Legal historian. Recovering ironist.https://bsky.app/profile/dbqur.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbqur.bsky.social/post/3mng3sukz3c2rMy essay on the remarkable lawyer, reformer and judge, Anna Moscowitz Kross. https://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2026/06/anna-moscowitz-kross-1891-1979.html03 Jun 2026 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:jochp2ooyuycsptqyy2msldd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mng3sukz3c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbqur.bsky.social/post/3lndjbas7sk2dBrandeis on Humphrey's Executor: "If men on the Federal Trade Commission and similar government agencies are not allowed to exercise their independent judgment we should have in effect a dictatorship or a totalitarian state. What would happen to us if Huey Long were President . . . ?"21 Apr 2025 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:jochp2ooyuycsptqyy2msldd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lndjbas7sk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbqur.bsky.social/post/3ln6fayeypc2jHere is a recording of a panel, "Lessons from History," at the symposium "Where Does Administrative Law Go from Here?" held at NYU Law last week. I present, alongside Joanna Grisinger, Julian Davis Mortenson, and Nicholas Parrillo. Noah Rosenblum moderated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE_y3lFK0hc19 Apr 2025 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:jochp2ooyuycsptqyy2msldd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln6fayeypc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbqur.bsky.social/post/3lfpgnsiup22oMy essay on the great twentieth-century immigration lawyer and civil libertarian Carol Weiss King. http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/carol-weiss-king-1895-1952.html14 Jan 2025 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:jochp2ooyuycsptqyy2msldd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfpgnsiup22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dbqur.bsky.social/post/3lfmzrvnj4s2qFor some historical perspective on the impending war on the federal bureaucracy, here is my essay on law and policy at the early FDA. http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/law-and-politics-at-bureau-of-chemistry.html13 Jan 2025 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:jochp2ooyuycsptqyy2msldd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfmzrvnj4s2q