Raila: A Portrait of an African Democrat
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BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump unilaterally freeze billions in congressionally appropriated foreign aid money

apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social

The Bolsonaro Trial Has Far-Reaching Consequences for Democracy www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Judiciary chiefs in hybrid regimes: Kenya url:https://academic.oup.com/icon/article/doi/10.1093/icon/moaf016/8148806

Excited to be in Taipei this week for Academia Sinica’s 2025 Comparative Constitutional Law Roundtable, hosted by Professor Oran Doyle. Interesting papers on comparative method, judicial agenda setting and constitutional amendment, among others.

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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Jensen Huang: the man who powers AI

The entrepreneur’s microchip company Nvidia has fuelled a tech revolution, but his success is built on failure and suffering.

📕 @ianleslie.bsky.social on Jensen Huang and Nvidia

From @canyiva.bsky.social: ‘The Supreme Court of Kenya Advances Jurisprudence on Access to Effective Remedies for Victims of Business-Related Environmental Human Rights Violations’ gnhre.org?p=18275

Harold Koh, Fred Halbhuber & Inbar Pe’er for @justsecurity.org: “Even under the most tyrannical monarchs, the king never asserted unilateral authority to issue bills of attainder—a power the president now asserts for himself.”

In March, Sandra Harding died. With colleagues from (then) Women's Studies at Utrecht University, where Harding's work was pivotal in PhD training & where I had the pleasure to organize a PhD workshop, together with María Puig de Bellacasa, with Sandra, we wrote this piece. Honoring the pioneers.

“The Book of Expectations”: In today’s New Indian Express, an interview about The Indian Constitution: Conversations with Powers; focusing on how the constitutional design informs many present political issues.

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Is there an anti-coup principle in American constitutionalism? Should state prosecutors have the power to try presidential autocoup conspirators?

In my now finalized Wisconsin Law Review article, "Coups and Punishment in the Constitutional Order," I argue yes.

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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).