Charles Nagel Chair in Const'l Law & PolSci @WashULaw @WUSTLPoliSci | Judicial behavior & empirical legal studies | https://xitter.cf/t.co/zIIiDBe8ds
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🎉Today is finally the release date for our book Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings (@stanfordpress; w/ Paul Collins & @Lring86)! While I love the book’s cover, I’m also very excited for you to see what is inside. Here’s a preview 🧵: 1/
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In the News: What could greater representation of Black women in the U.S. Senate mean for policymaking?
A new USA TODAY story examines that question as Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton campaigns for an open U.S. Senate seat. If elected in November, Stratton would serve alongside Sens. Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland — bringing the number of Black women serving simultaneously in the Senate to three.
USA TODAY spoke with Michael Strawbridge, assistant professor of political science and Weidenbaum Center faculty research fellow, about what that representation could mean for policymaking, including attention to maternal and women’s health..
Read the full story here: wc.washu.edu/events
#WashU #WeidenbaumCenter #InTheNews #PoliticalScience
Pleased to have an opportunity to speak with Olivia for this article about the trends in judicial appointments this term.
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지난 1년간 agentic AI의 발전 그 어느 순간보다도 이 “we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models”가 기괴하게 내 발밑을 조각내는 기분이며, 내가 알던 세계는 정말 끝나버렸다는 끔찍한 자각에 몸서리치고 있다..
We congratulate Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster on their remarkable mathematical work.
We (the researchers and the agents) did not see any of their work through any means until they released it publicly — in particular, no specific user data was accessed in order to solve this problem.
While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.
However, our proofs differ significantly and even the precise results proved are different in the Euler case (forced vs. unforced).
This is terrible. Feeling for our @WashULaw grads!
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.@WashULaw is hiring multiple entry level & lateral positions this year! The hiring committee (chaired by me) will be looking broadly across subjects, along with hoping to fill curricular needs in torts, property, contracts, &/or evidence.
Full details: law.washu.edu/news/washu-law…
Highly recommend Roberto Carlos’ @umichpolisci new book Information Brokers: Political Socialization in Latino Immigrant Families to those interested in Amer politics, pol behavior, immigration, and law & society. Super timely data and stories. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
Just went down a rabbit hole to learn about how William Henry Hunt (Jr.) went from deeply connected & powerful Montanan (late 1800s) to governor of Puerto Rico by 1901 to federal judge by 1904. A combo of territorial expertise + family connections + right time-right place!
This is terribly sad news. I was lucky to have Martha as a graduate student in class @UGA_SPIA @PolsUga a few years ago. She was the same sharp voice in class that her listeners & friends knew well, w/ a real world story for nearly every scholarly topic.
accessnorthga.com/news/north…
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New paper: every law in America is technically public. But not really, until now!
With @DenisPeskoff at UC Berkeley, we built a corpus of ~every publicly accessibly city and county law, and released a huge chunk of it!
2.2 million laws, you're (probably) covered in it!
🧵
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BIG NEWS: Senate Judiciary Cmte. (@SenJudiciaryGOP + @JudiciaryDems) have advanced bills that wld:
— Require #SCOTUS videostream oral args + opinion announcements (Cameras in the Courtroom)
— Permit district & appeals courts to videostream proceedings (Sunshine in the Courtroom)
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George, Yoon & Gulati on Clerkship Stacking: legaltheoryblog.com/?p=11230…
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Ran Hirschl was a giant in the field of comparative constitutional law, and one of the most generous and supportive scholars I’ve known.
When a great scholar dies, I like to take the time to read their some of their important work. So that’s what I’m doing this morning (1/2)
🙏🏽 We have lost Ran Hirschl, a great person, scholar, and teacher. He passed away earlier this week on Tuesday, May 19. My condolences to his partner and wife, Ayelet Shachar, and to their son, Shai.
📝 The University of Toronto has published this announcement: politics.utoronto.ca/news/me….
🕊️ May Ran rest in peace.
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Related to the below, I would encourage law reviews to consider commitments to publishing shorter pieces.
Eg, rather than saying ‘nothing over 30k words,’ as many now do, say: ‘we are looking for at least two pieces that are less than 7k words.’
Norms would gradually change.
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Florida federal judge appointed a panel of outside lawyers to weigh in on whether Trump’s $10B lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury can proceed with the president effectively in control of both sides: buff.ly/pBfpm7U
Prev: buff.ly/Jgk6Mwb
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Settlements incoming….
US Judge Alan Albright gave signs he wasn't enjoying the job before his surprise resignation last week, @BLaw discovered.
From a big case backlog to holding hearings virtually to farming out his docket to a Magistrate, Albright was over it.
No paywall.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga…
My delightful WashU law civ pro students this semester got us a cake for the last day of class….and was absolutely amazing 🤩 in all the ways. Montana! Pink! AI! Civ Pro #1! What a special group 💕
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Come work with @ruthgreenwood and me!
Apply to be a Clinical Instructor in Harvard Law School's Election Law Clinic.
The job offers amazing opportunities to litigate novel election law theories and train the next generation of election lawyers.
careers.harvard.edu/job/clin…
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Law profs/students/anyone doing legal scholarship:
If you're not using @zotero to manage cites and research, you should. An unbelievable time saver.
I've revised the Bluebook style for rendering footnotes, w/ detailed instructions on using Zotero:
danepps.github.io/bluebook/