Dave Hoffman

@OrinKerr Putting a retirement age carveout back in the ADEA for tenured jobs seems like an idea that's pan-partisan.

@HoffProf I’m a pluralist, so their choice.

There a few law professors on here and linkedin who make it clear that their outside work is where their heart is (and, probably, the majority of their take-home pay). They are generally outliers, but less so than, say, a decade ago.

@OrinKerr Prodding them to write or to leave?

@HoffProf Could be, but the one day rule is an already existing rule; non-zero efforts to enforce it would be a start. And for that matter, prodding profs who long ago stopped writing.

@OrinKerr Yes, that rule is not well enforced. But also it could be just a flat percent of income rule.

@HoffProf This is part of the general failure of law schools to enforce rules on tenured profs, though, right? I assume the profs are violating the university rules on limits of outside roles (usually something like 1 day a week), which the universities aren't enforcing.

I swear to god, every time I talk in public about our employers' latent ability to tax our outside compensation as a natural and obviously consequence of agency law, my phone blows up with we don't talk about fight club texts.

But, if law schools are really pinched for funds, they are going to find the opportunity to take a piece of this outside income pretty tempting. At least as our jobs are currently structured, I think our employers have this option in their back pocket.

So we have fewer babies and more depression but also less crime and alcoholism. Cellphones are really the cause of and solution to everything except possibly spring allergies.

@joseltzer And frighten away the hoped-for-orioles.

Gray Catbirds, man. They ghost you for six months and then they show up again like they own the place and eat up all your food.

The last one really might be deceptive. It's measuring the dominance of particular acquirer counsel (when I can collect it) in deals in this selected sample.

It turns out that none of the law firm stuff works very well in the paper (which is actually about dispute resolution). So I'm going to have to repurpose it for purposes of clicks. Take this one as very in-sample only. And the sample is selected!

I'm working on a new paper about mergers, using a dataset consisting of 14K agreements from 2000-2025. One fun plot that's not going to make the cut illustrates that law firms seem to have a geographic specialization in their M&A practice.

@derektmuller I'd like to write a brief on behalf of neither party arguing for international law's application.

Just as this brief is very careful not to invoke the Legislature Thereof Clause argument, only making a state law aim & apparently hoping the Court would find a basis for finding such an argument relevant. x.com/i/status/20547…

Brief is very careful not to swat down the substance of the Legislature Thereof claim, only that it wasn't properly preserved & later calling purely state law.

My New Paper with @ProfArbel examines whether AI is really going to kill us all, and what law can do reduce catastrophic AI risk. It's forthcoming in the @ConnLRev: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I'm not going to talk about the corn situation yet -- @Klonick is always watching -- but let me just say I'm prepared.

If AI takes down big law and legal education, at least I'll have the August tomato glut to sell. nytimes.com/2026/05/12/bus…