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Mark Tushnet

@marktushnet.bsky.social

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Emeritus professor of constitutional law, including free expression and comparative constitutional law. Still trying to stay intellectually active.

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is an amazing book—a “biography” of a tract of land. Stylistically dazzling and compelling as a narrative

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Chevy Chase DC an hour in

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Dinner in the streets of the rat infested hell hole that is DC

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. From Tank Man to Sandwich Man. cropper.watch.aetnd.com/cdn.watch.ae... www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Nu...

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

From Tushnet, Taking Back the Constitution (2020). To all the late arrivals welcome aboard. Or Felix Frankfurter: “Wisdom too often never comes so one ought not reject it merely because it comes late.”

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Used bookstore shelf where?

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Just out. Liz Fisher has a nice essay elsewhere on being in the back of the book. I feel her pain. My chapter on constitutional hardball is 60 out of 60! The collection looks really good. The structure reflects the editors’ judgment about the priority of normative matters for constitutional theory.

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Just out. My essay defends the idea that it’s coherent to have a constitutional commitment to a general right to liberty

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Speculative fiction reading (not my favorite genre but): Broken Earth Trilogy was OK--good in creating a realistic world but time-line was harder to follow than it should have been. The Sentence is law-focused--Raz, anarchist theory, and maybe too much more. But for law folks probably worth a read.

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

From my reading list: really interesting, really well written, and really long and heavy in its physical incarnation (3.7 lbs pb). I’m sure I got it as an honorarium in the years before ebooks.

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

First copies arrived! Get it while it’s hot!

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Highly recommended. More to come in a blog post but for now: you probably can come with lots of objections but afaict Guerrero’s that of them all & has responses.

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

About as grim a novel as I’ve read recently. Short& compelling—read it in one evening. You wouldn’t want to spend time with the leading character IRL but you can understand her

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Interesting & prize-winning post-modern blend of 19th century escaped slave & seaman’s narratives. I found it eloquent in parts, thought-provoking but not really engaging.

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Publication date February 25

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Mark Tushnet @marktushnet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Deserves the accolades

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