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Grant Hayden
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SMU Law School professor who does labor law, voting rights, and, somewhat reluctantly, corporate governance. Old man basketball player and lapsed art historian. ⚖️🏀🖼️
Recent book: https://a.co/d/6UVA0sj
Other stuff: https://tinyurl.com/SMUbio
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My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all.

Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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They are preparing to fight for our freedom.
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Dallas today
October 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Four bull elk took time away from mating to join the No Kings protest in Estes Park, Colorado. That’s how serious this is.
October 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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This is my effort to collect in one place the top 3 reasons (imho) why 'the free market' should not even be a starting point for analysis - especially normative (legal,policy) reasoning. Also includes a brief account of how the modern idea of the self coordinating market emerged in fits and starts.
Hello! Here is my essay (still a draft) for a symposium held in the spring at the university of chicago. (Please note that the title of the symposium was set by the law review; I chose my essay title.) Comments are welcome.

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New essay: law & the self-coordinating market idea
Essay for the University of Chicago Law Review Symposium, held in April 2025, on “Law & Economics vs. Law & Political Economy: A Debate” (draft) Law & the scm idea uchi l re…
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October 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM