Jamaica’s beach access crisis: ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours’

Our 2026 Latin American Studies catalog is out! Learn more about our new and notable titles: https://ow.ly/3Hre50ZaE9P #ReadUP #LatinAmericanStudies

Without full sovereignty, Puerto Rico is significantly constrained in its ability to design independent fiscal or monetary policies — leaving the island vulnerable to tourism investments that are becoming increasingly financialized.

As I conclude a great year with the OpEd Project, I'm happy to share my latest piece in Jacobin. It examines how tax incentives have become intertwined with Puerto Rico's tourism industry, reshaping the archipelago's political economy and fueling financial speculation. jacobin.com/2026/06/puer...

Another “best beach” list, another reminder that paradise is legally produced. If you want the politics behind it: Who owns Puerto Rico’s beaches? Law, extractivism, and the political economy of paradise doi.org/10.1080/0143...

Excited to share my new article in @lsijournal.bsky.social: “Vacationing on a Tax Haven” explores how Puerto Rico’s visitor economy is intertwined with offshore finance, colonial legality, and extraction. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fuel has become the frontline of economic warfare, especially in Cuba. 🇨🇺 JOSE ATILES examines how US tariffs, sanctions, and emergency powers operate as forms of state crime that produce systemic harm and human suffering in Cuba and across the region. verfassungsblog.de/cuba-blockade/

If we in the US and elsewhere are to use social strikes to retake control of our governments... we have much to learn from the joyful, creative protests of our Puerto Rican comrades.

An opportunity Visiting Assistant Professor in Criminology, Law, and Society: illinois.csod.com/ui/internal-...

Happy Easter from Finance and Society team! Here is our special easter egg for all of you: a fresh Call for Papers for this year's Finance and Society conference happening again at CBS Copenhagen! Deadline: May 1st Hoping to see many of you there!

The April 2 edition of The Latino Newsletter is by Cris Seda Chabrier, and edited by @vaquero2xl.bsky.social Airbnbs Are Eating Up This Puerto Rico Island Municipality Short-term rentals have increased prices and taken over residences in Culebra, analysis shows

A monstrously comprehensive nearly three hour long episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social examining the economic warfare dimensions of the US-Israeli war on Iran and Iran’s asymmetric response with Aslı Bâli, @yarbatman.bsky.social, and Nicholas Mulder. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...

"I was hoping bad bunny would get more into the weeds of the promesa debt restructuring" - @jeffstein.bsky.social PROMESA content plz @scaggs.bsky.social @alexckaufman.bsky.social ieefa.org/sites/defaul...

The International Journal of Law in Context is seeking a new co-Editor-in-Chief! Submit your application by 28 February. 📩 Learn more: https://cup.org/4qSA89E #lawandsociety #sociolegal #LawSky

Doing public-facing sociology? Our Public Sociology Awards 2026 are open. Celebrate creative work beyond the academy. Deadline: 13 March. Apply now 👇 buff.ly/2qmok7D

“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

It's been a long time coming. After several years of revisions, my book Emotional Filipinos is coming out on April 15th. Please share and retweet! It would really mean a lot to me. Preorder sales available here: ugapress.org/978082037545...

For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the transformation of the world economy since the 80’s, as beautifully told in Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel (with a very brief shoutout to the city where I grew up) www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Puerto Rico’s New Transparency Law Attacks a Right Forged in Struggle thefulcrum.us/governance-l...

US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals

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...

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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