Depending on how you count, between 30-35% of the full-time faculty at @nyulaw, where I teach, is listed as focusing in whole or in part on constitutional law. That is at least 3x the number of faculty listed as focusing in whole or in part on contract law. 1/

Take a moment to absorb that. And this is nothing special about NYU; it's true at basically all of NYU's peer schools. Constitutional law gets a *ton* of attention. Despite the fact that virtually none of our students will work in the field. 2/

Some enormous percentage of our students will be busy drafting and interpreting contracts.

Sigh. 3/

It would be great for America if we could shrink the importance of constitutional law down to the point where all but a small number of us could safely ignore it. 4/

And where students compete to get clerkships at the newly-formed United States Court of Contracts, which will occupy the old U.S. Supreme Court building. 5/

The Supreme Court, stripped of all but its original jurisdiction and its rulings made merely advisory by statute, now sits in a nice office building in Reston. Where it belongs. /end