Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Of the things I struggle with in originalist methodology, is its initial presumption of agreement: Because enactors agreed on a specific text, it seems gen. presumed they also agreed on a shared understand of the composite meaning and future scope (in drafter or public understanding). 130
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Noting how similar this is to the old logic of marital rape: you pick up a marital contract and it becomes an almost irrevocable license to your body 110
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And how men continually reproduce this fraternal dominion in like form at multiple other orgs and institutions 010
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026feeling particularly livid at the rape apologetics arising from every crevice of sewer commentary today, not unexpected, but acute, impatient animosity nonetheless— 022
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026How are people this way about probabilistic prediction making and the tradeoffs of local risk mitigation? 000
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026me firing off an email to my 1L torts prof on asking if she's seen any papers discussing the application of the keeping of animals tort law to AI misconduct because *this* is an AI law review article I would read 000
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This should be disqualifying: "A sane legal system would take this into account and not trust such women in criminal or civil lawsuits. They should also be socially stigmatized as bad people." Mostly the misogyny but also the embarrassing, complete obliviousness to our legal history & society. 1113
Reposted by Chrstphr S. GrdnNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“The Secret Lives of Subways: In a new exhibition, Christopher Payne documents the hidden parts of the city’s transit system.” — www.curbed.com/article/chri...curbed.comThe Secret Lives of SubwaysIn a new exhibition, Christopher Payne documents the hidden parts of the city’s transit system. 2579
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Oh so AI is accelerating a human crisis where millions of people realize that they do not have lives; they have tasks 130
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I do not know if I am able to express this plainly, but I feel like American society in our current moment knows it is on the brink of one more mass catastrophe, simultaneously processing the realization that the "time for big [institution] to show some backbone" will never come 140
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026nifty search feature in @duckduckgo.com I'm finding more, more useful as the internet dies: frictionless domain blocking 010
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026thankful to have gotten the Moderna vaccine today & yes I am once again imagining this is what it feels like to have David Ortiz take a swing at your left arm 110
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Do plaintiff attorneys (particularly, personal injury) associations actively lobby against single-payer public healthcare in the US? Wondering whether they have an interest to oppose because removing these costs from the plaintiff could potentially decrease the total damages sought in litigation? 010
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Genuine Q: Why should Dems even talk about Court expansion when building support to amend the Const. is always an option? It'd be a strenuous process, certainly, but so is the fix that requires: passing Court reform, new SCOTUS appoints., & years of Circuit splitting litigation leading to cert.? 011
Reposted by Chrstphr S. GrdnMichael Smith @msmith750.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My essay, "How to Reject a Law Review Article" will be published in the St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice and Ethics! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... The essay received several well-thought-out rejections during the summer cycle, with multiple journals changing their practices!papers.ssrn.comHow to Reject a Law Review Article<span>Every submission season, law reviews reject thousands of articles. In doing so, they rely on rejection notification templates containing misleading tropes 1114
Reposted by Chrstphr S. GrdnJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We're hiring legal fellows to work on cutting-edge cases relating to free speech, press freedom, and new technology. Please send good people our way! knightcolumbia.org/page/legal-f...knightcolumbia.org | Knight First Amendment Institute 03422
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This feels like an important unknown / question that deserved to be stated in the 1st ¶: "Health officials, citing privacy reasons, did not say whether the two patients were children or adults."nytimes.comIn Pennsylvania, 2 Measles Deaths Are ReportedThe deaths, which one doctor called “extremely rare in the modern era,” are the first in the United States in 2026. 030
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026still thinking about the fiduciary duty of loyalty as it applies to a position of public trust... 000
Reposted by Chrstphr S. GrdnAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Part of why I wrote my book The Age of Insecurity was to get at some of the economic dynamics now being weaponized against some parts of the socialist left. Yes, “middle class" (hard to define), professionals, and even affluent folks are in DSA. That’s good! 🧵 729749
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026my nick fuenties instinct gaining confidence stay vigilant yall, they seek division 200
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026(dragging my brain kicking and screaming into the first week of 3L year) 040
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026bsky hid this comment from me so of course I had to look and me thinks the Nick Fuentie alarm bells are a ringing 000
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026as someone who supported Crockett's run & wants her to be successful for Texas, I think people need to think twice about ripping her down; find some level of empathy for her situation, extend grace for going through it, even if they still making mistakes because we should hope she finds a way back 220
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"the arcane system of water rights governing the river entitles each state and Mexico to far more water than is actually available." To what extent is this a failure of continuing with the "first in time" property rights system to water & what would this look like transitioned to a riparian system?nytimes.comTensions Are Rising Among States That Rely on the Colorado River 120
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This has me thinking how the success of the conservative media ecosystem is the widespread belief that Democrats are "too much" in every regard; this puts Ds on the defensive and requires them to walkback every beneficial idea put forth because its "extreme" or "irresponsible" or "elitist." 102
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Disappointing to see this because it also seems to miss a core premise in the idea of popular sovereignty. (We're all constitutional thinkers worthy of input.) When we study a public meaning of the times, we're searching for how everyone read, understood, and lived with those words. 020
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026ah yes, the anti-CRT GOP, famous for its uncomplicated interest in teaching a broad understanding of American history in all its diverse, intricate details maybe we only begin to consider letting them have the Christian bible when they put the other books back on the shelves and in the curriculum? 001
Reposted by Chrstphr S. GrdnEmily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I wrote about how strange it is that we think so little of our senses of taste and smell, and about two novelists and a philosopher who do a great job of rectifying this wellreadherring.substack.com/p/perfume-bu...wellreadherring.substack.comPerfume, Butter, and the Philosophy of Taste and SmellThis article was originally published in The New World magazine on August 13, 2025. 97414
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"Medicaid needs stronger work requirements, opines daily paper owned by billionaire interested in cheaply extracting value from employees" is just too on the nose 022
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026me, not arguing for communism: But why do we think communism would be incompatible with our constitutional republic if we the people want it, and the Const. predates modern communism and does not explicitly forbid communism by express prohibition? 021
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Alix showed me an interview the other day where he was wearing this jacket—is this getup normal for him? Because it's giving cosplay leftist like Ted Cruz at the border in denim/camo gives cosplay Texan 200
Reposted by Chrstphr S. GrdnMary Ziegler @maryrziegler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The most recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver featured a discussion of fetal personhood--and a cameo from my book! It's an important issue, and so I hope you get a chance to watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCSt...youtube.comFetal Personhood: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)YouTube video by LastWeekTonight 520858
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Abhorrent toxicity towards one's own members aside, another thing I'm thinking about here is party elasticity: How might the fin. cost of spam pacs cause elder, potentially more financially vulnerable donors to be more sensitive to perceived Dem political failures/inaction? 100
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026that part where credit scores are designed to predict whether or not any creditor can expect to make money off of you & not whether you're a trustworthy debtor 020
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I have been out of the academic loop for some time, where is cognitive science and philosophy at today with the old mind/body dualism? (Funny, no? how this problem reemerges in our history of thinking about consciousness?) 030
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 16/08/2026One of the underappreciated points in Berkeley, I always thought, is his premise that perceptions are passive: a percept does not *cause* another percept. If percepts are passive, what is their cause and its nature? Is he correct? We think: I see something gross, then I feel sick. 100
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 16/08/2026At a theoretic level, why do we think AI detection tools are valuable? We've fed the AI on apples & are shocked when it shits apples? —AI *must have* a tell in its behavior like in a poker player, right? 110
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I think I will create a website for myself to share my photographs & reflections from my personal readings, but I'm unsure yet what platform to use. Considering learning to Wordpress a small website rather than pay for the service of a site builder, unless anyone has solid recommendations 030
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026conservatives are so hungry for days of segregation, the faux panic about transgendered people in society is one method for reproducing the fantasy 113
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026saving this image just in case Alix needs a last-minute idea for a Halloween costume 030
Chrstphr S. Grdn @chrstphrsg.bsky.social · 08/08/2026the historians' conundrum.— (is "meta" a descriptor we can still abuse?) 000
Reposted by Chrstphr S. GrdnAdil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Jonathan Crowe's Contemporary Natural Law Jurisprudence is free to download for a limited time. Highly recommended, and a terrific alternative to assigning Finnis. www.cambridge.org/core/element...cambridge.orgContemporary Natural Law JurisprudenceCambridge Core - Legal Philosophy - Contemporary Natural Law Jurisprudence 0138
Reposted by Chrstphr S. GrdnSharon Brett @sharonbrett.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Today is the anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act, a good time to remind folks that the KU Law Review will be hosting its fall symposium on what is left of the VRA & how we move forward post-Louisiana v. Callais. We have a *stellar* lineup of speakers. Registration link coming soon!law.ku.edu2026 Kansas Law Review Symposium | KU School of LawOctober 9, 2026 | KU School of Law 1165