Working on finishing up a law review article for the upcoming submission cycle? ICYMI, the final version of @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & my essay "The Part IV Problem in Legal Scholarship" is now online at the Columbia Law Review: columbialawreview.org/content/the-...

So, this is in print now. Title pretty much says it all. virginialawreview.org/articles/abo...

New must read @lpeblog.bsky.social post on the Prairieland trial and its implications for the criminalization of left politics & protest:

Professors @sonofdavid.bsky.social and @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social encourage scholars to look to bottom-up sources of knowledge for a richer understanding of the relationships between law, politics, economics, and the material world.

a powerful account of what’s happening in Minneapolis from Amna Akbar www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

For years, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & I have been frustrated with what we call the Part IV Problem in legal scholarship, the expectation of neat & feasible prescriptions to end pieces. Our frustrations are heightened in this moment of authoritarianism, as we wrote today at @lpeblog.bsky.social:

New from me in @michlawreview.bsky.social reviewing ‘New Deal Law & Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State’ michiganlawreview.org/whats-left-o...

NEW EPISODE 🚨 ANTI-REPRESSION 101: Tune in to hear @deanspade.bsky.social @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social @azohra.bsky.social discuss why the way we talk about political repression matters and five questions everyone should consider to avoid common anti-solidarity traps.

Appreciate thinking with @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social & Amna Akbar again, inspired by resistance movements confronting incipient fascism across terrains of struggle lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...

Today I wrote in @lpeblog.bsky.social with Amna Akbar & @sameer-ashar.bsky.social about how legal scholars & teachers might act in solidarity with movements in this moment, in the face of fascism: lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...

Join us at @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social Weds 9/17 @ 6pm for a @bkbookfest.bsky.social Bookends panel on NO COP CITY, NO COP WORLD @haymarketbooks.org, w/@micahh.bsky.social @kamaufranklin.bsky.social, Priscilla Grim, Mariah Parker, & free food&drink! RSVP: registration.brooklaw.edu/academic-eve...

📣 📣CONFERENCE ALERT: "Facing the Future: Organizing and Lawyering for Justice" For justice-oriented law folks hoping to resist Trump 2.0 and help imagine and work for a better world. BREAKING: Draft schedule is up, and registration is open. Space is limited. Learn more at facingthefuture.net!

🚨BREAKING🚨 Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.

Join us tomorrow at 5pm at Brooklyn Law School, organized by the BLS student LPE Collective:

Grateful to Jessica Eaglin for this Jotwell review of my book Radical Acts of Justice, highlighting an expansive idea of what it means to "do" Criminal Law: 🙏

Today, Premal Dharia concludes our symposium on @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social's *Radical Acts of Justice,* by discussing a crisis of purpose in public defense - whose workers must contend with the reality that a better world may obviate the need for their labor.

Thank you @evanbernick.bsky.social for this generous & provocative engagement with my book. I love both of your points, but especially want to engage more with you about the idea - and necessity - of violence in movement struggles!

I am excited that this piece, co-authored with John Legend, is out in the world - we write about the new wave of repressive laws aimed at bail funds and collective care:

Tonight!

Excited to have Radical Acts of Justice included among this company!

@jocelynsimonson.bsky.social writes at @inquest.bsky.social that “although law and legal battles run through both [Sharlyn Grace and Micah Herskind’s] descriptions of long-term struggle, law is not at the heart of their stories: + https://inquest.org/keeping-each-other-safe/

Hi Bluesky! I am still learning how this place works, but the in the meantime... I wrote a book! It's out today, and I'm really excited to be in conversation with people I admire at these events (w/more to come). Please join, & learn more here - https://thenewpress.com/books/radical-acts-of-justice