Me and Mary Robertson in @ripejournal.bsky.social articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social @alibhagat.bsky.social @vincentguermond.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Atiles shows how those in power weaponise colonial legality to legitimate the social, economic & political violence they commit against marginalised communities.” Vanessa Jiménez-Read reviews Crisis by Design by @joseatiles.bsky.social in our new issue. buff.ly/pPlI9yG @stanfordpress.bsky.social

This is an extraordinary summary of the state of crypto-authoritarianism by @joseatiles.bsky.social: botpopuli.net/the-crypto-s...

New from @vaquero2xl.bsky.social for @thelatinonewsletter.org Puerto Rico Signs Bill Critics Say Is a Threat to Public Information Law 156-2025 became official this past weekend

A familiar story about cryptocurrencies is that they emerged under the promise of financial emancipation. Crypto-assets and blockchain technologies were imagined as tools to decentralize state power, bypass corrupt institutions, and democratize economic life botpopuli.net/the-crypto-s...

Puerto Ricans are Americans who have no vote in Congress, no representation in the Electoral College, little power to challenge military buildup. Now the archipelago finds itself being used as an unaccountable platform & staging ground for US adventurism in Latin America jacobin.com/2025/12/trum...

Donald Trump is aiming to restore US supremacy in the western hemisphere through presidential will, military power, and emergency authority, unconstrained by Congress or international law — a strategic reorientation that runs through Puerto Rico.

Very exciting, there is a new learned society in legal studies, the Legal Humanities Association. It's based in the UK but very explicitly international in focus. It aims to foster a community dedicated to cultural understandings of law. legalhumanities.com

Today, a call to join the next era of LPE: a democratic, independent, member-led organization that will serve as a home for a broad array of LPE work.

We are in the final stretch of our sale! Don't miss the chance to get 40% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide* before it shuts down at 11:59 PM tonight (12/8). #ReadUP #BookSky

A new era for LPE — a more democratic one, not subject to university administrators and not reliant on funder money. LPE lfg lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...

Trump 2.0 launches new “corollary” to Monroe Doctrine on it’s 102d anniversary, as rhetorical framework for potentially imminent interventions threatened against Venezuela, Colombia, México…in violation of both domestic & international law www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Tomorrow, 12/3, @joseatiles.bsky.social, of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will lead the ABF Speaker Series on "Crisis by Design: Emergency Powers and Colonial Legality in Puerto Rico." 🔗: www.americanbarfoundation.org/event/speake...

We're having a cyber week sale! Take advantage of 40% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide* starting today, 12/1, through Monday, 12/8. For details: www.sup.org/about-our-cy...

Research Handbook on 3rd World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) [Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

See our new piece for NACLA on the fight for a just transition at COP30 in Belém

What is described here constitutes a transnational criminal conspiracy bet two rogue regimes (Trump 2.0 & Bukele), who are liable for these mass atrocities (crimes against humanity including torture & forced disappearances), pursuant to int’l criminal law www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Presente!!

My latest piece on @commondreams.org (written part of the Public Voices Fellowship) examines how the US is fusing emergency powers, economic warfare, and militarization of Latin America and the Caribbean into a coherent system of hemispheric governance. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Trump’s approach reveals how emergency powers techniques, such as executive orders, emergency declarations, and budgetary discretion, are being implemented as instruments of foreign policy, says @joseatiles.bsky.social.

The application portal for the 2026 Mobilization and Political Economy Summer Program is now open. Please share with your talented undergraduate students. #politicaleconomy @mpepitt.bsky.social @cape-team.bsky.social @ripejournal.bsky.social

On 11/5 #SCOTUS hears Learning Resources v Trump. At issue: whether a president may impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA, an emergency powers law. "The stakes of this case reach far beyond trade policy," @lizagoitein.bsky.social writes in a new explainer.

The problem with Donald Trump’s recent firing of six members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board isn’t who he decided to fire — it’s the board’s very existence as a tool of colonial rule over Puerto Rico.

My latest op-ed, written as part of the OpEdProject fellowship, examines the colonial politics behind the firing and reappointment of La Junta (FOMB) in Puerto Rico. Read it at @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/10/puer...

#LawAndSociety scholars: do you want your research to meaningfully impact society? Apply now for the LSA Talks! Public Scholarship Academy to learn how you can bridge the gap between scholarly research and public discourse. Learn more: bit.ly/LSATalks @emoryuniversity.bsky.social

1/2 Sen. Wyden of the US Senate Finance Committee today published new findings indicating that Pantera Capital's Dan Morehead, a crypto billionaire based in #PuertoRico, may have improperly avoided more than $100M in federal taxes through a purported residency scam.

Check out my latest op-ed in Latino News Network on how economic warfare is reshaping US interventionism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Written as part of my work as part of The OpEd Project 2025–26 Public Voices Fellow. latinonewsnetwork.com/community/th...

A little late to share, but my new article in Third World Quarterly explores Puerto Rico’s offshore finance center and the privatization of beaches. It’s part of my ongoing research on offshore finance and the legal imaginations of paradise. 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you haven't checked out the LPE Project syllabus bank you're missing out!! (also, if you are teaching an LPE or LPE-adjacent course, please send us your syllabus!) lpeproject.org/syllabi

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Today's the day: submissions are now open for the inaugural Association of Law & Political Economy conference!

📢 Heads up! The Association of Law & Political Economy is accepting submissions for our first-ever conference starting THIS Friday 🎉

Today, @msjamshidi.bsky.social argues that the recent US sanctions against Francesca Albanese—a human rights expert whose work threatens several major American corporations—exemplify the economic goals that are part and parcel of U.S. sanctions policy.

Today, @profhilaryallen.bsky.social explains how Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists turned “innovation” into a smokescreen for regulatory arbitrage—and how we underwrite this behavior by showering VCs with public subsidies.

*extremely* excited about this new development!

UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842

Comrades! Friends! Nemeses! The CfP for the annual meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies is open until next Friday, 11th of July. Send us your abstracts on all things law, political economy and modern authoritarianism. The one and only Melinda Cooper (!!!) will deliver the keynote.

Working in the area of critical sociology? Consider submitting to our workshop!

We are excited to announce that ebooks can now be purchased directly from sup.org! As a special introductory offer, we’re happy to give a 50% discount on all direct ebook purchases made during the month of July More information about our ebooks can be found here: www.sup.org/ebooks

We are excited to announce that ebooks can now be purchased directly from sup.org! As a special introductory offer, we’re happy to give a 50% discount on all direct ebook purchases made during the month of July More information about our ebooks can be found here: www.sup.org/ebooks

The G7 is exempting American multinationals from the global minimum tax. It’s pathetic and scandalous.

If you are attending the Council for European Studies conference @ces-europe.bsky.social, and would like to chat about potential submissions to “Regional & Federal Studies” @regfedst.bsky.social, feel free to DM me.

@pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social on the 'smart' sanctions against Israeli officials: legalform.blog/2025/06/17/s...

LPE friends - CONFERENCE UPDATE!! ⏰☎️ Planning is still underway for the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association, but we're pushing the dates to FEBRUARY 5-7, 2026. We'll be putting out a CFP by August with information about how and what to submit. Until then, save the new date!

Last night, a three-judge panel of the federal Court of International Trade unanimously held that Trump’s use of emergency powers to bypass Congress and impose worldwide tariffs is illegal. It’s a tightly reasoned decision that reaches the right outcome. 1/18 apnews.com/article/trum...

This is a terrific piece which does a great job at both critiquing the criminalisation of ecocide and offering crucial insight on the law-as-a-quick-fix and the implications thereof

New article! Ecocidal impunity? Wars and the profitability of the chemical corporation in the global south, by Jose Atiles & Gustavo Rojas-Páez. / @joseatiles.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0964...