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Hi folks,
I have made the interesting life decision to teach a seminar on US Legal Thought for the first time.
I welcome sample syllabi and reading recommendations.
I especially welcome tips on contemporary conservative thought (beyond originalism and law & econ).
Thanks!
I have made the interesting life decision to teach a seminar on US Legal Thought for the first time.
I welcome sample syllabi and reading recommendations.
I especially welcome tips on contemporary conservative thought (beyond originalism and law & econ).
Thanks!
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People may wish to refresh their memories as to how Saudi Arabia previously used U.S. origin warplanes in Yemen.
apnews.com/article/f35-...
apnews.com/article/f35-...
What to know about the F-35 fighter jet that Trump is selling to Saudi Arabia
President Donald Trump says he's agreed to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia despite concerns that China could gain access to the plane’s vaunted American technology.
apnews.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
People may wish to refresh their memories as to how Saudi Arabia previously used U.S. origin warplanes in Yemen.
apnews.com/article/f35-...
apnews.com/article/f35-...
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I talked to @newyorker.com about four books that inspired my writing about dignity.
www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Dignity
The political philosopher Lea Ypi discusses four books about the inviolable quality of dignity.
www.newyorker.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I talked to @newyorker.com about four books that inspired my writing about dignity.
www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
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In light of UNSC Res 2803 just reminding everyone of the existence of this classic article by Dapo Akande, suggesting the possibility of judicial review of ultra vires UNSC acts www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/7...
www.jstor.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
In light of UNSC Res 2803 just reminding everyone of the existence of this classic article by Dapo Akande, suggesting the possibility of judicial review of ultra vires UNSC acts www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/7...
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A very powerful work.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
Twenty years ago today, members of the U.S. Marines killed 25 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. What really happened that day—and why was no one held accountable? Season 3 of our Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast, In the Dark, investigated. Listen here. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/YVqjsz
In the Dark: Season 3
The New Yorker investigative podcast examines the killings of twenty-four civilians in Haditha, Iraq, and asks why no one was held accountable for the crime.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
A very powerful work.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
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I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’
After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.
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Prediction: CAIR will sue; they will be supported by free speech groups across the political spectrum; they will win; Texans will pay their legal fees; Abbott will be remembered as a free-speech charlatan and a bigot. gov.texas.gov/news/post/go...
Governor Abbott Designates Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR As Foreign Terrorist Organizations
gov.texas.gov
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Prediction: CAIR will sue; they will be supported by free speech groups across the political spectrum; they will win; Texans will pay their legal fees; Abbott will be remembered as a free-speech charlatan and a bigot. gov.texas.gov/news/post/go...
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I talked to PBS News Hour about how the Trump sanctions are impacting the International Criminal Court.
How sanctions imposed by Trump are taking a toll on the International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court, or ICC, only intervenes when national courts can't or won't prosecute crimes like genocide and crimes against humanity. But after the Trump administration sanctioned ...
www.pbs.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I talked to PBS News Hour about how the Trump sanctions are impacting the International Criminal Court.
In rare good news, Professor Phoebe Okowa has been elected to the International Court of Justice.
Okowa will fill the vacancy left by Judge Yusuf's retirement and will serve until February 2027.
Most expect her to stand for election to a full nine-year term thereafter.
Okowa will fill the vacancy left by Judge Yusuf's retirement and will serve until February 2027.
Most expect her to stand for election to a full nine-year term thereafter.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
In rare good news, Professor Phoebe Okowa has been elected to the International Court of Justice.
Okowa will fill the vacancy left by Judge Yusuf's retirement and will serve until February 2027.
Most expect her to stand for election to a full nine-year term thereafter.
Okowa will fill the vacancy left by Judge Yusuf's retirement and will serve until February 2027.
Most expect her to stand for election to a full nine-year term thereafter.
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The whole world can see that these boat strikes are murder. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
US strikes against boats in Caribbean ‘disregard international law’, French minister says
G7 foreign ministers questioned Marco Rubio about the attacks on what the Trump administration claims are drug smugglers
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The whole world can see that these boat strikes are murder. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
"Apparently, in Germany, even for Jewish people, there are rules about which words can and cannot be used."
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"Apparently, in Germany, even for Jewish people, there are rules about which words can and cannot be used."
Mr Shamir ... told BBC Verify that according to his sources within the IDF there was a view that: "Hamas is allowed to do what it wants in the territory it controls, and Israel is allowed to do what it wants in the territory it controls."
Geneva Convention IV:
Geneva Convention IV:
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Mr Shamir ... told BBC Verify that according to his sources within the IDF there was a view that: "Hamas is allowed to do what it wants in the territory it controls, and Israel is allowed to do what it wants in the territory it controls."
Geneva Convention IV:
Geneva Convention IV:
"Israeli soldiers . described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers"
“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” [says] Daniel, the commander of an [IDF] tank unit"
“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” [says] Daniel, the commander of an [IDF] tank unit"
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"Israeli soldiers . described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers"
“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” [says] Daniel, the commander of an [IDF] tank unit"
“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” [says] Daniel, the commander of an [IDF] tank unit"
"Over the course of the war in Gaza, the press often portrayed international lawyers as “divided”
"In response to this misleading depiction, ... an eight-point statement that attracted more than 270 signatures, reflecting how unified international law scholars are on this topic."
"In response to this misleading depiction, ... an eight-point statement that attracted more than 270 signatures, reflecting how unified international law scholars are on this topic."
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Over the course of the war in Gaza, the press often portrayed international lawyers as “divided”
"In response to this misleading depiction, ... an eight-point statement that attracted more than 270 signatures, reflecting how unified international law scholars are on this topic."
"In response to this misleading depiction, ... an eight-point statement that attracted more than 270 signatures, reflecting how unified international law scholars are on this topic."
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AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
"A wide range of New York’s most prominent civic leaders have for weeks been meeting behind the scenes to plan for the possibility of Trump sending in the National Guard or any other federal agents into New York City, according to multiple top elected officials."
EXCLUSIVE COLUMN: New York is quietly preparing for a Trump takeover of the country’s largest city, writes our Jonathan Martin.
Inside Hochul’s Emergency Plan to Keep Trump Out of New York
State officials, business leaders and activists are quietly forming a coalition to stop a federal incursion into America’s largest city following Zohran Mamdani’s victory.
www.politico.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"A wide range of New York’s most prominent civic leaders have for weeks been meeting behind the scenes to plan for the possibility of Trump sending in the National Guard or any other federal agents into New York City, according to multiple top elected officials."
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Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
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Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
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Groping of Mexico's president highlights violence against women reut.rs/4nJcqdF
Groping of Mexico's president highlights violence against women
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that she filed a complaint against a man who groped and tried to kiss her as she greeted members of the public, a day after a video of the incident went viral.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Groping of Mexico's president highlights violence against women reut.rs/4nJcqdF
Lina Khan joins Zohran's transition team.
Big day for actually existing LPE.
Big day for actually existing LPE.
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Lina Khan joins Zohran's transition team.
Big day for actually existing LPE.
Big day for actually existing LPE.
Ms Rachel 🤝 Zohran
"I refuse to apologize for any of it"
"I refuse to apologize for any of it"
Today, Ms.Rachel accepted Glamour Magazine ‘Women of The Year’ by wearing a custom dress with drawings from children from Gaza.
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Ms Rachel 🤝 Zohran
"I refuse to apologize for any of it"
"I refuse to apologize for any of it"
"I am Muslim, I am a Democratic Socialist and most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of it."
Zohran opens his victory speech: "As Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity."
Unapologetic. Unafraid.
Unapologetic. Unafraid.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
"I am Muslim, I am a Democratic Socialist and most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of it."
Zohran quoted Nehru's Tryst with Destiny speech and it wasn't even his best line.
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Zohran quoted Nehru's Tryst with Destiny speech and it wasn't even his best line.
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"No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election." 🔥🔥🔥
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
"No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election." 🔥🔥🔥