My job talk paper just out in the n American Journal for Legal History! I'll write up a thread in a bit. In the meantime, link here: Who is a central bank for? The founding and legal design of the Bank of Canada: academic.oup.com/ajlh/article...

'No one is entitled to rest content on their progressive laurels by simply referring to the "rule of law" without attention to the kinds of law and legal institution such invocations end up buttressing.' Martti Koskenniemi on international law in NLR 154 newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...

I finally saw the LeBron ad and one thought jumped out at me. It’s the exact commercial Donald Trump would make if he was a basketball player. LeBron came across as desperate. Desperate for admiration. Desperate for affection. And desperate for the one thing he can’t get. He deserves better.

For people who move a lot: how do you do it without losing your mind

A single mom in the Philippines who works as an outsourced OnlyFans “chatter” told us she now has difficulty forming real relationships. “Sometimes, when [messaging] with someone and it turns flirty, I lose interest. It feels like I’m working.” https://restofworld.org/2025/onlyfans-ai-dm-bots

I'm not prepared to answer questions about the nature of time from my four year-old

In a note just published by @ejiltalk.bsky.social, I examine and critique Israel’s paridoxical appeal to humanitarian reasoning and language to obscure, justify, and facilitate harmful conduct www.ejiltalk.org/humanitarian...

teaching brand new law students today! hope everyone keeps up the excitement and curiosity throughout the year

The ultimate ed tech ouroboros: students use AI platforms to do their assignments, faculty use AI platforms to grad them, and the ed tech companies pocket fees, subscriptions, and contracts.

lol what

If you are heading to law school this month and a bit worried if you “belong.” You do. Here is a letter to a 1L on the First Day of Law School. Free to read. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

Come work with us! Full-time International Human Rights Program Coordinator opportunity with @ihrp.bsky.social based in Toronto. The closing date is August 10th. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

"The plan’s 90 recommendations feel less like a unified strategy and more like a political compromise, delaying tough decisions about priorities, trade-offs, and democratic accountability." @kevintfrazier.bsky.social delves into the Trump administration's AI action plan.

Its a chore to maintain two accounts. more non-US stuff is on the other platform but at the same time the content is also more unhinged.

maybe we should all get used to seasonal drinks and food instead to match changing climate patterns

🚨🚨 CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!! LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization. lawandpoliticaleconomy.org 🚨🚨

has there been any writing on whats left of legal reasoning after LLMs

It’s been 10 years (and 3 days) since I moved to Canada. Lots of things changed in my life in these 10 years, but meeting @theannasu.bsky.social and becoming a dad are the definite highlights!

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

Super-quick take while reading the ruling: This is going to be a much bigger deal for challenges to *other* Trump policies than to birthright citizenship (where it's likely that lower courts will still be able to block the policy on a nationwide basis even after this ruling). *That's* the import.

Really a sad way to go through life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...

“In what’s become a macabre daily routine, more desperately hungry people were gunned down, as they tried to collect food aid from the new US and Israeli backed distribution centre.”

bsky folks, you are all missing the biggest feud on the other platform

bluebook time

Second, we are all harmed by a constitutional order that sees only rights violations and not the distribution of power among peoples as a constitutional problem. Governing others through force and taking lands unlawfully is a constitutional problem that demands distinctive constitutional redress.

The Supreme Court refuses to consider whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act bars the government from destroying a sacred Western Apache site by turning it into a copper mine. Gorsuch, joined by Thomas, has an incandescently angry dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Cost of living is out of control everywhere. Here's a menu from a Swiss cafe

Really odd how we don’t commemorate this global event in some form

Does anyone have any summer reading recommendations (except sci-fi)? I’m not sure I want to check AI generated book lists

We should have a memorial day for COVID. It is horrific that we as a society have done virtually nothing to remember the millions who have died. Rushing to forget what happened also makes it much more likely that we will continue to repeat our deadly mistakes.

It’s happening this Thursday! Absolutely Interdisciplinary is almost here—and there are just a few seats left. Join an incredible group of thinkers reimagining the future of AI, technology, and society. 🎟️ You can still register: absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com #AbsolutelyInterdisciplinary #AI

I see this all over Reddit now with people saying they talk to chatGPT a lot for many things especially emotional topics. Clearly it has its uses but I wonder about the long term consequences

geez

Anyone who wants to follow the pleadings in the new Harvard/international student case should bookmark this page, and any lawyer who isn't yet signed up for RECAP to jailbreak their PACER downloads really needs to get on that already.

In this week's editorial, ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social) grapples with a question all of us are grappling with: What does the destruction of international norms mean for international lawyers? On ostriches, owls, and octopuses. verfassungsblog.de/in-the-grave...

Our Japan vacation with a preschooler has just been a train ride after train ride and he’s loving it!

Less well known was Leo XIII addressing the US Catholic Church in 1899 through Testem Benevolentiae where he was concerned about liberalism and pluralism I wonder if Leo XIV had a bit of this in mind when he chose the name and wanted to call out something about our times

Under the proposed Israeli plan, per PM Netanyahu, "Population will be moved, for its own protection." This is a clear violation of international criminal law. Particularly concerning is the idea to move a majority of the population to "an area sterile of Hamas" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Lots of storylines in this election including the 28-3 Patriots-Falcons-esque comeback victory of the Liberals, thanks to Trump. But for now this is ok.

Happy Friday!! The April issue of AJIL has been published online and featuring a stellar line up of authors. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Absolutely Interdisciplinary Panel Announcement: Navigating autonomy and accountability in AI agents Megan Ma, Atrisha Sarkar and moderator @theannasu.bsky.social will examine the ethical, legal & policy challenges of governing AI agents. Register: absolutelyinterdisciplinary.com

A moral giant in a time of darkness. He spoke against our throwaway culture, emphasized humility and compassion and showed us what prayer in action could look like. He was a shepherd to the Church in these tumultuous times. Thank you Pope Francis.

Христос Воскресе! Growing up in Bulgaria, Easter meant eating lots of boiled eggs and козунак (sweet eggy Easter bread). Sticking to that in Canada too.

when a MF cuts down all the laws to get to the devil

present me swearing at past me for leaving the footnotes blank

Bring back *everyone* who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. *No one* should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

Nobody warned me about the common people episode of black mirror