Jose Atiles
@joseatiles.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois | personal account
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Research Handbook on 3rd World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
[Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah
Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social
Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
[Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah
Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social
Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Research Handbook on 3rd World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
[Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah
Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social
Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
[Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah
Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social
Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
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See our new piece for NACLA on the fight for a just transition at COP30 in Belém
Please read and share this Just Transition Alliance analysis and call for establishing a #JustTransition mechanism at #COP30, published yesterday by the North American Congress on Latin America: nacla.org/establishing...
November 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
See our new piece for NACLA on the fight for a just transition at COP30 in Belém
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What is described here constitutes a transnational criminal conspiracy bet two rogue regimes (Trump 2.0 & Bukele), who are liable for these mass atrocities (crimes against humanity including torture & forced disappearances), pursuant to int’l criminal law
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
November 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
What is described here constitutes a transnational criminal conspiracy bet two rogue regimes (Trump 2.0 & Bukele), who are liable for these mass atrocities (crimes against humanity including torture & forced disappearances), pursuant to int’l criminal law
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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Presente!!
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Presente!!
My latest piece on @commondreams.org (written part of the Public Voices Fellowship) examines how the US is fusing emergency powers, economic warfare, and militarization of Latin America and the Caribbean into a coherent system of hemispheric governance.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
The Hemispheric Presidency: Emergency Powers and the New US Doctrine in Latin America | Common Dreams
Trump's emerging doctrine is anchored in the expansion of presidential authority, representing the full extension of the unitary executive theory or the imperial presidency into the sphere of foreign ...
www.commondreams.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My latest piece on @commondreams.org (written part of the Public Voices Fellowship) examines how the US is fusing emergency powers, economic warfare, and militarization of Latin America and the Caribbean into a coherent system of hemispheric governance.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
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Trump’s approach reveals how emergency powers techniques, such as executive orders, emergency declarations, and budgetary discretion, are being implemented as instruments of foreign policy, says @joseatiles.bsky.social.
The Hemispheric Presidency: Emergency Powers and the New US Doctrine in Latin America
Trump's emerging doctrine is anchored in the expansion of presidential authority, representing the full extension of the unitary executive theory or the imperial presidency into the sphere of foreign policy.
www.commondreams.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Trump’s approach reveals how emergency powers techniques, such as executive orders, emergency declarations, and budgetary discretion, are being implemented as instruments of foreign policy, says @joseatiles.bsky.social.
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The application portal for the 2026 Mobilization and Political Economy Summer Program is now open.
Please share with your talented undergraduate students. #politicaleconomy
@mpepitt.bsky.social @cape-team.bsky.social @ripejournal.bsky.social
Please share with your talented undergraduate students. #politicaleconomy
@mpepitt.bsky.social @cape-team.bsky.social @ripejournal.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The application portal for the 2026 Mobilization and Political Economy Summer Program is now open.
Please share with your talented undergraduate students. #politicaleconomy
@mpepitt.bsky.social @cape-team.bsky.social @ripejournal.bsky.social
Please share with your talented undergraduate students. #politicaleconomy
@mpepitt.bsky.social @cape-team.bsky.social @ripejournal.bsky.social
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On 11/5 #SCOTUS hears Learning Resources v Trump. At issue: whether a president may impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA, an emergency powers law. "The stakes of this case reach far beyond trade policy," @lizagoitein.bsky.social writes in a new explainer.
What’s at Stake in the Supreme Court Tariffs Case
If the Court blesses the president’s use of emergency powers to evade Congress, the consequences would be profound.
www.brennancenter.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
On 11/5 #SCOTUS hears Learning Resources v Trump. At issue: whether a president may impose sweeping tariffs under IEEPA, an emergency powers law. "The stakes of this case reach far beyond trade policy," @lizagoitein.bsky.social writes in a new explainer.
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The problem with Donald Trump’s recent firing of six members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board isn’t who he decided to fire — it’s the board’s very existence as a tool of colonial rule over Puerto Rico.
The Colonial Logic of Puerto Rico’s FOMB
The problem with Donald Trump’s recent firing of six members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board isn’t who he decided to fire — it’s the board’s very existence as a tool of colonial rule over Puerto Rico.
jacobin.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The problem with Donald Trump’s recent firing of six members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board isn’t who he decided to fire — it’s the board’s very existence as a tool of colonial rule over Puerto Rico.
My latest op-ed, written as part of the OpEdProject fellowship, examines the colonial politics behind the firing and reappointment of La Junta (FOMB) in Puerto Rico.
Read it at
@jacobinmag.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/10/puer...
Read it at
@jacobinmag.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/10/puer...
The Colonial Logic of Puerto Rico’s FOMB
The problem with Donald Trump’s recent firing of six members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board isn’t who he decided to fire — it’s the board’s very existence as a tool of colon...
jacobin.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My latest op-ed, written as part of the OpEdProject fellowship, examines the colonial politics behind the firing and reappointment of La Junta (FOMB) in Puerto Rico.
Read it at
@jacobinmag.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/10/puer...
Read it at
@jacobinmag.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/10/puer...
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#LawAndSociety scholars: do you want your research to meaningfully impact society? Apply now for the LSA Talks! Public Scholarship Academy to learn how you can bridge the gap between scholarly research and public discourse.
Learn more: bit.ly/LSATalks
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social
Learn more: bit.ly/LSATalks
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social
LSA Talks! Public Scholarship Program Accepting Applications - Law and Society Association
LSA Talks! Public Scholarship Academy applications are open, with support from the Emory University Center for Public Scholarship and Engagement.
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October 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
#LawAndSociety scholars: do you want your research to meaningfully impact society? Apply now for the LSA Talks! Public Scholarship Academy to learn how you can bridge the gap between scholarly research and public discourse.
Learn more: bit.ly/LSATalks
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social
Learn more: bit.ly/LSATalks
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social
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1/2 Sen. Wyden of the US Senate Finance Committee today published new findings indicating that Pantera Capital's Dan Morehead, a crypto billionaire based in #PuertoRico, may have improperly avoided more than $100M in federal taxes through a purported residency scam.
October 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
1/2 Sen. Wyden of the US Senate Finance Committee today published new findings indicating that Pantera Capital's Dan Morehead, a crypto billionaire based in #PuertoRico, may have improperly avoided more than $100M in federal taxes through a purported residency scam.
Check out my latest op-ed in Latino News Network on how economic warfare is reshaping US interventionism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Written as part of my work as part of The OpEd Project 2025–26 Public Voices Fellow. latinonewsnetwork.com/community/th...
The New Face of US Interventionism: Economic Warfare in Brazil - Latino News Network
How the U.S. has historically used economic warfare in Latin America and the Caribbean, the current use of tariffs as a tool of political punishment marks a new phase.
latinonewsnetwork.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Check out my latest op-ed in Latino News Network on how economic warfare is reshaping US interventionism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Written as part of my work as part of The OpEd Project 2025–26 Public Voices Fellow. latinonewsnetwork.com/community/th...
A little late to share, but my new article in Third World Quarterly explores Puerto Rico’s offshore finance center and the privatization of beaches. It’s part of my ongoing research on offshore finance and the legal imaginations of paradise.
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Who owns Puerto Rico’s beaches? Law, extractivism, and the political economy of paradise
Puerto Rican beaches are central to sociolegal debates on economic development, tax policies, luxury real estate and climate change. Despite being constitutionally public, access to many of the 122...
www.tandfonline.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
A little late to share, but my new article in Third World Quarterly explores Puerto Rico’s offshore finance center and the privatization of beaches. It’s part of my ongoing research on offshore finance and the legal imaginations of paradise.
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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If you haven't checked out the LPE Project syllabus bank you're missing out!!
(also, if you are teaching an LPE or LPE-adjacent course, please send us your syllabus!)
lpeproject.org/syllabi
(also, if you are teaching an LPE or LPE-adjacent course, please send us your syllabus!)
lpeproject.org/syllabi
August 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If you haven't checked out the LPE Project syllabus bank you're missing out!!
(also, if you are teaching an LPE or LPE-adjacent course, please send us your syllabus!)
lpeproject.org/syllabi
(also, if you are teaching an LPE or LPE-adjacent course, please send us your syllabus!)
lpeproject.org/syllabi
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WE'RE HAVING AN END OF SUMMER SALE! The weather may be cooling, but SUP's end of summer sale is hot!
Take advantage of 50% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide starting today, 8/25, through 9/8. #ReadUP
www.sup.org/about-our-en...
Take advantage of 50% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide starting today, 8/25, through 9/8. #ReadUP
www.sup.org/about-our-en...
August 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
WE'RE HAVING AN END OF SUMMER SALE! The weather may be cooling, but SUP's end of summer sale is hot!
Take advantage of 50% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide starting today, 8/25, through 9/8. #ReadUP
www.sup.org/about-our-en...
Take advantage of 50% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide starting today, 8/25, through 9/8. #ReadUP
www.sup.org/about-our-en...
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Today's the day: submissions are now open for the inaugural Association of Law & Political Economy conference!
August 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Today's the day: submissions are now open for the inaugural Association of Law & Political Economy conference!
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📢 Heads up! The Association of Law & Political Economy is accepting submissions for our first-ever conference starting THIS Friday 🎉
August 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
📢 Heads up! The Association of Law & Political Economy is accepting submissions for our first-ever conference starting THIS Friday 🎉
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Today, @msjamshidi.bsky.social argues that the recent US sanctions against Francesca Albanese—a human rights expert whose work threatens several major American corporations—exemplify the economic goals that are part and parcel of U.S. sanctions policy.
The Economics of Sanctions: Why the U.S. Targeted Francesca Albanese
On July 9, 2025, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese became the latest target of unilateral U.S. sanctions. These sanctions are an unjustified assault on Albanese, the United Nations…
lpeproject.org
July 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Today, @msjamshidi.bsky.social argues that the recent US sanctions against Francesca Albanese—a human rights expert whose work threatens several major American corporations—exemplify the economic goals that are part and parcel of U.S. sanctions policy.
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Today, @profhilaryallen.bsky.social explains how Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists turned “innovation” into a smokescreen for regulatory arbitrage—and how we underwrite this behavior by showering VCs with public subsidies.
Why We Need to Stop Subsidizing Venture Capitalists
From lending to stock trading to crypto, leading fintech companies have gained an edge not through actual technological innovation, but by using tech-driven narratives to obscure how they profit from…
lpeproject.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Today, @profhilaryallen.bsky.social explains how Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists turned “innovation” into a smokescreen for regulatory arbitrage—and how we underwrite this behavior by showering VCs with public subsidies.
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*extremely* excited about this new development!
🚨🚨
CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!!
LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization.
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
🚨🚨
CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!!
LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization.
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
🚨🚨
Association of Law & Political Economy
Call for Papers: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
July 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
*extremely* excited about this new development!
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🚨🚨
CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!!
LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization.
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
🚨🚨
CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!!
LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization.
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
🚨🚨
Association of Law & Political Economy
Call for Papers: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
July 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
🚨🚨
CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!!
LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization.
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
🚨🚨
CfP for the Inaugural Association for Law and Political Economy (ALPE) Conference is out!!!
LPE is moving the central locus of coordination away from a foundation-funded model to a dues-paying membership organization.
lawandpoliticaleconomy.org
🚨🚨
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UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
July 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842
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Comrades! Friends! Nemeses! The CfP for the annual meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies is open until next Friday, 11th of July. Send us your abstracts on all things law, political economy and modern authoritarianism.
The one and only Melinda Cooper (!!!) will deliver the keynote.
The one and only Melinda Cooper (!!!) will deliver the keynote.
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Comrades! Friends! Nemeses! The CfP for the annual meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies is open until next Friday, 11th of July. Send us your abstracts on all things law, political economy and modern authoritarianism.
The one and only Melinda Cooper (!!!) will deliver the keynote.
The one and only Melinda Cooper (!!!) will deliver the keynote.