Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Just sat down in a packed theater to see The Odyssey. To my left is a six-headed sea monster. To my right is a giant whirlpool. I hate navigating the problems of a middle seat. 3496
Reposted by Maggie WittlinMaggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026It's officially June 28th, and you know what that means... 🎉 HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, MEL BROOKS! 🥳 @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social In the next post, I'll tell you my favorite joke cut from the Broadway production of Young Frankenstein... 24878139
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026It's officially June 28th, and you know what that means... 🎉 HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, MEL BROOKS! 🥳 @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social In the next post, I'll tell you my favorite joke cut from the Broadway production of Young Frankenstein... 24878139
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026In the Spring of 2020, while you and I were descending into madness, David Hockney went out with his truck and his iPad and documented the onset of spring in Normandy. 1130
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Where’s #watchsky at? Here are some beautiful dials at the Gotham Watch Fair today. @joedudekjd.bsky.social, @notalawyer.bsky.social 3323
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I haven’t watched any of the second half. My semi-solipsistic theory that I, personally, cause the Knicks to play badly gains increased support. 1110
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026There are only two things you need to be a true New Yorker: 1. Presence 2. Intent to remain 1632028
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I haven’t paid close attention to basketball since 1994, and I just really hope that my Knicks are prepared to take on David Robinson! 190
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026There's a lot of slop online these days, but I gotta say: nothing bothers me quite so much as obituary slop. 1111
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Nice short article about @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social Dean Emeritus John Feerick and his role in drafting the Twenty-Fifth Amendment: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comIs the Twenty-fifth Amendment Really an Option?After J.F.K.’s assassination, a neophyte lawyer named John Feerick was summoned to Washington to draft the provision. Now everyone wants him to weigh in on booting Trump from office. 053
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Had a great time at the biggest Evidence Summer Workshop yet! What an awesome scholarly community. Thanks my co-organizers Ed Cheng, @alexnunn.bsky.social, and Julia Simon-Kerr. #ESW 2153
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Hey, sorry I’m late to work; my barista just got back from jury duty. 050
Reposted by Maggie WittlinMaggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026This is an excellent story. I laughed. I cried. I learned bread-related etymologies of common words. I got dirt on PR people who wronged the author. And I learned where to go for great free bread. My post-publication submission: the garlic knots at Villaggio Italiano on Central Ave in Hartsdale. 0143
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 16/04/2026This is an excellent story. I laughed. I cried. I learned bread-related etymologies of common words. I got dirt on PR people who wronged the author. And I learned where to go for great free bread. My post-publication submission: the garlic knots at Villaggio Italiano on Central Ave in Hartsdale. 0143
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Here's Siavash Shahshahani, pioneering Iranian math professor & father of @shahshahani.bsky.social, standing next to the ruins of the Data Center at Sharif U., reminiscing & expressing his conviction that it will be rebuilt. It's beautiful & powerful & sad, even though I don’t understand his words. 2102
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026The two best things in the world: a cryptic crossword clue and this one’s answer. 2191
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I'm excited for Tim's deeply researched book about Walter Jenkins, LBJ's friend and de facto Chief of Staff who resigned after he was arrested for soliciting sex with a man in a YMCA restroom. Pre-order your copy today! 0114
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I’m very excited that these three excellent profs will be joining the Fordham Law faculty! 1160
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Escape castle, obviously. Puzzles created by the greatest puzzling minds with an unlimited budget. Secret rooms galore. Ideally a full-weekend-long affair, at least. 0150
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026As a teenager, I looked enough like the winner of the 1997 Scripps National Spelling Bee that well into college, strangers would semi-regularly come up to me on the street and ask if I’d won a spelling bee. 2351
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is an invaluable resource, and political interference with its contents is a serious problem.nytimes.comScientists Decry ‘Political Attack’ on Reference Manual for Judges 042
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026The conditions at our immigrant detention centers are a national crisis. @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social's Feerick Center reports: - Insufficient, spoiled food - Insufficient, non-functional toilets - Calls for medical care unheeded - Court dates missed - Guards picking physical fights More here:elpasomatters.orgOpinion: We visited an El Paso ICE detention facility. We don’t recognize our country anymoreVolunteer attorneys and law students describe alarming treatment of people transported from across the country to an El Paso ICE detention facility. 01515
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Center of the world or the ends of the earth? Central Park at the beginning of a blizzard. 932935
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026“Roses are red, Violets are blue” Won’t qualify you as a botanical expert Under 702 171
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Great launch event for @profadediran.bsky.social’s new book, Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress, presented by @fordhamracelaw.bsky.social! Buy it here: www.amazon.com/Disclosurela... 082
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I am extremely in favor of games being a larger part of law teaching. Fiss & Berger’s “Woburn: A Game of Discovery” is great (if outdated). Students have to dig through the rules to win! Maybe someday I’ll actually get on that Evidence computer game I started… 0142
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Scientific Evidence Expert Named Next President of Columbia University! (I really wish the NYT would put the important info in the headline.) Congrats to all! 37912
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Berk v. Choy is here! SCOTUS holds that Fed. R. Civ. P. 8 and Delaware law “give different answers to the question whether Berk’s complaint can be dismissed as insufficient because it was unaccompanied by an affidavit,” and Rule 8 governs in federal court. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...supremecourt.gov 020
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026It was a delight to comment on @cmorten.bsky.social’s excellent paper! This is a great workshop, even for us IP interlopers. 161
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026And there it was, emerging from the shadows… 290
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Overheard on Central Park West: “What’s Celine Dion’s favorite campfire snack?” “Uhh…” 🎤🎵 “One s’more…” 🎶 180
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025I love teaching 1Ls, but I gotta say, I’m glad I’m not teaching—or grading!—them this semester. This can’t be the way forward. 090
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025In-court sandwich identification is very suggestive. I am therefore proposing an amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(C)… 1150
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Ok, judgy social media people: rate my trick or treat candy selection. 10230
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Hey, anyone know how much income I have to declare if I’ve just come into some assets of “incalculable” value? 6391
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Law profs on the march! with @david.noll.org and @21grapefruits.bsky.social 7904131
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2025If Peter Shor wins the Nobel Prize in Physics tomorrow, please do not waste the “Who’s On First?” potential of the moment. 150
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2025I’ll be there in Manhattan, with signs so angry they (probably) won’t have puns! Join us! 082
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Friends, I think I’m ready to call it: I have enough tote bags. 4032712
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Physical inactivity? I am prepared to not do whatever’s necessary. 🫡 46511
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 24/08/2025We’re at the last stop of the #ZcavengerHunt! Very fun excuse to run (and train and bus) around NYC and learn about some mayors! 211694135
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Glad to see Mamdani is finally putting in the effort to earn the votes of the puzzles, games, and trivia community. 2276
Maggie Wittlin @maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Friends, you’ll never guess what’s happening at this very moment. 060
