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Dan Epps

@epps.bsky.social
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Howard and Caroline Cayne Distinguished Professor of Law, WUSTL. Con law 📜, crim law/pro 👮, SCOTUSology 🏛. Cohost 🎤 @dividedargument.bsky.social.

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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thrilled that my and @donfro.bsky.social's new paper, "Constitutional Rights and General Private Law," will be in the Harvard Law Review next year. It's a sequel to our 2023 Yale L.J. piece, "The Fourth Amendment and General Law." We need to revise, so no @SSRN yet, but here's the abstract:
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I am 43 years old. I would like to think that if 13-year-old me could see the life I would build three decades hence, he would be pleased.
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I'm quoted in this @wsj.com story about what to call SCOTUS's interim/shadow/emergency/whatever docket: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
In case anyone is curious: even if this dismissal becomes final/upheld on appeal, because the dismissal is w/o prejudice, the government will have 6 months to reindict even though the statute of limitations would have otherwise run. Statute:
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I'm quoted in this @nytimes.com piece by @jodikantor.bsky.social about the quandaries faced by the liberal SCOTUS justices today. (link below).
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Just got my copy of Justice Kennedy’s memoir, LIFE, LAW & LIBERTY. I was grateful to have been asked to perform an unusual bit of empirical research while he was writing it.
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
NEW PAPER: "Justifying the Fourth Amendment," forthcoming in the Vanderbilt Law Review, now up on @ssrn.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Justice Sotomayor thinks that Justices have "earned" their seats, so even a constitutional amendment can't limit their tenure. Justiceships are guaranteed by pre-constitutional meta-due process? Surprisingly dumb view... (via @rickpildes.bsky.social) electionlawblog.org?p=151478
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Spotted in the air above Salisbury beach, MA. This is not going away.
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
NEW ARTICLE on SSRN: "The Practice of Executive Constitutionalism," by me and @conorclarke.bsky.social, forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review. Check it out! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
10 year old has had an Apple watch for about 24 hours and has already mastered the art of the passive aggressive text
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I’m quoted in this @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com piece on unexplained SCOTUS orders (🎁 link): www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Because @williambaude.bsky.social hates my SCOTUS muppets, loyal @dividedargument.bsky.social listener and muppet-fan Tony Derron made this delightful likeness of us:
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I'm pleased to be quoted in this @nytimes.com piece asking 35 legal scholars about the most lawless things Trump has done in the first 100 days: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thrilled to have made this (admittedly, misleadingly titled) citation ranking list: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
NEW PAPER: It's the 100th Anniversary of the Judiciary Act of 1925—a perfect day to drop my and @marinklevy.bsky.social's "Judicial Reform from the Inside Out," prepared for ND L. Rev.'s great symposium on that anniversary. Check it out: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
he Court already revised the TikTok opinion to change the jurisdictional line. It originally said "On Applications for Injunction" and now says "Certiorari to." Odd.
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
What 2L law review editor did this
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
ICYMI on Twitter/X, I present my hand-curated muppet SCOTUS justices:
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
I’m quoted in this New York Times piece about the new SCOTUS ethics code: www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/u...
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