Julia Mahoney

Sack that used to hold affidavits.

Label on an affidavits sack

I still get a thrill when I open up an archive box and find the original sack that used to hold the records. This is an 18th Century sack used for holding King's Bench affidavits [TNA KB 1/3]

More on recent “grounding” formulations of legal positivism that exclude Hans Kelsen Scott Shapiro did the most to popularize a misleading way of describing legal positivism. (The mistake derives from Greenberg and Gideon Rosen, but Shapiro’s 2011 book helped make it common a…

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Get more from Sean Tubbs and Town Crier Productions on Patreon Information about local and regional government in Central VA

Huge shout out to @infocville.bsky.social on the 1000th edition of the Charlottesville Community Engagement newsletter!

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My paper, Habeas and the 1948 Judicial Code, is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review (@stanlrev.bsky.social).

I argue that the 1948 Judicial Code, not the 1867 Habeas Corpus Act, should be the statutory focus for inquiry into the scope of habeas review.

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An Educated Citizenry with George Oberle I Revolutions In Retrospect YouTube video by Primary Source Media

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March 5th at 12pm EST!

Join @thenacbs.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of Matthew Mason’s recent book "Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World."

Eliga Gould will join Dr. Mason in discussion.

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UVA Launches Collaboratory on Data, AI, and Health — School of Data Science UVA launches the Collaboratory on Data, AI, and Health, uniting six schools and UVA Health to turn data and AI into better care and healthier communities.

UVA Launches Collaboratory on Data, AI, and Health datascience.virginia.edu/news/uva-lau...

Ep46: Focused Ultrasound and the Future of Cancer Immunotherapy with Natasha Sheybani, PhD | Curing with Sound In this episode of Curing with Sound, we speak with Natasha Sheybani, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia (UVA) and research director of the UVA Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center. Dr. Sheybani shares insights into her groundbreaking work using focused ultrasound–based immunotherapy approaches in patients with metastatic breast cancer and other solid tumors. She explains how precisely delivered sound waves can do more than destroy tumors—helping to reshape the tumor microenvironment, overcome immune evasion, and activate the immune...

In this episode, we speak with Natasha Sheybani, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at UVA. Dr. Sheybani shares insights into her work using focused ultrasound–based immunotherapy approaches in patients with metastatic breast cancer and other solid tumors. https://ow.ly/wLl350Y4osa

Screenshot of an article abstract: VACATUR WITHIN THE APPELLATE MODEL OF JUDICIAL REVIEW Emily S. Bremer Draft of Jan. 27, 2026 This Article situates vacatur within a holistic account of the appellate model of judicial review that Congress codified in the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Revisionist objections to judicial vacatur of agency rules neglect this broader structure and impose upon the APA a modern idea of remedies that crystallized decades after the statute’s 1946 enactment. Understood on its own terms, the APA uses pre-APA principles governing appellate jurisdiction to provide a constitutionally calibrated remedy for unlawful agency action. This Article uncovers those principles, and it argues that vacatur is not an equitable remedy but an appellate determination. It is statutorily authorized when an agency action is properly before a court on judicial review and is found to be unlawful under the applicable standard of review. But the approach has implications beyond vacatur, offering a revelatory blueprint for the APA’s judicial review section. This blueprint can help to address some of the most intractable problems in the judicial review of agency action, including the timing of judicial review of rules, the relationship between APA review and other remedies, and the role of the scope of review in keeping courts within Article III’s boundaries.

Coming soon to SSRN, Vacatur Within the Appellate Model of Judicial Review, an article that started as a small intervention into the vacatur debate but grew into the judicial review installment of my multi-year project on the Administrative Procedure Act.

The New Dominion <div><p><i>The New Dominion</i> analyzes six key statewide elections to explore the demographic, cultural, and economic changes that drove the transfo

"The New Dominion: The Twentieth-Century Elections That Shaped Modern Virginia," edited by John G. Milliken and Mark J. Rozell

#readUP!

www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5812/

Now available! "Creating an Informed Citizenry: Knowledge and Democracy in the Early American Republic" by George D. Oberle III.

Examining the early debates in the United States over how best to educate the constituents of the new nation

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#Booksky #skystorians

Our new paper!

From Professor to Justice University of Virginia School of Law alumna Masami Okino LL.M. ’96 traces her career from law school professor and dean to a justice on the Supreme Court of Japan.

Masami Okino LL.M. ’96 traces her career from law school professor and dean to a justice on the Supreme Court of Japan.

Serious question: why do you believe a significant chunk of the US population is not pro-democracy?

Even a short summary would be a great public service. No pressure, of course.

Profs. Adam Crews ’15 of Rutgers Law School, Monica Haymond ’16 of @northwesternlaw.bsky.social and Joel S. Johnson ’15 of the Pepperdine University Rick J. Caruso School of Law have won @theaals.bsky.social 2026 section awards.

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Are (either of) you planning to write a review of this Buckley bio?

Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US l...

Happy Public Domain Day! Jan 1 marks the date when eligible works pass into the public domain in the United States. Notable works entering the public domain this year include certain early Mickey Mouse cartoons, the novel As I Lay Dying, and the Gershwin composition Embraceable You.
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Not always.

Opinion | Economic Growth Is Up. Unemployment Is, Too. What’s Going On?

New piece in @nytopinion.nytimes.com trying to explain the GDP boom combined with job bust. I don't have a definitive answer--in fact I'm skeptical of grand unified theories given how the data is often revised and noisy. As always, only update a little on this news. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/o...

Thanks for the information. Any idea whether there are any plans to fix the trail?

Ep 166 - Imperial (Defaulted) Chinese Bonds (Again) Imperial (Defaulted) Chinese Bonds (Again) Yes, one of us might have sworn up and down that we would never do another episode about defaulted Imperial Chinese bonds. But a brand new case out of the D

LISTEN: Prof. Mitu Gulati and University of North Carolina Prof. Mark Weidemaier examine a new case involving defaulted Imperial Chinese bonds.

Holly Shulman Named 2025 Gould Award Winner The First Ladies Association for Research and Education honors historian for pioneering ‘Dolley Madison Digital Edition’ and contributions to the field of American first lady research and education.

Holly Shulman Named 2025 Gould Award Winner
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Resolving the mysteries of brain clearance and immune surveillance This review by Kipnis et al. explores recent advances in brain fluid dynamics, emphasizing CSF flow’s role in waste clearance, the glymphatic and meningeal lymphatic systems, and neuroimmune interacti...

How do the metabolic waste products get cleared from our brain? And how does this process intersect with the brain's immune system?
An exceptional review by
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We are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall University, to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (The New Press, 2025).

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Trump’s Draft AI Order Would Keep States in Their Proper Lanes Opinion: The ongoing debate about the authority of states to regulate artificial intelligence turns on a simple principle: a state’s laws end at its borders.

Opinion: The ongoing debate about the authority of states to regulate artificial intelligence turns on a simple principle: a state’s laws end at its borders.

Screenshot of UVA interim president speaking to VA Senate subcommittee this morning

Paul G. Mahoney (UVA interim President says DoJ guidance is "consistent with our internal guidance," agreement does NOT require UVA to violate Virginia law on DEI. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...

Screenshot of Paul G. Mahoney (UVA interim President) speaking at VA Senate subcommitee meeting this morning

Paul G. Mahoney (UVA interim President) says he wants to clear up misconceptions about UVA's agreement with Trump DoJ, strongly defends the deal. bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...

Opinion | Lawfare is a downward spiral. Here’s an escape hatch. Put concerns about political prosecutions before a bipartisan jury of former U.S. attorneys.

Prof. Saikrishna Prakash argues that Congress should allow judges to impanel a jury of former U.S. attorneys to assess the propriety of politically motivated indictments. @washingtonpost.com

Happy #pubday to "The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States" by @stevesarson.bsky.social !

How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning

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