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Matthew Bruckner

@Prof_Bruckner

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Matthew Bruckner

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1 year

@WMnatzakanian @JohnHenryWUSA @wusa9 What is wrong with you?

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Matthew Bruckner

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@katieharr1988 I wrote, "Hi Jim, John, and Charlie" but, apparently, I should have written, "Hi Jim, Hi John, Hi Charlie," because we don't want John and Charlie to feel slighted. Yes, I'm a lawyer.

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Matthew Bruckner

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Along with many other law professors, I believe @POTUS has the authority to #CancelStudentDebt . So, we filed a brief.

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Matthew Bruckner

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When I was a summer associate, the firm I worked said you were in good standing if you worked 1800 hours per year (150/hour). You were bonus-eligible at 1950. An associate I liked took off all of December after hitting 1950 by the end of November.

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Matthew Bruckner

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Yay! I'm excited for my career at @howardlawschool to continue!

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Matthew Bruckner

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1 year

This place could really use some benches

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Matthew Bruckner

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1 year

Student loan borrowers before uninsured SVB depositors

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Matthew Bruckner

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1 year

@tomwarren Once upon a time, I had 4 weeks' vacation. When I put in for 2 weeks, I was told that I couldn't be gone for so long. When I put in for 4 1-week trips the following year, I was told I was always on vacation. Unlimited PTO seems a lot like this experience. Not real time off.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@yacousinvinnie @GayLaVie You haven't ever tried to drive across NYC, have you? It takes FOREVER!

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Matthew Bruckner

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@TheFineAuthor_ @hudpost It's been a long time since I took criminal law and never NJ specific, but I thought that once they broke off the violent encounter, it was no longer self-defense.

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Matthew Bruckner

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4 years

I'm humbled to report that my faculty colleagues unanimously recommended me for tenure at @howardlawschool Now I'll hope that the Dean, Provost, President, and Board of Trustees agree.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@NC_Renic If you don’t believe in yourself enough to cite your work, why should others?

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Matthew Bruckner

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7 months

Thank you to everyone who's helped me get to where I am. Yesterday, my faculty voted to approve my application to full professor.

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Matthew Bruckner

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4 years

Does law school make you develop strong pen preferences or do people with strong pen preferences go to law school?

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4 years

@Prof_Bruckner @adam_shniderman I can't understand how anyone could use a Uniball Jetstream and go back to a G2.

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Matthew Bruckner

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4 years

@latimes The babysitter and the ladies in the temple come off better than most in the movie. Although the two guys who take in a stranger during the pandemic are meant to be mocked, they also took in a stranger during the pandemic.

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Matthew Bruckner

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2 years

I would like a new office, please.

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2 years

First time back in my office in 6 months. Oddly emotional.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@Rob_Weissman He’s been a better President than I imagined him to be as a candidate.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@MutualArising @notstevenwhite The federal government should pay people.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@mirandayaver @GenericBologna Deep dish is casserole, not pizza.

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Matthew Bruckner

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6 years

What if we just stop playing the national anthem at sporting events?

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NBA commish Adam Silver said Thursday he expects players to stand for the national anthem, which is a league rule.

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@ellenkmcd @JasonSCampbell No empathy for those who couldn't find dolls that looked like their own kids for ages...

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Matthew Bruckner

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7 years

Didn't we just see this story play out?

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Sean Hannity goes on vacation as advertisers drop out of his show

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 years

I got a trophy

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Matthew Bruckner

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7 months

I refer to all my 1Ls as Counselor [last name] in an effort to avoid misgendering someone based on outward appearances. One of my students told me yesterday that it also helps them build professional identity and elevate their performance. What do you call your students?

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Matthew Bruckner

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6 years

@petersagal @MittRomney What's the point of this tweet, Peter? Are you suggesting that Romney's upset about being denied a position in the administration?

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Matthew Bruckner

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4 years

@senatemajldr Have you even voted on their coronavirus package?

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Matthew Bruckner

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5 years

@4castrnh @nattyover Weather is not climate. Climate is not weather.

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 months

Some student loan debt will never be repaid, whether it's cancelled or not. It costs the US government zero dollars to acknowledge that some debts will never be repaid, but provides psychic benefits to borrowers. When this debt is cancelled, there is literally no cost.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@86Dem4ever @thequeengeek Plenty of evidence that housing first is the more effective intervention strategy, your own experience notwithstanding

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Matthew Bruckner

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@BreezyScroll Sorry she had to quit over it but good for her prioritizing what matters for her.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@DrDerekDBA @AceLarkin @AmazonMandy @AOC This book "offers real-life examples of the differences between the negotiating habits of men and women, and guides women in retooling their attitudes and approaches." Why should women be forced to adopt "male" attitudes and approaches to earn equal pay?

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Matthew Bruckner

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The quiet of this law review submission cycle has finally broken. An offer was made!

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Matthew Bruckner

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7 years

Interesting market take on the ACHA

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Hospital Stocks Surge as Republican Health Repeal Bill Is Pulled @ZTracer @kgreifeld

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Matthew Bruckner

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The new piney Branch multi use path is terrific. Thanks @RockCreekNPS ! #2WheelsGood #BikeDC

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Matthew Bruckner

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5 years

Killer Mike is killing it. @KillerMike Americans need to invest in the human capital of future generations.

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Wow Take a second and listen to @KillerMike 's answers here, especially college/higher ed/trade school funding

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Matthew Bruckner

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Today is a hard day. Thanks for your kindness.

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 years

I'm glad to report that my article on Universal Basic Income and Debtor-Creditor issues (e.g. debt collection, garnishment, bankruptcy) is forthcoming in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. They emailed me to ask if I'd submit something. I did. They accepted it. Done.

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Matthew Bruckner

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Lots of folks have very negative things to say about #BigLaw , what are some of the best aspects of working at a mega law firm?

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Matthew Bruckner

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@SeanSeanmac31 @hamandcheese @NiskanenCenter The paid leave provision seems particularly pertinent to this crisis, where hourly workers are being forced to choose between $$ for food on the table and risking their health in ways that I, for example, am not.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@ferenstein @hamandcheese House burns down and homeowner asks for $$. Member of congress: “we'll give you money to rebuild, as long as you comply with our new fire code designed to prevent a similar incident”

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Matthew Bruckner

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I'm spending my day reading complaints made to the @CFPB 's consumer complaint database re student loans. And, man, are they sad!

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Matthew Bruckner

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Thank you Howard Law 2022 graduates for the Most Valuable Professor award recently. It was a pleasure to work with you and I cannot wait to see what you all do next! #HUSL

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 years

I’m pleased to report that my new article on the bankruptcy issues with the OCC’s fintech charter is forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law. It currently has the ridiculous title: Who’s Down with OCC(‘s definition of “banks”)?

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Matthew Bruckner

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@Rilkes_Ghost Unlimited PTO is pretend

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 years

we got a grant. Yay! I'm excited to work with Jevay Grooms of @HowardU and Raphaël Charron-Chénier of @ASU on a project involving racial disparities in bankruptcy law.

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Matthew Bruckner

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I have a new paper!

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Matthew Bruckner

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Howard University just announced a booster shot requirement

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Matthew Bruckner

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@SaraKropf @LawblogBob My judged recused himself from a bankruptcy case because he had a trip booked on the airline that was in bankruptcy and didn't want to be perceived as encouraging this multi-billion dollar business to reorganize so he could still use his ticket.

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 years

@ThatDudeJax @JulieZauzmer That's your experience? In mine, children are vastly more likely to wear their masks correctly and all the time than the adults I see.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@onteria @AlecStapp how about married men are more likely to have a spouse take care of domestic obligations than single men or women? This frees them to work more.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@katieporteroc I’m sorry to see you use the word, rig…

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Matthew Bruckner

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@andrewwicklandr I'm already putting in my own calendar. It's not hard to send it to someone else

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Matthew Bruckner

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1 year

Yesterday, in 1L Contracts, we were discussing Buffaloe v. Hart in which a person gave a check to someone selling tobacco barns, allegedly as payment for those barns. One student said that they have never *seen* a check. Y'all making me feel old!

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 years

It finally happened. I got asked to provide comments on an article for a law journal that is never going to publish one of my own articles. I have arrived!

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Matthew Bruckner

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1 year

Signed a contract on a new house today. Fingers crossed that we can actually buy it.

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Matthew Bruckner

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2 years

@HowardArenstein I don't think that a camera that writes ticket after ticket after ticket is necessarily broken, @charlesallen . What if everyone who passes by these cameras is speeding or not stopping completely? Speeding and not stopping are the default IMO.

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Matthew Bruckner

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4 years

My letter granting me tenure said it's effective as of tomorrow. Only 24 minutes remain!

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Matthew Bruckner

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1 year

@mattyglesias I'm in that constituency. I think that excessively high penalties are used as plea bargaining chips and that's not how this should work.

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Matthew Bruckner

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2 years

Providing feedback is every professor's job. This week, I'm providing it on an upgraded contracts midterm. After giving individualized comments, I'll spend 75min in class giving general feedback to everyone. Students regularly say this class is one of the best in the fall term.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@Carlosthepastor @jdlyonhart @HeatherTDay I heard someone say recently that it's not mercy if the person deserves it.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@DrDerekDBA @AceLarkin @AmazonMandy @AOC Yes. This is what empirical research suggests.

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 years

reporting nominal figures about the "cost" of Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) seems SO misleading. Some (maybe even a lot) of this debt is effectively uncollectible. There is no cost to the government to forgiving uncollectible debt. It's just an accounting issue.

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Matthew Bruckner

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1 year

12 of 15 students who received the highest grades on my midterm asked to review their exam, including all of the top 9. Only 3 of the 12 receiving the lowest grades have asked for their exam to review it. Ideas on how to help the students who don't seek help from you? #lawprofs

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 years

I'm going to do my part to help out the law review editors by tending to my childrens' well-being and not trying to publish my article this cycle.

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Matthew Bruckner

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4 years

Can we shut down Rock Creek Pkwy (Beach Drive) to car traffic during this pandemic? There are fewer cars on the road and it would decrease crowding as people are out walking and hiking, etc. @MayorBowser @NatlParkService @WABADC @tweetelissa @marycheh @councilofdc @Janeese4DC

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Matthew Bruckner

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@frankitodevito When I was at a law firm, I "had" four weeks vacation. When I took my first two-week trip, I was told that it was hard when I was gone for so long. So I started scheduling 1 week trips. Then I was told that it was hard that I was always on vacation.

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Matthew Bruckner

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5 years

@mlevchin @productland @chadloder This is your best answer after several years of working on the response?

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Matthew Bruckner

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@opheliabellado1 @itsmattlane @Idejder @sam_d_1995 @SeanTrende @KFILE I assumed it was a joke... "Inflation's crazy. Have you seen how much lobster tails are going for!?"

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Matthew Bruckner

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4 years

My latest article has been posted to SSRN: The paper is "The Forgotten Stewards of Higher Education Quality" and should be out later this month in the @UCILawReview . Thanks to @UCILawSLLI , @theSBPC , and @howardlawschool for support.

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 years

On my bike ride today, I got two flat tires (hit a pothole). But I only carry one spare tube. So, thank you to the generous cyclist riding by that gave me a spare tube so I could make it home. And thanks to the driver who stopped to make sure I was ok. #bikeDC #PayItForward

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Matthew Bruckner

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4 years

Here is 5+ years of work distilled to ~4 inches of paper... #FingersCrossed

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Matthew Bruckner

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2 years

@heeliibo @AITA_online sounds like the least he could do is be a better houseguest!

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Matthew Bruckner

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Do you footnote as you write? I can't imagine doing it any other way, but I often suspect that I'm the minority. #legalwriting #amwriting amwriting

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Matthew Bruckner

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@charliekirk11 @TPUSA tomorrow, I plan to indoctrinate students about how to perfect a security interest under article 9 of the uniform commercial code. I can share the recording with you, if you like.

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 years

Yesterday I learned that the postcards my kids sent to my incarcerated sister were not delivered because the kids wrote in crayon. Apparently only blue or black ink, or pencil is allowed.

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Matthew Bruckner

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2 years

Shit. There goes bankruptcy law.

House Judiciary GOP

@JudiciaryGOP

2 years

If you take out a loan, you pay it back. Period.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@NateSilver538 Still, that's a big drop from your 70%+ projected chance of her winning of only a few weeks ago...

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Matthew Bruckner

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2 years

Means-testing free college is a bad idea. @urbaninstitute @jscottclayton

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Matthew Bruckner

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1 year

@AlanBaxter @_chismosa_ When I "backpacked" through SEAsia, I met a lot of people who would never have dreamed of doing the same through the US. While I didn't feel rich before I went, being there surely made me feel rich.

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Matthew Bruckner

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Taking ride share from the airport used to be ~$7. Was $35 last night plus a 15 min wait. Grabbed a taxi instead. Regulated, waiting for me already, and $28.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@TheDailyShow @michaelkosta Nice to see @GershKuntzman make the big time.

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 years

Applications up ~67%; enrollment up ~27%. HUSL on the rise! @howardlawschool #HUSL24

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Introducing the largest and most accomplished class in the history of our school. Howard University School of Law’s Class of 2024! 💫😎👏🏾

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Matthew Bruckner

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@privacylawyr It's nice when hour requirements are clearly expressed. Too often, it seems to me that they're intentionally vague to leave folks wondering if they should do more.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@PtahElDaoud @dijoni the other wrong here is being homeless?

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Matthew Bruckner

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@LadyLegalWriter There is one (1) thing I hate more than all the others.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@lincolnavebike Looks like she's parked illegally, given the angled white lines under her car.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@LawblogBob @SaraKropf my wife's an assistant principal at an elementary school and turns down gift cards from families at the holidays out of concern that it raises an appearance of impropriety... Don't know how anyone would think that all this money wouldn't raise a stink...

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Matthew Bruckner

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I've taken on my first criminal defense case pro bono and WTF!? Everything about this system seems so shady. It appears that we prefer to incarcerate people above all other options.

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 years

My great uncle, Donald Bruckner, just passed away and my students are here looking out for me.

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Matthew Bruckner

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4 years

@lucasdrayton Some legal issues require you to think outside of the box. Who is better positioned to do that than someone who works in theatre, which already has an imaginary fourth wall!?

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Matthew Bruckner

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My parents are going on a vacation, which means that my mother is letting me know where all their important financial paperwork is, reminding me of her last wishes, etc. Just in case their plane crashes or something. Do your parents do this too?

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Matthew Bruckner

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4 years

@joshchafetz @ColinBrowning14 It's almost like traveling to a different country!

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Matthew Bruckner

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I hope everyone agrees that I'd basically being making a few million a year if I had deigned to stay in BigLaw.

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Matthew Bruckner

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7 years

@sarandipt @BrandyLJensen Makes me think of...

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Matthew Bruckner

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@JosephWMead @ProfRobAnderson Sometimes, you just need to be a bit more direct. And then you can scare up some appropriate swag. Like my new mug?

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Matthew Bruckner

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@Oliverdirtyb @WestofBerlin he's going to do lots of things. So many things. Huge things.

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Matthew Bruckner

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@AlecStapp Any homeowner in DC without solar in their roof is missing the boat. It was FREE to install and now power is free to use.

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Matthew Bruckner

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3 years

I just cut 5000 words from a draft. Can I put that on my year-end report?

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Matthew Bruckner

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2 years

I'm pleased to report that my article (co-authored with @DeucesTecum of @LouisvilleLaw ) is forthcoming in the @DickinsonReview (Penn State). It's currently titled: The Magic of Fintech? Insights for a Regulatory Agenda from Analyzing Student Loan Complaints Filed with the CFPB

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Matthew Bruckner

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@andrewwicklandr I'm sure I wouldn't have to ask because they'd send the invite.

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