Clinical Prof., Cornell Law School. That brown gay law prof who makes ice cream & laughs too loud. Currently mired in the Constitution, speech, tech, clinical legal education, and the legal profession. Not the best but pretty good. Always MI ✋🏾
Gautam Hans
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Important to stress that:
a) Pelley isn't some resistance hero, he's a reactionary centrist;
b) Even this wasn't enough for Bari
Today on the blog I offer another outside-the-box political reform: increase the size of the House of Reps. If Congress won't do it by statute, the states can by ratifying what was proposed in 1789 as the original First Amendment and nearly secured ratification in the early Republic. 👇
I love SummerStage and was lucky to be at that Devo show when it rained, during my college years. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/a...
Paul Ohm on AI on Jotwell: The New “Normal” - Technology Law cyber.jotwell.com/the-new-norm...
This OLC opinion is Callais redux. A conservative SCOTUS gutted disparate impact in the 1989 Wards Cove decision, Congress acted (in a prominent and hard-fought battle w/President GHWB) to overturn Wards Cove. Now OLC would restore Wards Cove (or worse) regardless. www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...
How can we better insulate federal funding to universities from political interference?
In a new essay, @dorfonlaw.bsky.social proposes new models for distributing research funds outside direct government control to help protect research and academic freedom.
The rule against viewpoint discrimination is one of the most imptl in First A law. But as I show in a new paper, forthcoming in the U Penn Law Review, the test of viewpoint discrimination has changed a LOT in the past few decades, in good ways and bad. 🧵
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This disgraceful story has led me to conclude I can’t watch the Men’s World Cup this year. All relevant parties with power have acted in a corrupt, indefensible, and embarrassing fashion.
My colleagues in @cornelllaw.bsky.social's Entrepreneurship Clinic are hiring for a faculty member to be based here in Ithaca. The posting is live here: apps.hr.cornell.edu/recruiting/f...
A really wonderful interview with the designer of the Knicks logo. What a successful design — so much so that I was surprised that the person who designed it could still be alive. It feels like it has always been the logo. www.curbed.com/article/new-...
Whenever I hear someone say that "the First Amendment is first for a reason," I'm tempted to respond: "Yes, and the reason is that the origi...
<p><span>The prohibition against viewpoint discrimination is one of the oldest and most important principles of First Amendment law. But what it means to viewpo
