Looking forward to today's session of "Law & Inequality" (@PennLaw, w/ Shaun Ossei Owusu)! We're talking about how non-citizen immigrants access social welfare programs, esp. healthcare, and the complex role of federalism. Prof. Medha D. Makhlouf will join us to talk about her terrific work.

Time to re-cap last week's session of "Law & Inequality," a 1L elective @PennLaw (w/ Shaun Ossei Owusu). This session focused on noncitizen access to social welfare protections, esp. healthcare. We designed it around the work of Prof. Medha D. Makhlouf, who generously joined us. 🧵(1/x)

The legal academy churns out many of the penal bureaucrats that today sustain carceral institutions and practices. In the wake of George Floyd's murder, Shaun Ossei Owusu writes that it may be time for criminal legal educators to read the room. inquest.org/making-penal-b…

"This notable new Inquest essay by Shaun Ossei Owusu should perhaps lead every criminal law professor to give some thought to whether and how we are just 'Making Penal Bureaucrats.'"

Law School faculty take note. Strong stuff from Shaun Ossei Owusu.

This is Balls & Strikes, a site for critical, progressive, bullshit-free commentary about courts, judges, and the legal system they uphold. Here’s a note from EIC Jay Willis ✌️ about who we are, what we’re doing, and how you can be a part of it. ballsandstrikes.org/announcements/…

Our regular contributors are among the sharpest writers on the legal left. Today: Essays from Elie Mystal, snipy & Barred and Boujee and on Bluesky aka Madiba Dennie. Next: @the_law_boy, @aywarhiannon & Adam Cohen. Soon: Michael, @jduffyrice & Shaun Ossei Owusu. Probably never: Sam Alito ballsandstrikes.org

The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Penn Program on Regulation has put together a great lecture series on Race & Regulation this fall. Check it out: pennreg.org/2021/09/14/rac…. Lecturers include Guy-Uriel Charles Dorothy Roberts Chris Brummer

I wrote a piece about guns, the Supreme Court and Clarence Thomas.

[taps mic] Shaun Ossei Owusu making his Balls & Strikes debut today, on Clarence Thomas's long-awaited goal of kicking off gun rights revolution in the name of racial justice ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/clarenc…

Justice Alito complained about the plight of blue-collar workers (minorities)—who face gauntlets of armed criminals on late-night trains. His questions sounded like those of a man whose primary experience with the NYC train came from watching Grandmaster Flash’s “The Message.”

Words are truly inadequate to express the full measure of Prof Ogletree. It is hard to believe that one person did so much and touched so many. He really did make the world a better place. We will treasure and honor all that he has bequeathed to us. His work will live on.