Molly Brady
@maureenebrady.com
Professor @ Harvard Law writing on property institutions, land use, private law, and eminent domain. Section 3 for life. Always half-joking. (AKA Maureen.)
What I don't need help with: generic, cringe responses to emails
What I do need help with:
What I do need help with:
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
What I don't need help with: generic, cringe responses to emails
What I do need help with:
What I do need help with:
Should I tell this “swiftie” what No Body No Crime is about or
October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Should I tell this “swiftie” what No Body No Crime is about or
The Gen Zs in this coffee shop are absolutely rocking out to Shaggy’s It Wasn’t Me, and I feel optimism for the first time in years
October 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The Gen Zs in this coffee shop are absolutely rocking out to Shaggy’s It Wasn’t Me, and I feel optimism for the first time in years
Everything is land use. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
To Fight ICE, Portland’s Leaders Turn to What They Know Best: Zoning
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Everything is land use. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
My mom when I got cut from 7th grade basketball
Kristi Noem’s message to the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny for the halftime show:
“The NFL sucks and we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe…”
“The NFL sucks and we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe…”
October 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My mom when I got cut from 7th grade basketball
(Sigh) well now I’m gonna have to work on that property / second amendment essay
NEW at SCOTUS: just five cert grants from the long conference
October 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
(Sigh) well now I’m gonna have to work on that property / second amendment essay
I’m sorry is this a love song about the SUBURBS
September 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I’m sorry is this a love song about the SUBURBS
Are all three year olds drawing maps at school or is this an early sign of love for property
August 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Are all three year olds drawing maps at school or is this an early sign of love for property
I have fallen victim to this - and other Property profs might’ve too! Crabgrass Frontier often gets misread and cited for the proposition that racial deed restrictions originated in The Lindens in Brookline MA. It’s false, a kind local historian pointed out. We need to be real skeptics in this age.
From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.
I've seen numerous examples of this in recent days - we're at a point where some reporters are using LLMs as a source and not even remotely properly factchecking, but also where LLM generated material is making its way into other material and being unknowingly reproduced by others.
July 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I have fallen victim to this - and other Property profs might’ve too! Crabgrass Frontier often gets misread and cited for the proposition that racial deed restrictions originated in The Lindens in Brookline MA. It’s false, a kind local historian pointed out. We need to be real skeptics in this age.
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Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.
From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.
I've seen numerous examples of this in recent days - we're at a point where some reporters are using LLMs as a source and not even remotely properly factchecking, but also where LLM generated material is making its way into other material and being unknowingly reproduced by others.
July 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.
A heartbreaking day. In the middle of my *job interview*, I half jokingly told Dick I didn’t know where any of the HLS buildings were, and he promptly put on a fishing hat and gave me a tour. I had to pinch myself. The definition of professional humility.
RIP Dick Fallon. A devastating loss professionally and personally.
July 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A heartbreaking day. In the middle of my *job interview*, I half jokingly told Dick I didn’t know where any of the HLS buildings were, and he promptly put on a fishing hat and gave me a tour. I had to pinch myself. The definition of professional humility.
Just posted: new Essay for the state con law club. It examines the states that actually enabled takings for *private use* in the late 19th century, and some of the interesting themes that emerge from debates over the provisions (on "necessity," on nonlawyer drafters) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Debates Over "Public Use" in the State Constitutional Conventions
Historians and legal scholars alike have previously noted that the meaning of "public use" began to change in the nineteenth century, continuing into
papers.ssrn.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Just posted: new Essay for the state con law club. It examines the states that actually enabled takings for *private use* in the late 19th century, and some of the interesting themes that emerge from debates over the provisions (on "necessity," on nonlawyer drafters) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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July 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
HABEMUS TORT DEAN news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
smoke coming out of a chimney with trees in the foreground
ALT: smoke coming out of a chimney with trees in the foreground
media.tenor.com
June 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
HABEMUS TORT DEAN news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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Hey Property profs:
Shoot lasers from your house to keep trees from blocking your view.
US Patent 12317790
US Patent 12317790
June 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Hey Property profs:
Dangers of marrying property professors:
Me: [gasp] our new house is on REGISTERED LAND!!!!
Spouse: I love you dearly but I have no idea what that means
Me: [gasp] our new house is on REGISTERED LAND!!!!
Spouse: I love you dearly but I have no idea what that means
June 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Dangers of marrying property professors:
Me: [gasp] our new house is on REGISTERED LAND!!!!
Spouse: I love you dearly but I have no idea what that means
Me: [gasp] our new house is on REGISTERED LAND!!!!
Spouse: I love you dearly but I have no idea what that means
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Not sure when I’ve been happier all year
June 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Not sure when I’ve been happier all year
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I've just joined BlueSky and need help from friends to gather followers. So @uvalaw.bsky.social, and other faculty and students, please share/follow. I write about discrimination law and its philosophical foundations and about bribery and corruption. Am interested in all things law and philosophy.
May 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I've just joined BlueSky and need help from friends to gather followers. So @uvalaw.bsky.social, and other faculty and students, please share/follow. I write about discrimination law and its philosophical foundations and about bribery and corruption. Am interested in all things law and philosophy.
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NEW: Harvard sues over Trump administration’s revocation of its student exchange program certification.
Read the complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Read the complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
May 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
NEW: Harvard sues over Trump administration’s revocation of its student exchange program certification.
Read the complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Read the complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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This framing is all wrong
Our international students are not a “crucial funding source”
They are our STUDENTS
They are the reason we EXIST
We teach STUDENTS
Our international students are not a “crucial funding source”
They are our STUDENTS
They are the reason we EXIST
We teach STUDENTS
May 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This framing is all wrong
Our international students are not a “crucial funding source”
They are our STUDENTS
They are the reason we EXIST
We teach STUDENTS
Our international students are not a “crucial funding source”
They are our STUDENTS
They are the reason we EXIST
We teach STUDENTS
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academic folks: Harvard international students may need to begin immediately transferring out in order to avoid having to leave the country
If it sounds insane, that's because it is
what will your institutions do to help?
If it sounds insane, that's because it is
what will your institutions do to help?
Fact Sheet: Maintaining student status when an SEVP certified school closes or loses its certification to enroll F-1 nonimmigrant students
www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis...
www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis...
www.ice.gov
May 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
academic folks: Harvard international students may need to begin immediately transferring out in order to avoid having to leave the country
If it sounds insane, that's because it is
what will your institutions do to help?
If it sounds insane, that's because it is
what will your institutions do to help?
Sometimes the Onion is writing for an audience of one (me) theonion.com/city-council...
City Councilman Unearths Magical Zoning Amulet
ROCHESTER, NY—After years spent poring over mysterious and arcane plat sheets and deciphering long-forgotten building codes, city councilmember Mike LaMere unearthed the mysterious City Zoning Amulet ...
theonion.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Sometimes the Onion is writing for an audience of one (me) theonion.com/city-council...
Conan O’Brien’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize, now on Netflix, is a really wonderful comment on Twain, comedy, the moment. www.vulture.com/article/cona...
May 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Conan O’Brien’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize, now on Netflix, is a really wonderful comment on Twain, comedy, the moment. www.vulture.com/article/cona...
Ok fair this one might be on me
April 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Ok fair this one might be on me