“The Interstitial Executive” is forthcoming in the BYU Law Review! Historical officer commissions show that the Founding generation recognized Congress’s power to insulate executive officials from political control. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🚨🚨New Pod!!🚨🚨The great Joshua Macey joins Samuel Moyn 🔭 and me to talk about energy policy, misaligned incentives and the problems with utility regulation as a model. Check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dig…

Great new essay on the rise and fall of the politics-administration distinction. And a powerful new entry in the “the politics of deregulation are more complicated than you think” literature!

Land ownership as the original SaaS contract!

In “Disproportionate Influence: Rethinking Control in American Corporate Governance,” Profs. Dhruv Chand Aggarwal (Northwestern Law) & Ofer Eldar (UC Berkeley Law) examine how founder-CEOs and activist hedge funds exert disproportionate influence without majority ownership. (1/2).

Law profs/students/anyone doing legal scholarship: If you're not using Zotero to manage cites and research, you should. An unbelievable time saver. I've revised the Bluebook style for rendering footnotes, w/ detailed instructions on using Zotero: danepps.github.io/bluebook/

Looks like a great new resource for legal historians, especially those without access to Gale’s US SCt brief database!

From now on every time someone says my work needs more archival research I’m gonna assume they mean this

Looks cool!

FYI Nationwide pet insurance is a scam. If your pet has preexisting conditions that are outside your policy, Nationwide will use those conditions as a pretext for categorizing routine checkups -- wellness care that's supposed to be 100% covered -- as uncovered illness care.

Link here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Yonaton Gelblum’s papers on office creation and delegation are really underappreciated in the literature but get at a fun and quirky area of doctrine/legal history. This one pairs well Maria Ponomarenko’s recent piece on executive reorganization!

So excited to see this out in the world!

In his Article, Nathaniel Donahue reconstructs the early American law of officers and the administrative state that changed it. He argues the early law of officers supported and regulated decentralized governance that sits in tension with the Supreme Court’s unitary-executive theory.

Alexander Zhang (Texas) on Directly Constitutional Statutory Interpretation. Forthcoming 101 N.Y.U. L. Rev. (Oct. 2026). Highly recommended! legaltheoryblog.com/?p=111655

Big win for east coast legal history!

Great piece. Something for the abundance libs and also for the admin heads!

Very grateful for this boost from Lawrence Solum! Chiming in to identify my co-author Christen Hammock Jones (Penn History The Legal History Consortium at Penn) as the true star of this collaboration. Check out the piece for a glimpse of her terrific research on repro rights history & litigation.