🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:

Are you going to be at #AALS2026 this evening? My suggestion…skip the boring evening school sponsored parties at the hotel and go to the Joan of Arc parade, which marks the start of Carnival. It starts at 7:30 and is in walking distance of the conference hotel. joanofarcparade.org

I wrote a piece about two years ago that feels scarily relevant to today. Sometimes you just want to be wrong. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I fear we are going to have to say this a lot again: Int law prohibits bombing countries for the sake of democracy. FOR VERY GOOD REASON. It tends not to work. Attacking a country because its leader lacks legitimacy - whether as pretext or sincerely held rationale - is still just an aggression.

Thought my 40s would look much different than my 20s but here I am again at a Built to Spill show on a Thursday. 🫤

The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with an interdisciplinary team (me, @bstewart.bsky.social, and @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social). Link: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app... Please apply by THIS SUNDAY, Dec. 14!

Breaking my partial social-media hiatus w/3 new papers: Missing Children Discrimination (Wis. L. Rev 2025(4)) w/ Tanisha Brown— shorturl.at/5rl86 abstract 👇) Anti-Holistic Algorithms (forth. Vanderbilt L. Rev) (Re)Individualizing Criminal Law (forth. B.C. L. Rev) More soon on SSRN—comments welcome!

When academics talk about scholarly impact I don’t think they are thinking about messages like these, but more than anything else they are what keep me writing. Thank you so much, Cris, for this motivation to keep pushing!

By me: Israeli armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, new data reveals @pacificinstitute.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Published today—at the start of Transgender Awareness Week—in the American Journal of International Law, my new book review, "International Law as a Site for Queer Joy?" arrives at a moment that feels both personal and profound. Now up at @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I’m presenting my new paper at Sciences Po on Nov 26 - stop by if you are in Paris! And if you are not, invite me to present it at your institution so I can use my travel budget before teaching term starts 😆

Delighted to see JIEL 28(3) out in the world, which includes my article 'Dollar Dominance, De-Dollarisation, and International Law'. The rest of the issue is packed with sharp work (inc @jbentonheath.bsky.social, @dcpeat.bsky.social, @elenachachko.bsky.social). academic.oup.com/jiel/article...

Friends, I am ordering (academic) books today. Hit me up with your your favorite ones (it can be old classics and new books on the market) 🙏

Feeling inspired to take action this morning? Join us in calling our City Council members and demand .5% of the budget be committed to fund our libraries! Already called? Tell us how it went: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Signed #AAUP petition against government violation of First Amendment. #EducationNotIdeology You can too! actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Professor @rlopez.bsky.social's work "reinforces Temple's broader mission as a public research university - one that seeks to serve the common good through meaningful, real-world engagement." Read more in this Temple University profile. https://lnkd.in/ejpa4J34

Temple wrote up this really nice article about my work and new chaired professorship. Changing academic home can be challenging. It feels like starting over again which is why I am grateful to feel so seen and supported by my newish academic home. news.temple.edu/news/2025-10...

Reports of mass killings and targeted attacks against health facilities in El Fasher. @HRL_YaleSPH identifies apparent "pools of blood" visible from space. Western governments need to increase pressure on the conflict parties. files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/b9...

There's a longstanding debate over the value of law professor amicus briefs at #SCOTUS. I'll just note that the additional briefing the Court ordered today in the Illinois National Guard case was in direct response to an amicus brief filed by ... a law professor (@martylederman.bsky.social).

Yo! law.tulane.edu/news/profess...

I’m excited for this! “Groundbreaking” is overused to describe legal scholarship, but in @rlopez.bsky.social’s case, it is apt.

Job alert! We have a 5 year fixed term teaching-focussed position in our new Indo-Pacific Studies program. Can highly recommend UNSW Canberra as a place to work. IPS is an emerging field, so applications welcome from cognate disciplines. Details: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

Paper and panel proposals for the first *big* LPE conference are due TOMORROW!! Whether you are a law professor, lawyer, organizer, or academic in a different field, all proposals are welcome!! lawandpoliticaleconomy.org

Syllabus Sourcing: Hoping for a little help! I'm looking for readings that challenge whether rights are the "right" frame for protecting humanity and promoting equality. I'll assign Marx and maybe excerpts from "How Rights Went Wrong." But any other recs particularly for a human rights course?

Corporate and business law people: Come work with me! We're especially taking a look at laterals this year.

This will very much be worth your time. Here's a Sunday read, with experts: #Genocide #GenocideConvention #InternationalLaw www.lto.de/recht/hinter...

It's that time of the year again folks, get your nerd hat on

🚨🪶⚖️ @elisebmaizel.bsky.social and I just came out with a new essay on Trump's assault on Big Law. Available in the California Law Review Online here: www.californialawreview.org/online/trump... [1/5]

New paper! This essay takes a step toward developing what I call a "jurisprudence of weaponized interdependence.: Building on @himself.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social's groundbreaking work, I develop an account of the legal processes that facilitate the weaponization of networks. 1/x

Rare aerial imagery shows displacement and destruction in Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Devastating account of -the irredeemability of Western govs' responses to 🇮🇱's starvation of #Gaza -our collective moral failure -applicable legal obligations right NOW by the foremost experts on starvation Alex deWaal & @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...

"Israel is using thirst as a weapon to kill Palestinians. Cutting off water is a silent, lethal bomb that kills mostly children and babies": UN experts say Israel depriving Palestinians of safe drinking water violates international law and is a crime against humanity. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

✨ Our forum “Challenges and Opportunities for Transnational Advocacy” is out #openaccess in International Studies Review ✨ 👓: academic.oup.com/isr/article/... @ninahall.bsky.social

It brings me great joy to share a major milestone for Participatory Law Scholarship (PLS): 🔥 The NYU Review of Law & Social Change (RLSC) has committed to publishing a PLS article in every volume going forward, and appointing dedicated PLS editors to support that vision.

The ICJ is a legendarily conservative legal body. Drawing on @drnajimagi.bsky.social 's live mega-thread last night hear are a few of the jaw-dropping moments for me in the Climate Change Advisory Opinion. 1. Licensing of new fossil fuel projects may be wrongful & expose states to int'l litigation

“The order to “move a population” issued by Israel does not meet any of these conditions, making the operation a war crime” Eyal Benvenisti [one of Israel’s most renowned international law experts, member of Israel‘s legal team in the genocide case] and Chaim Gans [prof emeritus Tel Aviv university]

Columbia cancelled my course on race and media. But I’m teaching it to the people anyway. Next Monday, July 14th is the first lecture of Race, Media and International Affairs 101, my independent course for @resistanceschool.bsky.social! Sold out course! 500+ students enrolled. We move! ✊🏾

Pleased to announce that effective August 16, 2025, I have been awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law. Thank you to the many friends, family, mentors, and colleagues who have supported me along this path.

Legal writing question of the day: Occasionally students ask me where to look to see examples of great briefs beyond those I've already provided. One of my standard answers is to point them to DOJ briefs. That. . . no longer seems like good advice. So my question is, where would you send them now?

🎓 Call for Postdoctoral Candidates! Planning to apply for a SSHRC, FRQSC, or other postdoc fellowship? Passionate about migration, international law, and human rights? The Chair on Migrant Protection and International Law @uocommonlaw.bsky.social is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join its team!

This is not just super exciting for Temple, but also a wonderful resource for folks doing participatory law scholarship. Check out the Participatory Law Fund, spread the word, and consider applying!

Professor @rlopez.bsky.social has launched the Participatory Law Fund—supporting co-authorship between legal scholars and experiential experts with lived experience in the legal system. law.temple.edu/news/profess...

“But a focus on any singular catalogue of violence (whether mortality, injury, or infrastructure damage) without an amplification of other grievous and connected violations misses a broader point about the nature and form of total civilian harm in Gaza.” www.justsecurity.org/115407/cumul...

So happy that the PLF has found a home at Temple! Learn more about the work of past awardees on topics ranging from disability rights to refugee law at the link below. Applications for the next round of awards are due on June 30th. Please help us spread the word! law.temple.edu/news/profess...

I have felt for some time that this moment we find ourselves in was inevitable. It is not a failure of the post World War II order. It was baked into it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I’m thrilled to be joining the @templelaw.bsky.social faculty with these fabulous new colleagues!

So very excited to welcome these new colleagues to our faculty!!

SCOTUS's ruling in Skrmetti will push many legal fights about transgender rights to the states -- including whether state constitutions provide additional protections. Read about how state courts have addressed these questions to date. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...