Grant Hayden
@granthayden.bsky.social
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
Recent book: https://a.co/d/6UVA0sj
Other stuff: https://tinyurl.com/SMUbio
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Among the litany of problems with SCOTUS's decision to stay the Texas map: the majority never acknowledges that "the" partisan impetus to adopt the map as a whole does not in any way preclude the improper use of race as a means to get there.
Which is exactly what the trial court found. In detail.
Which is exactly what the trial court found. In detail.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Among the litany of problems with SCOTUS's decision to stay the Texas map: the majority never acknowledges that "the" partisan impetus to adopt the map as a whole does not in any way preclude the improper use of race as a means to get there.
Which is exactly what the trial court found. In detail.
Which is exactly what the trial court found. In detail.
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oh no starbucks's biggest sales day of the year is this week...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
oh no starbucks's biggest sales day of the year is this week...
😏
😏
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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
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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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.
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
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.
Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.
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They are preparing to fight for our freedom.
October 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
They are preparing to fight for our freedom.
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Reposted by Grant Hayden
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
Four bull elk took time away from mating to join the No Kings protest in Estes Park, Colorado. That’s how serious this is.
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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.
thesanjuktablog.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/n...
thesanjuktablog.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/n...
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…
thesanjuktablog.wordpress.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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.