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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm happy to repost this upcoming DC event--Monday, October 12, at 6:30 pm.

Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy to repost this upcoming event in Baltimore's Pratt Library--Federal Hill Branch. One week from tomorrow, Saturday, October 10, at 11 am.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm excited to share this Baltimore event. Please note that this is at the Pratt Library's Federal Hill branch.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

DC area friends: I'm excited to be featured in this event at The Crown & Crow, Logan Square, Monday, Oct. 12, at 6:30 pm. The organizers tell me once they officially advertise on Sunday, it will sell out quickly. With this link, you can buy tickets in advance: www.eventbrite.com/e/lectures-o...

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

www.blindspotblog.us/post/the-apo...

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am indebted to DOJ and Dean Chemerinsky for a helpful conlaw II formative.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Sept. 8 WSJ op-ed, "Is Court Packing Constitutional? Don't Be So Sure," by James Piereson of the Manhattan Institute is unencumbered by literally any constitutional argument. I'm not a fan of Court packing, but WSJ's editorial staff should be embarrassed.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Few things are more satisfying than submitting final edits on a major article back to a law review!

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Reposted and corrected. I left the "law" out of my own email address in the earlier posting.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

www.blindspotblog.us/post/when-me...

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Link to full blogpost: www.blindspotblog.us/post/happy-b...

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Disappointed to learn the invitation to feature Parliamentary America at the Brooklyn Smutty Book Club is a likely scam. I briefly imagined persuading readers a functional American democracy might be more plausible than the fantasies typically occupying the group's reading list.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The fundamental threat our democracy continues to face arises from two party presidentialism. It's not that I wish to die on this hill. It's that unless others climb this hill with me, our democracy will die.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I increasingly wonder if professors opposed to reliance on economics methodologies to gain insight into law and lawmaking institutions are primarily concerned the resulting analyses are simplistic and overly reductionist, or instead, overly intricate and unnecessarily complex.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

New blogpost: www.blindspotblog.us/post/the-cur...

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Full blogpost: www.blindspotblog.us/post/exhausted

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

That's my Vered! An amazing short video, created by Weill Cornell, where she works, about her life and career. x.com/WeillCornell...

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A minor insight that just occurred to me. Today's students don't think to paginate because as they read, page numbers populate at the bottom of their screens. They just aren't used to living in a print-out world.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Last day of classes! A rough calculation suggests this has happened for me about 68 times. Despite that, it somehow never ceases to come as a huge shock.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Yes, multiple credible sexual assault allegations are, and should be, completely disqualifying for public office. That only one party sees this does not imply otherwise.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

For those interested in a deep dive into why this matters, please let me recommend my own book. It's precisely about the framers' misconceptions of the game they created, how they unwittingly rendered our two party system inevitable, and what we need to do to fix it. www.amazon.com/Parliamentar...

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Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy

Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy [Stearns, Maxwell L.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Parliamentary America: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

If asked to identify one personal habit distinguishing excellent from competent writers, in law or elsewhere, it's an unusual ability not to become bored editing and reediting your own prose. If asked for a second, it's enjoying reading excellent writing across disparate fields.

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Maxwell Stearns @maxwell-stearns.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The SSRN link to "Trump the Bully" (forthcoming, Maryland Law Review). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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