Working on Restoring Justice kept me grounded this past year, so I share it w/ excitement & some nervousness. Written w/ Meredith Elizalde, whose son Nick was killed in a shooting at his high school, we argue for a right to restorative justice. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Is my chapter done? No, but my apartment is SO CLEAN

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

New Article Alert By me @fastcompany.com 🚨 "Digital surveys may have hit the #AI point of no return." Quantitative surveys can now be taken by AI that undetectably mimics humans. This can compromise results that will impact decisions based on these outcomes. A way forward? Qualitative Research!

Aaaaand wow we got here so much faster than I thought we would

Absolutely no one: Me, every time I hear the song Lover: FEBRUARY. It should be leave the Christmas lights up till FEBRUARY because everyone leaves their lights up till January and February is the same number of syllabus and ends in the same vowels and then it would make freaking SENSE

📢 On behalf of the ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology, I'm delighted to announce that today marks the launch of our new @opiniojuris.bsky.social symposium:📢 *Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law – A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide*

You can tell a lot about a person based on how they organize their Zotero

Guys I think my nervous system forgot what it felt like to consume good news what a week

LINA KHAN IS BACK BABEY

And then sometimes federalism is *chef’s kiss*

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Our Palestine working group has been mobilizing to get Dr. Wail Badah and his family out of Gaza. We need to raise €30,000 to get them accepted to France's PAUSE programme. We are super close to the goal! Lille University will hire him as a visiting researcher chuffed.org/project/supp...

Poly sci brain: Do it Lawyer brain: ew no Poly sci brain: DO IT Lawyer brain: pls no Poly sci brain: 👀 Me: …epistemic

Live footage of a lawyer trying to write a methods section

“No worries at all!” I write back when there are in fact many worries

If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please fill out the volunteer form at the end of the piece! Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Getting ready to explain to my MAGA relatives that Tylenol doesn’t cause autism this holiday season after explaining that no, public school nurses’ offices were not performing sex changes last year…

To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”

PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.

Live footage of me trying to stay up to date on US news

Spending hours cleaning up Zotero, knowing I’m just gonna add more messy downloads later this afternoon… …for a moment, it was really beautiful

Still a few more days to submit an abstract!

"In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal: The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials." -- www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Abortion bans worsen intimate partner violence, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research. There was ~9,000 additional incidents of IPV in states that limit abortion rights in 2023 vs 2017. That adds up to $1.24 billion in additional social costs.

Call for Abstracts! Disrupting your daily doom-scroll to share the call for ILW 2025's Emerging Voices Panel. ABILA provides *full funding* specifically for junior scholars to come present their research at ILW 😱 Consider submitting an abstract and pls reach out with any questions!

Tell me you study IR without telling me you study IR. I’ll go first: I just explained Greggs as “sausage roll hegemony”

Can someone PLEASE tell me the point of endnotes I just don’t get it

Got a text from my dad: “best Father’s Day present ever!” with a picture. It was worms. My brother got him worms for his compost bin and he’s delighted about it.

Harold Koh: “What I’ve learned from my dad, from my wife, from my family is that courage is contagious. So is cowardice. What you decide is a choice. And when your moment come—and believe me, it will—please make sure that the decision you make is one you can live with."

Show us your writing process in a gif.

This is pretty dystopian futurism.com/facebook-bea...

Announcing: the International Law Weekend 2025 Organizing Committee! Including @jesspeake.bsky.social, @chris4short.bsky.social, @corrarino.bsky.social, @ewickeri.bsky.social, @freyadw.bsky.social and @leilasadat1.bsky.social www.ila-americanbranch.org/announcing-i...

I have exactly one skill, and it’s being able to pick up a large suitcase and go “that’s just under 23 kgs”

New paper alert 🚨 Now up @ssrn.bsky.social is "Experiential Expertise: What Lived Experience Can Teach" forthcoming in BU L. Rev. It explores the contours of experiential expertise—what is it? how is it formed? how should it inform the law? Would love any feedback! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Me to me: you will not take on any more commitments until your first-year defense is over Also me, currently:

“Privacy advocates have long warned that the risk of entrusting genetic data to any institution is twofold—the organization could fail to protect it, but it could also hand over customer data to a new entity that they may not trust and didn’t choose.” www.wired.com/story/how-to...

I guess Cambridge knew it was the solstice today bc spring is SPRINGING

Turns out doing a PhD is just thinking “ah yes, this is a great idea for a thesis,” followed immediately by “wtf were you thinking you imbecile” over and over again until you either graduate or die

📣Special Issue on Law & Technology, on the theme Is Fairness in Digital Governance a Trap?, available open access in the European Journal of Legal Studies, guest edited by the ESIL IG on International Law & Tech team.

Sometimes I think it’s not obvious I’m from the literal woods, then I’ll use a fishing or hiking analogy and be like…ah nope there it is

Really glad I picked a PhD topic that has me just *steeping* in the details of the fall of the American democratic experiment. Doing wonders for my mental health.

I just learned a flock of penguins is called a “waddle” and for a moment, all feels right with the world

Kendrick really just said “the revolution’s about to be televised / you picked the right time but the wrong guy” directly to a super-dome stadium of republicans and trump

Thrilled to share my latest article on AI and the crime of aggression is out with the JICJ! And thanks to @cambridgeuni.bsky.social it is also open access!

Just to say the quiet part out loud, the point of having unelected judges in a democracy is so that *whether* acts of state are “legitimate” can be decided by someone other than the people who are undertaking them. Vermeule knows this, of course. So does Vance.