STCL Houston Prof. Ryan Nelson spoke to the Houston Chronicle about the TX Dept. of Agriculture dress code that requires employees to wear clothes “in a manner consistent with their biological gender” or face possible discipline, such as firing. Read more: bit.ly/3nw7XBY

"...Pride began...as a political and cultural uprising where queer people and allies demanded equality. Pride Month is an annual reminder of that sustained call to action." - Ryan H. Nelson, STCL Houston Prof. & BOD National LGBTQ+ Bar Foundation ow.ly/bRVh50OJzBf #PrideMonth

Ability Diversity In The First-Year Law School Classroom, 71 J. Legal Educ. 202 (2021) bit.ly/46s6xKg by Ryan H. Nelson (STCL Houston) & Michael Ashley Stein (Harvard Law School)

My new paper, published today in the Labor Studies Journal, shows that political partisanship is strongly correlated with union representation election voting behavior and the magnitude of that correlation increased from 2008 to 2020. Feedback welcome! doi.org/10.1177/016044…

I'm excited about this symposium, All About Accommodations, Chicago-Kent Law on Mar. 22. If you're near Chicago, please come! Amazing lineup of speakers: Doron Dorfman Kat Macfarlane @sachinspandya Ryan H. Nelson, Alex Long, Kerri Stone, Dallan Flake &more! ckcle.ce21.com/item/all-accom…

⁦Chicago-Kent Law⁩ symposium, All About Accommodations. Group photo and excellent presentations by two of the speakers, Ryan H. Nelson⁩ (Queer Accommodations) and ⁦Doron Dorfman⁩ (Third Party Accommodations).

It’s a wrap on the All About Accommodations symposium Chicago-Kent Law! W Nicole Porter Kat Macfarlane @sachinspandya Ryan H. Nelson Louis Cholden-Brown Kerri Stone, Dallan Flake, Alex Long. From employment law to health law, I’m heading to Cambridge for the Harvard JOLT symposium ✈️

Check out my Bloomberg Law article proposing a lottery system for regulation challenges. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/a-…

The labor movement has an important role to play in securing and protecting LGBTQ+ rights. Joanna Wuest's new post for CUNY SLU - Murphy Institute and Sage's New Labor Forum is now featured on Power At Work - read it now at poweratwork.us/queer-working-…! #LGBTQ #labor #unions4all

1/X What's going on with Title IX and LGBTQ rights? For those who haven't been able to keep up with the many developments, this is a (longish) 🧵 on regulations, emergency applications pending at the Supreme Court, and the stakes for LGBTQ educational equality.

It's the wages, not the taxes, that need to be fixed for restaurant workers. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

My essays found homes! Is Snap Removal Unconstitutional? will be published in Pepperdine Law Review (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…), and Article III Standing in Federal Prosecutions of "Victimless Crimes" will be published in the online companion to Fordham Law Review (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…).

The Houston Chronicle just published my op-ed explaining why the Texas Department of Public Safety violated Texas law earlier this week by refusing to accept state court orders that change a Texan's sex. Link below.

It's a wrap on a marvelous COSELL 2024 hosted by USanDiegoLaw+@CWSL_News! See you next year Seton Hall Law🏙️ Thank you to participants Orly Lobel Mike Selmi Doron Dorfman Michael Oswalt Rachel AR Gali Racabi Jonathan F. Harris Ariana Levinson Marcia L. McCormick Jeff Hirsch =>

Honored to have my Fordham Law Review article, An Employment Discrimination Class Action by Any Other Name, highlighted by Charles Sullivan this morning in Jotwell: worklaw.jotwell.com/avoiding-the-f….

My new essay in The Green Bag explains why the Supreme Court actually didn't misspell the defendant’s name in Dred Scott v. Sandford. Check it out! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Nelson on San(d)ford Ryan H. Nelson The Green Bag / hedgehogsandfoxes.org/index.php/2025…

Just posted a draft of my new article arguing that we don’t really know how far work law reaches, such blindness causes significant problems, and overcoming those problems would be especially difficult: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…. Feedback welcome!

My new article, Queer Accommodations, is now in print! It explores the accommodations that queer workers need to do their jobs, focusing mostly on trans and non-binary workers. law.georgetown.edu/gender-journal…