Tanner Allread

Today is the official pub day of THE POLITICAL SUPREME COURT!! I am grateful beyond measure to the many, many people who helped me get this book out into the world. 1/

I'm delighted to be part of the organizing committee (with Liz, @tannerallread.bsky.social, Jess Roney, Justin Roberts, Sally Gordon, & @quilldir.bsky.social) for this conference to be held next April in Philly. If you're at all interested in constitutions, broadly construed, check out our CfP:

If you are working on constitutionalism in early America or the British Empire, you should definitely submit a proposal for this exciting conference ⬇️

New paper by @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social and me: "The Death and Rebirth of Vote Dilution," forthcoming in the Supreme Court Review. We show how the Court tried to kill the concept of racial vote dilution in Callais -- and why this idea will never die. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Always, always read @yunpovi.bsky.social’s scholarship!! This is a brilliant piece on tribal courts! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Joining Bluesky as my book with @nikobowie.bsky.social hits bookstores this month! Join us for an event: readsupremacy.com.

This is amazing news!! So happy for @jreedmo.bsky.social and for OU!

Back to school! ✨📚 I’m looking forward to teaching “Law and Inequality” again at Brooklyn Law School this fall. Grateful to be joined by six brilliant scholars and a pioneering judge who will enrich our conversations. @tannerallread.bsky.social @amwhelan.bsky.social @proftolson.bsky.social

The William and Mary Quarterly forum on the recently discovered John Dickinson documents, revealing his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution, is now available online! The WMQ has generously made the issue open access for the next month. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57168

Join First America, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Red Media, and the Lindy Waters III Foundation for an evening celebrating Indigenous futurisms, and the release of From the Heart of Our Nations: An Indigenous Futures Anthology of Short Fiction.

An essay by me and Jane Calvert on the John Dickinson documents discovery that reveal his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution. It previews the scholarly forum on the documents that will be published soon. lawliberty.org/the-secret-e...

Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.

Wohoo! And it’s about time… The Oneida Nation endowed a chair for an Indian Law scholar at HLS and they’ve been trying to fill it for DECADES. It took the incredible badass that is Tanner to break down that door finally. So proud and excited. This is a win for Indian Country and for the field!

Today the Court denied transgender women and girls constitutional equality. I predicted that the athlete cases could take this turn after last year's decision in Skrmetti: harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u...

One of the most incredible things I have ever worked on: Recently discovered documents, written by John Dickinson in 1775, that reveal his secret and previously unknown efforts to prevent the American Revolution. Now featured in the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

After a grueling 9 months on the academic job market, I’m thrilled to announce that on July 1, I will start as an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School! I’m so excited to bring Native American law and legal history to HLS, and I cannot wait to join the incredible faculty there!

I have just posted the newest quarterly bibliography of new and forthcoming material in Native American and Indigenous studies. I hope you find it of some value, and if there is something you think I should add to the list, please let me now. Happy Reading! michaelleroyoberg.com/new-publicat...

I understand the efficiency reasons for having librarians or RAs pull books, but browsing in the library stacks (or in a bookstore) is just one of my favorite all-time activities 📚

It is publication day for my book, White Power: Policing American Slavery. Here’s the unboxing, with a trip down memory lane. Thanks so much to those who helped make this a reality, esp. my amazing agent Dani Segelbaum, @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @uncpress.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social

Wow! The @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social, continuous since 2006, has its 15,000th post! I wrote post #1 from the kitchen table of my then boyfriend's (now husband's) home in Sharon, MA. The blog is now beautifully curated by @kmtani.bsky.social & @dbqur.bsky.social. Thank you readers! ⚖️ 🗃

You guys. The Legal History Blog @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social has hit 15,000(!) posts! 👏 It's been an honor to help run the blog & to work beside true LHB stalwart Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social. All hail LHB founder & visionary @marydudziak.bsky.social 🙌 #LegalHistory

Hard to believe it but MY BOOK EXISTS!?!

@jamellebouie.net sums up the perils of a “colorblind constitution” so perfectly: “Liberty for those who profit from the cruel legacies of our past, endless struggle for those crushed under their weight.”

This is one of those articles that makes me feel like my scholarship is really "seen" and doing an important thing. 🥹🩷 The University of Chicago Law Review | The Return to Autochthonous Law lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

It isn’t an election law piece, but I’ve written about the work of Native women in the legal academy and the relationship between American law, gender, and settler colonialism. irlaw.umkc.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Indian Country has secured victory after victory using the Voting Rights Act's essential protections. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Callais undermines the protections enshrined in Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

A really great and fun article!

@tannerallread.bsky.social's extraordinarily impressive article, "Indigenous Constitutionalism," has arrived! "Indigenous constitutionalism as a distinct constitutional practice through which Native nations claim and exercise self-governance" harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

Look what just arrived!! Advance proofs of a real book!! One that actual bookstores are preordering!!! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

So excited to see this article in print!! 🎉 Tanner's work is always terrific, but this piece is especially good in challenging us to understand tribal constitutions on their own terms while also pressing on what Indigenous constitutionalism can tell us about American constitutionalism more broadly.