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Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · 8d

So grateful for your support, @dsimson-law.bsky.social, and to learn from you and your essential work!

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Most Favored Racial Hierarchy: The Ever-Evolving Ways of the Supreme Court’s Superordination of Whiteness

This Article engages in a critical comparative analysis of the recent history and likely future trajectory of the Supreme Court’s constitutional jurisprudence i

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Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · 23d

In “The Law of Racial Resentment,” I critique how SCOTUS validated racial resentment in SFFA v. Harvard and argue we need stronger legal/structural responses to counter resentment—not appease it.

Now in @uclalawreview.bsky.social

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Cara McClellan @racelawjawn.bsky.social · Sep 1

Conservative legal groups are attempting to rely on Reconstruction-era legislation to prevent nonprofits and other privately organized orgs from engaging in race-conscious work. I explain why this is ahistorical and what we can do about it. scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol120/...

Existing Together from the Beginning: Freedom to Contract and Black Mutual Aid

In a new wave of litigation, conservative legal organizations are attempting to rely on Reconstruction-era civil rights legislation to prevent nonprofits, charities, foundations, and other privately o...

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Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · Sep 2

This essay appears as part of the symposium, "Racial Justice after SFFA v. Harvard," which I had the honor of co-chairing alongside Jamelia Morgan, @racelawjawn.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and Sheldon Bernard Lyke. You can read the full symposium issue here: northwesternlawreview.org/issues/

Issues - Northwestern University Law Review

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Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are grateful to Hart Ayoob, Olivia Hayes, Nina McKay, Dylan Osborne, Alex Rubin, and Kylie Schatz for excellent research assistance, and to NULR editors for their conscientious efforts.

I am especially thankful to @deborahnarcher.bsky.social for sharing her brilliance throughout this project.

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Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · Sep 2

In “Infrastructure Equality,” Professor @deborahnarcher.bsky.social and I explore how racial inequality in the US is closely linked to unequal access to infrastructure—and how the legal system can help address it.

Now published in Northwestern University Law Review

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Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thanks so much Sharon and wishing you an excellent start to the semester! Hope we have a chance to catch up before long 😊

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Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

Alice is absolutely brilliant and wonderful! So glad you’re colleagues 😊

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Kim Krawiec @kimkrawiec.bsky.social · Aug 18

Yay! So happy to see my wonderful colleague, Alice Abrokwa, on this list

Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

Back to school! ✨📚 Excited to teach “Law and Inequality” again at @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social, joined by these wonderful scholars:

Alice Abrokwa
Matthew Patrick Shaw
Russell Robinson
@kredburn.bsky.social
@lauraportuondo.bsky.social
Maureen Edobor
Susan Sturm

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Laura Portuondo @lauraportuondo.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is how I know I’ve made it!

I’m so excited to join this class run by the amazing @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social, alongside such incredible scholars.

Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

Back to school! ✨📚 Excited to teach “Law and Inequality” again at @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social, joined by these wonderful scholars:

Alice Abrokwa
Matthew Patrick Shaw
Russell Robinson
@kredburn.bsky.social
@lauraportuondo.bsky.social
Maureen Edobor
Susan Sturm

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Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

We're so lucky to learn from you and your work, @lauraportuondo.bsky.social! "Gendered Liberty" is a phenomenal piece and the only article I've seen reviewed twice on @jotwell.bsky.social!

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Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · Aug 18

Back to school! ✨📚 Excited to teach “Law and Inequality” again at @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social, joined by these wonderful scholars:

Alice Abrokwa
Matthew Patrick Shaw
Russell Robinson
@kredburn.bsky.social
@lauraportuondo.bsky.social
Maureen Edobor
Susan Sturm

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Shirin Sinnar @ssinnar.bsky.social · Aug 14

My latest article, on how organizers & lawyers in three cities sought to “flood the courts” to protect homeless people and renters facing eviction. law.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Jul 24

Over public dissents by Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch, #SCOTUS freezes Eighth Circuit ruling that had barred private enforcement of section 2 of the Voting Rights Act while the plaintiffs appeal that decision. Private suits to enforce § 2 of the VRA can go ahead for now.

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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · Jul 21

Some news, as they say. (I am especially looking forward to working with Maria Goldverg during this final stretch, who seems like an absolute gem.)

Deal Report
Category: Non-fiction: History July 18, 2025
AMERICAN COLONIALISM By Maggie Blackhawk
Imprint: Liveright
Professor of law at New York University and codirector of the NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project Maggie Blackhawk's AMERICAN COLONIALISM: A NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, unearthing a largely overlooked history of how the United States became the nation it is today, with all of its triumphs and tribulations; exploring the development of key institutions—such as the bureaucracy, the Supreme Court, the presidency, and the concept of citizenship—through the unexamined lens of territorial expansion, dispossession, and colonization; and seeking to bridge the gap between constitutional history and the history of the American West, to Maria Goldverg at Liveright, in a good deal, at auction, for publication in September 2027, by Christopher Rogers at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner (world).

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · Jul 15

Richard Fallon, In Memoriam, buff.ly/6WxLugJ - A tribute to the great scholar and dear friend.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · Jul 14

Oh dear. RIP to one of the great ones, as a scholar and as a person.

William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · Jul 14

RIP Dick Fallon. A devastating loss professionally and personally.

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Karen Tani @kmtani.bsky.social · Jun 26

Important to read this decision in the context of longer-term efforts by SCOTUS to chip away at private enforcement of civil rights & social welfare laws. I'll put a bunch of relevant background reading in the thread 🧵:

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jun 26

In her furious dissent, Jackson writes of the Supreme Court's decision: "The project of stymying one of the country’s great civil rights laws continues." She likens today's ruling to notorious decisions after the Civil War cutting back civil rights statutes. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

JUSTICE JACKSON, with whom JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR and
JUSTICE KAGAN join, dissenting.
The Civil Rights Act of 1871 was an exercise in grand ambition. It had to be. In the wake of the Civil War, the American South was consumed by a wave of terrorist violence
designed to disenfranchise and intimidate the country’s
newly freed citizens and their allies. The threat was existential—not just for the newly liberated, but for democracy
itself—and required bold intervention. It was precisely because the goals of the 1871 Act were so ambitious that those
most committed to the structures it targeted, including
many in South Carolina, opposed the measure so vehemently.
A century and a half later, the project of stymying one of
the country’s great civil rights laws continues. In this latest
chapter, South Carolina urges our Court to adopt a narrow
and ahistorical reading of the 1871 Act’s first section, which
is codified today at 42 U. S. C. §1983. That venerable provision permits any citizen to obtain redress in federal court
for “the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities
secured by the Constitution and laws” of the United States.
South Carolina asks us to hollow out that provision so that

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Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thank you for featuring “Judicial Regrets” on the Law & Humanities Blog!

This paper will be published in April 2026. I’d be grateful for opportunities to workshop it in the meantime. 🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Frank Rosenblatt @frankrosenblatt.bsky.social · Jun 20

Many of my very favorite academics are at Brooklyn

Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · Jun 20

Law professor colleagues: We're hiring! 🗽

Brooklyn Law School is considering lateral hires in several areas, including constitutional law, civil procedure, criminal procedure, evidence, family law, and torts. If you're considering a move and have a special interest in joining us, please reach out!

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Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · Jun 20

Law professor colleagues: We're hiring! 🗽

Brooklyn Law School is considering lateral hires in several areas, including constitutional law, civil procedure, criminal procedure, evidence, family law, and torts. If you're considering a move and have a special interest in joining us, please reach out!

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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · Jun 19

I'm still digesting Skrmetti, and scrambling to write it up, but three thoughts worth sharing:

1) The decision is devastating for trans youth and their families who are trying to live and thrive under already bad circumstances

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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...

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Yuvraj Joshi @yuvrajjoshi.bsky.social · Jun 16

Wonderful to see this important piece out in the world!

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Brian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social · Jun 16

The final version of my job market paper—about the strategies that have facilitated localized corporate domination at different points in our history—is now out. I'm so grateful to the SLR team and everyone else whose feedback has shaped this along the way! www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/articl...

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