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Emily Kidd White
@emilykiddwhite.bsky.social
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I write about emotions in legal reasoning. Legal & political philosophy, constitutional law, public international law.

Law Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School.

SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1133656
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Must-read interview with the great @oonahathaway.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Featured in Revel No. 3: Langdon Hammer on Elizabeth Bishop
(co-published with @nybooks.com)
Order and subscribe: revel.short.gy/issues

#elizabethbishop #poetry #americanpoets #poetrycommunity #literature #revelliterary
July 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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As it turns out, I have some thoughts on the relationship between corruption and the Supreme Court ... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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During a fierce storm I could hear the panicked screams of children in tents outside. This is Christmas in Gaza
During a fierce storm I could hear the panicked screams of children in tents outside. This is Christmas in Gaza
This time of year is the true beginning of winter: the 40 coldest and harshest days of the season. One resident of Gaza City describes the reality for Palestinians living with little shelter and no electricity or heating
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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if you fancy listening to some (rather tipsy) doom and gloom chats about international law, look no further! Our end of year drinks with @djag2.bsky.social @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social @drnajimagi.bsky.social are now out soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...
61. End of year drinks: gangsterism as international law
In the penultimate episode of Season 2, host Douglas Guilfoyle brings together the full Called to the Bar team — Tamsin Paige, Ntina Tzouvala, Juliette McIntyre, and Imogen Saunders — for their end-of
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December 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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💯 Even now, we could just ban crypto. The ban wouldn’t be airtight, but it doesn’t need to be to stop most of the harm.
kellybarnhill.bsky.social Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 10d
Why is it that tech and AI boosters keep saying "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" when making arguments about AI's supposed inevitable dominance? Did they not read the story? The genie does, indeed, go back in the bottle. Maybe we should start there.
December 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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This woman has been in ice jail for 10 months for absolutely no reason. It also shows how an arrest at a protest caused massive consequences - essentially creating a flag on her at her next immigration check in- even though charges were dropped
December 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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ntinatzouvala.bsky.social
If you happen to be in Doha on the 8th of January, this is promising to be a terrific conversation with some of the most thoughtful and principled colleagues out there: www.hbku.edu.qa/en/academic-...
International Law | Hamad Bin Khalifa University
In the years following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the civil war in Sudan, there has been a critical examination of the international legal system and its inadequacies...
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December 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Today, Amna Akbar continues our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts,* reflecting on what her account of capitalism tells us about the state and law as terrains of struggle.
Facing the Limits
In Free Gifts, Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to value the natural world. Yet the lesson of this exploration is much broader: that capitalism imposes fundamental limits on…
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December 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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chowleen.bsky.social
What a time to decide to learn less about the world.

dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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quinnslobodian.com
I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
December 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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December 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I used to think that Stiegler's use of the term "proletarianization" to refer to the general deskilling of everyday knowledge in consumer society to be hyperbolic, but then I started reading about people who "ask AI" to do all sorts of everyday tasks.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/01/it-i...
It is All Subjective: Marx, Spinoza, and Subjectivity
www.unemployednegativity.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Two Lectureships in Law with us at @lawatleeds.bsky.social. Open call, 'An ability to contribute to teaching in one or more of the foundational LLB subjects is essential.'

Genuinely a lovely bunch of people to be around. In the present HE context, it matters!

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer in Law
**2 Posts**Are you an outstanding individual with the ambition to join a thriving law school and to contribute to the further development of the School and its research centres? Are you passionate abo...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing. While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too. On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.
December 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

and these are our closest allies!
Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany and South Korea could soon have to undergo a review of up to five years of their social media history, according to a proposal filed on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The change would affect visitors eligible for the visa waiver program, which allows people from 42 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa as long as they first obtain electronic travel authorization. In a document filed on Tuesday in the Federal Register, C.B.P. said it plans to ask applicants for a long list of personal data including social media, email addresses from the last decade, and the names, birth dates, places of residence and birthplaces of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Under the current system, applicants from visa waiver countries must enroll in the Electronic System for Travel Authorization program. They pay $40 and submit an email address, home address, phone number and emergency contact information. The authorization is good for two years.
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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aclu.org
BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech.

This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.
December 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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A new era for LPE — a more democratic one, not subject to university administrators and not reliant on funder money.

LPE lfg

lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...
LPE 2.0: A New Association to Meet the Times
As the Trump administration attempts to suppress critical inquiry and operate outside of conventional legal boundaries, the work of LPE scholars, organizers, and practitioners has never been more…
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December 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.

"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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"When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47 percent drop in neural connectivity... their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage. Eighty-three percent of heavy AI users couldn’t recall key points from what they’d “written"...
December 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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"When offered a poem, and time, and attention, and good faith, my students offered their own arguments back as if they had been waiting their whole lives for the chance; they reciprocated my trust many times over." www.bostonreview.net/articles/the... by @johannawinant.bsky.social
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
December 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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“veto power over tenure cases is increasingly being exercised by higher-level faculty committees or by administrators, rather than by the departmental colleagues of the junior professors who go up for review”

Wooooo boy
December 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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More of this
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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At the same time, USC is paying a presumably large sum of money to OpenAI to give students access to ChatGPT we-are.usc.edu/2025/12/03/a...
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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THE STATE OF CRITIQUE
Join us to celebrate the launch of the new Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (formerly Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context)

tinyurl.com/stateofcritique
December 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM