Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social Clinical Professor of Law, UC Irvine | Workers, Law & Organizing Clinic | law & social movements, legal education, abolitionist futures | losing my edge
The Public’s Science @thepublicsscience.bsky.social A platform of scholars, policymakers, and communities reimagining how publicly funded research can serve diverse publics.
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods. www.benwansell.com
Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social Economist & public safety expert. Author, The Science of Second Chances. Host/author, @ProbCausation podcast & substack. Passionate about ROI.
https://jenniferdoleac.com
Social Science Research Council @ssrc.org The Social Science Research Council is an independent nonprofit that for 100 years has mobilized social & behavioral science for global policy impact. ssrc.org
Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social Law prof @ UCLA. I study equality and oligarchy.
Most recent book @ https://anti-oligarchy.com
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social Legal historian. Recovering ironist.
Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ More books & essays: https://www.marydudziak.com/
#lawsky 🗃
Karen Tani @kmtani.bsky.social Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor in Law & History @Penn. Co-runs the Legal History Blog. Researches/writes about law & modern U.S. history: civil rights, social welfare, disability, federalism, agencies, the state. Dog person.
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Native American Rights Fund @nativerights.bsky.social Native-led nonprofit that holds governments accountable & protects Native rights, resources, and lifeways through litigation, legal advocacy, & expertise.🪶#NARF #NativeRights
Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social Author, punster, baseball fan, whisky lover, cocktail maker. Limericks happen here. Written on the Dark now released in paperback, Canada, U.S., U.K. Print, ebook, audiobook.
Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social Data science + math for social justice. Violist, yogi, husband, dad to human & dogs. 🏳️🌈 Views do not represent my employers.
Author of Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change.
Order at: https://bit.ly/4nT7qUh
Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social Founder of Liminal (LiminalCreations.com) & co-founder of Unbreaking (Unbreaking.org) Focused on turning knowledge into action. #science #communication #sensemaking #scicomm She/her. Married to Ed Yong.
Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Tracking autocratic legalism around the world from Princeton University.
Keith E. Whittington @kewhittington.bsky.social David Boies Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Founding Chair, Academic Freedom Alliance; Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution. All opinions are mine alone. Personal website at https://keithewhittington.com/
Can’t Stop Twinkling 💕💚 @proftolson.bsky.social Dean & Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law @USCGouldLaw. Order my book! https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/law/us-law/congress-we-trust-enforcing-voting-rights-founding-jim-crow-era?format=PB&isbn=9781009781619
Tanner Allread @tannerallread.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law | Indian Law Scholar and Legal Historian | Okie | Chahta | Queer | he/him/his
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/tanner-allread/
Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social Political scientist at Penn. Comparative politics, parties, elections, electoral systems, representation, Japanese politics.
Peter K. Enns @peterenns.bsky.social https://peterenns.org/ Professor of Government & Public Policy, Cornell University; Robert S. Harrison Director of https://socialsciences.cornell.edu/; Co-founder, https://www.verasight.io/
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social Clinical Prof., Cornell Law School. That brown gay law prof who makes ice cream. Speech, tech, clinical legal education, and the legal profession. Not the best but pretty good. Always MI ✋🏾
Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social #Notacourt but yes a law prof
Sean Hecht @seanbhecht.bsky.social Personal account, opinions my own. Angeleno by birth and by choice. Managing attorney at a major environmental law NGO. Former UCLA law prof/climate institute co-director.
Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social Distinguished Prof of Law & History @UCLALaw, cat lady, mom, lover of democracy. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Www.arielajgross.com
Vera Institute of Justice @vera.org We’re fighting to secure equal justice for all, end mass incarceration, and strengthen families + communities
Theodore R. Johnson @drtedj.bsky.social Writer | Contributing columnist @WashingtonPost | Senior Fellow @NewAmerica | Navy vet | ΩΨΦ | HBCU-educated
Jesse Wegman @jessewegman.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice; Major Questions, a newsletter on Supreme Court reform; NY Times Editorial Board, 2013-2025. "The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People’s Constitution" (Celadon, forthcoming June 2026)
Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit group working to prevent authoritarianism. This account is owned and operated by Protect Democracy United.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Ex-DOJ/OLC. Becoming familiar with your game.
How Rights Went Wrong available at Bookshop.org (https://tinyurl.com/se32my4r), Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/3vbcfwa4), or a decent public library.- R Richard Primus @richardprimus.bsky.social Professor, University of Michigan Law School. Senior Editorial Adviser, Journal of American Constitutional History. I study the constitutional past and try to do my part for the rule of law in the present.
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@RGoodLaw
Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org. Chaired Prof at NYU Law. Former Chaired Prof Harvard. Former Special Counsel Defense Dept.
https://www.justsecurity.org/author/goodmanryan
Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social If you're eligible & want to vote, making sure you can, it's meaningful, and it sticks. Pro-democracy, pro-republic. He/his. Loyola law prof, former WH, former DOJ, former Natl Voter Protection Dir, forever NJDevils fan
Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer.
Emily Bremer @emilysbremer.bsky.social Notre Dame Law School professor. Administrative law geek. Should be writing. Papers here: ssrn.com/author=926820
Kristin E. Hickman @khickmanjd.bsky.social McKnight Presidential Professor in Law, University of Minnesota Law School. Tax & administrative law scholar. Administrative Law Treatise co-author.
Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social Early American legal and political history. Presidential power. Probably kidding.
NYU Law Democracy Project @democracyproject.bsky.social New Project at NYU School of Law exploring the challenges facing democracy today. democracyproject.org
Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social Defunct account of Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report. Opinions here are my own. Decent people fight evil.
Signal: KenWhite.1969
Just Security @justsecurity.org Forum on law, rights, and security. Editorial Board includes professors, top civil society attorneys, former senior government officials.
Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social Director, Program on Law & Public Policy, Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs. Charles & Marie Robertson Visiting Professor of Law & Public Affairs. Still teaching Con law, still aiming to get out of the new social media market.
Molly Reynolds @mollyereynolds.bsky.social Senior Fellow, @brookings.edu. Still not the Senate Parliamentarian.
Marin K. Levy @marinklevy.bsky.social Professor of Law, Duke Law School; Academic Director of the Bolch Judicial Institute. Mother of sons & spinner of ⚖️🧵s.
Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social Co-Founder AH Datalytics. NOLA kid. Longhorn. Former CIA officer. 2004 Intramural Softball Champion (C-League). Not a criminologist!
Newsletter: https://jasher.substack.com/
Jasher@ahdatalytics.com
"Some genius, Jeff Asher" - Ann Coulter
Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social President & Director-Counsel of LDF (NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.) the nation's premier racial justice & civil rights law organization.
Posts are my own.
Prf McKanders @prfmckanders.bsky.social Civil rights strategist 📚 | Spelman + Duke 🎓 | Legal scholar on race + migration ⚖️ | Director @ Thurgood Marshall Institute 🖤 | Turning history + law into tools for liberation ✊🏾
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social Prof Boston U. Law. JD/PhD History & dad jokes.
5th most-cited legal historian, 2019-23
Book: The People’s Courts. Next: A Faithful President: The Founders v. the Originalists
http://shugerblog.com
http://ssrn.com/author=625422
Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com I'm a political scientist in the @mccourtschool.bsky.social. I study trust in institutions & media effects on the public. Apologies for typos.
Web page: https://www.jonathanmladd.com/
Arati Prabhakar @aratip.bsky.social Advocating for science & technology for our future. Former Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/welcome
pollster: https://wavepolling.com
book: wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polls/forecasts: @fiftyplusone.news
formerly 538 & The Economist
@kareemcrayton.bsky.social @kareemcrayton.bsky.social
Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social My Book: Giving Up Is Unforgivable |UALawSchool |MSNOW Legal Analyst |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor|Wife & Mom of 4|Knits a lot|Civil Discourse newsletter: joycevance.substack.com
FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news polling aggregation and data-driven journalism from the former research team of fivethirtyeight. https://www.FiftyPlusOne.news
Alex Hertel-Fernandez @awhf.bsky.social Columbia SIPA professor studying labor policy, politics of policy design, and political economy. Co-director of Consortium on American Political Economy & Columbia Labor Lab. Former Biden-Harris Department of Labor and Office of Management and Budget.
Dr. Maya Kornberg @kornbergmaya.bsky.social Senior Fellow @BrennanCenter.org
Author of the new book "Stuck" - https://www.brennancenter.org/stuck-how-money-media-and-violence-prevent-change-congress
*Opinions my own*
State Democracy Research Initiative @uwlawdemocracy.bsky.social Research hub at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Shining a spotlight on democracy, government, and public law in states across the USA.
Ian Shapiro @ianshapiro.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Tennessee State University. Political Psychology, Voting Rights, Surveys, and Experiments. Owns dog. Bikes fast. Previously, Brennan Center Post-Doc.
Margy O’Herron @margyoh.bsky.social Immigration Law and Policy Expert | Senior Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU | Migration and Human Rights Fellow, Cornell Law School | Former Biden Administration Domestic Policy Council | Former Department of Justice
Elizabeth Linos @elizabethlinos.bsky.social Professor of Public Policy & Management, Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty Director, The People Lab
ElizabethLinos.com
peoplelab.hks.harvard.edu
Aaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Law @law.ucla.edu
Faculty Director of Prisoners’ Rights Clinic
Deputy Director of Behind Bars Data Project
Scholarship at ssrn.com/author=1925841
Fionnuala NÍ Aoláin KC (Hons) @niaolainf.bsky.social Regents Law Professor, Minnesota Law + Professor QUB Law School (Belfast)+ Director MN HRC. ICJ. RIA. FBA. Former UN SR Counter-Terrorism & Human Rights (2017-23). Member of the UN Commission of Inquiry (Syria); Irish, Gaeilgeoir, Mom, Loves Yoga & Hiking.
Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social Professor of Law @NYULaw (but views are not my employer’s) | Legal History, Administrative State, New York State Courts | “agenda-driven naysayer whose head instantiates academic ethers”
Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social Professor, Stanford Law School.
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution.
Author, The Digital 4th Amendment:
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Fourth-Amendment-Privacy-Policing/dp/0190627077/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0- S Dominik Stecuła @stecula.bsky.social COYG
*Not really active on here anymore.*
Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social Personal account. Personal views. Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School & Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy. Former General Counsel, HHS and OMB.
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law.
Administrative law, political theory. Author: The Public’s Law. Personal views only. https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/blake-emerson
Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law, UCLA. Civil rights, police accountability, civil procedure. Author of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (2023). Learn more at: joannaschwartz.net
Sam Breidbart @sam-breidbart.bsky.social thinking about law and history at the Brennan Center; formerly working in NYC gov
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
@gowriramachandran.bsky.social @gowriramachandran.bsky.social
Susan Hyde @sdhyde.bsky.social Poli Sci Prof @ UC Berkeley
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/
Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director @protectdemocracy.org. Former Associate White House Counsel. Tweets my own.
Deborah Hellman @hellmandeborah.bsky.social Professor @ UVA Law School, writing about discrimination law and theory, bribery and corruption.
Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Anne Joseph O’Connell @ajosephoconnell.bsky.social Administrative law & bureaucracy obsessed Stanford Law School professor; former ACUS council member (fired by Trump); writing book, Stand-Ins (on temporary leaders in government, business, & religion); mom of two
Anna Massoglia @annalecta.bsky.social Publisher of InfluenceBrief.com • Editor of @MuckRock, Sunlight Research Desk • Independent analyst • Bibliophile • Views my own, not legal advice • On social media hiatus until January 2026
Sarah Kessler @skess108.bsky.social Advisor and Contributing Editor @ State Court Report
@alittlestoneluria.bsky.social @alittlestoneluria.bsky.social
Adam Sopko @adamsopko.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School • State courts and constitutions
Papers: https://ssrn.com/author=3997386
Alex Alsup @zugislander.bsky.social Parcels & property taxes. Research & Development at Regrid.com
Substack: http://detroit.substack.com
Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
Anthony Sanders @ijsanders.bsky.social Center for Judicial Engagement @IJ.org. Short Circuit podcast. Adj Prof @umnlawschool.bsky.social. Book: Baby 9th Amendments. Victorian London. Opinions=mine. https://ssrn.com/author=2923907
Bree Grossi Wilde @breewilde.bsky.social Executive Director of State Democracy Research Initiative, @uwlawdemocracy.bsky.social.
Bridget Lavender @bridgetlavender.bsky.social state constitutions, federalism, civil rights | currently Staff Attorney at ACLU State Supreme Court Initiative | views are my own
Bridget McCormack @bridgetmarymc.bsky.social CEO and President AAA-ICDR, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Go Blue.
Carlos Chévere Lugo @carloschevere.bsky.social Lawyer-Law Professor-History Lover
Studying constitutional law, state constitutional law, American legal history, and territorial law ❤️🇵🇷
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social Law professor & book author of Corporatocracy, Political Brands & Corporate Citizen; Brennan Center fellow; board of CREW; campaign finance expert. Podcaster of Democracy & Destiny. I’m a lawyer not your lawyer. https://soundcloud.com/profciara #beans
Dan Friedman @judgedanfriedman.bsky.social Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland. State Constitutional Law. Ravens. Orioles. Terps.
(he/him/his)
SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2682084
Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social Harold Washington Prof., Northwestern. Former dean (NU & USD). New book: Good Governing: The Police Power in the American States (Cambridge 2024). Public law, state/local, constitutionalism & democracy, legal ed & higher ed, law-tech, regulation.
Dan Ocampo @danocampo.bsky.social Labor & employment law, gig workers, economics & finance. Long-suffering Spurs fan. Here to learn something new
David Brown @dlbeditorial.bsky.social Writer and editor, mostly on legal issues.
Derek Clinger @derekclinger.bsky.social Senior Counsel, State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School | Ohio State alum | Midwesterner