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William McGeveran

@wmcgeveran.bsky.social
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Dean, University of Minnesota Law School. Legal education, data privacy/IP/tech law, preservation of democracy. All opinions are just my own.

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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Announcing our new podcast: Minnesota Law Now! In Ep 1: Presidential Power in the Trump Era, @wmcgeveran.bsky.social asks @nicholasbednar.bsky.social ’16 and @alanrozenshtein.com how executive actions, court challenges, and institutional resistance are redefining the presidency. z.umn.edu/b4cv
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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Dean @wmcgeveran.bsky.social was interviewed by @mprnews.org as part of a panel discussing digital privacy and people’s legal rights. Federal agents in the Twin Cities are currently using digital surveillance technology to identify immigrants and track protesters and observers. z.umn.edu/b1uw
Maroon block M; Faculty in the News; MPR News logo; Interview: The digital dragnet: ICE's surveillance playbook and your legal rights; Dean William McGeveran
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
What am I missing? This app is illegal in 16 states, right?
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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Dean @wmcgeveran.bsky.social was interviewed by @wcconews.bsky.social about a new Minnesota law that puts guardrails around content creation and how minors are compensated for appearing in monetized videos on social media. Watch the interview: z.umn.edu/ajpv
Dean William McGeveran: “If they’re 13 and under, kids can’t work in the ice cream shop and they can’t work in their parents’ content creation either. That’s the way the law looks at it.”; WCCO News logo
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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Minnesota Law faculty and staff express our profound sorrow at the death today of Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman ’95 and her spouse, Mark Hortman. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the Hortmans’ family, friends, colleagues, and fellow alumni.
Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman ’95.
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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
@wmcgeveran.bsky.social announced the 2025 Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Awards at MN Law's 137th commencement: @nicholasbednar.bsky.social ’16 for tenure-track teaching, Prof. Nadia Anguiano ’17 for clinical teaching, Prof. Amy Sweasy ’95 for skills and practical teaching. z.umn.edu/aglr
Professor Nicholas Bednar ’16, Dean William McGeveran, Adjunct Professor Amy Sweasy ’95, and Professor Nadia Anguiano ’17
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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In March, @wmcgeveran.bsky.social delivered the Tangentem Lecture at Oxford's annual International IP Law Moot Court Competition. Student competitors and their coaches from around the world attended the keynote address, along with faculty and guests from the Oxford IP Research Centre.
Dean William McGeveran at the podium in Oxford. McGeveran's lecture, "Idolizing Brands," covered trademark dilution law and how it sometimes strays from the core purpose of trademark protection.Dean William McGeveran with Sir Robin Jacob, a retired judge who formerly served on the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

Photos: Edmund Blok
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
To clarify: not referring to the faculty.
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The jaw-dropping overreach of the letter to Harvard shows every university what the stakes are. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
If arguing against cruel and random deportations without any due process is a crime, let me be guilty.
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
It appears our government is scooping people up from the streets and sending them to a horrific Salvadoran concentration camp based on little more than their race and national origin, without a scrap of due process. I wish I was exaggerating. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Admin Deports Teen With No Criminal Record to El Salvador Prison: Report
19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez was arrested just steps from his home in the Bronx and deported to El Salvador's notorious mega-prison.
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Mark McKenna @markpmckenna.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
You don’t say?
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Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them.
To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals — or even defending the president and his ...
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Seriously who would buy tickets to Fyre Festival 2? It’s got to be some kind of performance art project right? Just a giant practical joke?
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I am revolted by the ignorance, insensitivity, and malice of RFK Jr. on autism today (which, reminder, IS a spectrum and IS NOT caused by vaccines).
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is a big ruling.
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Incredible reporting here. DOGE engineers may have stolen a bunch of sensitive NLRB data; the agency whistleblower then received what I can only describe as a mafia-style threat.
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Also: definitely not a gang member. Also: surely not the only person wrongfully swept up in this Orwellian net. Also: a human being, husband, father.
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Shannon Desalvo Ewald🧠🧘🏻‍♀️🔬🔭👻 📚 @shannondesalvo.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Friday mood:
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I likewise signed the Jenner and WilmerHale amicus briefs, now nearly doubled to 676 legal academics.
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Peak sci fi dystopia when the government is rendering people “dead” by deleting their record from the computer, without any warning or due process.
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Andrew Sinclair @jandrewsinclair.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
We cannot accept this.
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A true extremist now controls the TIDE database, which combines various NSA, CIA, and other intelligence surveillance. And these days that’s not a national crisis, it’s a Tuesday.
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The DSA (and DMA) are growing to be nearly as important to data privacy in Europe as the GDPR
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
To be clear: that isn’t a normal question. We shouldn’t have to wonder about the answer.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 09/04/2025
One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago
He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The next question: will the White House defy this court order? www.npr.org/2025/04/08/n...
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Judge orders White House to allow AP access to news events
U.S. Judge Trevor N. McFadden rules the White House cannot deny the Associated Press access to news events because the wire service continues to use "Gulf of Mexico" rather than "Gulf of America".
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)
We're suing Trump to save library funding. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It’s not just elite Am Law 100 firms being targeted in this war on attorneys and the rule of law. It is urgent to stand together and defend our profession. www.freep.com/story/news/l...
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Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family
Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from a spring break trip with his family.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
JUST IN: Saying the Trump administration’s “grievous error” “shocks the conscience,” a federal judge has rejected their call to lift her order demanding the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
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Alan Rozenshtein @alanrozenshtein.com · 05/04/2025
Madness. DOJ is putting attorneys on leave unless they lie to the courts. At this point if you work at DOJ you have to be prepared to choose between continued employment and losing your bar card.
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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Massive turnout at today's #HandsOff! rally against Musk and Trump in St. Paul, Minnesota 🔥🔥🔥
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Trains to the Minnesota Capitol were so jammed with protesters we had to walk there. #handsoffMN
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Who’s going to tell Batman?
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I’ll be at the Saint Paul protest today. Find yours here… www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
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Hands Off! Join the National Mobilization to Fight Back · Hands Off on Mobilize
Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Hands Off.
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
So proud today to be an alum of Foley Hoag, one of only a handful of Am Law 200 firms to step forward and sign an amicus brief in defense of Perkins Coie — and therefore take a stand for the legal profession and the rule of law. @foleyhoag.bsky.com
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Megan Walsh @meganwalshgvp.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
GVP Clinic student Jaxon Alston (‘26) appeared in Anoka County yesterday in our case defending Minnesota’s law prohibiting machineguns against a Second Amendment challenge. All of our interventions team and the vast majority of the clinic has gotten stand up court time this year.
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Alan Rozenshtein @alanrozenshtein.com · 01/04/2025
Excited to share a new paper, “Large Language Scholarship: Generative AI in the Legal Academy,” co-authored with @kevintfrazier.bsky.social. We explore how AI will transform legal scholarship—and we’re eager for feedback from the community! 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Ready for some feminist dialogue in anti-feminist times? On April 7, join me & June Carbone at Magers & Quinn in Minneapolis. We’ll be discussing my new book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality. #WeTheMen www.eventbrite.com/e/jill-elain...
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Jill Elaine Hasday presents We the Men in conversation with June Carbone
Jill Elaine Hasday presents We the Men in conversation with June Carbone
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I was one of 363 law professors to sign this amicus brief supporting Perkins Coie in its challenge to the unconstitutional executive order seeking to punish it. law.stanford.edu/publications...
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BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE 363 LAW PROFESSORS IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND FOR DECLARATORY AND PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE RELIEF | Stanford Law School
Amici 363 law professors submit this brief in support of Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment and for Declaratory and Permanent Injunctive Relief
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” - attributed to Benjamin Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
If Elon pledges to wipe out all Georgia State Law students’ law school debt— and pays up in advance— I’ll debate him about the legal academy and the judiciary.
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is clear-eyed and incisive. I
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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The Big 10 law schools are hosting a series of virtual panel discussions examining the Rule of Law in 2025. Weds, 3/26–5/28; 4-5 p.m. CT go.unl.edu/ruleoflaw 4/23-Rule of Law and Separation of Powers, Part III: Executive Authority to Enforce the Laws. Moderator: @alanrozenshtein.com z.umn.edu/ab2k
Graphic shows text: The Big Ten Law Schools present Rule of Law in 2025. Distinguished panelists representing the Big Ten law schools will present a broad range of perspectives and nuanced views on the rule of law during a period of constitutional, legal, and government recalibration.

Wednesdays, March 26 - May 28
 2-3 p.m. PT/4-5 p.m. CT/5-6 p.m. ET
Join virtually: go.unl.edu/ruleoflaw
April 23 | University of Minnesota Law School
Rule of Law and Separation of Powers, Part III: Executive Authority to Enforce the Laws
Moderated by Professor Alan Rozenshtein
More information including the full schedule: z.umn.edu/ab2k
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Very glad to have joined this statement.
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Public media is now more important than ever.
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Claudia Koerner @claudiakoerner.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
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William McGeveran @wmcgeveran.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This is such important research. Must-read!
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