William McGeveran
@wmcgeveran.bsky.social
Dean, University of Minnesota Law School. Legal education, data privacy/IP/tech law, preservation of democracy. All opinions are just my own.
What am I missing? This app is illegal in 16 states, right?
November 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
What am I missing? This app is illegal in 16 states, right?
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Dean @wmcgeveran.bsky.social was interviewed by @wcconews.bsky.social about a new Minnesota law that puts guardrails around content creation and how minors are compensated for appearing in monetized videos on social media.
Watch the interview: z.umn.edu/ajpv
Watch the interview: z.umn.edu/ajpv
July 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Dean @wmcgeveran.bsky.social was interviewed by @wcconews.bsky.social about a new Minnesota law that puts guardrails around content creation and how minors are compensated for appearing in monetized videos on social media.
Watch the interview: z.umn.edu/ajpv
Watch the interview: z.umn.edu/ajpv
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Minnesota Law faculty and staff express our profound sorrow at the death today of Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman ’95 and her spouse, Mark Hortman.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to the Hortmans’ family, friends, colleagues, and fellow alumni.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to the Hortmans’ family, friends, colleagues, and fellow alumni.
June 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Minnesota Law faculty and staff express our profound sorrow at the death today of Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman ’95 and her spouse, Mark Hortman.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to the Hortmans’ family, friends, colleagues, and fellow alumni.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to the Hortmans’ family, friends, colleagues, and fellow alumni.
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@wmcgeveran.bsky.social announced the 2025 Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Awards at MN Law's 137th commencement: @nicholasbednar.bsky.social ’16 for tenure-track teaching, Prof. Nadia Anguiano ’17 for clinical teaching, Prof. Amy Sweasy ’95 for skills and practical teaching.
z.umn.edu/aglr
z.umn.edu/aglr
May 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
@wmcgeveran.bsky.social announced the 2025 Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Awards at MN Law's 137th commencement: @nicholasbednar.bsky.social ’16 for tenure-track teaching, Prof. Nadia Anguiano ’17 for clinical teaching, Prof. Amy Sweasy ’95 for skills and practical teaching.
z.umn.edu/aglr
z.umn.edu/aglr
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In March, @wmcgeveran.bsky.social delivered the Tangentem Lecture at Oxford's annual International IP Law Moot Court Competition. Student competitors and their coaches from around the world attended the keynote address, along with faculty and guests from the Oxford IP Research Centre.
April 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
In March, @wmcgeveran.bsky.social delivered the Tangentem Lecture at Oxford's annual International IP Law Moot Court Competition. Student competitors and their coaches from around the world attended the keynote address, along with faculty and guests from the Oxford IP Research Centre.
To clarify: not referring to the faculty.
We have turkeys living on the third floor. It's like @wmcgeveran.bsky.social has his own personal zoo up there.
May 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
To clarify: not referring to the faculty.
The jaw-dropping overreach of the letter to Harvard shows every university what the stakes are.
www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
www.harvard.edu
April 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The jaw-dropping overreach of the letter to Harvard shows every university what the stakes are.
www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
If arguing against cruel and random deportations without any due process is a crime, let me be guilty.
JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
April 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
If arguing against cruel and random deportations without any due process is a crime, let me be guilty.
It appears our government is scooping people up from the streets and sending them to a horrific Salvadoran concentration camp based on little more than their race and national origin, without a scrap of due process. I wish I was exaggerating.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Admin Deports Teen With No Criminal Record to El Salvador Prison: Report
19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez was arrested just steps from his home in the Bronx and deported to El Salvador's notorious mega-prison.
www.rollingstone.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It appears our government is scooping people up from the streets and sending them to a horrific Salvadoran concentration camp based on little more than their race and national origin, without a scrap of due process. I wish I was exaggerating.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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You don’t say?
Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them.
To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals — or even defending the president and his ...
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
You don’t say?
Seriously who would buy tickets to Fyre Festival 2? It’s got to be some kind of performance art project right? Just a giant practical joke?
April 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Seriously who would buy tickets to Fyre Festival 2? It’s got to be some kind of performance art project right? Just a giant practical joke?
I am revolted by the ignorance, insensitivity, and malice of RFK Jr. on autism today (which, reminder, IS a spectrum and IS NOT caused by vaccines).
April 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I am revolted by the ignorance, insensitivity, and malice of RFK Jr. on autism today (which, reminder, IS a spectrum and IS NOT caused by vaccines).
This is a big ruling.
BREAKING: District court grants NetChoice's motion for summary judgment in NetChoice v. Yost, permanently enjoining enforcement of Ohio's social media law.
Another one bites the dust.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Another one bites the dust.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![This Court lauds the State's effort through the Act to protect the children of this state. This
Court finds, however, that the Act as drafted fails to pass constitutional muster and is
constitutionally infirm. And in this constitutional democracy, it cannot be gainsaid that even the
govemment's most noble entreaties to protect its citizenry must abide in the contours of the U. S.
Constitution, in this case the Amendment. As Justice Scalia profoundly reasoned in
Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, (see in-depth analysis infra Section III.B.I),
which found unconstitutional under the First Amendment a California statute imposing restrictions
on the sale or rental to minors of "violent video games":
[M]inors are entitled to a significant measure of First Amendment
protection, and only in relatively narrow and well-defined
circumstances may government bar public dissemination of
protected materials to them
No doubt a State possesses
legitimate power to protect children from harm... but that does not
include a free-floating power to restrict the ideas to which children
may be exposed. Speech that is neither obscene as to youths nor
subject to some other legitimate proscription cannot be suppressed
solely to protect the young from ideas or images that a legislative
body thinks unsuitable for them ....
Brown v. Ent. Merchants Ass 'n, 564 U.S. 786, 794—95 (2011) (internal quotation marks and
citations omitted).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ooapl6do2c6xxglfxuxgbxae/bafkreiei2wyly5jddvaxlinxjkdhukxghokse4fgrzgdry5s5dgysr73qy@jpeg)
April 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This is a big ruling.
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Incredible reporting here. DOGE engineers may have stolen a bunch of sensitive NLRB data; the agency whistleblower then received what I can only describe as a mafia-style threat.
NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Incredible reporting here. DOGE engineers may have stolen a bunch of sensitive NLRB data; the agency whistleblower then received what I can only describe as a mafia-style threat.
Also: definitely not a gang member.
Also: surely not the only person wrongfully swept up in this Orwellian net.
Also: a human being, husband, father.
Also: surely not the only person wrongfully swept up in this Orwellian net.
Also: a human being, husband, father.
Either the U.S. government *is* able to exert monetary and diplomatic pressure on El Salvador sufficient to produce Abrego Garcia’s release, or it isn’t.
The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.
The latter would be either a bald-faced lie or a pretty stunning concession of our national impotence. The Vice President should pick one.
April 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Also: definitely not a gang member.
Also: surely not the only person wrongfully swept up in this Orwellian net.
Also: a human being, husband, father.
Also: surely not the only person wrongfully swept up in this Orwellian net.
Also: a human being, husband, father.
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Friday mood:
March 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Friday mood:
I likewise signed the Jenner and WilmerHale amicus briefs, now nearly doubled to 676 legal academics.
I was one of 363 law professors to sign this amicus brief supporting Perkins Coie in its challenge to the unconstitutional executive order seeking to punish it.
law.stanford.edu/publications...
law.stanford.edu/publications...
BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE 363 LAW PROFESSORS IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND FOR DECLARATORY AND PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE RELIEF | Stanford Law School
Amici 363 law professors submit this brief in support of Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment and for Declaratory and Permanent Injunctive Relief
law.stanford.edu
April 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I likewise signed the Jenner and WilmerHale amicus briefs, now nearly doubled to 676 legal academics.
Peak sci fi dystopia when the government is rendering people “dead” by deleting their record from the computer, without any warning or due process.
April 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Peak sci fi dystopia when the government is rendering people “dead” by deleting their record from the computer, without any warning or due process.
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We cannot accept this.
Migrant detainees should be in a maximum-security El Salvador prison "for the rest of their lives," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says — despite a recent CBS News investigation that found more than 75% of those sent to the prison had NO criminal records.
Migrant detainees should be in El Salvador prison "for the rest of their lives," Noem says
The detainees were arrested and deported to a foreign, maximum-security prison without being given a court hearing.
www.axios.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
We cannot accept this.
A true extremist now controls the TIDE database, which combines various NSA, CIA, and other intelligence surveillance. And these days that’s not a national crisis, it’s a Tuesday.
April 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A true extremist now controls the TIDE database, which combines various NSA, CIA, and other intelligence surveillance. And these days that’s not a national crisis, it’s a Tuesday.
The DSA (and DMA) are growing to be nearly as important to data privacy in Europe as the GDPR
Today the great legal team at Berlin based @freiheitsrechte.org have lodged complaints against Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Google and Twitter with the Irish regulator who oversees the EU's DSA, for failing to be transparent on why they shut down our accounts & content
I am proud to act as complainant
I am proud to act as complainant
Artikel 17 verpflichtet Plattformen dazu, Moderationsentscheidungen nachvollziehbar & spezifisch zu begründen. D.h.: Nutzer*innen haben das Recht zu erfahren, warum etwa ihr Beitrag entfernt & welche Regel konkret verletzt wurde. Das ist Grundlage dafür, sich wirksam gegen Beschränkungen zu wehren.
April 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The DSA (and DMA) are growing to be nearly as important to data privacy in Europe as the GDPR
To be clear: that isn’t a normal question. We shouldn’t have to wonder about the answer.
April 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
To be clear: that isn’t a normal question. We shouldn’t have to wonder about the answer.
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One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."
April 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."
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President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago
He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...