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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him @fivefourpod.bsky.social
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Sometimes the most you can do is the best you can do.
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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social Attorney, former AUSA, father, husband, former JBLC, long-time Knicks fan and occasional talking head
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social Orthodox Jewish father of 5; Litigation Disaster Tour Guide; Jets Fan. Fighting the widening gyre.
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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social Reuters reporter in Massachusetts covering the federal judiciary and major litigation. Alaska expat. Email: nate.raymond@tr.com
Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social Host of the Law&Chaos podcast and newsletter at lawandchaospod.com
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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent. Design patent geek. Also interested in #ScheduleA litigation. Full bio (including link to CV): https://kentlaw.iit.edu/law/faculty-scholarship/faculty-directory/sarah-fackrell
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social DC reporter for Reuters on crime, justice and investigations. Data, documents and "convoluted KGB style back-door" stuff. Lawyer, but not yours. 202-527-9709, brad.heath@tr.com
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social Nearly 20 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social dumb laws deserve my thoughts on them
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City Saint/Country Saint with L. Ron
remember the law pods? those were fun.
Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social Law professor @TempleLaw, suburban gardener, avid reader. Happy to nerd out about legal writing anytime.
Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social Thinking about people thinking about other people. First Amendment, interpretive methodologies, criminal law, law & humanities, theories of mind. Assistant Professor @umichlaw.bsky.social. 💙💛 she/her. hwalser.wordpress.com
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Virgil Abt @abtnatural.bsky.social Federal Register Enjoyer. PACER pay-pig since it was 7 cents/page. Knitting theorist. Ancient UNIX and Lisp hackery. Knows the T cycle count for every Z-80 instruction.
T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social In-House Counsel @ BigTech. Ex-"Computers Guy," then decade litigating 1A in NC+TX. Servant to two cats (and a dog and a wife). Armchair Philanthropist.
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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social Biglaw appellate lawyer, #FlyFishing angler, orchidophile, native Texan & erstwhile NewYorker, public school supporter, Birdie’s Mom & Bonus Mom to 2 awesome teens. Speaking for me not my firm, not your lawyer. #AppellateSky ⚖️ #Orchids #LadyLawyerDiaries
J.J. @jdotj.bsky.social Lawyer, mom, wife, podcaster, hobbyist photographer, and avid fan of chronically underperforming sports teams (mostly)
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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social inside fishsticks outside tarter sauce
Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social I would prefer not to.
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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social McGlinchey Stafford Associate Prof/Research Dean at Tulane Law. Criminal law, rural legal systems, sexual assault, punishment, and cultural criticism. Atrevida y obstinada.
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Molly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social SDNY and NYSS courts reporter, New York Daily News. Irishwoman. https://mollycranenewman.com/About
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
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Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social NYC Courts Reporter for Courthouse News
📍Brooklyn, NY
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social Senior Supreme Court Reporter, NBC News
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social Former CIA attorney, addressing all things relating to national security, secrecy, classification, FOIA, climate change, and bird law.
Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social Executive Director + Adjunct Prof. Georgetown Law Center for Innovations in Community Safety.
Policing, community safety, food. COYG. He/him.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Victoria Bekiempis @vicbekiempis.bsky.social Reporter of NYC Courts. Catch me at 100 Centre, 60 Centre, or 500 Pearl. Covered Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell, R. Kelly, Weinstein trials, among others. Always fighting for press access ❤️
P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social Practicing lawyer and cohost of the Law & Chaos podcast with @lizdye.bsky.social
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Liz Gil @lizcgil.bsky.social lawyer for startups + vcs. dog momager. silly human jokes, advocate for a healthier legal profession. prev lizcgil on twitter, not there anymore. she/her. @adamstasiw.com’s #1 fan. personal account, views my own, not legal advice, etc. 🗽🇨🇺
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
Jessica Pieklo @hegemommy.bsky.social Coloradan. Loud talker. Soccer lady. Italian matriarch. Justice minded thinker and writer. Can’t quit won’t quit trash talking SCOTUS. Not necessarily in that order.
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.
Nika Schoonover @vschoons.bsky.social Editor for Thomson Reuters - Westlaw | Freelance for BKReader | Previously: Courthouse News Service, Capitol News Illinois, Becker’s Healthcare
Samuel Rubenfeld (he/him) @srubenfeld.bsky.social senior reporter, financial crime and corruption, MLex.
Talk for hours, I hardly know ya
But I, I'm listening
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Rachel Scharf @rachelscharf.bsky.social Senior writer @billboard.com, covering the intersection of music and the legal system. Previously New York and LA courts @law360.bsky.social. Tips: rscharf@billboard.com, DM for Signal
Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com Political Science Professor at Marquette University. I write about constitutional history. Contributor, @liberalcurrents.com
Website: https://patsobkowski.com/
SSRN: https://tinyurl.com/3za4hf8f
Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social Michigan Law Prof.
Co-host, Strict Scrutiny Podcast
Author, NYT Bestseller “LAWLESS: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, & Bad Vibes”
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social Law prof @Penn, cohost Strict Scrutiny podcast
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
"One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com
Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social Professor, UCLA Law; Director, http://SafeguardingDemocracyProject.org; 2020 CNN, 2024 NBC/MSNBC Election Law Analyst; electionlawblog.org
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/
David Noll @david.noll.org Vigilante Nation:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235
Updates on the meritocracy:
https://tinyurl.com/56u9n6zc
Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social Early American legal and political history. Presidential power. Probably kidding.
Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Paul Gowder @gowder.io Prof @ Northwestern law, political theorist, cat parent. Black lives matter.
Profile, pubs, etc: https://gowder.io
All my books (rule of law, racial justice, platform governance) are downloadable in free open access pdf @ https://books.gowder.io
Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social Law professor at Harvard (https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/nikolas-bowie/)
Author with Daphna Renan of Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People (W.W. Norton, Sep. 15, 2026) (readsupremacy.com)
Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social Political scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt (Secondary appts: Poli Sci, SPIA). Cal bear, Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MS NOW. Writing on health insurance and admin burden. Author of Coverage Denied (CUP): https://cup.org/4nfM2IM
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social Historian of U.S. politics, law, & constitutionalism. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Book out fall 2026: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History. Preorder: https://a.co/d/05KfbAa4
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Alan Rozenshtein @alanrozenshtein.com Member of technical staff @anthropic.com. Law professor (on leave) @umnlawschool.bsky.social. Contributing editor @lawfaremedia.org. Former DOJ. alanrozenshtein.com
Jonathan H. Adler @jadler1969.bsky.social Father, Husband, W&M LawProf, guy with opinions; @chkbal co-founder;
@volokhc.bsky.social contributor;
Law before policy before politics;
Philly sports always;
'the cowbell of Twitter'-N. Schulz
typos are part of the brand.
Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/
Matthew Schafer @matthewschafer.bsky.social Adjunct law prof Fordham Law; Scholar focusing on the intellectual history of press freedom: http://shorturl.at/bhsv7; rare book collector
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.
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”
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
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social Associate Prof at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, abolition, philosophy, hoops, video games, puppies (esp. Argo the Floof). Probably nicer than you’ve heard. He/him.
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.
Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social Law prof, Pepperdine Law; Affiliated Scholar, Duke Center for Firearms Law. I write about constitutional law, especially the Second Amendment.
Bio: https://t.co/yVUcs14NoK
Papers: http://bit.ly/3HleQND
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
William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social Harry Kalven, Jr. Professor, University of Chicago Law School. Podcaster and Blogger at Divided Argument.
Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social Professor, NYU Law; scholar of Congress, the Constitution, and American colonialism; she/her/kwe.
Mary Ziegler @maryrziegler.bsky.social Historian, Law Professor, Guggenheim Fellow, 7 books, including Personhood and Roe: The History of a National Obsession. Bylines in the NYT, Atlantic, CNN, MSNBC, and Slate.
Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social Howard and Caroline Cayne Distinguished Professor of Law, WUSTL. Con law 📜, crim law/pro 👮, SCOTUSology 🏛. Cohost 🎤 @dividedargument.bsky.social.
Dan Farbman @danfarbman.bsky.social Law Professor at BC Law, Historian of social movements and local government. Writing a book about Abolitionist Lawyering.
Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social Author of DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE, amzn.to/45LFzNg, PRACTICAL EQUALITY, AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN CONSTITUTIONS, ELOQUENCE & REASON | Next: BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF COAL COUNTRY | Prof @ BostonU | constitutionalism, legal history | https://linktr.ee/roberttsai
Richard M Re @richardre.bsky.social Law Prof
Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com Civ pro, fed cts, con law. Also: baseball, charts, trivia. https://tommybennett.com/
Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social Antonin Scalia Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Reporter, Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules
(speaking only for myself)
stevesachs.com- D Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social Cornell constitutional law professor and dilettante in many other fields. Vegan. Cyclist. Knicks fan. I mostly provide links to my work, especially my Verdict columns & blog posts (as well as those of my co-bloggers). I also occasionally post snark.
Reginald Oh @reginaldohlaw.bsky.social Law Professor, Cleveland State University College of Law. Constitutional Law. Fourteenth Amendment.
Katie Eyer @katieeyer.bsky.social Rutgers Law Prof writing about equality law, statutes, and the constitution. Academic writing at: http://ssrn.com/author=879928
Julie Novkov @jnovkov.bsky.social Academic (poli sci, law, and US political development), administrator, gymnastics fan, resident of upstate New York. Go Great Danes! Views expressed here are solely my personal opinions. Born at 321 PPM CO2. #polisky #skystorians
Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto | American Political Thought & Constitutional Development
Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social Law prof @ UNC-Chapel Hill. Con Law and Indian Law. Views my own.
Bio: https://law.unc.edu/people/daniel-rice/
SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1684746
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/