My article, State Climate Superfunds, has been years in the making, and I'm so thrilled it is now published with Columbia Law Review:
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Heads up for everyone in Ann Arbor!
@literatibookstore.bsky.social @aadl.org
Hard to put into words (even for me) just how lawless & partisan this is.
It is the Court (effectively) saying that, actually, unconstitutional intentional racial discrimination is A-OK; the equivalent of the Court's slush fund for insurrectionists - but a legal regime for white supremacists.
Michigan Lawyers Weekly has chosen Professor Dana A. Thompson, ’99, as a 2026 Legal Innovation Award honoree for Innovation in Legal Education, specifically citing her work as the founding director of the Law School’s Zell Entrepreneurship Clinic.
michigan.law.umich.edu/news/thompso...
Great work from a bunch of my UM colleagues on the impact of Michigan’s Medicaid expansion. It reinforces the conclusion that the ACA was a great step forward, and the OBBBA is a serious threat.
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Social science shows that we tend to underestimate the coercion others feel when pressured by authority. Some states already require reasonable suspicion before consent searches can occur. Use the data in this pleading to argue that yours should too: datafordefenders.org/wp-content/u...
In a recent article, Gabriel V. Rauterberg and Jeffery Y. Zhang of @umichlaw.bsky.social argue that shadow banks remain under-regulated and call for the SEC to use securities law to mitigate systemic risk. www.theregreview.org/2026/06/04/h...
The #NJSupremeCourt recently recognized the scientific controversy around shaken baby syndrome. Check out this motion to argue your case #junkscience #publicdefendertwitter #D4D datafordefenders.org/wp-content/u...
"Our four fellows this year demonstrate how important it is to have caring, thoughtful people in government roles."
Read about this year's Fiske Fellows:
michigan.law.umich.edu/news/four-mi...
It’s Wednesday. That means another episode of #SistersSidebar where we answer your questions. You can listen here.
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Introduction On a summer day in July 2023, the skies over Vermont turned apocalyptic. A massive thunderstorm dumped two months of rainfall over the state in about twenty four hours, leading to flash f...
Book tour heads home to Ann Arbor on Sunday evening, when I will
discuss The Fix with Leigh Greden at 6:30 pm at the main library branch. Please join us!
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Michigan Lawyers Weekly has chosen Professor Dana A. Thompson, ’99, as a 2026 Legal Innovation Award honoree for Innovation in Legal Education, specifically citing her work as the founding director of...
With Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social & Deuel Ross @legaldefensefund.bsky.social on SCOTUS’s brazenly lawlesss decision to let AL use discriminatory maps - and more broadly to invite states to intentionally discriminate on the basis of race m.youtube.com/watch?v=6GM6...
