Read this urgent piece by Oona Hathaway, "If states fail to act together to preserve the prohibition on the use of force — the bedrock of the postwar legal order — the toll will be registered in many more lives lost in conflicts that no longer have any guardrails to stop them."

The brilliant legal scholar-artist Mari Matsuda, “My legal work asked what legal rules and principles best promote democracy, justice, and fairness for everyone…I try to make art that valorizes that story and gives us the hope and energy we need to flourish as human beings.”

Join us as we discuss debt and its discontents with Jayati Ghosh, Hannah Appell and Fabio Vighi! All welcome. events.stanford.edu/event/sgs-gl...

I'm looking forward to this talk on white collar crime, jouissance, and cinema by the brilliant scholar Fabio Vighi on Oct. 15 at Stanford. All welcome. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We won!! “Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

my piece on "Reading and Writing Race in Law and Literature" is out in advance online, European Journal of English Studies - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So proud of EPIC program at Stanford Global Studies working with community colleges to cultivate global citizenship and educational equity through meaningful, long-term partnerships. This is a model for how elite institutions can serve the broader public good. news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

International law expert @jonyorke.bsky.social moves to intervene in our § 1983 civil rights challenge to nitrogen gas asphyxiation in Alabama, represented by @stanfordlaw.bsky.social’s Gulika Reddy and ‪@uchicagolaw.bsky.social‬'s ‪@anjliparrin.bsky.social‬: cccct.law.columbia.edu/sites/cccct....

I wrote about the hostility between India and Pakistan through the lens of folk theatre in Kashmir in my book Performance of Nationalism (2013) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

My @gould.usc.edu Online conference on Philosophy of Emotions Meets Philosophy of Law is starting next week! It's going to be super interesting and engaging, and I'm looking forward! Message me for the zoom link, and feel free to share widely!

@stanfordlaw.bsky.social’s Gulika Reddy was featured on @reuters.com’s Practical Law Public Interest Profile, in which she discussed her pro bono practice and academic career. Read more about Professor Reddy’s background here: www.reuters.com/practical-la....

It took me 28 years to go from carceral feminist to abolitionist. @saaarah.bsky.social tells that story here.

Very excited to curate new and enduring research on topics of Arts + Justice: shc.stanford.edu/arcade/collo... Check out the work by brilliant scholars incl. @bennettcapers.bsky.social, Jennifer Nash, Amber Musser, Nicole Fleetwood, Forrest Stuart, Mary Kathryn Nagle among others.

My new article "Dignity and the Drama of the Death Penalty" considers competing invocations of dignity in punishment, and how that impinges on conceptions of personhood. Thanks to work of @dwlachance.bsky.social @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social among others: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I saw two challenging plays that I couldn't get out of my head and I knew I had to write about them. The resulting article just came out in the latest Theatre Journal: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Check out the special issue of Theatre Journal on Abolition & Performance. My article “Abolitionist Laughter: The Joint Movement to #stopcopcity” examines the use of humor in the June 5 2023 ATL city council meeting as an ecocritical strategy of refusal and repair muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

My new article "Confessional Performance" turns to podcasts to think about performing remorse at parole hearings. Grateful to @evidenceprof.bsky.social and others whose work inspired this piece. And grateful for the stellar company in this issue. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...