Matthew Adam Bruckner

Have you watched this yet? 17+ minutes on The Daily Show of substantive conversation about a serious book, The Middle-Class New Deal. Proud to know you, Professor Dickerson!

MISSION CREEP OR MISSION FAILURE? A Review of Melissa Jacoby’s Unjust Debts Bankruptcy law is not an area that most lawyers or law professors, much less the public, usually think about. Like death or taxes, we avoid worrying about such things until they stand at the gate. But...

I reviewed "Unjust Debts" by @mbjacoby.bsky.social for the American Journal of Law and Equality. It's a great book, and if you haven't gotten a copy, you really should! direct.mit.edu/ajle/article...

Dead Reference by Sam Illingworth Can you tell which academic citations are invented by AI?

Do your students know how to identify AI hallucinated references?

Maybe show them how similar they can look...

samillingworth.itch.io/dead-reference

on the public thoroughfare, you say?

Pang, Jiménez, & Bruckner on the New Student Loan Discharge Process in Bankruptcy Belisa Pang (Yale University – Law School), Dalié Jiménez (University of California, Irvine School of Law; Harvard Law School – Center on the Legal Profession), & Matthew …

I missed that @lsolum.bsky.social had recommended our article. appreciate you!

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appreciate that you highlighted this article. I had missed that

Had not realized that my article with @mbruckner.bsky.social and Belisa Pang is published! A "first look" at what's happened in bankruptcy courts after the DOJ Guidance (still in effect!) simplifying the process to discharge student loans.
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Pang, Jiménez, & Bruckner on the New Student Loan Discharge Process in Bankruptcy, https://buff.ly/3CkBR3n - Belisa Pang, Dalié Jiménez, & Matthew A. Bruckner have posted Full Discharge Ahead? An Empirical First Look at the New Student Loan Discharge Process in Bankruptcy on SSRN.

IME, NYCC riders tend to be far slower then the race-types

Dipping my toes back in

A (somewhat bleak) January 2026 update on how law schools are responding to the cap on federal student loans — Excess of Democracy Back in March 2025 , I highlighted the distinction between proactive and reactive law schools. Proactive schools, with visionary leadership and good management, would be prepared to weather the st...

I appreciate Derek T. Muller's focus on the cost of law school and the regular updates on what is (not) happening publicly.

excessofdemocracy.com/blog/2026/1/...

Goals Aren't Agreements Maybe the best contracts are the friends we made along the way

New post, whistling past the graveyard of transactional practice. I ask: if AI is so good at turning nuggets of ideas into text, why would we write contracts down at all?

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You did ME a favor. Thank you!

I appreciate this post. I've used it both my contracts and commercial law courses this semester.