Noah Smith-Drelich

Assistant Prof @ChicagoKentLaw. Constitutional litigator. Torts, Travel, Health Law, § 1983. Current projects: right to travel, police funding, food taxes.

[Noah Smith-Drelich @nsmithdrelich]

This was my 1st law review article. It went from seminar paper -> SLR note -> article, and I wrote this largely as a student. I'm still amazed by how generous professors were in offering feedback to a 3L on this piece, incl. @HowardErichson, who I had never met before asking. 8/8

[Noah Smith-Drelich @nsmithdrelich]

🚩Old article alert🚩 (new to SSRN): Curing the Mass Tort Settlement Malaise @LoyolaLaLRev. I argue that the Vioxx settlement, which was between plaintiffs lawyers (not pls) and Merck, will be a model for future mass tort settlements--and this is bad. 1/8 https://t.co/u2LSmFNGLV

[Noah Smith-Drelich @nsmithdrelich]

MDLs and bankruptcy have played a larger role in mass tort resolution than I anticipated in this piece, but Harrington v. Purdue Pharma may invigorate these sorts of extrajudicial alternative structures for mass torts. 7/8

[Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese (Yunpovi) @yunpovi]

🚨New Article!
(I'm back to Professoring)

Tribal Representation and Assimilative Colonialism.
Link: https://t.co/rR4CznxC3M

🧵Ever wondered why tribal governments--despite being entirely separate from states--don't get to send their own representatives to Congress? 1/8

[Noah Smith-Drelich @nsmithdrelich]

@BU_Law

[Noah Smith-Drelich @nsmithdrelich]

It was an honor to have been an equality law scholar and to have met so many prior-year scholars at the 5th Annual Equality Law Scholars Forum @BULaw this month. @aonwuachi, @lmsaucedo, & Tristin Green have done amazingly building a supportive & thoughtful community. 1/7

[Alexander Boni-Saenz @abonisaenz]

Day 2 of the Equality Law Scholars Forum!

Thanks to @aonwuachi, @lmsaucedo, & Tristin Green for organizing!

Great to meet/see @inGerri @nsmithdrelich @DanielHarawa @athenais1674 @ytbutler @evecjr @NyamagagaRachel @NiaMarJohnson @NgoziOkidegbe @LauraLane20 and many others!

[Noah Smith-Drelich @nsmithdrelich]

Finally, I want to highlight how remarkable this workshop is. BU flew us out, put us up, fed us (really well!), and we spent >90 minutes on each scholar's piece. It was clear that everyone (not just the assigned commentators) read everything -- and really carefully. 7/7

[Noah Smith-Drelich @nsmithdrelich]

There are too many people to individually thank for the feedback I got on my own WIP, "The Racialized Right to Travel." But I do want to single out the three senior commentators who gave it special (and such helpful!) attention: @VinayHarpalani,@NgoziOkidegbe, & @inGerri. 6/7

[Noah Smith-Drelich @nsmithdrelich]

Some important texture for this decision: law enforcement sprayed #NoDAPL folks with water for hours in 23-degree temperatures. This isn't my case, but I touch on it @OhioStateLJ in Funding the Police: https://t.co/kXMN2UYiEb

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

There's currently a circuit split on whether an order to leave an area is a 4th Amendment "seizure." Here, CA8 rules in a civil case that it wasn't clearly established in 2016 that an order for a crowd to disperse was a seizure, thus QI applies. https://t.co/BvQoHhaMMB #N

[Bernard E. Harcourt @BernardHarcourt]

Strategies for unity and cooperation at #StopCopCity and #NotreDamedesLandes: fascinating talks by @kamaufranklin & @shedefendsit (@southerncenter) and André Pettman @Columbia at the #Coöperism1313 public seminar last night. VIDEO and ESSAYS are now here: https://t.co/YNH3qRD6vF

[Noah Smith-Drelich @nsmithdrelich]

@IndianaLJ @kamaufranklin @ColumbiaCCCT @BernardHarcourt @j_simonson Big props not only to Guyora Binder, Tony O'Rourke, & Rick Su for their piece, but to @OhioStateLJ for facilitating this sort of dialogue. 8/8

[Noah Smith-Drelich @nsmithdrelich]

The #StopCopCity RICO indictment suggests that political biases are also playing a role there (I've written about this, too! @IndianaLJ, https://t.co/uul9C8lmE6). For important discussions re #StopCopCity, check out @kamaufranklin @ColumbiaCCCT @BernardHarcourt @j_simonson 7/8