Suddenly the essay by @bridgetdooling.bsky.social and me seems pretty relevant! Do corporate fiduciaries have duties to the rule of law?? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting. abcnews.go.com/US/1-week-af...

The thing with the Tylenol is that in the MAGAverse women must be having children. And when they are carrying their mandatory pregnancies they can’t even have a modest painkiller without feeling guilty about the whole business

The marvelous @bridgetdooling.bsky.social and I, after a symposium held by Cincinnati’s Corporate Law Center, asked ourselves a question: SCOTUS’ Corner Post decision (modifying a statute of limitations) made many long-standing agency regulations fair game for litigation.

The marvelous @bridgetdooling.bsky.social and I, after a symposium held by Cincinnati’s Corporate Law Center, asked ourselves a question: SCOTUS’ Corner Post decision (modifying a statute of limitations) made many long-standing agency regulations fair game for litigation.

Impeachment isn’t just for presidents. Would love to see some articles filed based on the testimony of Profs Hill and Blasey Ford and Thomas’ fancy RV.

Sinclair can get stuffed. Too bad trump’s firing the last person in FTC leadership that cared about antimonopoly. youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc?...

Exactly this. Once you cave to the bully, they keep going.

Or the princes could just move their satrapies to Texas I guess

"there is a...distinction between management's legitimate need for freedom to apply...business judgment, and management's patently illegitimate claim of power to treat modern corporations with their vast resources as personal satrapies implementing personal political or moral predilections." ⚖️

It's Friday and @katejackson.bsky.social and I are about to hand in a very fun (slightly! overdue!) paper to our editors and I will NOT be looking at the news until this extremely good vibe has well and truly settled into my soul. ✌️

I'm reading Katabasis by RL Kuang. Where the dissertation advisor our heroes (PhDs at the end of their studies) set out to save from hell is awful, and hell is a campus where all souls, to move on, must write a dissertation on "what is the good" w/ no feedback or guidance. So it's non-fiction.

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

New from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

Here is a link to AAUP’s guidance should anyone find themselves in the crosshairs www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

someone (ok me) has to do the math, but how is the DoC paying $20/Intel share when it's already obligated to disperse the $$$ under the CHIPS act? I mean, how is this not a par value problem? And if that price comes from "you no longer have to hire union under Trump Inc" where's the valuation?

I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration. It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.

Call for abstracts for all those legal scholars writing about democracy! I highly recommend this conference sponsored by Michigan State. msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw... Perkins Coie (a law firm that stood up to Trump) fires lawyer after making negative comments about Kirk on social media

I join the now abundant discourse about Abundance. A good book but more importantly a bellwether book for the orientation of the center-left. But like many, they hope we can engineer a way around politics and put things back in the hands of competent technocrats...I am not so sure...

Again, chaining up a bunch of Korean engineers was both shameful and an incredibly stupid idea

Billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk owns X. Billionaire Trump ally Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. With this acquisition, both CNN and CBS News would be owned by billionaire Trump donor Larry Ellison. Oligarchs’ monopoly over our media is spiraling out of control.

I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:

You may not make any negative public comments about a man whose career was centered on getting you and your colleagues fired

One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.

The week in review: @jonathanfharris.bsky.social on how states are rewriting the rules on worker mobility, @katejackson.bsky.social on the rise of populism in corporate governance, and a last call for ALPE proposals! Plus, the best of LPE from around the web in the 🧵👇

congressional republicans - with all their institutional power - are afraid to speak against Trump for fear of MAGA’s reaction. Imagine how much worse for a middle class professor to get identified on a right-wing hit list.

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

It’s hard not to reach for the metaphor of the abusive relationship The flamboyant toxic masculinity The denigration of the victim’s worth so they won’t fight back The demands to empathize with the abuser The DARVO (deny accuse reverse victim/offender) The sense of entitlement that drives the rage

Hypocrisies abound right now. It’s enraging and frustrating. But it’s also important to remember that it’s all part of a strategy to consolidate authoritarian power. If we’re clear eyed about that, we’re more likely to think of a useful response.

New blog post! I have been writing about mandatory arbitration in corporate constitutive documents for the entirety of my academic career edition www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/09/liti...

The way the mainstream media is treating Charlie Kirk’s bigotry is the way a highly dysfunctional family treats racist crazy pedo grandpa. “Oh come on, that’s just how he is, he doesn’t mean It, that doesn’t count.”

Today in corporate backsliding in favor of the oligarchs, c/o Anne Lipton Shedding shareholders of their pesky right to sue collectively www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/09/liti...

newrepublic.com/post/200341/... Thom Tillis Trashes MAGA’s Response to Charlie Kirk’s Death Tillis is one of just a few Republicans speaking out against the divisive, often violent, rhetoric.

Plz add coffee to the duty free shops

I am old enough to remember when Trump didn’t want us to get into foreign adventures and entanglements

Reminder: Kash Patel fired the highly regarded head of the FBI field office in Salt Lake City a few weeks ago. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

Beware the motivated reasoning of someone who might already want the violence.

Euphemising Kirk's politics as 'right-wing activism' is playing straight into the hands of Trump and his attempt at political recuperation of the murder to unleash more authoritarian measures It shouldn't have to be said but we do not have to accept his narrative or discourse

So I land in Vancouver and apparently Russia sent drones through Poland because the world dumpster fire wasn’t burning hot enough

Where was Kash Patel? Kristi Noem? The FBI & DHS probably should not have dismantled the sections who work on countering domestic violent extremists.

"Corporate law, although always far from perfect, was supposed to ensure that the titans of industry acted lawfully and in the best interests of not only the stockholders, but their companies. Now, it seems, Delaware has opted for backsliding." Don't miss this great new post by Kate Jackson!

@katejackson.bsky.social wrote a great paper that this LPE Post draws from. What really blew me away was how the descriptive accounts of authoritarian regimes tracked CEO behavior intuitively. This is really insightful stuff, and I'm thankful that Kate is doing this.

Today’s entry in the privatization of the state Everything becomes the private property of Me the People newrepublic.com/post/200118/...

One puzzle I’m working through is how authoritarian political movements impact civil society orgs. We’re getting more familiar with what authoritarianism will do to them when in power. It’s a top-down theory of change. But does the underlying political & social movement have an independent impact?

Very interesting post on the emerging politics of corporate law from @katejackson.bsky.social. But why “populism”? These aren’t agrarian antimonopolists. The classical term is “demagoguery”, no? lpeproject.org/blog/a-popul...