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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The application deadline is this Thursday, August 6—so apply now!

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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If you're starting law school this fall, you might be interested in my short essay, "How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students." You can download it for free here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Dispatches from the AI frontier: Planning a dinner with tres leches cake, I asked ChatGPT to write about it in the spirit of the classic Onion "Five Blades" piece. Blocked from downloading the piece itself, it thought for 31 seconds and wrote this. For comedy writing, at least, AGI is already here.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Parties exist partly to vet candidates & vouch for them so voters don't pick someone bad out of ignorance. Primaries short-circuit this function since primary electorates can no more do this vetting than can general election ones.

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Proposal: Congress should tax residents of rent-controlled apartments on the extra imputed income (and give a corresponding deduction to the owner, whose reporting would help the IRS match the two)

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Ben Sasse is correct—“Cameras in the Court” is a bad cause. (And what he says about committees is a very strong argument for keeping them off C-SPAN. The floor is theater anyway; the committees need to be a place for real work.) (h/t @orinkerr.bsky.social) www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

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Opinion | Ben Sasse: Keep Cameras Out of the Supreme Court

The last thing the judicial branch needs is to become a platform for partisan gasbags.

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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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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Starting at Harvard College this fall? Consider applying for my first-year seminar, "Abortion in Controversy"! Limited to 15 students, meeting Tuesdays 3-5. Syllabus and reading list linked below: stevesachs.com/syllabi/abor...

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Congratulations to my Conflict of Laws students on finishing their semester! Now the rest of you can try out the final exam for yourselves at home: stevesachs.com/Exam_Conflic...

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This, from David Bernstein, is a key point. When I first saw the story I thought it boorish for Peterson to misuse his captive audience (merits aside); to provide one text for preapproval and then deliver another is worse. Surprised so many prominent folks at @umichlaw.bsky.social have defended that

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

What’s the prevailing view on why Justices Sotomayor and Kagan joined today’s order?

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ERA_No_Shortcuts @eranoshortcuts.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A landmark, must-read article on the Equal Rights Amendment by Harvard Law's Stephen E. Sachs, in the University of Chicago Law Review (5-1-26). Here is the link to his full article, "The Twelfth Amendment and the ERA"; there is a "Download PDF" button there. lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

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The Twelfth Amendment and the ERA | The University of Chicago Law Review

How many amendments are in the Constitution? Americans should be able to know. But whether the Equal Rights Amendment is—right now—part of the Constitution remains controversial. Thirty-eight states h...

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

NOW OUT IN @uchilrev.bsky.social: "The Twelfth Amendment and the ERA" In the 12th & 17th amendments, Congress put operative text in amending resolutions, not just in a proposed article. This suggests the ERA’s 7-year limit is valid—and that the article it proposed isn't part of our Constitution

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UChicago Law Review @uchilrev.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Volume 93.3 is now live, featuring pieces by Charles Capps; @joshuamacey.bsky.social, Ketan Ramakrishnan & Brian Richardson; @stephenesachs.bsky.social; and Grant Christensen. You can find them all here: lawreview.uchicago.edu.

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

On National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day, we should think of ways to get pets out of shelters and into loving homes. Here are our shelter cats, present and past, adopted from NC's Chatham Animal Rescue: reason.com/volokh/2019/...

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Whatever one makes of these memos, whoever leaked them breached the trust that allows courts to do their jobs. One of the article's coauthors, a licensed atty in NY, may have also violated the state's ethics rules and be subject to discipline. 1/ reason.com/volokh/2026/...

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Will be appearing on this Originalism panel at the Organization of American Historians conference this weekend: @oah.org www.oah.org/conferences/...

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Coming up on Monday, for Harvard Law affiliates. Looking forward!

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

“I will make your heirs as numerous as the stars of heaven, but not nearly so numerous as the crumbs your kids will leave after eating a single piece of matzah each”

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Kind of darkly hilarious that we’re supposed to go through the whole house to get rid of bread crumbs, only then to start a week of eating matzah, which generates more crumbs per square meter per second than any substance known to man

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

9–0 in favor of the plaintiffs! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Realized I hadn't yet posted the syllabus for my 2026 seminar on Originalism and Its Discontents. Now the rest of you can follow along at home! stevesachs.com/syllabi/orig...

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Starting today! Looking forward. Send your suggestions for rules amendments to RulesCommittee_Secretary@ao.uscourts.gov

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Looking forward to meeting our students in tonight's Harvard Law seminar on Abortion: Law, Policy, and Ethics! Here's the syllabus, so the rest of you can follow along at home: stevesachs.com/syllabi/abor...

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Looking forward to welcoming my students to today's Conflict of Laws class—and the rest of you can follow along with the syllabus at home: stevesachs.com/syllabi/conf...

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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Taking off my weather hat for a moment for something more important than the forecast…today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. I’ve shared before that my grandparents (mom’s side) are both Holocaust survivors. Please do me a favor and read their story in this thread.

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Congratulations to my Civil Procedure students on finishing their fall semester and starting a new one! Now you can try the final exam for yourselves at home: stevesachs.com/Exam_CivPro_...

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Now published in the Harvard Law Review Forum: "Zionism and Title VI" harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-13... A solicited response to Profs. @beidelson.bsky.social and Debbie Hellman on how federal civil rights laws apply to campus anti-Zionism. A few excerpts from the introduction: 1/

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Some related professional news! Honored to serve.

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It's RULES AMENDMENTS DAY! No Act of Congress having intervened, the amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate, Bankruptcy, and Civil Procedure promulgated earlier this year by the Supreme Court are now in effect. REJOICE!

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William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

New amicus brief with Steve: “Sovereign immunity is for sovereigns.”

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Stephen E. Sachs @stephenesachs.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Now online: A new amicus brief by @williambaude.bsky.social and me, filed today in the Supreme Court in Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corp., on sovereign immunity and the "arm of the State" doctrine: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24... 1/

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