Pedro Gerson
@elpgerson.bsky.social
Chicago-Kent Prof | Criminal & Immigration Law | Sometimes Writing about Mexico | Fan de La Newyorkina & Fan-Fan Doughnuts
I hear you brother/sister!
January 22, 2026 at 6:01 PM
I hear you brother/sister!
Deeply honored (and mildly bewildered) to receive the Cabrini Mercy Prize for my paper on decriminalizing migrant smuggling. Grateful that there are people out there who're still open to engaging with these ideas.
You can find the paper and the other winners here:
cabriniprize.org/winners/
You can find the paper and the other winners here:
cabriniprize.org/winners/
WINNERS - The Mother Cabrini Mercy Prize
WINNERS 2025 WINNERS The Mother Cabrini Mercy Prize Foundation, in affiliation with Georgetown Law School and the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, was honored to announce the following winners of t...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Deeply honored (and mildly bewildered) to receive the Cabrini Mercy Prize for my paper on decriminalizing migrant smuggling. Grateful that there are people out there who're still open to engaging with these ideas.
You can find the paper and the other winners here:
cabriniprize.org/winners/
You can find the paper and the other winners here:
cabriniprize.org/winners/
writing a complicated exam problem
grading a complicated exam problem
grading a complicated exam problem
December 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
writing a complicated exam problem
grading a complicated exam problem
grading a complicated exam problem
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realizing that cameron winter's mom is the woman who wrote the brooklyn open-marriage memoir from a couple years ago, and mentally adjusting to the fact that basically any way you slice it i am a member of her cohort and not his
November 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
realizing that cameron winter's mom is the woman who wrote the brooklyn open-marriage memoir from a couple years ago, and mentally adjusting to the fact that basically any way you slice it i am a member of her cohort and not his
Maybe it's happening more now, but people have been accepting this for over a decade.
I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
June 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Maybe it's happening more now, but people have been accepting this for over a decade.
Don't know if this is too 3D chess for them but really feels like everything (Harvard news re int'l students, tariff threats, complaints re: Apple) is to distract from the "Big Beautiful Bill" that will enact historic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP benefits.
May 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Don't know if this is too 3D chess for them but really feels like everything (Harvard news re int'l students, tariff threats, complaints re: Apple) is to distract from the "Big Beautiful Bill" that will enact historic cuts to Medicaid and SNAP benefits.
Trump presidency is crazy bc it’s like “oh great the baby is asleep now I can finally get around to reading that 45 page opinion from the DC circuit.”
April 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Trump presidency is crazy bc it’s like “oh great the baby is asleep now I can finally get around to reading that 45 page opinion from the DC circuit.”
In light of todays announcements I think this debate is relatively settled
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April 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
In light of todays announcements I think this debate is relatively settled
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Deporting people to torture camps where they have no recourse to get out even with due process is wrong.
April 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Deporting people to torture camps where they have no recourse to get out even with due process is wrong.
Very happy that my new article "Decriminalizing Migrant Smuggling" will be coming out in the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal
Will be on SSRN soon, if you want to see it before now lmk.
Will be on SSRN soon, if you want to see it before now lmk.
February 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Very happy that my new article "Decriminalizing Migrant Smuggling" will be coming out in the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal
Will be on SSRN soon, if you want to see it before now lmk.
Will be on SSRN soon, if you want to see it before now lmk.
I know I'm late to the party but I finally read Ilan Wurman and Randy Barnett birthright citizenship article which by now has been I think pretty conclusively debunked but I'd like to add one thing which is not substantive but about the way in which they advance their political project... 1/n
February 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I know I'm late to the party but I finally read Ilan Wurman and Randy Barnett birthright citizenship article which by now has been I think pretty conclusively debunked but I'd like to add one thing which is not substantive but about the way in which they advance their political project... 1/n
IDK but writing a book review that misreads the book and where you basically admit you hate the writer because he get's more attention than you and so you just attack him without barely any substance is...not a good look.
December 21, 2024 at 7:58 PM
IDK but writing a book review that misreads the book and where you basically admit you hate the writer because he get's more attention than you and so you just attack him without barely any substance is...not a good look.
There will be at least 40 people at that trial who will try to win his heart by airdropping information about jury nullification to everyone's phones in the courtroom.
December 9, 2024 at 11:25 PM
There will be at least 40 people at that trial who will try to win his heart by airdropping information about jury nullification to everyone's phones in the courtroom.
“I am huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings” should enter the “all my apes gone” canon
December 5, 2024 at 9:16 PM
“I am huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings” should enter the “all my apes gone” canon
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Hey, it's my Favorite Albums of 2024! I did a Top 27 list, as is custom in the music criticism business, though I actually ended up writing about 57 albums. Really good music year, really good music list! uproxx.com/indie/steven...
December 5, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Hey, it's my Favorite Albums of 2024! I did a Top 27 list, as is custom in the music criticism business, though I actually ended up writing about 57 albums. Really good music year, really good music list! uproxx.com/indie/steven...
A friend just sent me his wrapped and he’s listened to 96000+ minutes which works out to on average like 5 hrs a day and idk how to tell him that sometimes you just gotta sit with your thoughts
December 5, 2024 at 4:59 AM
A friend just sent me his wrapped and he’s listened to 96000+ minutes which works out to on average like 5 hrs a day and idk how to tell him that sometimes you just gotta sit with your thoughts
Someone referred to latinamerican constitutions as wikiconstitutions b/c Congresses edit constitutions as if they were wikipedia entries, but Mexico prohibiting vapes in the constitution shows that actually it's easier to edit the Mexican constitution than a wikipedia article.
December 4, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Someone referred to latinamerican constitutions as wikiconstitutions b/c Congresses edit constitutions as if they were wikipedia entries, but Mexico prohibiting vapes in the constitution shows that actually it's easier to edit the Mexican constitution than a wikipedia article.
Im sure ppl online are going to be super normal about this.
December 3, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Im sure ppl online are going to be super normal about this.
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The 🇲🇽Sheinbaum Govt hates to boast about it (& the 🇺🇸Trump camp likes to glance away) but Mexico is already arresting RECORD numbers of US-bound migrants since last December when Biden closed 2 railway crossing bridges after a peak in 🇺🇸🇲🇽 border encounters
Graph by @adamisacson.com
Graph by @adamisacson.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:47 PM
The 🇲🇽Sheinbaum Govt hates to boast about it (& the 🇺🇸Trump camp likes to glance away) but Mexico is already arresting RECORD numbers of US-bound migrants since last December when Biden closed 2 railway crossing bridges after a peak in 🇺🇸🇲🇽 border encounters
Graph by @adamisacson.com
Graph by @adamisacson.com
The Mexican president, through the letter she wrote Trump and what she revealed of her conversation with him today has admitted what the Mexican government has not wanted to admit for years: that Mexico has indeed become the wall that Trump asked for (and Biden did too).
November 28, 2024 at 2:51 AM
The Mexican president, through the letter she wrote Trump and what she revealed of her conversation with him today has admitted what the Mexican government has not wanted to admit for years: that Mexico has indeed become the wall that Trump asked for (and Biden did too).
Very much in favor of ppl doing whatever they want but I think rebranding self published books as indie books is a bit much tbh.
November 27, 2024 at 4:40 AM
Very much in favor of ppl doing whatever they want but I think rebranding self published books as indie books is a bit much tbh.
Thanks to all the new followers, fair warning come May I’ll be posting mainly about hoops but I’ll try to stay on topic (Mexico, migration, crime) the rest of the time.
November 27, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Thanks to all the new followers, fair warning come May I’ll be posting mainly about hoops but I’ll try to stay on topic (Mexico, migration, crime) the rest of the time.
First post on BlueSky and it's a plug.
Wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about AMLO. I try to explain what Obradorismo actually is while critiquing his programmatic agenda, the opposition, and understanding AMLO's political success.
thenewinquiry.com/amlo-all-alo...
Wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about AMLO. I try to explain what Obradorismo actually is while critiquing his programmatic agenda, the opposition, and understanding AMLO's political success.
thenewinquiry.com/amlo-all-alo...
AMLO All Along
1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was preoccupied with appointing the people that would run the government. The problem was that Lenin did not know much about what running the gove…
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November 26, 2024 at 6:23 PM
First post on BlueSky and it's a plug.
Wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about AMLO. I try to explain what Obradorismo actually is while critiquing his programmatic agenda, the opposition, and understanding AMLO's political success.
thenewinquiry.com/amlo-all-alo...
Wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about AMLO. I try to explain what Obradorismo actually is while critiquing his programmatic agenda, the opposition, and understanding AMLO's political success.
thenewinquiry.com/amlo-all-alo...