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Tom Ginsburg
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Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Director of the Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity and the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression at the University of Chicago. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is primarily known as a scholar of international and comparative law, with a focus on constitutions and a regional specialty of East Asia. .. more

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Tom Ginsburg @tomginsburg.bsky.social · 5d
Excellent panel discussion in Delhi @UChicago . Among many other issues we talked about the idea of indigenizing constitutional jurisprudence www.barandbench.com/news/law-pol...
Swadeshi jurisprudence invites global ideas but rejects slavish adherence: Justice KV Viswanathan
Supreme Court Justice KV Viswanathan on Friday said that Swadeshi jurisprudence reflects the confidence of Indian constitutionalism to engage with global legal
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Tom Ginsburg @tomginsburg.bsky.social · 12d
We Should Teach Our Students How to Think, Not What to Believe www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/o...
Opinion | We Should Teach Our Students How to Think, Not What to Believe
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 12d
"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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thechicagoforum.bsky.social @thechicagoforum.bsky.social · 15d
Professor @tomginsburg.bsky.social, the Chicago Forum’s Faculty Director, was quoted in the Boston Globe on the March 2025 arrest of Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk — an incident he says has “profound” implications for free expression.

Read the full story here: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/11/m...
Tufts grad student Rümeysa Öztürk did nothing wrong. The Trump administration went after her anyway. - The Boston Globe
In March, masked agents swarmed her on a Somerville street. The crackdown on foreign scholars was just beginning.
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Tom Ginsburg @tomginsburg.bsky.social · 16d
Some days you hate the New York Times: quibbling over Maduro drug connections is trivial. Nobel Prize for Venezuelan Dissident Draws Criticism www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...
Nobel Prize for Venezuelan Dissident Draws Criticism
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Trump’s War on Universities

Under the new regime, every student becomes a possible enemy. This article is brought to you by American Purpose, the magazine and community founded by Francis Fukuyama in 2020, which is now proudly part of the Persuasion family.

Reposts 6 Oct 2

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