Kudos to @martylederman.bsky.social , who’s most responsible for this good result.

Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...

This is an immensely important step in removing a statutory authorization that had long outlived its original intended purpose, and was primed to be used in unexpected and potentially problematic ways. Great to see bipartisan leadership from Sens. Kaine and Young yield results like this.

The idea is to offer some additional short readings to prompt class discussion – especially in relation to recent or current events that may not yet be in casebooks. Jus Ad Bellum supplement: www.justsecurity.org/127518/jus-a... IHL supplement: www.justsecurity.org/127521/inter...

With immense thanks to the corpus of stellar @justsecurity.org analysis on international humanitarian law, I hope those preparing for Spring semester courses can benefit from this curated supplement. Please share with anyone who could use!

Recalling this for no reason in particular: www.facebook.com/FirstWeFeast...

Updated timeline with 3 more strikes, killing 8 more people 👇 Reminder: all of the strikes are extrajudicial killings that #Trump ordered and the military is carrying out. They aren't war crimes (we're not at war), they are murder and crimes against humanity. www.justsecurity.org/124002/timel...

Fantastic news for the COI

“Then there is the question of how this affects the children.…Women can be impossible to find again, along with their updated medical histories, records and any genetic half-siblings. A whole generation has been born of this international assemblage.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/m...

The Pentagon press corps were the shining light in this bleak reporting period for walking out en masse instead of signing the "pledge." But on press freedom in the U.S., deported journalist Mario Guevara is right: "It's damaged" @penamerica.bsky.social

“Both @milleridriss.bsky.social & @maryannefranks.bsky.social are feminist scholars with impeccable academic credentials, who have mastered the tough art of making scholarship accessible to a mainstream audience. Both also use their knowledge to advance real-world change”🧪 @bechamilton.bsky.social

For must-read Sunday, a tour de force @justsecurity.org - one stop, legally rigorous & also accessible explanation of the legal landscape: www.justsecurity.org/126553/opera...

This is the big story: 1) The President ordered a killing campaign outside of the law. 2) He got OLC to make up a fake war to justify killing real people. 3) And he got the military to carry out the killings. Purporting to justify those killings is aiding in covering up that plain reality 👇 2/2

First sanction issued by the EU under the DSA came out this afternoon: Against X for $140B) see www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

To be clear - I have no quibble with the basic legal analysis here - just the application to the facts in Sudan

Sorry, but anyone claiming that the RSF is a “new actor” does not know enough about Sudan to be opining on it. www.ejiltalk.org/legal-limits...

If you read one thing today, make it this: Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o... (It also reinforces by strong belief that we need novelists, artists, playwrights - as much as we need lawyers in this moment)

Shout this from the rooftops. Stop talking about laws of war. This is straight up murder. Period.

SPA's @milleridriss.bsky.social ends her essay in the Sydney Herald with prescient words: “We can either engage in these conversations with the young men in our lives, or we can let the internet do it for us. There are plenty of influencers and profiteers waiting in the wings.” Read: bit.ly/4pNFG4n

I hear from so many of you that you rely on our Early Edition to get you oriented for the day. Please help us keep this, and so much else @justsecurity.org going for #givingTuesday justsecurity.org/donate/

An awful addition to the list for those of us tracking this Administration’s attacks on #pressfreedom www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/

This is not a plan for peace. It is a plan for Russian victory and Ukrainian capitulation, argues Christian Caryl.

Please join me in calling on Harvard to revoke Summers' tenure: "It’s time Harvard fight for justice and protection for survivors and students, not predators and their accomplices" docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you care about a #freepress make sure you are following @jameeljaffer.bsky.social this morning as the AP case is argued in the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=svW7... [Sign up for all things knightcolumbia.org while you're at it]

The Epstein/Summers emails made last week especially tough week for some of us - a reminder that serial offenders only survive within an enabling culture. @rlswrites.bsky.social gets it. Plse read & share her powerful piece @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

“Mr. Epstein reaped the benefits of smarts by association in hanging around them, of the reputation cleanse of affiliation with Harvard professors and a former Treasury secretary, and of getting to cosplay as statesman” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Great resource: www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

I'm grateful for this, at least. It remains insane that this was not the absolute first step in this unravelling: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Excellent call by @ichotiner.bsky.social to interview Kholood Khair for this NewYorker piece on #Sudan. Kholood has the perspective & expertise that the public needs to hear in this moment. Please read: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Thank you

Meanwhile, continuing to teach Harvard students is still fine?? thehill.com/business/561...

Sorry- correction - prior report was actually released 2020 after 2019 outcry

Note - excerpt from prior post was in the 2019 report Harvard commissioned on its relationship to Epstein. Now, in the face of a new public outcry, we get another response that they will investigate: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi. But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile. Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open. Cretin behavior.

More specifically Summers is still, as of Tuesday night, the Frank and Denie Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Charles W. Eliot University Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Refresher on Summers' presidency: "The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics was established in 2003 by Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers following an imaginative proposal by Jeffrey Epstein and Benedict Gross." www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

Yes. All this. But you know who WashPo should have been publishing on this vile day in the White House? Luckily we can read @karenattiah.bsky.social, Khashoggi's editor & tireless champion in both life & death - over at The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... & here karenattiah.substack.com

"things happen"

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Thank you - for the smallest of gestures.

For anyone who dealt with sexual assault or harrasment at Harvard, this is one brutal news cycle.

Spare me. “Stepping back from public commitments” while continuing teaching as a professor at Harvard. Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Emails With Epstein www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

The parlance in Econ that implies that gendered “preferences” that contribute to wage/major gaps come fully formed and not shaped by society is one of the things that motivated me to start this project www.nber.org/papers/w34456

🚨 Groundbreaking element of yesterday’s ruling in the case our coalition of Dutch and Palestinian organisations brought against the Dutch State: the court recognised the serious risk that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and violating international humanitarian law: www.somo.nl/dutch-court-...

It's not too late to register! Join @rlswrites.bsky.social @jessicalwaters.bsky.social & me @americanuniversity tonight for what promises to be an illuminating conversation, traversing criminal law, judicial ethics & reproductive rights, with NYT Magazine staff writer Emily Bazelon. Details below:

On Veteran’s Day, this powerful op ed by @marknevitt.bsky.social “Wars don’t end when the last soldier comes home. They echo forward through time, written in our bodies, our soil, our water.” www.ajc.com/opinion/2025...

Settling in for an extended airport stay. I am thanking each TSA worker I meet for showing up. The last guy I spoke to said he’d saved 2 months worth of wages in anticipation of this - but he’s out of luck if they go to a 3rd month.