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Matthew Erie
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Assoc. Prof. of Law, American U. Washington College of Law; Assoc. Member, Oxford Law; lawyer & anthropologist; writes on non-liberal law, international development, transnational business, property, justice; https://www.matthewserie.com/ Views are my own. .. more

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · Mar 3
I'm happy to announce that we've just published a Casebook on Chinese Outbound Investment: Law, Policy, and Business (CUP 2025).

Given the US's retreat from overseas development, the future of international development looks very Chinese. We need to understand what this means.

lnkd.in/e2KSFgVR.

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · 4d
Sorry to hear this, @lauratmurphy.bsky.social. Let me know if you come to DC. Would be great to have you speak to my class.

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · 6d
Hope.

Reposted by Laurence H. Tribe, John Palfrey, Matthew S. Erie

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12d
#BREAKING: In the Illinois National Guard case, #SCOTUS is asking for additional briefing on one of the key substantive questions (and one flagged by my Georgetown colleague @martylederman.bsky.social in an amicus brief):

Among other things, this means no ruling until *at least* the week of 11/17.

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · 14d
A hundred times over.
juliusgoat.bsky.social A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14d
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14d
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · 20d
Inspiring to attend the 2025 #ASCL meeting @ McGill University to discuss law & democracy, decolonization of comparative law, and emerging international orders. A pleasure to organize the panel "ASCL Studies in Comparative Law New Book Panel: Asia, the Global South, and the New Comparative Law."

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · 22d
China mimics US foreign direct products rule:

apnews.com/article/chin...

China is indeed learning from US “extraterritoriality.” The US is creating its own Frankenstein.

For a deeper dive on what I call “Adversarial Comparativism”, see papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
To hit back at the United States in their trade war, China borrows from the US playbook
China has expanded its export rules on rare earths, requiring foreign firms to get approval for exporting products containing even small amounts of China-originated materials.
apnews.com

Reposted by Matthew S. Erie

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Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social · Oct 7
A must read. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
A Compact for Control (opinion)
No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.
www.insidehighered.com

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · Oct 4
Go Big Green!

(BA ‘99)
jeffsharlet.bsky.social Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Oct 4
It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.
Office of the President Dear Dartmouth community, As many of you know, Dartmouth was one of nine universities asked by the White House to give feedback by Oct. 20 on a draft of its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” I am deeply committed to Dartmouth’s academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence. You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves. Best, Sian Leah Beilock President

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Oct 4
It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.
Office of the President Dear Dartmouth community, As many of you know, Dartmouth was one of nine universities asked by the White House to give feedback by Oct. 20 on a draft of its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” I am deeply committed to Dartmouth’s academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence. You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves. Best, Sian Leah Beilock President

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · Sep 29
Proud to be Captain of the National Postal Museum. Shout out to the volunteers I’m working with. Citizens are heroes, too.

#savetheSmithsonian

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Citizen historians document Smithsonian exhibits under White House scrutiny
The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education and research complex. It's a public-private trust that has long operated at arm's length from the White House, but now finds itself...
www.pbs.org

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · Sep 26
After 7 yrs of work, the special issue "China in Compliance" is out with @reggovjournal.bsky.social. The focus is to unpack how #compliance works in globalizing China. #Cambodia #Kyrgyzstan #Tajikistan #Fiji #Vanuatu #Singapore #Taiwan #Ethiopia #Hungary

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Reposted by Matthew S. Erie

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Association for Political and Legal Anthropology / PoLAR journal @polar-journal.bsky.social · Sep 18
PoLAR is hiring a new managing editor. The full details are available here: shorturl.at/uqEn5
Hiring Announcement: PoLAR Managing Editor
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, the journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA), is hiring a Managing Editor. PoLAR is in an exciting transformational sta…
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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · Sep 13
These figures rebut the “whataboutism” line of the administration.
pbump.com Philip Bump @pbump.com · Sep 13
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · Sep 13
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · Sep 10
My amazing colleague Bec Hamilton is swimming 20km to raise money for Charlie's Place, a drop-in shelter for homeless in #WashingtonDC whose numbers and hardships are increasing of late. Please consider giving here: www.gofundme.com/f/swim-for-c...

Thank you.
Donate to Marathon swim for people experiencing homelessness in D.C., organized by Rebecca Hamilton
People experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C. are havi… Rebecca Hamilton needs your support for Marathon swim for people experiencing homelessness in D.C.
www.gofundme.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 9
"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · Sep 7
The incremental normalization of life under authoritarianism is one of its defining features.

Authoritarianism is often not a rupture but, rather, a slow tear.

*Every* day we must be vigilant to this fact.
echamp.bsky.social Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · Sep 6
This. 👇👇👇

JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · Sep 7
Introverts, unite!

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · Sep 6
Yes!
victinibcn.bsky.social Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · Sep 6
Washington DC - the bells of this church are ringing in support of the protest! 😁

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · Sep 6
Inspiring and on such a hot and humid day!
imlunahey.com luna @imlunahey.com · Sep 6
anyone else seeing the massive protests in DC?

Reposted by Matthew S. Erie

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luna @imlunahey.com · Sep 6
anyone else seeing the massive protests in DC?

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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · Sep 6
This. 👇👇👇

JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

Reposted by Susan Strasser, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Matthew S. Erie , and 1 more

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · Sep 6
Washington DC - the bells of this church are ringing in support of the protest! 😁

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Sep 6
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · Sep 6
#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · Sep 6
“The follow-up message is that for those of us who are not Supreme Court justices or Republican legislators should resist every day in every way we can. Put sand in the gears, make it slower, make everybody else know that we are not alone, and that there are more of us than there are of them.”

Reposted by Matthew S. Erie

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Sep 6
@garrettepps.bsky.social has been a friend and colleague for decades.

An enjoyable (for me) podcast with him this week, for @washingtonmonthly.com , about life in DC these days. Audio and transcript here:

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/04/f...
Fear and Loathing in Washington D.C.
Contributing Editor James Fallows shares what life is really like in Washington D.C. under military occupation.
washingtonmonthly.com

Reposted by Anna Gelpern

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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · Sep 4
A new study by Kiel Institute on How China Collateralizes show how rather than infrastructure as collateral, it's cash collateral in escrow reserves paid by debtor's commodity exports which underpin such agreements. Governance implications.

www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Da...

@agelpern.bsky.social

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · Sep 3
The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers