You never know who you are going to run into on the UChicago campus. Thanks to Transportation Secretary @petebuttigieg.bsky.social for spending time teaching our students at the Institute of Politics and cheerfully indulging our faculty paparazzi.

I ran an experiment to see if any UChicago 1Ls actually read the boilerplate ABA learning outcomes at the end of a 4-page Property law syllabus. Result: One of my students spotted the offer and claimed the free casebook a few hours after I posted the syllabus, several days into their winter break.

Today’s Gaetz news is a splendid opportunity to recall the most unintentionally hilarious tweet in the history of legal education…. Imagine the indignity of being et al.ed by the Mooch.

Failures of the data economy: one of my current 1L students, by sheer coincidence, moved into in a downtown apartment I moved out of twenty years ago. Nonetheless she’s still getting junk mail for me.

I've been deep in the weeds of old Takings Clause precedents all month, and I'd like to share McLaughlin v. Green, in all its glory, with the world.