Breaking: All International law and constitutional law classes will no longer have final exams. You will be graded on reflection papers, as there's just no way to put together an exam rubric at this time. #Satire

Hundreds of Oklahoma University students protested on Friday, demanding the reinstatement of a graduate instructor who was placed on administrative leave after a student alleged religious discrimination for a zero that she got on a (shitty) paper.

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

An historic first for Australia!

One thought that few seem to care to utter is that you can't have viewpoint diversity to any great degree if you keep hiring people from the same four schools, all having the same professors. You get the view of one segment of a class hierarchy. reason.com/volokh/2025/...

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

My thread* on authoritarianism in the legal academy, and its origins. *These thoughts are my own and do not reflect the views of my current employer, who has already begun to accept precompliance.

Glad to see this up on what seems like a fully functional ABlawg site. This post shd be of wide interest since it deals with how an Australian coal mining company was able to manipulate AER decision-making to shield the company’s expansion project from public review. #abpoli #cdnpoli #ableg

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

Who is keeping a list of Universities that have fired faculty? You know, to assure people know what they are getting into if they go there.

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

A pogrom on professors because a dude who was a one semester engineering dropout killed someone because he chose to

“50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations." "for every person [killed] on October 7, 50 Palestinians need to die." "It does not matter now if they are children." "They need a Nakba from time to time to feel the price."

Come celebrate with us 🎉 www.uvic.ca/law/50years/...

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 64 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Amnesty's Annual Report out today: "At this historical juncture, when authoritarian laws & practices are multiplying the world over in the interests of very few, governments & civil society must work with urgency to lead humanity back to safer ground."

It’s election day in Canada and universities and colleges need your help. Across the country, colleges and universities are facing drastic program cuts, layoffs and campus closures. Don’t forget to vote today – tell the federal government they need to act NOW to save PSE.

"Three US citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by ICE Friday morning. One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

“A federal judge in Louisiana expressed concern on Friday that the Trump administration had deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras “with no meaningful process” and against the wishes of her father” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

As the president of the Canadian Law and Society Association and co-chair of the Nominations Committee, I am pleased to announce that we are seeking new board members! The deadline for applications is May 15th. Please let me know if you have any questions.

“We are on the front line of environmental harm caused by government decisions made without us.” Xatśūll First Nation challenges B.C.’s decision to approve the dam raising at Mount Polley mine, which had a catastrophic dam failure in 2014. New by @sevawood.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/xatsull-firs...

Read the Green Party's responses to the questionnaire the CBA sent to the parties for the 2025 federal election: https://bit.ly/42p8QOl

Why are we hearing so little about PP & CPC's plan to follow Trump's lead & cut funds to universities & organizations that promote or tolerate antisemitism (which, as we know, extends to criticism of Israel's human rights record, such as genocide in Gaza)?

Post: Dogs are good Reply 1: Dogs have killed people Reply 2: What do you do for dogs? When was the last time you saved one? Reply 3: What is this cat erasure Reply 4: People are starving! Reply 5: this is tone-deaf at best Reply 6: unfollowed Reply 7: [quote] this dude is a law prof? Lol

Fun to read this dissent, which claims the main issue is that the Court moved too quickly, with the full knowledge that without the order, the planes would have left and the dissenters would then argue there was nothing they could do because the petitioners were no longer under their jurisdiction

“Harsono is Muslim and frequently posts on social media in support of humanitarian relief for Gaza. He also runs a small non-profit, which sells art and merchandise, with proceeds going to organizations aiding Gaza.”

Our disagreement with fascists over human rights is not about the contours of the rights, but who do we consider human to begin with

And if you missed the Walrus article about Allard: bsky.app/profile/irin...

The refusal to address these issues is really troubling. It looks like no one at UBC has any interest in figuring out a path forward for the community! And if this is the response to documented admin missteps, imagine what the students think abt their options in similar circumstances!

Last November, journalist and lawyer @juliesobowale.bsky.social investigated allegations of discrimination made by racialized professors at the University of British Columbia’s Allard Law School. Five months later, faculty—and students—continue to speak out: thewalrus.ca/ubc-law-school-f...

“History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.”

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Judicial cronies gonna crony

NEW: By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS Judge Boasberg's restraining order against the deportation of migrants under the Alien Enemies Act. The majority holds that migrants must file habeas petitions where they're confined. Liberals + BARRETT dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Breaking: Texas Legislature relieved that U of Houston basketball isn't an academic program. "We were afraid we had legislation in there to kill it for a second. Not tenure, or a program budget, or a dictate on what to do in the classroom. Whew. All clear." said one state Senator. #Satire

“Mr. Trump, who was playing golf in Florida on Saturday, appeared to be largely ignoring the protests. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

A peak into what happens in the secret rooms of airport basements and privately-owned detention centers as ICE and DHS make their numbers and private incarcerators make their profits.

The Encampments is an extremely powerful film. The scenes with Mahmoud Khalil are especially moving. At one point, a reporter asks him what he would do if he was deported. He said he would keep living, and keep fighting for justice and peace.

Israel's Defense Minister: "Expanding the operation this morning will increase the pressure on the Hamas murderers *and also on the population in Gaza*" Intentionally harming civilians as a means of political pressure ("terrorism") implicates several international crimes. 🧵

We're nearing the point where some US universities will outright ban speech about "Gaza," "Palestine," "Palestinians", "ethnic cleansing", "genocide" etc. They will make outrageously false claims about anti-semitism & anti-governmental animus as justification. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The White House spent $100,000 per migrant to detain them for *checks article* ONE MONTH

Yeah… I’m calling it. US hegemony will never recover from Trump. He’s got Japan and Korea taking pictures with China in 2 months

Look: NYU has some great scholars but it got to where it is by being patient zero of the hedge fund model of American universities. My sense is that, like many other "top" institutions, it is highly leveraged and thus highly sensitive to even threats to its funding.

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

#Fascism is like a disease of the mind that eats up whatever ability for empathy and compassion you might have had. This gives the dark side of your psyche freedom to destroy everyone you think is threatening your narrow ideas about «safe normalcy».