Joe Miller 🧶 🏳️🌈🪷
@getmejoemiller.bsky.social
UGA Law prof, musing aloud. Nerd for history and for network analysis (esp citation networks). Particular interests include i.p. law, general jurisprudence, common law history & method, and fiduciary law.
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Faculty bio at bit.ly/jsm_bio
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I'm just gotta bottom-line it for y'all ...
there's some weird, weird stuff here on the internet
there's some weird, weird stuff here on the internet
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Friends, I am so delighted to share that Version 2 of our FREE patent casebook is now available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Friends, I am so delighted to share that Version 2 of our FREE patent casebook is now available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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This is a fascinating new experimental jurisprudence paper from Chris Jaeger on what is "reasonable."
For laypeople's judgments of reasonableness, the probability of harm (P) has an important effect beyond its role in the B
yalelawjournal.org/article/the-...
For laypeople's judgments of reasonableness, the probability of harm (P) has an important effect beyond its role in the B
yalelawjournal.org/article/the-...
The Hand Formula’s Unequal Inputs | Yale Law Journal
Tort law’s famous Hand Formula does not align with how laypeople judge whether conduct is reasonable. Five original experiments demonstrate that the Hand...
yalelawjournal.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is a fascinating new experimental jurisprudence paper from Chris Jaeger on what is "reasonable."
For laypeople's judgments of reasonableness, the probability of harm (P) has an important effect beyond its role in the B
yalelawjournal.org/article/the-...
For laypeople's judgments of reasonableness, the probability of harm (P) has an important effect beyond its role in the B
yalelawjournal.org/article/the-...
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(4) oh yeah, here’s the blog. TLDR, Americans (much to my personal dismay) like courts a lot and expect them to be independent, whether they’re in article iii or not.
“Quasi-Judicial”: A History and Tradition, by Beau J. Baumann & Jed H. Shugerman - Yale Journal on Regulation
“I do not say the office is either Executive or Judicial; I think it rather distinct from both, though it partakes of each, and therefore some modification, accommodated to those circumstances ought t...
www.yalejreg.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
(4) oh yeah, here’s the blog. TLDR, Americans (much to my personal dismay) like courts a lot and expect them to be independent, whether they’re in article iii or not.
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(1) New essay and blog post up that are coauthored with the great @jedshug.bsky.social We bring together a decade of scholarship to argue that the quasi-judicial category is both consistent w/ original public meaning and synonymous with a deeper Anglo-American “history and tradition.”
Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition
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<p><span>In the process of bulldozing the unitary executive theory, scholars have made several seemingly unrelated discoveries. First, "judicial&quo
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December 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
(1) New essay and blog post up that are coauthored with the great @jedshug.bsky.social We bring together a decade of scholarship to argue that the quasi-judicial category is both consistent w/ original public meaning and synonymous with a deeper Anglo-American “history and tradition.”
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1/Senior US official caught coaching Russia on how to massage Trump on Ukraine deal. Why? Because we are entering a new international order based not in state interests but clique interests. Welcome to neo-royalism.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukra...
www.bloomberg.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
1/Senior US official caught coaching Russia on how to massage Trump on Ukraine deal. Why? Because we are entering a new international order based not in state interests but clique interests. Welcome to neo-royalism.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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NEW: The Tate brothers, who have been accused of sexual misconduct in three countries, had their devices seized by law enforcement when they arrived in the U.S.
Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them.
Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: The Tate brothers, who have been accused of sexual misconduct in three countries, had their devices seized by law enforcement when they arrived in the U.S.
Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them.
Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them.
that time of year when every news story you see makes you think, "hmmm ... that could be an interesting exam question!"
November 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
that time of year when every news story you see makes you think, "hmmm ... that could be an interesting exam question!"
Reading Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith again today, teaching it tomorrow ... trying to capture the majority's vibe
November 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reading Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith again today, teaching it tomorrow ... trying to capture the majority's vibe
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Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
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Congrats to third-year #UGALaw students Chan Creswell, Dresden Day and Brianna House, along with second-year student Sawyer Bradford, on finishing as semifinalists at the Tournament of Champions Mock Trial Competition, a national invitation-only event! www.law.uga.edu/news/79692
November 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Congrats to third-year #UGALaw students Chan Creswell, Dresden Day and Brianna House, along with second-year student Sawyer Bradford, on finishing as semifinalists at the Tournament of Champions Mock Trial Competition, a national invitation-only event! www.law.uga.edu/news/79692
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We cannot be a meaningfully representative democracy until we replace the Senate & single-member districts as currently structured with actually representative & democratic institutions
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We cannot be a meaningfully representative democracy until we replace the Senate & single-member districts as currently structured with actually representative & democratic institutions
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...
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Important piece from Ed Luce in the FT today. "From today’s vantage point, Trump’s first term looks like a model of constitutional restraint."
The Trump Supremacy
Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
www.ft.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Important piece from Ed Luce in the FT today. "From today’s vantage point, Trump’s first term looks like a model of constitutional restraint."
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- It is legal to organize and fund protest.
- That someone organizes and funds promotion of a protest does not mean most, some, or any protesters are paid.
- Even if all protesters are paid, that is also legal
- It is good to oppose kings and fascism
- That's not what what "begs the question" means
- That someone organizes and funds promotion of a protest does not mean most, some, or any protesters are paid.
- Even if all protesters are paid, that is also legal
- It is good to oppose kings and fascism
- That's not what what "begs the question" means
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
October 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
- It is legal to organize and fund protest.
- That someone organizes and funds promotion of a protest does not mean most, some, or any protesters are paid.
- Even if all protesters are paid, that is also legal
- It is good to oppose kings and fascism
- That's not what what "begs the question" means
- That someone organizes and funds promotion of a protest does not mean most, some, or any protesters are paid.
- Even if all protesters are paid, that is also legal
- It is good to oppose kings and fascism
- That's not what what "begs the question" means
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“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”
Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money
Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”
Interesting word!
October 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Interesting word!
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Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
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Heritage has now created something Project 2025-like for Article II and Article III. Conspicuously absent is anything addressing Article I. What conclusions would draw from that? Because I draw a lot of them.
yikes yikes yikes: With the support of dozens of Republican judges, the Heritage Foundation created an 800-page clause-by-clause breakdown of the Constitution "that seeks to establish originalism as the sole legitimate way to read the nation's founding charter"
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
In New Book, Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Takes On the Constitution
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Heritage has now created something Project 2025-like for Article II and Article III. Conspicuously absent is anything addressing Article I. What conclusions would draw from that? Because I draw a lot of them.
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it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.
This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law.
May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
September 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.
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🚨Trump drops all pretense and openly admits the mass raids in Chicago are about ICE raids and deportations (not crime), and essentially declares that he’s going to war with the city.
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
September 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨Trump drops all pretense and openly admits the mass raids in Chicago are about ICE raids and deportations (not crime), and essentially declares that he’s going to war with the city.
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if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
September 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war