I love this for our UGA 1L students!!!!

Teaching 1L contracts has been SUCH a joy this Fall, but could not have done it w/o support from our Dean! Today's Brooklyn Bridge hypo brought her into the class, and the students had a lot of fun figuring out whether they could revoke before she crossed the bridge. 😂 @ugaschooloflaw.bsky.social

Are you a student at the University of Georgia School of Law @ugaschooloflaw.bsky.social thinking about working in international law for the federal government or an int'l organization? Like pizza (assuming you register in advance)? Come join Christina & I this Friday to for a lunchtime chat!

With all the doom and trade gloom of late, I was thrilled to participate in this Trade Experettes' initiative, Ten Trade Wins, to talk about how trade initiatives engender the sharing of administrative strategies and experiences to eradicate forced labor.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Talking death taxes, tariffs, and Georgia football with the great @taxlawprof.bsky.social @ugaschooloflaw.bsky.social

This flew by my radar this week, but massively important: the 5th circuit court of appeals ruled that the NLRB’s structure unconstitutional. It is a huge blow to “American workers who hope to organize their workplaces without fear of retaliation. It represents a partial negation of the New Deal…”

@ugaschooloflaw.bsky.social Professor @desireelc.bsky.social recently organized and funded (through a grant won at Cornell University) a transnational conference of U.S., Mexican, and Canadian labor unions and leaders at Flacso Mexico in Mexico City. (1/3)

Look at what happened to divorce rates in Mexico when some areas extended the school day by 3.5 hours! Why did divorce rates go up as a result of the change? "The availability of childcare...translate[d] into increased bargaining power and economic independence for women."

The Faculty Lounge: Call for Papers: Columbia-Cornell Political Economy of Work Junior Scholars Workshop www.thefacultylounge.org/2025/08/call...

So thankful to the @deanruskintlaw.bsky.social for all of its support! The @ugaschooloflaw.bsky.social and the Dean Rusk Center are truly the best. 😍

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

👀👀👀👀👀

"JD Vance’s team had the army corps of engineers take the unusual step of changing the outflow of a lake in Ohio to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday..." I had to read that sentence several times to make sure I understood. Wow. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

Loving the realization among the Financial Times group that liberalized trade (without appropriate domestic policies in place) left workers vulnerable to job losses, unemployment, and declining standards of living. Looking forward to the revived conversations coming out of all this.

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

Temple Law is hiring this year. We're looking in torts, tax, constitutional law, civil procedure, race/bias and the law, business law, and legal writing. The full ad and application portal is here. I'm chairing the committee; please reach out! law.temple.edu/engage/prosp...

Brilliant

No one guessed where Professor @desireelc.bsky.social and I traveled to for a conference, so here’s your second clue— first three @ugaschooloflaw.bsky.social students to correctly identify our location get a prize!

Student interest in international legal education is soaring — and we need your help to meet the moment. We are raising $12,000 by Aug. 1 for five law students to participate in two standout #UGALaw programs: GEO and GGSS. Help law students go further. give.uga.edu/funders/glob...

🌎✈️🌏

Where in the world … are Desiree and @sarahquinnezz.bsky.social?? First three @universityofga.bsky.social UGA law students to correctly answer win a prize! If you’re one of my students whom I’ve told, please 🤫 @deanruskintlaw.bsky.social

The draft US-Indonesia Framework for Reciprocal Trade includes commitments to internationally recognized labor rights, a prohibition on the importation of goods produced by forced labor, de jure protection of freedom of association and collective bargaining, and enhanced labor law enforcement.

@ugaschooloflaw.bsky.social Professor @desireelc.bsky.social recently presented her research on trade and labor at the Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future research workshop at the @gvagrad.bsky.social in Switzerland during June. (1/2)

📣📣 HIRING 📣📣 See below for the full announcement. The University of Georgia School of Law hiring link is here: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/439...

🇱🇸 🇺🇸 "Lesotho’s trade minister has warned that the country’s textiles industry, a major exporter to brands such as Levi’s and Wrangler in the US, risks having to “fold” if Donald Trump presses ahead with 50 per cent tariffs." www.ft.com/content/6175...

Can someone explain conservative women in GA? They wear dresses to their ankles as trad-wives but send their 9-10 year old daughters to the public pool in thongs.

How did the poor guy mowing your lawn every two weeks become the biggest national security threat, rather than a Defense Secretary posting war plans on Signal?

Welcome to Georgia, where "empowering workers" means dismantling unions: thepatriotreserve.com/georgia-rep-...

This is pretty incredible opportunity. I was amazingly lucky to spend the first 16 years of my career at Georgia, supported by amazing, warm, generous colleagues, buoyed by smart, curious, and kind students, and ensconced in one of the coolest college towns in the country.

❗HIRING ❗ Join me at UGA School of Law! We're hiring 4-5 tenure-track or tenured positions. Priorities include torts, Ks, bankruptcy, environmental law, property, *international law* & secured transactions. Send letters of interest & cv/resume @ [email protected]. Feel free to reach out w/ ??s.

The Supreme Court just made nationwide injunctions rarer, to the detriment of *employer* concerted action, as states enter the fore as the new force of countervailing power. I had fun discussing this with Bloomberg Law news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

@ugaschooloflaw.bsky.social Professor @desireelc.bsky.social served as a panelist in the virtual discussion “Inequalities and Violence at Sea.” This panel, moderated by @sekblu7.bsky.social and @costhermanin.bsky.social‬, was part of a webinar series hosted by @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social. (1/3)

When you forgot to include attachments in your email but it’s the 1960s…

You don't say

Great Video: PIIE's Adam Posen says tariffs fail the American people www.piie.com/newsroom/sho...

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

Its basically a bunch of ICE's first time getting push back vs an international coalition of Definitely Seen This Before

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

This is consistent with studies on the effects of tariffs on U.S. workers during the Bush administration, finding that for every 1 worker in the steel industry who benefitted from temporary tariffs, 80 workers in downstream sectors suffered in the long term. economics.princeton.edu/wp-content/u...

Had a great time interacting with Tim Springett (ICS) and @sekblu7.bsky.social for a discussion of my paper, Gender-Based Violence at Sea (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) for the Gender Justice and Harassment Working Group of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law.

Honored that my article, Gender-Based Violence at Sea (lnkd.in/gZfdhhdg), inspired a webinar series. Tune in on June 4 at 12pm EST to listen to us discuss the unacceptable lag in international law to protect women from unnecessary violence and harassment while on board vessels.

Thank you for the photos! It was so great hanging out and sharing some laughs. Already looking forward to next time!

Congrats @trangmae.bsky.social for your well-deserved award for the outstanding junior paper at #ComplianceNet2025!

This was a great talk by @katmacfarlane.bsky.social on “The Fundamental Alternation Fallacy: Higher Ed and the ADA.” Sooo relevant and timely and generated a lot of thinking around the winners and losers of high ed political economy. #ComplianceNet2025

@desireelc.bsky.social is about to present “Private Monitoring and Enforcement in Public International Law.’’ Looking forward to learning from her! (Also humbled by her incredible body of scholarship: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...)

Great times discussing healthcare & disability anti-discrimination compliance at ComplianceNet @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social today! Fantastic panelists included @katmacfarlane.bsky.social & Nancy Kim (Chicago Kent Law). Thanks for cheering us on and asking smart questions, @desireelc.bsky.social!