Connor Haaland

South Dakotan
Back in the day - @harvard_law
Currently - trial lawyer in DC

[Connor Haaland @ConnorHaaland]

@JohnnyMotley I'm just pleased to see that an east coaster like yourself is finally getting a taste of the good life out in #Sodak. Come back soon!

[Noah Lyles, OLY @LylesNoah]

I Told You America I Got This!
#OlympicChampion

[Connor Haaland @ConnorHaaland]

@CoachJCoy Happy to have been knocked down not one, but two notches in the 1600m in the same day. Congrats to your team!

[Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers]

In nearly 50 years of @Harvard affiliation, I have never been as disillusioned and alienated as I am today.

[Connor Haaland @ConnorHaaland]

@EliNachmany @geomasonlrev @AdLawCenter Well deserved, congratulations!

[Connor Haaland @ConnorHaaland]

Brilliance

[The Alex Nowrasteh @AlexNowrasteh]

We made this really cool online game. Play as an immigrant trying to navigate the legal immigration system. Check it out and let me know what you think.

https://t.co/SAst9h4FWH

[Connor Haaland @ConnorHaaland]

Stoked to announce that my aritcle, "SPACs: A Post-Mortem and Path Forward", will be published by @HarvardJOL in the coming issue.

Check out a preprint on SSRN here! Roast it or drown it with praise, your call.

https://t.co/8ZtiTeZGbY

#spacs #securitiesregulation

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

A standardized test alone can’t capture the full portrait of a student

[Connor Haaland @ConnorHaaland]

Had a fantastic experience working on this case this summer. Happy to see a pro-consumer outcome.

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

Microsoft's $69 billion deal to buy Activision just made major progress.

The FTC's request to block the deal has been denied by a federal judge, leaving UK regulators as the last hold out.

Once finalized, Microsoft would become the world's third largest video game publisher.

[Connor Haaland @ConnorHaaland]

@J__Dotson__10 Thanks boss. Miss you, hope you and the fam are well my man.

[Connor Haaland @ConnorHaaland]

@CoachJCoy @Harvard_Law Thanks Coach!!

[Connor Haaland @ConnorHaaland]

Graduated from @Harvard_Law last week. First in the Haaland clan to go to any type of graduate school, second to finish college. Thanks to everyone that helped me get here--on to the next!

[Connor Haaland @ConnorHaaland]

@AdamThierer @Harvard_Law Haha learned from the best, thank you for everything Adam!

[Connor Haaland @ConnorHaaland]

Heartily concur with everything the ever-insightful @dwarkesh_sp says here.

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

New post

Lessons for Robert Caro's 4 volume biography of Lyndon Johnson

1. Great forces vs great men

[Paul Schofield @pschofie79]

When you look at an SAT score, you don't know whether the student was able to take, like, 5 prep courses, and this makes the info worthless. Which is why I think it makes sense to rely heavily on letters from the applicant's orchestra conductor.

[Paul Schofield @pschofie79]

The SAT gives a huge advantage to the already privileged. If we want equity, we need to drop it altogether. What will we use instead? Well, you could start by asking applicants whether they know a congressman/senator willing to write them a rec. Or a scientist they interned for?

[David French @DavidAFrench]

We don’t know Tucker’s replacement (could be someone worse), but for now his removal is a blow against his ideological movement *and* against the incredible malice and dishonesty of his public presence. That sheer malice is a hallmark of the new right, and it took a blow today.

[Coaching Distance @CoachDistance]

Simeon!

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Amazing

[Quantіan @quantian1]

US alcohol taxes should be about 10x higher than they are currently (a few cents/btl of wine and a couple bucks for liquor)