Super super excited to host lawyers, business strategists, and data scientists from the Dallas Mavericks and the Dallas Cowboys at SMU Dedman School of Law SMU Tsai Center ! Register here: smu-forms.libwizard.com/id/5111c23a491…

Hope y'all can join us for this Dallas Bar Ass'n AI event today!

"I just want to recommend a wonderful podcast called A Place to Sleep which did a more journalistic account of the background of the case and the issues that it involves. It's definitely worth checking out," Said my hero Leah Litman 😍 democratherald.com/news/local/gov…

Gearing up for oral args in Grants Pass on Mon? Check out these great resources: 1. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bro… (Penny Rosenberg, legacy) 2. themarshallproject.org/2024/04/10/sup… (Maurice Chammah🍹🎻 et al.)

If you missed the discussion of the Supreme Court's 8th A Grants Pass with Marisa Kendall, Mina Kim 김미나, and me KQED Forum, check it out here: kqed.org/forum/20101019…

It’s official! I have the best team! 4 1st places for 4 epis of our limited podcast series on homelessness, A Place to Sleep. Thank you Greater Oregon SPJ Shayla Escudero @kugwuede K. Alex Powers Hans Boyle Cody Mann podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-p…

Not surprisingly, Ct finds no 8th A violation in Grants Pass. Majority also doesn't acknowledge evolving standards of decency & instead focuses on historical approach. Not surprising for this Ct, but significant considering ESD are at the heart of traditional 8th A jurisprudence.

#Breaking: Texas hides the source of its execution drugs. Chiara Eisner 🎤 just revealed it on NPR. Rite Away in San Antonio sold lethal pentobarbital to the state’s prisons while facing a DEA lawsuit, fines, and other accusations around opioid deaths. vpm.org/npr-news/npr-n…

Professor Meghan J. Ryan's article, "Taking Another Look at Second-Look Sentencing," was cited in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in Trump v. United States. Read the article: shorturl.at/Z3wpi Read the opinion: shorturl.at/bsTll

Finally, the 5th Cir. issues its opinion in Hopkins v. Watson--upholds lifetime felon disenfranchisment provision that was challenged pursuant to 8th A.

A colleague recently directed me to this great article (which I somehow missed back in April) by @ljstprof about rehabilitation on death row, as demonstrated by the case of Brian Dorsey (Missouri). Congrats, and thanks for discussing my work, Prof. Sarat! thehill.com/opinion/458260…

For those of you still on here, I just posted my short piece on Grants Pass, which Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law kindly invited me to write. It calls out the Ct for again chipping away at the 8th A by quietly narrowing the def'ns of "cruel and unusual" & "punishments" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

With news of AI predicting crime circulating again on X, I thought it might be a good time to mention my forthcoming Tulane Law Review piece, which emphasizes importance of digging into differences between humans and machines--an issue at the heart of law: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Idaho House widely passes bill to make firing squad main execution method Kyle Pfannenstiel Idaho Capital Sun #deathpenalty idahocapitalsun.com/2025/02/06/ida…

Thanks, Lawrence Solum, for reading and highly recommending it!