Howard and Caroline Cayne Distinguished Professor of Law, @WUSTL. Con law 📜, crim law/pro 👮, SCOTUSology 🏛. Cohost 🎤@DividedArgument.
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Joined December 2010
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NEW ARTICLE on @SSRN: "The Practice of Executive Constitutionalism," by me and @conorjclarke (forthcoming in @VirginiaLawRev). Check it out! (Link in next tweet to avoid being crushed by the @X algorithm).
Update: improved both sets of skills a little bit, and more importantly made the web instructions a ton clearer and simpler for new users!
danepps.github.io/legal-rese…
Law folks: If you’re not using Claude Code or ChatGPT’s Codex, you have no idea what you’re missing. So I’m distributing my research tools that provide a huge boost to legal scholarship. Research assistance, cite-checking, proofreading, and more (thread):
danepps.github.io/legal-rese…
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highly recommended
Law folks: If you’re not using Claude Code or ChatGPT’s Codex, you have no idea what you’re missing. So I’m distributing my research tools that provide a huge boost to legal scholarship. Research assistance, cite-checking, proofreading, and more (thread):
danepps.github.io/legal-rese…
Law folks: If you’re not using Claude Code or ChatGPT’s Codex, you have no idea what you’re missing. So I’m distributing my research tools that provide a huge boost to legal scholarship. Research assistance, cite-checking, proofreading, and more (thread):
danepps.github.io/legal-rese…
Check the skills out, and please feel free to suggest improvements!
danepps.github.io/legal-rese…
Note also that if you combine these skills with my Zotero style + plugins, they're even more powerful because they can search your library of articles.
danepps.github.io/bluebook/
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"Alito’s nominal adherence to originalism even as he struggles to revamp it is but one indication that the doctrine is becoming a zombie creed that functions more as a shibboleth than as an actual guide to conservative constitutional decision making."
It's frustrating that legal scholars feel the need to do this. The creative process of writing is hard, but it can be the most rewarding part of our jobs.
Relatedly, here's the abstract for my next piece, "Load-Bearing Constitutional Law."
"How Often Are Articles in Top Law Reviews Written In Part By AI?," by Julian Nyarko. The finding, based on Pangram AI detection software: Most 2026 articles in T14 journals have none, but a few have a decent amount, and one is majority AI-written.
reason.com/volokh/2026/09/07…
