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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 14d

Thrilled to be giving a talk on The Limits of the ADA’s Duty to Accommodate @oneillinstitute.bsky.social (@georgetownlaw.bsky.social) & the Georgetown Program in Disability Studies tomorrow (Sep. 25) at 5 pm. If you’re around, please join us. Details below 👇

A poster for the talk: The Limits of the ADA: Exploring the Duty to Accommodate in Law & Society by Doron Dorfman, Thursday, Sep. 25 at 5 pm at the Riggs Library - Healy Hall. ASL interpreted. A photo of a man with dark hair and glasses smiling alongside a photo of signing the ADA into law.

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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 18d

My wonderful colleague Tim Glynn and I were thrilled to present the Miller Award for a senior work law scholar to Catherine Fisk (@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social) & the Zimmer Award for a junior work law scholar to @nelsonryanh.bsky.social (South Texas Law) at the 2025 COSELL at Seton Hall Law🏅🏆

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · 27d

This remains one of the most moving markers of a tragedy. I am grateful for the reminder.

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · Sep 4

This morning I rushed into the subway & saw this abomination. I wrote my city councilperson @ebottcher.bsky.social. Within 10 seconds, he said he'd handle it. I came home and every trace was gone. That’s leadership. Thank you Erik!

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · Sep 1

Redwoods always inspire awe in me.

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · Aug 26

Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/s...

Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government

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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thrilled to have my work on Third-Party Accommodations (forth. @michlawreview.bsky.social) featured on the Chemical Sensitivity Podcast (@podcastingmcs.bsky.social) that amplifies voices of people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) & research about the illness. Take a listen: shorturl.at/RbT4e

An add for the chemical sensitivity podcast: light green background with a photo of a middle aged man with dark hair with glasses. Stating Professor Doron Dorfman MCS and Third-Party Accommodations.

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · Aug 18

Looking forward to reading this chapter !

Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thrilled that my book chapter, "Mask Shaming: On Private Enforcement and Disability Politics," in print as part of the important @nyupress.bsky.social book Regulating the Body: Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law, ed. by the legendary Austin Sarat & Susanna Lee! 1/3

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Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law Edited by Austin Sarat and Susanna Lee .The cover is black with a statue of lady justice with mask and gloves.

The table of content for the book Regulating the Body Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law Edited by Austin Sarat and Susanna Lee .

Abstract: Wearing face masks has been an important strategy to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Yet this practice has also been highly politicized since the beginning of the pandemic. In this chapter, I explore how shaming tactics—the stigmatization and public disgrace of the norm violator—have been used to regulate masking. This strategy highlights how mask policies in the U.S. have depended on private enforcement throughout all stages of the pandemic; that is, enforcement by laypeople rather than public entities. I trace this phenomenon through early, top-down mask mandates, to the present moment, after universal mask mandates have been lifted, and masking has shifted to become an individualized disability accommodation. While paying close attention to how norms about mask wearing intersect with gender and race, I highlight dichotomous approaches to private, ideologically-driven, enforcement of public health policy: as the Right has doubled down on shaming people for wearing masks, people in the disability community have reacted by enforcing mask wearing in public spaces and holding people who they see as members of the in-group (activists and allies) accountable. This chapter thus contributes to the legal debate on shaming as a law enforcement tactic, as well as to the understanding of how disability law plays out in everyday life.

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · Jun 20

Trump attacks on the disabled mirror those on diversity, also without any justification. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/t...

Airlines and Trump Administration Backpedal on Protections for Travelers With Wheelchairs

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · Jun 18

A horrible anti-science decision that will only complicate all our lives and torment those who need treatment.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Jun 18

Henceforth, it is up to the white Evangelicals to decide your gender and whether you can get a sex change, rules the Opus Dei court.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 18

🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · Jun 3

In this moment of so much hate and violence, counting loss and how we count matters enormously. Thank you to Rabbi Sarah Reines for this poignant and powerful sermon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3qC...

Counting With a Severity of Compassion| Rabbi Sarah Reines | May 30, 2025

YouTube video by Temple Emanu-El NYC

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · Jun 2

Fellow Penn Alumni: join me at this great Penn Spectrum event at the NYC Penn Club www.alumni.upenn.edu/s/1587/gid2/...

Penn Spectrum On The Road Presents, Uncovering Your Path: Book Talk and Alumni Panel

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · May 30

A war against foreign students is an act of national suicide. The US has been blessed to draw smart hard-working people from around the world, and chasing them away will impoverish us all. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

Why the U.S. Opened Its Doors to Chinese Students, and Why Trump Is Closing Them

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · May 28

Thankful for great writers like @paisleycurrah.com, whose essay in the @newyorker.com is a must read. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Donald Trump’s War on Gender Is Also a War on Government

By forcing rigid definitions of sex across all federal agencies, Republicans are undermining the administrative state’s capacity to protect public health and safety.

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · May 27

I could not be more thrilled that my dear colleague Aaron Mills is getting so much attention for his path-breaking new piece in the American Journal of Comparative Law. Have a read! lnkd.in/ehpeW2d2

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · May 24

Thanks for Kim Mutcherson for saying what needs to be said. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/o...

Opinion | A Brain-Dead Woman Is Being Kept on Machines to Gestate a Fetus. It Was Inevitable.

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · May 14

Doing comparative work? Submit your abstract to the American Society of Comparative Law, which McGill will host this fall. October is glorious in Montreal. Deadline is tonight! ascl.org/event/2025-a...

2025 Annual Meeting: The Paris Congress at 125: Comparative Law's Entanglement with Power from Paris to Today - American Society of Comparative Law

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · May 10

Remote testing makes sense, so good luck. But I do wonder how amazing the world would be if EVERYBODY had the privilege of second chances, not just the wealthy & educated (&white). www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/b...

Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner Has a New Blood-Testing Start-Up

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · May 9

Congrats to co-authors/friends @ynili.bsky.social , Afra Afsharipour, Jeremy McClane & friends Kobi Kastiel, Robert Anderson, Jessica Polackwich Erickson & Gina-Gail Fletcher, w/top 10 pieces this year. Their smart, often critical engagements with corporate law deserve this attention.

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · May 1

FDR's granddaughter concisely contrasts Trump's first 100 days with FDR's in today's @nytimes.com

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · Apr 30

Trump is about to become the Grinch Who Stole Christmas through prohibitive import taxes. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...

Opinion | Trump Is About to Steal My Friend’s Christmas — and Yours

A disappointed supporter reflects on the madness in the president’s method.

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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · Apr 18

SCOTUS to hear oral arguments in the Braidwood v. Becerra case on Monday. Want to know more about Section 1557, the preventive health mandate of the ACA, and how stereotypes re prevention creeped into earlier decisions? Read my article Penalizing Prevention: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Penalizing Prevention: The Paradoxical Legal Treatment of Preventive Medicine

Preventive medicine, which includes interventions intended to preempt illnesses before they surface, has long been a priority for furthering public health goals

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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · Apr 18

Very excited about this new paper by @lawandlitprof.bsky.social! Join the session on Thursday 4/24 🔥🔥🔥

Laura I Appleman @lawandlitprof.bsky.social · Apr 18

Wondering about the roots of anti-immigration, pro-deportation rhetoric? Worried about imprisonment? Then join me for my 4/24 Zoom talk on modern eugenics, medical experimentation, & the carceral state, thru Berkeley/BCCE! Registration: berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @dorfmandoron.bsky.social

Flyer describing how Professor Laura Appleman will present a talk on "Madrigal v. Quilligan, Medical Experimentation, and the Road to Modern Eugenics" on 4/24 at 3pm via Zoom. Registration link here: https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/C8Tfc52WQW6c7loHGQltXw

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · Apr 18

The strongest person in the US Senate is the one who admits how scary this time is. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

Senator Lisa Murkowski Makes Startling Admission as Trump Wages Retribution Campaign

Lisa Murkowski, a longtime senator from Alaska and an independent voice in an increasingly tribal party, has been the rare Republican on Capitol Hill willing to criticize President Trump’s actions.

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Darren Rosenblum @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social · Apr 5

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