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It's my fourth year teaching here @UMichLaw, and my fourth big game since moving to The School Up North. We love it here in Michigan, but our football loyalties remain unchanged. 🤓
Time to re-up my favorite welcome video:
Chris Walker
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- Some personal news: After a decade working on @OSU_Law faculty and living in Columbus, this summer we'll be moving a few hours north, where I'll join @UMichLaw faculty. A quick 🧵 reflecting on how Ohio State has been such an amazing professional home over the last ten years:
- I am devastated by events recounted in WaPo story published on Fri re Judge Kozinski:
- So grateful for wonderful, supportive @OSU_Law colleagues who voted today to promote me to full professor.
- If you've never attended a naturalization ceremony before, you should. Some thoughts on my experience in Dayton yesterday. THREAD:
- Replying to @chris_j_walker and @courtneymilanbut also something unacceptable and heartbreaking that Heidi faced alone. /END
- In Federal Courts, my students take turns in pairs doing recap presentations of the prior class's material. I thought this slide from their presentation captured pretty well our discussion of Bivens:
- As a member of @ABAesq and chair-elect of one of its sections, I urge the ABA to withdraw this letter and rating and pledge to improve its process of evaluating judicial nominees to ensure the process is fair and impartial.The ABA committee that vets judicial nominees gave a rare "not qualified" to 9th Circuit nominee Lawrence VanDyke, currently a DOJ official. Interviewees described him as "arrogant, lazy, an ideologue, and lacking in knowledge of the day-today practice" americanbar.org/content/dam/ab…
- It's sad to see SCOTUSblog slowly dying away -- turning from stats and substantive content in every case to TikTok and hotter takes. It would be great if some law school acquired it and returned it to its original form (or even better).
- I was disappointed in @nytimes for running smear article on D.C. Circuit Judge Griffith yesterday. If they had done a bit more digging, it was pretty widely known in DC legal circles that the judge decided to retire last year due to spouse's health issues. npr.org/2020/05/05/850…
- Judge Kavanaugh's Senate Judiciary Committee #SCOTUS nom questionnaire is now available on the SJC website: judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/ju… Here are the ten opinions he deems most significant (of his ~300 opinions):
- I love it here @UMichLaw, but especially on game day, I'm missing my colleagues, students, and friends @OSU_Law / @OhioState. A decade of wonderful memories. So this video was a lot of fun to do. 👇We are so happy to have Professor @chris_j_walker at Michigan Law. Even if he roots for @OhioStateFB. #GoBlue #BeatOhioState
00:00 - Sometimes I wonder whether tweeting out #appellatetwitter or #adlaw job opportunities is worth it . Not anymore. Received a nice email today from someone who saw my tweet, applied, and just got the job! 🤓🥳 [Insert child on beach throwing back starfish story here]
- In rereading Loper Bright again this morning, I keep coming back to what will become the most important paragraph of the opinion going forward:
