Payvand Ahdout
@payvandahdout.bsky.social
Associate Professor at UVA Law writing (mostly) about federal courts and constitutional law
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Payvand Ahdout
@payvandahdout.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Enforcement Lawmaking and Judicial Review
It is — and has long been — well known that the Executive’s power is expanding. To date, there are two dominant analyses of the judiciary’s role in that expansi
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Seems like a good time to re-up my Article on judicial review of uses of executive enforcement power ssrn.com/abstract=381...
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virginialawreview.org/articles/ret... our latest is out! @ariezra.bsky.social and I on “Rethinking Youth Privacy”
Rethinking Youth Privacy - Virginia Law Review
Congress and state legislatures are showing renewed interest in youth privacy, proposing myriad new laws to address data extraction, addiction, manipulation, and more. Almost all of their proposals, a...
virginialawreview.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
virginialawreview.org/articles/ret... our latest is out! @ariezra.bsky.social and I on “Rethinking Youth Privacy”
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✔️ Major Gifts Officer: $84-$94k
✔️ Legislative & Advocacy Specialist: $84-$94k
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Protect Democracy - Jobs
Protect Democracy is a nonpartisan, nonprofit group working to prevent authoritarianism. We are hiring for several open positions - join us!
protectdemocracy.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
We're hiring for the following positions:
✔️ Chief Impact Officer: $290-$345k
✔️ Major Gifts Officer: $84-$94k
✔️ Legislative & Advocacy Specialist: $84-$94k
✔️ IT Specialist $112-$125k
✔️ Contract Full-Stack and Data Engineers $150 - $225 per hour
For details, visit:
✔️ Chief Impact Officer: $290-$345k
✔️ Major Gifts Officer: $84-$94k
✔️ Legislative & Advocacy Specialist: $84-$94k
✔️ IT Specialist $112-$125k
✔️ Contract Full-Stack and Data Engineers $150 - $225 per hour
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November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Grateful to my amazing colleagues at @uvalaw.bsky.social for the whole ride getting to this point. For the advice, listening, and most importantly, friendship.
So amazing to celebrate @payvandahdout.bsky.social on her tenure!! Brilliant scholar, extraordinary teacher, incredible colleague. A wunderkind!!
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Grateful to my amazing colleagues at @uvalaw.bsky.social for the whole ride getting to this point. For the advice, listening, and most importantly, friendship.
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Thank you to the editors of the Harvard Law Review and to many commentators.
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
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To a Conservative Warren Court - Harvard Law Review
The Warren Court’s legacy is ubiquitous. With the eponymous Chief Justice Warren at the helm, the Supreme Court featured a strong majority of left-of-center jurists, and those “liberal lions” ruled (o...
harvardlawreview.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Thank you to the editors of the Harvard Law Review and to many commentators.
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
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Keynote speaker and UVA Law professor Danielle Citron joins the UVA School of Data Science for Datapalooza 2025: Truth and Accountability in the Age of AI on Friday, November 14.
To learn more and register for this event, click here: https://bit.ly/3WQE3Go
To learn more and register for this event, click here: https://bit.ly/3WQE3Go
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Keynote speaker and UVA Law professor Danielle Citron joins the UVA School of Data Science for Datapalooza 2025: Truth and Accountability in the Age of AI on Friday, November 14.
To learn more and register for this event, click here: https://bit.ly/3WQE3Go
To learn more and register for this event, click here: https://bit.ly/3WQE3Go
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The Supreme Court had three religious freedom cases last Term. With @richschragger.bsky.social and @nelsontebbe.bsky.social, our latest comments on them, extending our analysis of religious preferentialism under the First Amendment.
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
The Structure of Religious Preference - Harvard Law Review
A revolution has occurred in the law of religious freedom. At this point, the picture is reasonably clear. The Supreme Court has greatly expanded the scope of the Free Exercise Clause.
harvardlawreview.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The Supreme Court had three religious freedom cases last Term. With @richschragger.bsky.social and @nelsontebbe.bsky.social, our latest comments on them, extending our analysis of religious preferentialism under the First Amendment.
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
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I am excited to host Alice Abrokwa today at the @umnlawschool.bsky.social Public Law Workshop. She will be speaking about her paper, “Anticipating Disability.” I am looking forward to the conversation!
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I am excited to host Alice Abrokwa today at the @umnlawschool.bsky.social Public Law Workshop. She will be speaking about her paper, “Anticipating Disability.” I am looking forward to the conversation!
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WATCH: Vice Dean Ashley Deeks discusses her new book, “The Double Black Box,” and developments at the intersection of artificial intelligence and national security. @nyulaw.bsky.social
Book Talk - The Double Black Box
YouTube video by NYU School of Law
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
WATCH: Vice Dean Ashley Deeks discusses her new book, “The Double Black Box,” and developments at the intersection of artificial intelligence and national security. @nyulaw.bsky.social
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Learn more about the community and student life at #UVALaw. at.virginia.edu/2zasEVV
October 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Learn more about the community and student life at #UVALaw. at.virginia.edu/2zasEVV
Delighted to have General Feigenbaum @uvalaw.bsky.social next week!
New Jersey’s SG, Jeremy Feigenbaum, is a really impressive advocate
October 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Delighted to have General Feigenbaum @uvalaw.bsky.social next week!
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The First Circuit may offer the “best shot” for legal challenges against the Trump administration, says Prof. @payvandahdout.bsky.social. @legal.reuters.com
New England courts become a battleground for challenges to Trump
A federal judge in Boston had some pointed words for Donald Trump as he issued one of the dozens of decisions by courts in four New England states against the Republican president in challenges to the legality of his policies.
www.reuters.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The First Circuit may offer the “best shot” for legal challenges against the Trump administration, says Prof. @payvandahdout.bsky.social. @legal.reuters.com
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What does the “legal mid-transition” mean for clean energy? Prof. Alison Gocke explores the phenomenon in a new paper.
Professor Explores How Energy Law Is in Flux
In a new paper, University of Virginia School of Law professor Alison Gocke examines how legal frameworks are in flux amid the transition to clean energy.
www.law.virginia.edu
October 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
What does the “legal mid-transition” mean for clean energy? Prof. Alison Gocke explores the phenomenon in a new paper.
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Call for Papers for 15th Annual Fed Courts Junior Scholars conference is now up: law.ku.edu/junior-facul.... Lots of advanced notice, hope you will consider submitting!
Will work on distributing this to various listservs and blogs, but please share if you are able.
Will work on distributing this to various listservs and blogs, but please share if you are able.
15th Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop
April 24, 2026| KU School of Law
law.ku.edu
October 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Call for Papers for 15th Annual Fed Courts Junior Scholars conference is now up: law.ku.edu/junior-facul.... Lots of advanced notice, hope you will consider submitting!
Will work on distributing this to various listservs and blogs, but please share if you are able.
Will work on distributing this to various listservs and blogs, but please share if you are able.
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Our office is again hiring one or more attorneys for a one-year fellowship to work directly with the Illinois Solicitor General and her team, beginning in August/September 2026.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/ilag...
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/ilag...
Job Opportunities | Office of the Illinois Attorney General
www.governmentjobs.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Our office is again hiring one or more attorneys for a one-year fellowship to work directly with the Illinois Solicitor General and her team, beginning in August/September 2026.
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/ilag...
www.governmentjobs.com/careers/ilag...
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New research from @daniellecitron.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social examines growing concerns around content moderators — people tasked with keeping social media free of explicit content. Their upcoming paper adds to mounting warnings about this challenging job www.techpolicy.press/is-trust-saf...
Is Trust & Safety Dead, or Just Evolving? | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press contributing editor Dean Jackson considers the conclusions of a new paper by Danielle Keats Citron and Ari Ezra Waldman.
www.techpolicy.press
September 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New research from @daniellecitron.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social examines growing concerns around content moderators — people tasked with keeping social media free of explicit content. Their upcoming paper adds to mounting warnings about this challenging job www.techpolicy.press/is-trust-saf...
This from my incomparable colleague, Caleb Nelson, on originalism and the unitary executive theory.
At NYU's Democracy Project (more on that later), Prof. Caleb Nelson has a feature essay arguing that originalism does not support the unitary executive branch theory. Caleb is one of the country's leading originalist scholars, frequently cited by the Court.
democracyproject.org/posts/must-a...
democracyproject.org/posts/must-a...
Special Feature: Must Administrative Officers Serve at the President’s Pleasure?
A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.
democracyproject.org
September 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This from my incomparable colleague, Caleb Nelson, on originalism and the unitary executive theory.
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If you want some descriptive statistics of litigation in the federal courts, my co authored article providing them is out in JELS!
doi.org/10.1111/jels...
doi.org/10.1111/jels...
No Adjudication
Using the complete record of all federal civil docket sheets for cases filed in a two-year period, recently made available by the SCALES-OKN project, we find that most cases that enter the federal sy...
doi.org
September 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
If you want some descriptive statistics of litigation in the federal courts, my co authored article providing them is out in JELS!
doi.org/10.1111/jels...
doi.org/10.1111/jels...
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Out today: The Fall of Affirmative Action, by Justin Driver www.amazon.com/Fall-Affirma...
September 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Out today: The Fall of Affirmative Action, by Justin Driver www.amazon.com/Fall-Affirma...
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The video from DeeksFest 2025 (the celebration of the wonderful Ashley Deeks's terrific recent book on national security AI) is up, with @daniellecitron.bsky.social hosting and comments from @martylederman.bsky.social @asaflubin.bsky.social and me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=exMW...
Inside ‘The Double Black Box’
YouTube video by University of Virginia School of Law
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September 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The video from DeeksFest 2025 (the celebration of the wonderful Ashley Deeks's terrific recent book on national security AI) is up, with @daniellecitron.bsky.social hosting and comments from @martylederman.bsky.social @asaflubin.bsky.social and me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=exMW...
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WATCH: Scholars discuss Vice Dean Ashley Deeks’ new book, “The Double Black Box: National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and the Struggle for Democratic Accountability.”
Inside ‘The Double Black Box’
YouTube video by University of Virginia School of Law
youtu.be
September 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
WATCH: Scholars discuss Vice Dean Ashley Deeks’ new book, “The Double Black Box: National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and the Struggle for Democratic Accountability.”
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For folks who are wondering just how long #SCOTUS has had the power to behave the way it’s behaving on emergency applications (mostly since 1925), and whether the Court’s recent behavior is meaningfully different from, say, prior to 2015 (it sure is), you might find my book at least somewhat useful:
The Shadow Docket
An instant New York Times bestseller: An acclaimed legal scholar’s “important” (New York Times) and “fascinating” (Economist) exposé of how the ...
www.basicbooks.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
For folks who are wondering just how long #SCOTUS has had the power to behave the way it’s behaving on emergency applications (mostly since 1925), and whether the Court’s recent behavior is meaningfully different from, say, prior to 2015 (it sure is), you might find my book at least somewhat useful:
/1 Lower court judges interviewed for this article discuss their frustration with the Supreme Court's not having their back: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases
Ten judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court needs to explain its rulings better, with some urging Chief Justice John Roberts to do more to defend the judiciary against external criticism.
www.nbcnews.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
/1 Lower court judges interviewed for this article discuss their frustration with the Supreme Court's not having their back: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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📢Call for papers for a Scholarship Roundtable on State and Local Governance, organized by @uwlawdemocracy.bsky.social and Professors Alexandra Klass, Nina Mendelson, and @chrisjwalker.bsky.social and taking place at @umichlaw.bsky.social, 4/10/26 in Ann Arbor!
Details here: go.wisc.edu/rx53ph
Details here: go.wisc.edu/rx53ph
September 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
📢Call for papers for a Scholarship Roundtable on State and Local Governance, organized by @uwlawdemocracy.bsky.social and Professors Alexandra Klass, Nina Mendelson, and @chrisjwalker.bsky.social and taking place at @umichlaw.bsky.social, 4/10/26 in Ann Arbor!
Details here: go.wisc.edu/rx53ph
Details here: go.wisc.edu/rx53ph