Wohoo! And it’s about time…
The Oneida Nation endowed a chair for an Indian Law scholar at HLS and they’ve been trying to fill it for DECADES. It took the incredible badass that is Tanner to break down that door finally.
So proud and excited. This is a win for Indian Country and for the field!
I am thrilled that my article exploring the STRONG protection that 1A law provides against govt jawboning is now out in @uchilrev.bsky.social. It is deeply depressing however that understanding the law of jawboning remains so impt today lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...
For decades, it has been black letter law that the informal exercise of government power can violate the First Amendment when it creates an “informal system of censorship.” Lower courts have been deep...
After a grueling 9 months on the academic job market, I’m thrilled to announce that on July 1, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! I’m so excited to bring Native American law and legal history to HLS, and I cannot wait to join the incredible faculty there!
Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese
Genevieve Lakier
Tanner Allread
Texas A&M Law Review 13:2 (2026) is a symposium issue on constitutional interpretation with many contributions of interest to legal historians:
Constitutional Interpretation as Problem Solving: How the Modalities Work
Jack M. Balkin
Originalist Arguments in Free Speech History
Samantha Barbas
Race, Memory, and Authority in Constitutional Interpretation
Henry L. Chambers, Jr.
Memory Warriors, Pluralists, and Abnegators in Constitutional Interpretation: An Essay on Jack Balkin's Pluralist Originalism in Memory and Authority
Jed Handelsman Shugerman and Zachary Shugerman Handelsman
Balkin Amid Balkanization: Constitutional Construction, the Uses of History, and Interpretive Discretion in a Divided Country
Neil S. Siegel
Memory and Authority of Failed Constitutional Amendments
Julie C. Suk
Historical Methods of Constitutional Interpretation and Political Gradations
Nelson Tebbe
Roger Taney, Memory Entrepreneur
Anne Twitty
Hermeneutics in History
John Fabian Witt
Remarks: Why Constitutional Argument Matters
Philip Bobbitt
--Dan Ernst
Congrats to Andy Hessick, who has been named the next dean of UNC Law!
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Together, we can end the tyranny of unsweetened vanilla almond milk!
A historic hire for HLS. Congrats to Tanner, whose work you should be reading and citing!
Very happy to see that the final version of "The Moral Complacency of Federal Indian Law" has been published on the Minnesota Law Review's website:
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These stories hit different when your own child was born in the same hospital during the same time period.
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Stay tuned for a follow-up article later this summer!