Ever wanted to write a constitution? Join us at Oxford next summer for this constitution-writing seminar and simulated constitutional convention. Apply by January 5, 2026 at

If you want more details on New Hampshire's constitutions of 1776 and 1784, check out @TolerUpdike's "In the Room Where the Constitution Happens." https://t.co/7qJOtNIjIz

What the Venezuelan Constitution requires in the wake of Maduro’s capture:

'We die with the dying: See, they depart, and we go with them. We are born with the dead: See, they return, and bring us with them.' Remembering T. S. Eliot who died on 4th January 1965

🗞️ 5 constitutional developments you may have missed this week 🇹🇷 Turkey – Constitutional commission to submit proposal for a new constitution. 🇭🇺 Hungary – Constitutional amendments limiting emergency powers set to take effect. 🇮🇶 Iraq – Presidency nominations open in

“Built” myself new shelves with two wooden boxes and a plank and I’m finally organized and therefore productive again! Also, points if you recognize any of these books! (Organized by project.)

On this day in 1752, Betsy Ross was born. She is credited with sewing the first United States flag and may have modified the original design, turning 6-point stars into 5-point stars. #WeTheMen https://t.co/Skxb24xtOS

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Read Eleventh Circuit chief judge William Pryor on the judicial oath versus the ‘judgment of history’

Thanks, @RichardAlbert , and a reminder that the application deadline is approaching!

10 books to help you become a better academic writer so you can write a lot and publish a lot: 1. Academic Writing as if the Reader Matters by Leonard Cassuto Practical tips on how to make your academic writing more engaging and readable. Examples from the arts and sciences.

Ben-Hur was released 66 years ago today. The chariot race took five weeks to shoot without CGI, using 15,000 extras, real horses running at full speed and months of practical stunt work. When you feel the danger, it’s because the danger was real. https://t.co/da2c0jG5vb

Good teaching can make all the difference. Reading John Adams’ autobiography, young John wanted to be a farmer and disliked school because he hated his unkind schoolmaster. All that changed when he switched teachers to Mr. Marsh. Crazy how much history hung on that switch.

Nuffield College and DPIR are jointly hiring Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellows in Politics (up to 3 posts). £41.7k · 3 years · start Sept 2026 · open to recent PhDs (within 3 yrs of viva). Apply by 4 Dec 2025 🔗 https://t.co/2nnCEqxJ42

🎉 An amazing opportunity for students interested in the U.S. Constitution. 🇺🇸 Washington University in St. Louis will host a Model Constitutional Convention on May 21-24, 2026. Students across the United States will negotiate amendments to the U.S. Constitution under conditions

On forgiving trespasses. https://t.co/Yw1dzphJz0

Congrats to Cristina Rodriguez, just named YLS new dean! We met when our babies went to the YLS day care together fall 2018, and I can attest she is a wonderful person and mother in addition to an excellent scholar. (Pic of my daughter’s second birthday tea party in YLS hall).

NIU is hiring this Spring for a business law professor (contracts, business associations, secured transactions). Friendly, small, non-ideological, and super supportive faculty, leadership, and scrappy (amazing) student body. Feel free to DM me for details!

When your space looks like a 17th-century scholar's desk because you're attempting to absorb centuries of knowledge in one week!📚 Image from our Rare Collection.

My latest on the Court’s denial of cert in Veneno, which invited them to overturn plenary power over tribes. (Spoiler: you have to use history to count to 5 here.) https://t.co/vlscp0F4cK

All I want for Christmas (perennially) is bookshelves.