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Some exciting news: today my UVA Law School faculty colleagues voted to recommend me for tenure. Hoping to spend many more years in this community of brilliant scholars and students!

For UVA Law School students who value the rule of law, I encourage you to seriously consider cutting Paul, Weiss LLP from your OGI list (and swing by during interviews and tell them why).

I'm proud to be part of this statement released by 68 @uvalaw faculty colleagues, on the recent executive orders and administration actions. tinyurl.com/statementof68u… It's great to see so many law colleagues speaking up for the rule of law & the legal profession.

Mila Versteeg quoted in the The New York Times today on the prospects of a Trump third term: "Mila Versteeg, a law professor at [UVA Law School] and the study’s lead author, said such leaders try to wrap their power grabs in the veneer of legality." nytimes.com/2025/04/06/us/…

.Mila Versteeg, Kevin Cope, & Gaurav Mukherjee argue that "The New Homelessness" will remain a fixture of American law and politics. californialawreview.org/print/new-home…

📷 1/3 Capitulation to Trump is not the only option ahead for Big Law, writes Rachel Cohen & Kevin Cope, former Skadden attorneys. Here are two others: slate.com/news-and-polit…

Richmond City Council prohibits any resident speaker from *mentioning* Mayor Dr. Danny Avula’s name during meetings! The Times-Dispatch asked me whether that’s unconstitutional. Short answer: most certainly yes.

UVA Professor Kevin Cope is skeptical of the claim that John Reid is being defamed. “Given that the three social media accounts all had the same name, I think it’s plausible that one can conclude that they may have belonged to the same person." More tonight on 8News WRIC Richmond

Congrats(?) Ashley!

Would a defamation claim by VA Lt. Gov. candidate John Reid succeed against Governor Glenn Youngkin's PAC? As I tell 8News WRIC Richmond, it'd be tough.

Celebrating the Confederacy is despicable, but stripping Confederate groups of tax exemptions probably violates the 1st Amendment. I talked to WVTF & RADIO IQ about the issue this afternoon.

Did you see the crimson-soaked markup of the Education Department’s letter to Harvard? Social media loved it. I did, too—until I noticed that most of those “errors” weren’t errors at all. The critic knocks the letter for crimes such as how it starts sentences, uses phrases like

Congrats Adam!

My op-ed in the Atlantic this morning with Mila Versteeg was originally called “Why American Democracy is Harder to Break.” And I really do believe that’s true. But as we say in the article, that can’t be an excuse for complacency.

My good friends and constitutional scholars Kevin Cope and Mila Versteeg UVA Law School wrote a great piece in the Atlantic regarding the current resilience of the American constitution against the threat of autocracy, worth a read! theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The 2025 Political Economy & Public Law conference covered #research on an array of topics- from disclosure rules to Congressional oversight committees to small business-favoring provisions to executive orders. Thank you to all who made this event such a success!