Paul McGreal
@paulmcgreal.bsky.social
James L. Koley '54 Professor of Constitutional Law at Creighton and proud dog dad. Research includes economic analysis of religion law, Reformation religious practices and the 1A, and the serious problems with claims of church autonomy.
It also connects well with Lisa Feldman Barrett's research on emotions as the subjective labels for the interior sensations produced by the body's preparation for action. Understanding this biological process has helped me manage my emotions and mental well-being.
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Lisa Feldman Barrett - How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
YouTube video by The Brainwaves Video Anthology
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November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It also connects well with Lisa Feldman Barrett's research on emotions as the subjective labels for the interior sensations produced by the body's preparation for action. Understanding this biological process has helped me manage my emotions and mental well-being.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS-9...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS-9...
Thank you for sharing this! I have been practicing non-dual meditation for the last two years, and her talk resonates with my experience. In fact, meditation helps with any internal feeling: anger, fear, anxiety, craving, etc.
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Thank you for sharing this! I have been practicing non-dual meditation for the last two years, and her talk resonates with my experience. In fact, meditation helps with any internal feeling: anger, fear, anxiety, craving, etc.
Bingo. Back in NFIB v. Sebelius, the Court said a tax can also regulate behavior. But it’s still a tax. Same for tariffs.
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Bingo. Back in NFIB v. Sebelius, the Court said a tax can also regulate behavior. But it’s still a tax. Same for tariffs.
Maybe “town hall” was a description of the location and not the event. 😁
August 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Maybe “town hall” was a description of the location and not the event. 😁
I’ll bring the popcorn!
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August 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I’ll bring the popcorn!
And somehow if you dare to express your frustration to the list, you’re a neo-McCarthyite. 🤦🏻♂️
August 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
And somehow if you dare to express your frustration to the list, you’re a neo-McCarthyite. 🤦🏻♂️
Since Grok is now the main participant in the exchanges, have we technically reached the singularity?
August 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Since Grok is now the main participant in the exchanges, have we technically reached the singularity?
It might be appropriate to decide based on a cost-benefit analysis. 
August 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
It might be appropriate to decide based on a cost-benefit analysis. 
Thought about this a lot after Dobbs. There, Alito embraced 18th C misogyny as tradition (Scalia did this too in his US v. VA dissent). In Est Clause cases, however, he rejects anti-Catholic laws (eg, Blaine amendments, which were post-14A) as prejudice. Pure hypocrisy.
August 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Thought about this a lot after Dobbs. There, Alito embraced 18th C misogyny as tradition (Scalia did this too in his US v. VA dissent). In Est Clause cases, however, he rejects anti-Catholic laws (eg, Blaine amendments, which were post-14A) as prejudice. Pure hypocrisy.
I second that recommendation! And it’s been renewed for a second season!
An adjacent show, IMHO, is Slow Horses, which has a new season coming out this fall.
An adjacent show, IMHO, is Slow Horses, which has a new season coming out this fall.
August 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I second that recommendation! And it’s been renewed for a second season!
An adjacent show, IMHO, is Slow Horses, which has a new season coming out this fall.
An adjacent show, IMHO, is Slow Horses, which has a new season coming out this fall.
Also, the more you explore the Reformation (or as some historians say, Reformations plural), you see striking parallels to modern practices. It has helped me to look beyond the peculiar course the Reformation took in England to see the wider context.
August 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Also, the more you explore the Reformation (or as some historians say, Reformations plural), you see striking parallels to modern practices. It has helped me to look beyond the peculiar course the Reformation took in England to see the wider context.
Thank you! I am excited to share this research in such a timely forum.
August 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thank you! I am excited to share this research in such a timely forum.
of faith designed to identify and marginalize religious minorities. By recovering this history, this Essay demonstrates that classroom religious displays violate not just modern sensibilities but a historical understanding of religious freedom that refugees carried to American shores.
August 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
of faith designed to identify and marginalize religious minorities. By recovering this history, this Essay demonstrates that classroom religious displays violate not just modern sensibilities but a historical understanding of religious freedom that refugees carried to American shores.
sixteenth-century Catholic processions that forced Protestants to choose between betraying their conscience or marking themselves for persecution. Like modern students confronting state-mandated religious texts, Reformation-era dissenters faced orchestrated tests
August 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
sixteenth-century Catholic processions that forced Protestants to choose between betraying their conscience or marking themselves for persecution. Like modern students confronting state-mandated religious texts, Reformation-era dissenters faced orchestrated tests
Yet, these states advance a version of history that mistakenly ignores European religious persecution that shaped how the Founders understood the establishment of religion. This Essay remedies that error through a novel historical analogy:
August 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yet, these states advance a version of history that mistakenly ignores European religious persecution that shaped how the Founders understood the establishment of religion. This Essay remedies that error through a novel historical analogy:
The Supreme Court's recent embrace of "historical practices and understandings" in interpreting the Establishment Clause has emboldened states to challenge forty-five years of precedent prohibiting Ten Commandments displays in public schools.
August 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Supreme Court's recent embrace of "historical practices and understandings" in interpreting the Establishment Clause has emboldened states to challenge forty-five years of precedent prohibiting Ten Commandments displays in public schools.
On a related point … IMHO, any professor who gives a “racehorse exam,” where students are not expected to finish, should not be teaching. Full stop. And that would include at least one of the profs I had as a 1L at SMU (course name rhymes with shorts).
July 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
On a related point … IMHO, any professor who gives a “racehorse exam,” where students are not expected to finish, should not be teaching. Full stop. And that would include at least one of the profs I had as a 1L at SMU (course name rhymes with shorts).
Thank you for this suggestion! I’ve used Notebook LM only sparingly, but this gives me a reason to explore its full potential as I do research this summer.
May 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Thank you for this suggestion! I’ve used Notebook LM only sparingly, but this gives me a reason to explore its full potential as I do research this summer.
Some of my colleagues and I use the Volokh template, which is single spaced.
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Academic Legal Writing
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March 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Some of my colleagues and I use the Volokh template, which is single spaced.
www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/writi...
www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/writi...