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Molly Brady

@maureenebrady.com
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Professor @ Harvard Law writing on property institutions, land use, private law, and eminent domain. Section 3 for life. Always half-joking. (AKA Maureen.)

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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 29/09/2026
It’s ok. These sad empty souls have no equivalent for my deep love of things like colonial property descriptions and man, if you use the luck and privilege of this job to do anything but lift people up, joke’s on you
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 29/09/2026
I was once asked at a faculty workshop at another school whether I considered my paper to be about “one of the top ten problems in the world” Somebody make a burn book of misanthropes
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 24/09/2026
How any of you teach something besides local government is beyond me
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 13/09/2026
I listen to Sleepy History (selectively), the Ancients, and History Hit (selectively). Though I will warn you that a recent episode on the Hudson’s Bay Company was so boring it kept me awake wondering who devoted their life to this
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Short Circuit @shortcircuitij.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We're coming to Cambridge, Mass! See a live show on zoning, the Constitution & Cambridge. Euclid v Ambler Realty, Nectow v Cambridge & YIMBYism today. W/ @maureenebrady.com @burhanazeem.bsky.social Ari Bargil of @ij.org & @ijsanders.bsky.social Space is limited, RSVP today! ij.org/event/short-...
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Short Circuit Live: 100 Years of Zoning—and Reform—in Cambridge - Institute for Justice
Join us for a live recording of the Short Circuit podcast! Monday, October 19, 2026 at 12pm the Sheraton Commander Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Appropriately […]
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 29/08/2026
The annual teaching nightmare is here - and this time, it’s that this guy from Toy Story was in my Property class but we had run out of seats
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 28/08/2026
And also, please know this is actually just me superimposed on Arthur Schlesinger's 1948 Trusts & Estates Magazine ranking of property-adjacent scholars
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 28/08/2026
Because this is the internet please this is a joke, I mostly just liked pretending A.W.B. Simpson missed his yearbook photo
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 28/08/2026
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 24/08/2026
Claude's perspective on my maternity leave (which was much more of a leave than my first one): "There was no real leave. I want to be careful before I put that in a document, though."
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 20/08/2026
how I feel every time I read an email drafted with this www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/m...
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Everyone’s Using This A.I. Dictation App That I Want to Murder With a Hammer (Gift Article)
Wispr Flow is supposed to make writing effortless and magical. So I “wrote” this column with it.
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 12/08/2026
Today in local government self-conception
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 09/08/2026
Meanwhile, the quiet part out loud in the comments
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 09/08/2026
New fronts in NIMBYism (from my former town of Arlington MA): people using AI to render upzonings!! Naturally this one depicts (a) a building that would violate multiple other legal provisions (b) on the day of the winter solstice (c) in snow “because the shadow will prevent the ice from melting”
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 07/08/2026
Anyway it ended up taking an hour and fifty minutes for bed with us discussing whether God could bring back dinosaurs and if he would come down in a cloud to do it and everyone is traumatized
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 07/08/2026
Me: no- 4yo: well when the dinosaurs went away where did they go? Me: in the ground. remember how there’s dinosaur bones in the ground 4yo: they fell in a hole? Me: no- 4yo: and they’re just bones? WHAT HAPPENED TO THEIR SUITS 4yo (sobbing): AND THEIR EYES
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 07/08/2026
Me: no— 4yo: where were the people? Me: well there weren’t any people 4yo: why weren’t there people? Me (now explaining evolution to an exhausted child): well animals sometimes turn into other people. So monkeys turned into people 4yo: we were in a monkey’s belly?!
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 07/08/2026
Me: oh I am sorry 4yo: how did they die? a FIRE? Me: well, and I guess the plants died 4yo: the PLANTS DIED (sobs) Me: it’s ok! I’m sorry. The dinosaurs went away but now some are birds! 4yo, terrified: WHEN ARE THE BIRDS GOING TO GET BIGGER
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 07/08/2026
Extreme parenting fail last night: Me: goodnight C! 4yo, out of nowhere: mom, what happened to the dinosaurs Me (knowing he’s heard this before in preschool): remember, the meteor came and they went away? 4yo: They got dead? (Sobs) I MISS THEM
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 30/07/2026
I know everyone’s all down on articles and blah because of AI, but in the last week I have been reading like 5 really amazing pieces that have been or will be submitted this cycle. Slop can’t crowd out the incredibly cool work out there, if we do our job of reading/uplifting it!
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 28/07/2026
Fine yes I do this for people for fun (TLDR: does the jurisdiction have a tract index, if not let me introduce you to my dear friends online deed records and the Mormons’ digitization of city directories)
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 27/07/2026
Haters will say these photos were taken the same day
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 27/07/2026
Out: notable endorsements In: wife-forward campaigns Never change, RI
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 27/07/2026
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Mean Girls: October 3rd with Cady & Aaron
ALT: Mean Girls: October 3rd with Cady & Aaron
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 23/07/2026
The various jobs I have taken with two kids four and under = not for the faint of heart. Autoreply is getting dangerously close to “I’m crying and will respond to you when I can see”
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 16/07/2026
Sadly I was second alternate Whiffenpoof
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 10/07/2026
Dear Outlook: I never want to "snooze" an email to have it arrive at 3 in the morning.
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 09/07/2026
SIXTH EDITION -- link.gale.com/apps/doc/CW0... SEVENTH EDITION -- www.google.com/books/editio... EIGHTH EDITION -- www.google.com/books/editio... NINTH EDITION -- www.google.com/books/editio...
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 09/07/2026
If this is remotely helpful I had to pull some of the successive editions to track change/time once and kept track of the Google books links: FIRST EDITION -- www.google.com/books/editio... FOURTH EDITION -- www.google.com/books/editio... FIFTH EDITION -- www.google.com/books/editio...
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I think this an underrated YIMBY angle: absent a lot more (revenue-generating) infill development, there's about to be a tidal wave of suburban bankruptcies and/or significant service scalebacks in the coming decades.
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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Out 7/7: An essay collection on the challenges, risks, and opportunities of this historic moment in American law and governance. Featuring essays by more than 50 Harvard Law School faculty members, including Stephen Breyer, Jill Lepore, & Annette Gordon-Reed. mitpress.mit.edu/978026206043...
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 20/06/2026
Agreed. Had a huge influence.
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peppermint @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
[entrepreneurishly] here at the richest university you can imagine we've charted a brave new vision: what if we got rid of books
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 03/06/2026
Someone plot this against the disciplines of faculty that regularly write Crimson op-eds
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 03/06/2026
If one of you could throw me a cite to break the curse, I'd appreciate it
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 02/06/2026
Thank you so much!
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 02/06/2026
So far, my favorite find is this amazing Reddit thread about being prepared for your book to fall out of a cargo container: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 02/06/2026
Help me crowdsource: best blog posts/articles/videoed-advice on developing and writing books? Not sure I'm actually doing that, but I feel like I have a good sense of the article development process by now + the luxury of some reading time this summer, so hoping to learn from the best (you).
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 29/05/2026
*University governance debate roils* Meanwhile me on graduation day, in my administrative job:
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 27/05/2026
I will subscribe to a baked-goods feud substack right now, name your price
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 21/05/2026
when ur students were sadder in class than u thought
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Boy Crying While Saying 'I'm Fine'
ALT: Boy Crying While Saying 'I'm Fine'
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 12/05/2026
Time to retire, really can’t go up from here
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 12/05/2026
Does it accept auditors
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 10/05/2026
Regrettably accurate
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 19/04/2026
I just put them in as suffixes previously, which does making editing them a pain.
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 19/04/2026
(nevermind on the period. now I shall go to work inserting.)
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 19/04/2026
Great timing, as my off-the-rack bluebook suddenly deleted all the commas before “at” in Supra cites and I spent four hours attempting to fix it Maybe this is a broader sign I need a break
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 10/04/2026
There’s a portrait up in Yale Law that I walk by and tell anyone I happen to be with, “she didn’t do her part of the fedcourts outline”
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Molly Brady @maureenebrady.com · 09/04/2026
Such a delight to work with @stanlrev.bsky.social on this—come for the poaching poem, stay for the property arguments.
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