Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social Professor of History and Law, Stanford University. Books on early Constitution: http://tinyurl.com/yynk95aa; and originalism and history: http://tinyurl.com/3dd5hnt6
jonathangienapp.com
Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. New England then, Minneapolis now, housing and economic justice forever.
Nick Estes @nicke.bsky.social ⚡️Oceti Sakowin. Kul Wicasa. Lakol Wicoun. The original Red Scare. The Red Nation. Red Media.⚡️
Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social Geospatial, Technology, and Data Lead, Mapping Prejudice. Previously: Star Tribune, Reveal. Racial covenants, public history, mapping, data journalism. Team St. Paul.
jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com criminalization, abolition, labor, politics, journalism—social science theory & methods too. sociologist.
https://jbenmenachem.com/
Taisu Zhang @zhangtaisu.bsky.social Comparative historian, legal theorist, Chinese law and politics observer @Yale.
Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social Social media content for Law & History Review and LHR's digital imprint, The Docket. Feed curated by @gauthamrao. For inquiries about The Docket, email at lhrdocketeditor at gmail. LHR information at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-histo
Emily Prifogle JD/PhD @emilyaprifogle.bsky.social Prof @umichlaw.bsky.social. Legal historian writing book on 20c #rural #Midwest w/ @uncpress.bsky.social forthcoming Jan 2027. Teach property, fam law, #legalhistory + rural law. Co-founder of @womenknowhistory.bsky.social & @womenknowlaw.bsky.social.
Amy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social Law prof at Yale, LPE Associate Justice, all things political economy, but not yr grandpas version.
The LPE Project @lpeproject.bsky.social Legal scholars, students, & practitioners working to expose & transform law's role in the perpetuation of economic, racial, & gender inequality. & check out our Blog: @lpeblog.bsky.social
Claire Priest @cpriest.bsky.social Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of History at Yale University. Interested in property, slavery, credit, capitalism, and financial history.
Malcolm Thorburn @malcolmthorburn.bsky.social Law professor at University of Toronto. Criminal law, policing, political theory, and comparative law.
Mark Osler @markosler.bsky.social Criminal Law prof. at the University of St. Thomas, clemency advocate.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
David Cole @davidcole-gtown.bsky.social Professor, Georgetown Law; contributor to New York Review of Books; former National Legal Director, ACLU. Views expressed are my own.
Solitary Confinement @solitaryconf.bsky.social Dr Sharon Shalev
www.solitaryconfinement.org
@OxfordCrim @AtlasWomen
#SolitaryConfinement #Supermax #Ethics #PrisonHealth #Prison
Bernard E. Harcourt @bernardharcourt.bsky.social Professor of law and political theory at Columbia University and the EHESS in Paris. Death penalty defense counsel and author of *Critique & Praxis* (2020), *Cooperation: A Political, Economic, and Social Theory* (2023), and *The Counterrevolution* (2018).
Rachel Moran @rachelmoran82.bsky.social Professor, University of St. Thomas (MN) Law. Former PD. Criminal law/policing.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2441245
Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Texas. Habeas corpus, death penalty, some other law stuff, sentient space robots, kids who don't listen to me, and hot sauce.
BIO: https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/lee-kovarsky/
TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent news organization that publishes reporting and analysis about American politics, public policy and political culture. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/
Dan Berger @dnbrgr.bsky.social Author of PRISON: INCARCERATION AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA, coming March 2027
Other books include STAYED ON FREEDOM, CAPTIVE NATION, & more
Doing things with Washington Prison History Project.
www.danberger.info | www.waprisonhistory.org
Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
Chris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social Professor, sociologist, criminologist, TheSocietyPages editor. Nerdy but sturdy. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8c95RVAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Michelle S. Phelps @michellesphelps.bsky.social Professor at UMN, Sociologist, Mom | Books: Breaking the Pendulum on criminal justice & The Minneapolis Reckoning on the politics of policing | www.michellesphelps.com.
Josh Page @joshpage.bsky.social Sociology prof. at Univ. of Minnesota. Law, Criminal Punishment, Politics, and Labor. New book: Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice.
Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social Law professor at the University of Virginia. Legal theory, originalism, textualism, virtue jurisprudence, artificial intelligence, philosophy of language, moral and political philosophy.
Margo Schlanger @mjschlanger.bsky.social University of Michigan Law Prof. Founder and director, Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. Criminal justice reform and other issues. Formerly at DOJ CRT, DHS CRCL, USDA DFAP.
Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social Law Professor, University of Minnesota. Constitutional Law • Family Law • Sex Equality. Three books—We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality, Intimate Lies and the Law, and Family Law Reimagined.
Rodger Citron @rodgerdcitron.bsky.social Associate Dean and Professor, Touro Law Center. Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, Judicial Biography & Legal History. American Studies Major. Born and grew up in Pittsburgh, PA.
Kate Masur @katemasur.bsky.social Historian and whatnot. Recently published FREEDOM WAS IN SIGHT! A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. REGION, with illustrations by the remarkable Liz Clarke. See also katemasur.com.
Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social The official Blue Sky account of the University of Minnesota Law School. law.umn.edu
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
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
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”
Hari Osofsky @hariosofsky.bsky.social Dean and Myra and James Bradwell Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (she/her).
Jessica K. Lowe @jessicaklowe.bsky.social Author, historian, law prof @UVA Law, on leave; OH/KY native, part-owner of a KY holler.
Web: https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/jkl4h/1517188
Book: https://a.co/d/fRe9crB
Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social ABOLISH ICE
—the people, united, will never be defeated—
Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social Professor @setonhalllaw.bsky.social. Torts, Healthcare Law, Disability Law, Employment Law, Family Law, and Empirical Legal Studies. My scholarship: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2440349
Jon Michaels @jondmichaels.bsky.social UCLA Law Prof
EXPERTISE: ConLaw; NatSec; Admin Law; Prez Power; Pol Violence
BOOKS:Vigilante Dem’y; Constitutional Coup
SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=499289
UCLA: https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/jon-d-michaels
Heather Ann Thompson @historianheather.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize winning author, book on Attica, next on Bernie Goetz/80s, then MOVE Bombing. In NYT, TIME, New Yorker, Atlantic, etc. + CJ policy work & script consulting. WritersHouse & CAA repped.
www.heatherannthompson.com
Chloë Kennedy @chloejskennedy.bsky.social Professor of Law and History; more here: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-chloe-kennedy
Rohit De @itihaasnaama.bsky.social Between Clio and Themis| Lawyer, Historian @Yale | Author of 'A People's Constitution (Princeton, 2018) | Politics. Pop Culture. South Asia
Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social Professor @ University of Minnesota Law School. Teaching & writing about workers' rights; skeeting in my personal capacity, mostly about cats.
Ernesto Chávez @ernstchavez.bsky.social Historian interested in Chicanx-Latinx Studies, film, gender and sexuality, Queer Studies, and so much more!) . Amateur film photographer. ELA born and raised, living in El Paso-Cd. Juárez. All views my own.
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law. Evidence, law teaching, crosswords, jokes.
Ronit Stahl @ronitstahl.bsky.social Historian @ UCBerkeley | Author: Enlisting Faith http://tinyurl.com/yyh2p4tq | current project: religious hospitals & conscience rights | sometimes quilts, sometimes climbs | posts my own | she/her
Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social Law Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Fan of health law, religious liberty, and reproductive rights
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Prof. of Law @nyulaw.bsky.social; Faculty Dir. @bwlcnyu.bsky.social; co-host @strictscrutiny.bsky.social; talking head @ms.now; @NYTimes.com bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.
Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social Law professor at UChicago Law. Thinks a lot about freedom of speech. Curious about this platform.
Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
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 🗃
Maria Ponomarenko @mariaponomarenko.bsky.social Law prof at Texas Law, co-founder and counsel at the Policing Project at NYU Law, aspiring cake decorator, mom of 2
Jill Horwitz @jillh.bsky.social Prof @Northwestern Pritzker Law and Northwestern Feinberg Medicine; adjunct econ prof @ UVic econ, British Columbia; health policy researcher, nonprofit law expert; trans rights matter
Susan A Bandes @susanabandes.bsky.social Law prof emeritus, DePaul. I write about the emotions that pervade the legal system and about criminal procedure and civil rights. Also post about cooking, travel, art, tv and novels.
Daniel Schwarcz @danielschwarcz.bsky.social Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Interested in insurance law, regulation & policy and the impact of AI on lawyering.
Access my research here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=499486
Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social Nonbinary corporate law professor, mom & scholar of LGBTQ & gender inclusion.🇫🇷🇵🇷🇧🇷 🏳️🌈
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social Law prof & sociologist at Yale. I write about poverty, race, place, gender, policing, and justice, and I use qualitative and humanistic methods.
In Carolina in my mind. 🏳️🌈✊🏿- M Mark Graber @mgraber1.bsky.social Professor at Maryland Carey Law, legal historian, amateur comparative constitutionalist, chess nut and loyal New York Giant fan
John Fabian Witt @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social Duffy Prof @YaleLawSch, legal history. Germantown born and bred. Fisherman, orchardist, baseball. Profile photo sitdowners park in Flint. The Radical Fund is out from Simon & Schuster.
Beau Baumann 🍎 @beaubaumann.bsky.social Constitutional Law Prawf @ University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Formerly YLS, Cornell Law, DOJ. (Account does not represent opinions of my employer)
. . . Also, vintage menswear enthusiast . . .
@nomideplume.bsky.social @nomideplume.bsky.social
Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social Legal historian of South Asia at the University of Wisconsin Law School & president of the American Society for Legal History. Also love dogs & travel. Canadian & American. Views my own. On Instagram, I'm @mitrasharafi
@abnergreene.bsky.social @abnergreene.bsky.social
Jessica Clarke @jessicaclarke.bsky.social Chaired Professor at USC Gould School of Law
Bio and Published Works: https://gould.usc.edu/faculty/profile/jessica-clarke/
Drafts: www.ssrn.com/author=1325345
Malick Ghachem @malickghachem.bsky.social History prof @MIT. Attorney.
King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Jack Rakove @jrakove.bsky.social Native Cook County Democrat, Cubs fan, and long-time historian of the American Revolution and Constitution
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
@jeaniob.bsky.social @jeaniob.bsky.social White Earth Ojibwe Citizen, Prof. U of Minnesota -- History and American Indian Studies.
Robert Hockett @roberthockett.bsky.social Cornell Law School, Georgetown Business School, Westwood Capital, New Consensus. Formerly Federal Reserve Bank of New York & International Monetary Fund. Law, Philosophy & Finance Devotee. Cf. my Forbes & SSRN Pages as well as my 'Capital Futures' Website.
Bryan Wagner @bwagner.bsky.social Professor and writer working in vernacular expression, popular music, urban studies, legal history, and digital humanities. UC Berkeley.
Brad Snyder @bradsnyderprof.bsky.social Georgetown Law professor. Author of You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads. W.W. Norton. Books on Felix Frankfurter, House of Truth, Curt Flood, Grays.
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
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
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) 🍋
John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social Professor at Fordham Law. Prisons and criminal justice quant. I'm not contrarian, the data are. Author of Locked In. New stuff at johnfpfaff.com.
Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
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
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/
Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social Law professor & author of BIG DIRTY MONEY and OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES
gelbach @gelbach.bsky.social Expert provider of lay opinions, and also of Duo push approvals.
Day job: Herman F. Selvin Professor of Law at UC Berkeley Law. Opinions my own, not intended to represent UC's.
Formerly economics professor at Maryland and Arizona
Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social Law Prof. Economist.
I do not speak for my employer. RT are not endorsements. Duh.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3339527
Mastodon: @lawprofblawg@mstdn.social.
Twitter: @lawprofblawg
Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social Prof at KU Law. Writes about sexual violence, criminal law, courts, judges, and empirical legal studies. He/Him/His.
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
rachelshelden.com
Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social Early American legal and political history. Presidential power. Probably kidding.
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.
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.
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
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
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. my opinions. he/him/his. Author of White Power: Policing American Slavery. And other stuff. Big Ron enthusiast.
K. Sabeel Rahman @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social Law prof @ Cornell Law School
Formerly - OIRA Associate Administrator; President, Demos
Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
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
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.
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
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
Brishen Rogers @brishen.bsky.social Prof at Georgetown Law. Labor law, political economy, technology, other things. I no longer have a twitter account.
Author, Data & Democracy at Work, The MIT Press. Open Access version at https://tinyurl.com/btv74buj
Randall Eliason @rdeliason.bsky.social White collar crime prof, former federal prosecutor, columnist and blogger, a cappella singer, husband, dad and grandpa.