Civil Procedure, Employment Law, and Constitutional Law Professor @STCL_Houston. Husband, dog dad, Florida Gators fan, trivia nerd. He/him/his.
Houston, TX
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Breaking: 🚨 Today, One Fair Wage joined current and former Chili’s workers, attorneys, and NY lawmakers outside the federal courthouse at 500 Pearl Street in NYC to announce a class-action lawsuit against Chili’s parent company, Brinker International.
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Honored to have @SeinerLaborProf review my new article in @IReadJotwell: worklaw.jotwell.com/how-far-…!
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Most low-income Texans face civil legal problems alone. Texas should allow cheaper, AI-assisted help where today there is no help at all, Ryan H. Nelson writes. | Opinion statesman.com/opinion/column…
Ethics rules say lawyers must verify AI output. But that makes AI-assisted legal help unaffordable. My new op-ed in @statesman argues that we should change that. statesman.com/opinion/column…
Excited to announce that my new article, Pre-Arbitral Red Tape, is now forthcoming in the @UCILawReview! Draft available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.….
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My wonderful @SetonHallLaw colleague Tim Glynn and I were thrilled to present the Miller Award for a senior work law scholar to Catherine Fisk (@BerkeleyLaw) and the Zimmer Award for a junior work law scholar to @RyanHNelson (@STCL_Houston) @COSELLWorkLaw 2025 @SetonHallLaw 🏅🏆
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My new article, Queer Accommodations, is now in print! It explores the accommodations that queer workers need to do their jobs, focusing mostly on trans and non-binary workers.
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Just posted a draft of my new article arguing that we don’t really know how far work law reaches, such blindness causes significant problems, and overcoming those problems would be especially difficult: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…. Feedback welcome!
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My new essay in @GB2d explains why the Supreme Court actually didn't misspell the defendant’s name in Dred Scott v. Sandford. Check it out!
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Honored to have my @FordhamLRev article, An Employment Discrimination Class Action by Any Other Name, highlighted by Charles Sullivan this morning in @IReadJotwell: worklaw.jotwell.com/avoiding….
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It's a wrap on a marvelous @COSELLWorkLaw 2024 hosted by @USanDiegoLaw+@CWSL_News! See you next year @SetonHallLaw🏙️ Thank you to participants @OrlyLobel @mikeselmi @DorfmanDoron @MichaelMOswalt @profRSAR @gracabi @LawProfJHarris @LevinsonAriana @marciamccormick @WorkLawProf =>
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The Houston Chronicle just published my op-ed explaining why the Texas Department of Public Safety violated Texas law earlier this week by refusing to accept state court orders that change a Texan's sex. Link below.
By denying trans people's court orders, Texas DPS flouts the Constitution | Opinion trib.al/mWVoEJU
My essays found homes! Is Snap Removal Unconstitutional? will be published in @PeppLawReview (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…), and Article III Standing in Federal Prosecutions of "Victimless Crimes" will be published in the online companion to @FordhamLRev (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…).
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It's the wages, not the taxes, that need to be fixed for restaurant workers. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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1/X What's going on with Title IX and LGBTQ rights? For those who haven't been able to keep up with the many developments, this is a (longish) 🧵 on regulations, emergency applications pending at the Supreme Court, and the stakes for LGBTQ educational equality.
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The labor movement has an important role to play in securing and protecting LGBTQ+ rights. Joanna Wuest's new post for @MurphyInstitute and @Sage_Publishing's New Labor Forum is now featured on @PowerAtWorkBlog - read it now at poweratwork.us/queer-working…! #LGBTQ #labor #unions4all
Check out my @BLaw article proposing a lottery system for regulation challenges.
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@ChicagoKentLaw symposium, All About Accommodations. Group photo and excellent presentations by two of the speakers, @RyanHNelson (Queer Accommodations) and @DorfmanDoron (Third Party Accommodations).
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It’s a wrap on the All About Accommodations symposium @ChicagoKentLaw! W @nicolebporter @KatAMacfarlane @sachinspandya @RyanHNelson @lcholdenbrown Kerri Stone, Dallan Flake, Alex Long.
From employment law to health law, I’m heading to Cambridge for the @HarvardJOLT symposium ✈️
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