Haley S. Anderson
@hsanderson.bsky.social
Academic Fellow @ Columbia Law School.
PhD Candidate @ Berkeley JSP.
Postgraduate Fellow @justsecurity.bsky.social.
Working on sovereignty, civil procedure, and international law.
PhD Candidate @ Berkeley JSP.
Postgraduate Fellow @justsecurity.bsky.social.
Working on sovereignty, civil procedure, and international law.
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The Trumpists will continue to escalate. But in Minneapolis, we can see the limits of MAGA’s assault.
Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.
My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):
Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.
My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):
US-Regierung: Wie der Widerstand gegen Maga eine Chance hat
Der Minneapolis-Moment offenbart die Schwächen der Trumpisten. Und er zeigt, wo der Widerstand gegen den US-Präsidenten in Zukunft erfolgreich ansetzen kann.
www.zeit.de
January 31, 2026 at 2:32 PM
The Trumpists will continue to escalate. But in Minneapolis, we can see the limits of MAGA’s assault.
Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.
My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):
Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.
My new piece for @zeit.de - and some thoughts, since it is in German (gift link):
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This is an extraordinary piece, and you should read it. Particularly if you are a law-talking person.
For today's bonus issue of "One First," I wanted to follow up on a post from last August that looked at legal pedagogy and the dual state by reflecting on the relationship between legal *scholarship* and governmental lawlessness—with a particular focus on how I think about my own work:
Bonus 206: Legal Scholarship and the Dual State
A few thoughts on the responsibilities of legal academics in a time of increasing governmental lawlessness.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:52 AM
This is an extraordinary piece, and you should read it. Particularly if you are a law-talking person.
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A South Korean court has ruled that the 2024 imposition of martial law by then-President Yoon Suk Yeol constituted an act of rebellion as it sentenced his prime minister to 23 years in prison for his involvement.
Top ally of South Korea's Yoon given 23 years in prison for rebellion over martial law crisis
A South Korean court has ruled the 2024 imposition of martial law by then President Yoon Suk Yeol constituted an act of rebellion as it sentenced his prime minister to 23 years in prison for his involvement.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 8:24 AM
A South Korean court has ruled that the 2024 imposition of martial law by then-President Yoon Suk Yeol constituted an act of rebellion as it sentenced his prime minister to 23 years in prison for his involvement.
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She was alive still when ICE denied a doctor on the scene to assist.
January 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM
She was alive still when ICE denied a doctor on the scene to assist.
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Many friends asking what it is like in Minnesota right now. This video-clip tells. Masked men w/ guns in ordinary places (gas stations, grocery stores, cruising streets) intimidating ordinary people & instilling fear. As a terrorism expert, I think about the logic of government instilling fear.
January 16, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Many friends asking what it is like in Minnesota right now. This video-clip tells. Masked men w/ guns in ordinary places (gas stations, grocery stores, cruising streets) intimidating ordinary people & instilling fear. As a terrorism expert, I think about the logic of government instilling fear.
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May ICE suffer the bitter winter of their own bespoke Operation Barbarassa
We've lead charmed weather lives so far in January.
Temperatures are +5F to +10F across MN so far this month. 🌡️
We're about to be reminded what persistent cold and occasional snow feels like. ❄️
MSP could bottom out -10 to -20 next Tue.
#mnwx
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Temperatures are +5F to +10F across MN so far this month. 🌡️
We're about to be reminded what persistent cold and occasional snow feels like. ❄️
MSP could bottom out -10 to -20 next Tue.
#mnwx
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Arctic cold and snow return to Minnesota
A pattern change brings much colder temperatures with occasional snow Thursday into the upcoming weekend.
www.mprnews.org
January 13, 2026 at 11:40 PM
May ICE suffer the bitter winter of their own bespoke Operation Barbarassa
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In multiple contexts, I have referred to this administration's policies as a turducken of illegality.
January 13, 2026 at 12:16 AM
In multiple contexts, I have referred to this administration's policies as a turducken of illegality.
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The Gambia rightly argues, as the IIFFMM also observed, that discriminatory denial of citizenship can be a part of the evidence of pattern in which one could infer genocidal intent.
I've been working on a bigger project on statelessness and genocide so I am watching this issue closely.
I've been working on a bigger project on statelessness and genocide so I am watching this issue closely.
Caught up on a bit of Gambia v. Myanmar. I was most interested in Tafi Pasipanodya's intervention outlining Myanmar's discriminatory laws, including mass denationalization of the Rohingya.
I wrote about this and what it reveals about int'l law & human rights here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I wrote about this and what it reveals about int'l law & human rights here:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
January 12, 2026 at 10:52 PM
The Gambia rightly argues, as the IIFFMM also observed, that discriminatory denial of citizenship can be a part of the evidence of pattern in which one could infer genocidal intent.
I've been working on a bigger project on statelessness and genocide so I am watching this issue closely.
I've been working on a bigger project on statelessness and genocide so I am watching this issue closely.
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Fun fact:
The USG considers perfidy in a non-international armed conflict (which the boat bombing scheme supposedly is) to be a war crime.
Notable if the administration is committing criminal violations of its own (bogus) legal framework for the boat strikes.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
The USG considers perfidy in a non-international armed conflict (which the boat bombing scheme supposedly is) to be a war crime.
Notable if the administration is committing criminal violations of its own (bogus) legal framework for the boat strikes.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Fun fact:
The USG considers perfidy in a non-international armed conflict (which the boat bombing scheme supposedly is) to be a war crime.
Notable if the administration is committing criminal violations of its own (bogus) legal framework for the boat strikes.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
The USG considers perfidy in a non-international armed conflict (which the boat bombing scheme supposedly is) to be a war crime.
Notable if the administration is committing criminal violations of its own (bogus) legal framework for the boat strikes.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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I step away for three hours and we’re doing perfidy now?
Six-byline alert: 🚨
“.. laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
“.. laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them. That is a war crime called ‘perfidy.’”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...
January 13, 2026 at 2:04 AM
I step away for three hours and we’re doing perfidy now?
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More courage among those children than an awful lot of adults with an awful lot of supposed clout
Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school.
📸: Jerry Holt
📸: Jerry Holt
January 13, 2026 at 2:32 AM
More courage among those children than an awful lot of adults with an awful lot of supposed clout
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Just got word that now at least 3000 people have been killed in the crackdown on the ongoing pro-democracy protests in #Iran. Internet is still down in the country. #humanRights
January 12, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Just got word that now at least 3000 people have been killed in the crackdown on the ongoing pro-democracy protests in #Iran. Internet is still down in the country. #humanRights
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I admire these efforts to increase ICE officer accountability. But ending qualified immunity wont address a much bigger problem-there is essentially no right to sue federal officers for violating the Constitution. First codify Bivens. Then end QI.
"Swalwell, Goldman to offer bill stripping ICE agents of qualified immunity"
@thehill.com picks up our pod interview with Reps Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman:
thehill.com/homenews/hou...
@thehill.com picks up our pod interview with Reps Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman:
thehill.com/homenews/hou...
January 12, 2026 at 5:55 AM
I admire these efforts to increase ICE officer accountability. But ending qualified immunity wont address a much bigger problem-there is essentially no right to sue federal officers for violating the Constitution. First codify Bivens. Then end QI.
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You can say Merry Protein again
January 12, 2026 at 7:57 AM
You can say Merry Protein again
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The DAX did fine until Stalingrad.
January 12, 2026 at 8:52 AM
The DAX did fine until Stalingrad.
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The ICJ begins oral hearings in The Gambia v Myanmar on 12 January.
MICHAEL A. BECKER looks ahead to what is at stake as the Court hears arguments on genocidal intent, fact-finding, and remedies in its first genocide case brought by a non-injured state.
verfassungsblog.de/the-rohingya...
MICHAEL A. BECKER looks ahead to what is at stake as the Court hears arguments on genocidal intent, fact-finding, and remedies in its first genocide case brought by a non-injured state.
verfassungsblog.de/the-rohingya...
January 10, 2026 at 12:39 PM
The ICJ begins oral hearings in The Gambia v Myanmar on 12 January.
MICHAEL A. BECKER looks ahead to what is at stake as the Court hears arguments on genocidal intent, fact-finding, and remedies in its first genocide case brought by a non-injured state.
verfassungsblog.de/the-rohingya...
MICHAEL A. BECKER looks ahead to what is at stake as the Court hears arguments on genocidal intent, fact-finding, and remedies in its first genocide case brought by a non-injured state.
verfassungsblog.de/the-rohingya...
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Historian here 2026 and we are back there.
January 7, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Historian here 2026 and we are back there.
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Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
January 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
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Melissa is an incredible conference host, and it’s been so lovely to hang out with so many kind, brilliant friends - if you’re a junior international law scholar, I truly can’t recommend JILSA highly enough.
Hosting JILSA in Hawai‘I continues to exceed all expectations. Most beloved scholarly community.
January 7, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Melissa is an incredible conference host, and it’s been so lovely to hang out with so many kind, brilliant friends - if you’re a junior international law scholar, I truly can’t recommend JILSA highly enough.
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One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen.
- No reference to UN Charter legal justification
- Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned)
- Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal
- Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989
- No reference to UN Charter legal justification
- Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned)
- Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal
- Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989
January 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen.
- No reference to UN Charter legal justification
- Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned)
- Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal
- Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989
- No reference to UN Charter legal justification
- Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned)
- Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal
- Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989
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4) As @fishkin.bsky.social has been intimating, this is all very difficult to square with Trump v. US. Why would an ex-US President enjoy broader immunity in US courts than a sitting foreign head of state? And why would courts defer to the current President on the latter but not the former?
January 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM
4) As @fishkin.bsky.social has been intimating, this is all very difficult to square with Trump v. US. Why would an ex-US President enjoy broader immunity in US courts than a sitting foreign head of state? And why would courts defer to the current President on the latter but not the former?
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I am jumping out of int'l law retirement to offer some thoughts on Maduro's immunity under int'l and US law. 1) There is little doubt that trying Maduro is a breach of customary international law. As Venezuela's head of state, he enjoys absolute immunity (one can be a HoS de jure or de facto)
January 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM
I am jumping out of int'l law retirement to offer some thoughts on Maduro's immunity under int'l and US law. 1) There is little doubt that trying Maduro is a breach of customary international law. As Venezuela's head of state, he enjoys absolute immunity (one can be a HoS de jure or de facto)
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I joined two great legal experts, @mikeschmitt.bsky.social @tessbridgeman.bsky.social, on this analysis
In this thread, I highlight 3 items you may not see covered in same way, if at all, elsewhere.
Panama 'precedent,' safeguards for Heads of State, Venezuelan nationals new legal protections in US
In this thread, I highlight 3 items you may not see covered in same way, if at all, elsewhere.
Panama 'precedent,' safeguards for Heads of State, Venezuelan nationals new legal protections in US
International Law and the U.S. Military and Law Enforcement Operations in Venezuela
Experts survey the international law issues of Operation Absolute Resolve.
www.justsecurity.org
January 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I joined two great legal experts, @mikeschmitt.bsky.social @tessbridgeman.bsky.social, on this analysis
In this thread, I highlight 3 items you may not see covered in same way, if at all, elsewhere.
Panama 'precedent,' safeguards for Heads of State, Venezuelan nationals new legal protections in US
In this thread, I highlight 3 items you may not see covered in same way, if at all, elsewhere.
Panama 'precedent,' safeguards for Heads of State, Venezuelan nationals new legal protections in US
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