workers need unions to push back.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Crucial from Rick Pildes: The NC Judicial Election Litigation:  Federal Due Process Prohibits All State Actors, Including State Courts, From Changing State Election Law and Practice After The Votes Have Been Cast electionlawblog.org?p=149341

Along with @prmalone.bsky.social, @heidikitrosser.bsky.social, and several colleagues at Stanford, I filed this amicus brief on behalf of 363 law professors in support of Perkins Coie and the rule of law. We will file similar briefs for Jenner and Wilmer Hale law.stanford.edu/publications...

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

I have always been proud to have spent my time in practice at Williams & Connolly, but maybe never more so than now as firm after firm capitulates to blatantly illegal executive orders and grovels at the feet of a dictator. abovethelaw.com/2025/03/skad...

I’m proud of the deans who signed this letter. If we don’t stand up for the rule of law, what exactly are we doing in law schools? abovethelaw.com/2025/03/law-...

How many things are unconstitutional in Trump‘s latest Executive Order … www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trumps-ele...

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

Some schools will make clear they will go to court to preserve academic freedom and those schools will have their pick of faculty

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

Law is one of the least diverse professions. Despite decades of attention to the under representation of women in law firm partnerships and leadership positions, this visual shows the CURRENT stats. And don’t even get me started on women of color, who are shockingly underrepresented.

The only way out of this is structural reform of how corporations operate and the place to begin is in Delaware. First by opposing the Musk-friendly amendments and then by proposing actual worker involvement in corporate governance.

The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

If DE is massively overhauling its corporate law, and it’s a progressive state, it should include shared governance provisions to let workers have a voice on the boards of companies where they work.

NLRB commissioner Gwynne Wilcox sued today, rightly arguing that her removal violated statutory protections and Supreme Court precedent. Represented by Gupta Wessler: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

SMU Dedman School of Law professor @joannagrossman.bsky.social explains that Donald Trump’s reinstatement and expansion of the global gag rule will cause severe and lasting harm to global reproductive health services.

I see the NLRB has removed Wilcox from their website. I don’t understand this kind of acquiescence by an independent agency.

What the US's National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said after she was fired by President Donald Trump is pretty spicy.

One thing about Inspectors General is that they are not generally of the personality type to just say yeah ok well I guess that’s that.

Well it looks like Trump II’s Board will look a lot like Trump I. Congrats to all the folks who thought Trump would be more labor-friendly this time.

Smooth Criminals Melania's garb looks lifted from a Michael Jackson music video, and Bad Donald is even more Dangerous while insisting "E. Jean is not my lover!" His agenda has shifted off the Wall; this term, he wanna be starting something with Greenland. Joe: I want you back! by Maureen Dowd

With literally minutes left in his presidency, Joe Biden has granted clemency to Leonard Peltier

🧵📊 Did you wake up today wondering how the Federalist Society is on gender? I mean, you probably know, but empirical knowing hits different! As I continue to dissect what I believe to be the first large-scale data about FedSoc activities, I can now show how it's overwhelmingly a boys' club. #LawSky

Once any space becomes less than 40% male, (straight) men tend to cede it entirely while shouting about how it “went woke”. Fascinating read:

Day 21 of my Texas Hates Mothers and Children Advent Calendar: Texas opts out of USDA program to provide low-income students with free lunch over the summer. www.kvue.com/article/news...

Our paper (w/ Jarkko Harju and @schoefer.bsky.social ) on what happened when Finland introduced a right to worker representation on corporate boards, now in @aeajournals.bsky.social: Applied. 👇

Absolutely thrilled to share that @libraryreads.bsky.social has selected THE NOTE as a top 10 read for January. Available 1/7!

going to keep posting about this piece because I really think that everyone online should read it: www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67. Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@matthewtbodie.bsky.social was interviewed by @npr.org about a complaint issued by the @nlrbgov.bsky.social saying participants in the @netflix.com reality show Love Is Blind are employees rather than contestants and therefore eligible for basic labor protections under federal law. z.umn.edu/a1jy

BREAKING: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee. This means the Democrats will not secure control of the national labor regulator through 2026. These two Senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins.

“If I asked your brother whether you guys killed your parents, what would he tell me?” theonion.com/judge-delays...

It’s widely accepted *that* less expensive housing markets see less homelessness, but this important piece shows *why*: family & friends have more space to spare worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ho...

Day 5 of my Texas Hates Mothers and Children advent calendar: Texas gives $140 million a year to crisis pregnancy centers, which use deception and more to coerce women not to have abortions while providing few if any services. www.jezebel.com/texas-gave-a...

There are many fights still to come, but this decision stands to make a huge difference for educators. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Looks good from the air but on the ground it’s more challenging.