Our new issue assesses constitutionalism in the age of extremes. Explore these extremes and potential responses with pieces on #academicfreedom, #economicinequality, #executivepower, #diplomaticextremes, #AI, #constitutionalreform, #courts, #teachinglaw, and more. Read at tinyurl.com/5n7zxtp6.

Excellent panel discussion in Delhi @UChicago . Among many other issues we talked about the idea of indigenizing constitutional jurisprudence www.barandbench.com/news/law-pol...

Professor @tomginsburg.bsky.social, the Chicago Forum’s Faculty Director, was quoted in the Boston Globe on the March 2025 arrest of Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk — an incident he says has “profound” implications for free expression. Read the full story here: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/11/m...

"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

We Should Teach Our Students How to Think, Not What to Believe www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o...

Some days you hate the New York Times: quibbling over Maduro drug connections is trivial. Nobel Prize for Venezuelan Dissident Draws Criticism www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...

Trump's construction of a "hyper-presidential" system www.persuasion.community/p/the-hyper-...

In his latest article for Persuasion, Chicago Forum Faculty Director Professor @tomginsburg.bsky.social analyzes how a second Trump administration could shift the balance of power within the U.S. government by moving toward a hyper-presidential system. www.persuasion.community/p/the-hyper-...

We are thrilled to relaunch this year as an international, multilingual, open access journal, published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law. First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!

Preview of next week's issue! @zalali.bsky.social, Arcioni & Gover, Böckenförde, Gargarella, Hirschl, Suteu, Trochev & Juzgenbayev, Yeh & Chang, & @marie-joellez.bsky.social on state of field. Lady Hale & @cherylas1.bsky.social on judicial and constn'l work, and more! Follow at tinyurl.com/bde5t83x

NEW: Why Mahmoud Khalil's Lawyer is Losing Faith in the Justice System This episode, hosts @cfloed.bsky.social and @tomginsburg.bsky.social speak with Khalil's lawyer, @baherazmy.bsky.social, about what his case means for the future of dissent and academic freedom. open.spotify.com/episode/28L1...

Building on @tomginsburg.bsky.social & Huq, we theorize "democratic frontsliding" as a subtype of democratization. The obstacles to frontsliding are "autocratic enclaves" surviving a democratizing election. We make the normative & legal case for "restorative disobedience" to break up these enclaves

NEW: Are We Witnessing the End of the Postwar Order? With Former UN President Dennis Francis Hosts @cfloed.bsky.social and @tomginsburg.bsky.social and former President of the General Assembly Dennis Francis on threats to global cooperation and human rights. open.spotify.com/episode/0Clu...

Do law reviews have academic freedom? balkin.blogspot.com/2025/05/acad...

What I Learned in China: Obedience Gets You Nowhere www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Geof Stone's two word response to Northwestern University policy on speech, requiring civil modes of presentation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEXo...

“You can’t have democracy without facts.” @uchicagolaw.bsky.social professor @tomginsburg.bsky.social’s keynote at #StiglerAntitrust2025 unpacked how attacks on knowledge institutions—from media to the census—undermine the foundations of democracy. 🧵 Key moments ⬇️

@tomginsburg.bsky.social calls for "digital freedom of assembly" by ensuring the portability of personal data. I've written about this concept before with former colleagues at the Data Transfer Initiative. www.techpolicy.press/why-the-inte... #StiglerAntitrust25

Thoughtful post from @tomginsburg.bsky.social. www.persuasion.community/p/where-are-...

I'm investing heavily in Kool-Aid. It's made here in US of A and GOP demand is likely going to continue to go through the roof.

Hosts @cfloed.bsky.social and @tomginsburg.bsky.social on how Trump undermines US interests abroad Listen to the full episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/6WAw...

Law professors @cfloed.bsky.social and @tomginsburg.bsky.social discuss Trump and the threat to free inquiry in universities. Listen to the full podcast episode, "Trump and Human Rights: Take One," here: open.spotify.com/episode/6WAw...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

“Without neutrality policies, we can expect many of the same chief executives who have been currying favor with Mr. Trump to turn back left with the next political wind,” write Professors @tonycasey.bsky.social and @tomginsburg.bsky.social in @nytimes.com.

My article with @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social in @thenation.com on the president's attacks on the rule of law follow our symposium Democracy & The Rule of Law under Challenge @georgetownlaw.bsky.social. See www.c-span.org/program/publ... @kimlanelaw.bsky.social @tomginsburg.bsky.social

Tom Homan basically admits to a quid pro quo for dropping the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams in exchange for enforcing Donald Trump's mass deportation plan. "If he doesn't come through...I'll be in his office, up his butt, saying 'where the hell is the agreement we came to?'" Vile.

The Chicago Forum's Executive Director Tony Banout and Faculty Director Professor @tomginsburg.bsky.social were recent guests on the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's "So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast. www.thefire.org/news/podcast...

Hello, Bluesky! 👋 We’re new here. At the American Bar Foundation (ABF), we conduct research at the intersection of law and society. Let’s connect and dive into today’s most pressing issues. Learn more about our work here: www.americanbarfoundation.org

Here's an article by Professor @tomginsburg.bsky.social , Faculty Director of the Chicago Forum, published in the latest winter issue of the University of Chicago Magazine. mag.uchicago.edu/university-n...

Musk “has turned out not to be a free speech absolutist at all, but someone who is interested in promoting his own speech and protecting his corporate interests,” Prof. @tomginsburg.bsky.social said. “For him to claim the mantle of free speech is really something of a joke.”

“There is a perception that the judiciary has become inexorably politicized,” said University of Chicago law professor Tom Ginsburg. Sounds like a pretty reasonable perception. www.news-journal.com/opinion/edit...

“In contrast with earlier eras,” Prof. @tomginsburg.bsky.social told @nytimes.com’s @adamliptak.bsky.social, “one side’s disapproval is not offset by approval from the other side, but we seem instead to be seeing an overall erosion of institutional confidence.”

Good to see @thechicagoforum.bsky.social has come over to Bluesky! my view is that Chatham House rules are a good idea for teachers talking about sensitive stuff. reduces (though doesn't eliminate) risk of classroom discussion "leaking" into outside gossip

Compelling commentary by @maryannefranks.bsky.social on First Amendment crisis. Quick take-away: 1) Be a critical reader, 2) Form communities in the off-line world, 3) Express yourself. And, for legal scholars and lawyers, 4) Think beyond doctrine. #parrhesia www.youtube.com/watch?v=whDe...

the latest episode of the Entitled Podcast on human rights, with Alex Gladstein of @hrf.org : Is #Bitcoin good for human rights? @bitcoin.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/i...

#Elections #Voting more important than ever in an era of #backsliding and foreign interferences #Romania #PresidentialElections2024 @tomginsburg.bsky.social @democracytalk.bsky.social @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social @tarunkhaitan.bsky.social @rehanabeyratne.bsky.social

On Aug. 12, 1958, Art Kane gathered 58 jazz notables in front of a Harlem brownstone for a group portrait. Only one of its subjects is still alive: the saxophonist Sonny Rollins, 94, who spoke about the historic image.

Great piece: “The effect of the ruling, however, is to substitute definite manipulation by our own government for feared manipulation by China. This is not a result that the First Amendment permits”. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/o...

Syria: the tyrant has fled. Must now guard against calls for vengeance against Alawites.

Shocking news today from S Korea. My particular angle is that i don't think career prosecutors, or judges, should run for office. While being a district attorney is standard route to political office in US, it has potential to distort and politicize prosecutorial decisions. Yoon was an example.

Prof. @tomginsburg.bsky.social and the Chicago Forum Executive Director Tony Banout published The Chicago Canon on Free Inquiry and Expression, capturing the pivotal texts and principles that have defined a tradition of open discourse at the University of Chicago. Read a Q&A.

In a @motherjones.com column, @davidcorn.bsky.social writes about democratic “near misses,” citing Profs. @tomginsburg.bsky.social and Aziz Huq’s 2018 article.

Aziz Huq and I hope to be wrong about this one. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...

Ready!!!! #HKULaw Pre-launch of #JudicialBricolage @hartpublishing.bsky.social @tomginsburg.bsky.social @richardalbert.bsky.social @martinicogi.bsky.social

my recent interview on Japanese TV was accompanied by this great infographic of me and the Donald

Our new Entitled podcast on human rights is out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Excited to be somewhere that isn't a cesspool of idiocy and hate.