I'm very pleased that, in a few days, I'll be submitting to law reviews the written version of an article I presented as the 2024 Doyle-Winter Lecture at Yale, on Fourth Amendment rights when property is moved. You can watch the lecture below. vimeo.com/935088325

Here Miles and Federica discuss the novel and tricky issues of state responsibility in the ICJ Climate Opinion, incl attribution, causation, and multiple responsibility.

It's always such a pleasure to attend the ASIL workshop on International Criminal Law.

Trump wants to “unleash” deep-sea mining. How soon could it start? open.substack.com/pub/seabedsp...

"Even a cursory sketch of production and reserves shows that there is no shortage of inputs for renewable technologies." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

In Oceanic Impunity, I argue that bottom-trawling and other actions that cause severe and widespread environmental harms should be criminalized. This video shows why: petapixel.com/2025/05/12/d... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight. "My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."

Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about, and Trump’s order could clear the way for operations soon theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...

Thread on why the least worst of two bad outcomes is still awful. SCOTUS argument this morning.

they're considering mass deportations -- after mass denaturalizations www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Earth’s oceans once turned green – and they could change again theconversation.com/earths-ocean...

China’s new underwater tool cuts deeps, exposing vulnerability of vital network of subsea cables theconversation.com/chinas-new-u...

The #MetalsCompany is now seeking to circumvent governing international law and appeal directly to the Trump administration to mine the deep sea, despite warnings about the scientific uncertainty of deep sea mining's ecological consequences. www.npr.org/2025/03/27/n...

Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...

Check out our wonderful collection of essays plotting, dreaming, reimagining, abolishing, redistributing and reconstructing ICL's Critical Aftermaths w. Christine Schwoebel-Patel & @riclements.bsky.social @oxfordcrim.bsky.social

The arrest warrant for Duterte for the crime against humanity of murder 👇 It was issued under seal and enforced by police in Manila.

Dark Law "is a pernicious outgrowth of vague statutory construction, deferential judicial review, and political opportunism. Authorities brandish national security law as a response to constructed security threats in order to circumvent legal restraints on their power."

Trump dares courts to stop him at every turn, but he's also using "dark law" to selectively investigate, detain, prosecute, and imprison disfavored groups. scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jlpa/vol6/is...

FYI: In a New Suffolk Law Podcast, I talk about my meandering path to law school and deep love of cephalopods. open.spotify.com/episode/5Ypq...

The firing of top military lawyers—the Judge Advocates General of the Army, Air Force, & Navy—by Hegseth signals a troubling move to strip legal oversight from military ops. @stevevladeck.bsky.social explains how this move clears the way for the Trump admin to ignore the rule of law in the military.

"The events of the nineteen-twenties and thirties—and of the forties, when NATO was formed—still echo in these tumultuous times. And, as the world darkens, we’re going to need all the friends we can get." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Not good. Not good at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

Grateful to the @americanbar.bsky.social for this strong and important statement. Lawyers must stand firm for the rule of law and democracy. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

This is excellent. It notes (as some aggressive reformers do not) that police do reduce crime, but highlights the social costs they impose that other programs don’t, highlights large returns those nonpolice programs often (if messily) return. A well-reasoned pushback against police-centric policy.

Portrait of Jimmy Carter by Andy Warhol, 1976. RIP

Delighted to among the "new" faculty featured here. www.suffolk.edu/law/alumni/s...

#SCOTUS is set to hear *zero* appeals from state criminal convictions this term. That total may be a fluke, but the broader disappearance of such cases from the docket isn’t. And as today’s “One First” explains, it has lots of (bad) downstream implications: www.stevevladeck.com/p/113-direct...

Grateful to Publisher's Weekly for their review of my book and advising that "Legal analysts would do well to check this out." Full review here: www.publishersweekly.com/9780674294226 Preorder your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

In this paper @stephencody.bsky.social writes about ocean protection to prevent #climate disaster, highlighting the role of ocean vegetation in producing oxygen & absorbing heat generated by rising #emissions. Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en...

I'm happy to announce my new book on the Supreme Court's role in fostering mass incarceration will go on sale March 4. I hope you'll check it out! You can preorder here: www.amazon.com/gp/product/0... And read more details here: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Great new tool for researchers and journalists investigating crimes at sea? www.theoutlawocean.com/toolkit/ocea...

Skocpol on the elections, student protests, and what lies ahead.

The Arctic is so much more than polar bears. New study on the vast biodiversity of the Arctic deep sea. See, e.g., the Pteropod mollusk sea angel online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art...