Join us this Friday for Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ & National Review Institute's annual #SCOTUS preview feat. Dan McLaughlin Caroline Cecot & Sullivan & Cromwell's Morgan Ratner Register here: pacificlegal.org/events/supreme…

If you need a distraction from election day coverage, check out my colleague Ethan "Wizzard" Blevins's piece on Utah's fight to reclaim land from the federal government: National Review Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ nationalreview.com/2024/11/its-ti…

Nominations are open for 2025 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts! Deadline Jan 8. Anything produced in 2024 is eligible. ambar.org/o104mbhx

Ignore the dramatic headline and instead read it as "Swampbuster, an Archaic Law on Wetlands, Gets the Challenge it Deserves" and then you'll understand the reason why Jeffrey McCoy and others at Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ are helping America's farmers nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/…

Just another agency operating as judge, jury, and executioner. Check out PLF's brief by my colleagues William M Yeatman and Oliver Dunford here: supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/2…

The federal government has been selling land regularly for 250 years. My only problem with Mike Lee's proposal to sell more land is it doesn't go far enough. Check out my post about it at Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️. pacificlegal.org/we-need-to-sel…

Attention legal academics and scholarly minded practitioners, Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ has 3 calls for papers open: originalism and justiciability doctrines, environmental law, and the "bundle of sticks." Check them out, and consider submitting a proposal. pacificlegal.org/call-for-paper…

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If dirt law isn't your thing, Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ is also seeking papers related to water law 🚿🌊🥤🤽‍♀️🌧️ pacificlegal.org/call-for-paper…

1. Live now on the Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ website: our Call for Papers on The Colorblind Constitution.

Attention old #SCOTUS101 fans .... 😍 Tiffany Bates law.gmu.edu/news/2025/tiff…

My colleague Alison Somin wrote a Volokh Conspiracy post about how American Bar Association has used its accreditation power to pressure law schools to engage in race and sex discrimination in admissions and faculty hiring. Check it out: reason.com/volokh/2025/07…

In Sackett v. EPA, Pacific Legal 🗡⚖️ won a major victory, providing clarity in defining what waters are "Waters of the U.S" under the CWA. A new #WOTUS rule is expected. This podcast explains what a rule needs to include to be consistent with Sackett. tinyurl.com/45k869ds

1. Thread that's an adapted version of speech I gave to Madison, WI Federalist Society lawyer chapter about mentorship. Spoilers: includes baby ducklings imprinting on a wooden spoon, Victor Hugo's Ninety-Three, whether cream cheese is good, and the Battle Hymn of the Republic.