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Ellie Margolis

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Law professor @TempleLaw, suburban gardener, avid reader. Happy to nerd out about legal writing anytime.

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Watch Drive to Survive. Also, the book The Formula gives a great overview of the history and developments up to the last couple of years.

07.03.2026 02:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Finally finished Harrow the Ninth (delayed by my travels) and I’m going to start How to Read a Book by Monica Wood. Watching Shrinking.

07.03.2026 00:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm honored to be publishing this piece with Vanderbilt Psych Prof Sarah Brown-Schmidt in volume 112 of the Virginia Law Review. In this empirical evidence law and cognitive science article, we identify the risks posed by "hear-witnesses" who inaccurately recall and recount statements at trial.

06.03.2026 21:35 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own The Board of Governors overseeing the new curricula includes roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.

First they came for gender studies . . . and now they are attempting to ban sociology. Florida has written its own sanitized sociology intro book and banned all others that reflect what the discipline knows about gender, race, inequality and the world. truthout.org/articles/flo...

06.03.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Is it bad when you're an AUSA and include what appear to be AI hallucinated cites in a brief? Is it worse when the pro se plaintiff calls you out on it? (Though, in fairness, it appears the plaintiff is also an attorney.)

news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...

06.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 256 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 11
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Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

Grammarly is using our identities without permission

06.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 195 πŸ” 96 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 31

This is how it's supposed to be.

Lawyers who think they're professionally obligated to be assholes to each other are the bane of the profession, and you find them everywhere from sole practitioners in strip malls to the biggest of BigLaw in Manhattan.

06.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
Pack the Courtroom - Support Major Tillery - An innocent man wrongly imprisoned for 43 years. Criminal Justice Center: 13th & Filbert, March 12, 9AM, Room 507. Picture: photo of brown-skinned man with a grey goattee, glasses, and striped skullcap talking on a cell phone

Pack the Courtroom - Support Major Tillery - An innocent man wrongly imprisoned for 43 years. Criminal Justice Center: 13th & Filbert, March 12, 9AM, Room 507. Picture: photo of brown-skinned man with a grey goattee, glasses, and striped skullcap talking on a cell phone

Thursday in Philly!

Major Tillery is in his 70s. This is his 4th attempt to free himself via PA's Post-Conviction Relief Act after being wrongfully convicted for political reasons decades ago.

Free our elders! Free all political prisoners! iacenter.org/2020/05/27/i...

06.03.2026 20:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How about confirmation bias?

06.03.2026 21:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

06.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 5056 πŸ” 1263 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 42

Results-driven

06.03.2026 21:29 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, it's real. Just checked it.

06.03.2026 20:27 πŸ‘ 98 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

I’m thinking about posting some kind of law professor anti-AI pledge: that any signatory does not use AI to research or write any articles or books.
(I also would like advice about how to disable the ubiquitous invasive AI summaries that search engines push on us)

05.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

This writing style is a choice.

06.03.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, friend!

06.03.2026 19:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman with pigtails says " now follow me " in a netflix advertisement Alt: Gif of Wednesday saying β€œnow, follow me.”

We made it to Friday, fam! Which also means it’s time for #FollowFriday. Drop the @ below of a Lady Lawyer account you think others should follow and why.

06.03.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I really encourage everyone to spend some time with the DHS Flickr page, which in one year posted thousands and thousands of glamour shot propaganda photos of Kristi Noem and little else. Our tax dollars! www.flickr.com/photos/dhsgov/

06.03.2026 12:15 πŸ‘ 662 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 20

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

06.03.2026 04:10 πŸ‘ 1684 πŸ” 440 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 11

Okay, I’ll start. Before making public appearances for your job, make sure you still have that job. #LifeHacks

06.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE detains reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

05.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 12166 πŸ” 7359 πŸ’¬ 288 πŸ“Œ 335
The Top 100 Legal Scholars of 2025 Traditional legal scholarship rankings rely almost exclusively on career-long publication metrics, a method that inherently favors decades-old articles and ofte

Honored to find out that I am on this list of top-cited legal scholars again this year: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Lots of others on this list whose work I deeply admire, including @jessicaclarke.bsky.social @miriamseifter.bsky.social @jdmortenson.bsky.social and many others! Congrats, all!

05.03.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

05.03.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 7936 πŸ” 1879 πŸ’¬ 93 πŸ“Œ 92
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New Nonfiction to Read This Women's History Month Each year, in honor of Women's History Month, we like to pull together some kind of curated collection featuring nonfiction books on women's hist...

Greetings, Handmaids of Gilead -- It's Women's History Month so make sure that you obtain and hide away these books in a secure location, because reading is strictly forbidden by the Commanders! OK - seriously -- I'm thrilled that my book made this list www.goodreads.com/blog/show/30...

05.03.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Maryland: You Want Rights? We’ve Got Rights - Institute for Justice Maryland has had a long list of rights in its constitution since 1776. It borrowed some from Virginia's declaration but added many of its own.

Next in our tour of "The OTHER Declarations of 1776" we come to Maryland. Man do Marylanders like enumerating their rights! But did they borrow from Delaware or Pennsylvania? The answers, first found by @judgedanfriedman.bsky.social, may surprise you.

ij.org/cje-post/mar...

05.03.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Cover page of a book manuscript. Title reads β€œCultivating the City: The Long Struggle to Put Land to Use” 
Under that it says β€œBy Nate Ela”

Cover page of a book manuscript. Title reads β€œCultivating the City: The Long Struggle to Put Land to Use” Under that it says β€œBy Nate Ela”

This is going off into production today @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I can’t wait to share it with the world next spring. A story of land, property, and social policy, told via Chicago’s farms and gardens, past and present.

05.03.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

I am also available for adoption

05.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I believe that's 36.73 scaramuccis if you count as of today, or 39.1 scaramuccis as of March 31

05.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Breaking:

WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 20 states sue over new global tariffs Trump imposed after Supreme Court loss.

05.03.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 2464 πŸ” 576 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 21

I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now!

Trump is announcing his nominee.

That's it.

If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of thisβ€”even after knowing what they know now.

And that matters come November.

05.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 2642 πŸ” 609 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 54

THIS!

The perks of this job ain't that great OTHER than the ability to do this -- read, think, write, think some more, write some more. All on topics of your own choosing.

Otherwise, there are lots of other jobs out there that don't come with academic committee work.

05.03.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0