Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 21hThe wanton cruelty to asylum seekers and other non-citizens now has the imprimatur of SCOTUS. 043
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 21h#Lawsky may be interested in this episode because @mbkplus.bsky.social and I discuss hallucinations and a certain legal AI company that wines and dines law professors. 021
Reposted by Milan MarkovicMilan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026@mbkplus.bsky.social and I are back to gawk at AI's impact on universities. AI is juicing scholarly outputs, standing in for provosts, receiving credit for discoveries, and "optimizing student and faculty workflows." Is this the new normal or a betrayal of the core mission? 084
Reposted by Milan MarkovicMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's clear that the push to use AI in academic settings is rife with contradictions, from Ivy League provosts using AI to write op-eds talking about how students need to have skills distinct from AI to research advances that might come from snooping through supposedly private data. We have thoughts.livefromwatthall.transistor.fmLive from Watt Hall with Milan & Mike | The AI UniversityMilan and Mike liken AI's hold on university life to Major League Baseball's steroid era and question the ethics of Dartmouth's AI-aided Provost. 1248
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026@mbkplus.bsky.social and I are back to gawk at AI's impact on universities. AI is juicing scholarly outputs, standing in for provosts, receiving credit for discoveries, and "optimizing student and faculty workflows." Is this the new normal or a betrayal of the core mission? 084
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026🎙️ Just published a new episode of Live from Watt Hall with Milan & Mike: The AI University. Have a listen:share.transistor.fmThe AI UniversityMilan and Mike liken AI's hold on university life to Major League... 032
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Tune in to "the AI University" on Monday, friends!livefromwatthall.transistor.fmLive from Watt Hall with Milan & MikeMilan Markovic and Mike Boylan-Kolchin are two former college roommates who somehow ended up as professors in Texas. Tune in for incisive takes on higher education and academic life. 032
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I received a similar comment once about a paper on lawyers' careers. I wasn't offended so much as perplexed--shouldn't law professors care about what their students will be doing? Unprofessional is apt. 040
Reposted by Milan MarkovicMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just got done recording an episode of the pod in which @profmarkovic.bsky.social compared the current AI free-for-all in academia to baseball's steroid era, which is a really insightful analogy. A powerful technology, fear of being left behind, distorted view of incentives — lots of parallels. 1153
Reposted by Milan MarkovicMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026@profmarkovic.bsky.social and I will return from our hiatus soon to discuss more about AI in the academy. Stories like the one below are farcical, but maybe one positive outcome will be that productivity in the sense of length of one's own bibliography will cease to be meaningful. A guy can dream...livefromwatthall.transistor.fmLive from Watt Hall with Milan & MikeMilan Markovic and Mike Boylan-Kolchin are two former college roommates who somehow ended up as professors in Texas. Tune in for incisive takes on higher education and academic life. 1114
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You know there is a bubble when legal AI companies are resorting to wining and dining law professors. 011
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The Newsom/Schumer wing of the Democratic Party is betting that it can get the oligarchs back onside post-Trump. 141
Reposted by Milan Markovicelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 21/09/2026now this, this is some high-level stolen valor. 4599
Reposted by Milan MarkovicRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul... 340127454647
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We don't have the data alas, but I would wager that law schools are among the worst offenders. See also www.templelawreview.org/essay/the-la...templelawreview.orgThe Law Professor PipelineThroughout U.S. legal education’s history, a small number of elite law schools have produced the vast majority of law professors. Although law professor hiring is now more inclusive in certain resp… 040
Reposted by Milan MarkovicProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”propublica.orgEctopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ... 6019761061
Reposted by Milan MarkovicBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The Trump administration's lawless killing spree at sea continues with a lethal strike on four more supposed "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean. Very real killing in a make-believe war. Outside of war the general term for premeditated killing is murder. 16645254
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I was wondering what the anti-ABA positioning was all about. 0163
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Legal ethics scholars I respect are surprisingly bullish on Jeffrey Clark's appeal. It's important to note that he not only drafted a nonsense letter about election irregularities but did everything possible to make it the DOJ's position--even after he knew its claims were false. See attached. 030
Reposted by Milan MarkovicBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We’ve progressed from DOJ ‘Torture Memo’ to DOJ ‘Murder Memo’ 26312
Reposted by Milan MarkovicKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We never punished the people who authorized torture and the last 20+ years of our politics are a consequence of that. 152010449
Reposted by Milan MarkovicMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We know that many voters believe the President is a Green Lantern, but it also didn't help that Barack Obama's most prominent economists spent 3 years on ~every media platform telling ~anyone who'd listen that Joe Biden caused most of the pandemic-induced global inflation: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 47314
Reposted by Milan MarkovicKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that 58791832102
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Time to add to this august list, @mbkplus.bsky.social.livefromwatthall.transistor.fmLive from Watt Hall with Milan & Mike | Administrators Gone WildBizarre events at Cornell, Columbia, and Michigan cause Milan and Mike to wonder about the cloistered worlds of university presidents. 193
Reposted by Milan MarkovicAaron Littman @aaronlittman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Profoundly disappointed in our Chancellor, as a member of the UCLA law faculty and a Jew, for so quickly forgetting the lesson Justice Jackson and others taught us at Nuremberg: the rule of law demands that everyone be provided a robust defense. 29628
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Bluesky has strong opinions about what it takes for a Democrat to win in Texas. All I know is this: if Talarico loses, the next nominee will be to his right on every issue you care about. 041
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The law school's alleged sin? Hosting an attorney who defends Gitmo detainees. The academic climate now is somehow worse than it was in the aftermath of 9/11. 611438
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I wrote this from NYU's computer lab twenty-five years ago today for an online magazine started by @aradwanski.bsky.social.web.archive.orgPundit Magazine - Canada's Leading Online Political MagazineCanada's leading online political magazine with commentary, analysis and major interviews. 001
Reposted by Milan MarkovicBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I don't do much 9/11 posting, but I always think about Bretagne, the last surviving ground zero search and rescue dog. When they took her to be euthanized in 2016, first responders saluted as she entered the clinic. She was later carried out in a flag-draped casket. www.chron.com/news/houston... 331148243
Reposted by Milan MarkovicCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Burns. 253178384291
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Sociologically speaking, it's notable that lawyer sycophants such as Pirro and diGenova have been more willing to stand up to Trump than most business and media leaders. 040
Reposted by Milan MarkovicMatthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026For those who are new, Joe DiGenova has spent the last 30 years baselessly accusing Democrats of committing crimes. If he is saying publicly the Trump administration pushed him out because he wouldn’t bring cases because there was no evidence, things are really bad. 8043231250
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The Dallas Morning News is looking out for me with this very important alert. 000
Reposted by Milan MarkovicOrin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Next year, perhaps incoming law students will receive a packet with their assigned post-graduation jobs, any clerkships, etc. all as part of 1L orientation. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...thecrimson.comHarvard Law School Moves Up Recruiting Timeline for First-Year Students | The Harvard CrimsonHarvard Law School moved up the date when private-sector law firms may begin accepting first-year students’ applications for summer jobs by one month this summer, while also rolling out career program... 1210215
Reposted by Milan MarkovicLawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Who knew? Answer: Everyone. Including advocates of the state policies. www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2...click2houston.comEctopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states, like Texas, with abortion bans.After Texas banned nearly all abortions, patients have struggled to get ectopic care. More than 300 patients here experienced substantial blood loss in 2023 and 2024, compared to 2018 and 2019. 012648
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I am not a fan of law students using AI generally, but the prospect of them using it in clinics fills me with total dread. 031
Reposted by Milan MarkovicGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Friends, it is dickish in the extreme to blame a paralegal when something goes wrong. And it doesn't matter whether it's true or not. Just a total dick move. 927833
Reposted by Milan MarkovicJulian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This is a cousin of one of the most frequent and consequential errors in separation of powers conversations--emphatically including lawyers and law profs. It's not Congress vs the President. It's *the law* vs the President. 955976
Reposted by Milan MarkovicMónica A. Jiménez @monijimenez.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I'm teaching Race, Law and US Society, which is on this list and has been deemed "too narrow." Some readings: US Constitution, Federalist Papers, Notes on the State of Virginia, Cherokee Nation Cases, Scott v. Stanford, Brown v Board... so US legal history... too narrow? Or just too about race? 26328
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Will this jeopardize Bartiromo's position on NYU's Board of Trustees? Probably not.nyu.edu 031
Reposted by Milan MarkovicAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The arguments against impeaching Trump next year are all bad and spurious, but they're even weaker as applied to all the other impeachable members of the Cabinet, etc. And impeaching Hegseth for literal murder should be top of the list. 523430896
Reposted by Milan MarkovicDavid Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If the administration is planning to disobey a court order, that is at least in part a product of what the Roberts Court has been communicating to the administration over the last year and a half: that the Supreme Court is the only court whose voice matters, and lower courts can be ignored. 0168
Reposted by Milan MarkovicChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...theintercept.comThe U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.” 22661842177
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's odd that AI has been normalized for legal research even though it is quite bad at legal research. 5328
Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Any Democrat in a safe seat (ahem, @schiff.senate.gov) who is focusing on anything but how despicable this administration is needs to be primaried. 040