Kip M. Hustace
@kipmhustace.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @ Seattle U Law. torts, civ pro, democracy, Indigenous peoples, humanities, nondomination. ‘ōiwi🦻🏼🏳️🌈, he/him/‘o ia, ˈhjustɪs.
Papers: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4613711
Papers: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=4613711
Very pleased to share my newly published "Indigenizing Legal Republicanism," out with the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. What can a neorepublican lens (eliminating domination) offer Indigenous Peoples Law? How can Indigenous philosophy refine legal republicanism?
Indigenizing Legal Republicanism
This Article proposes and evaluates a synthesis of neorepublican legal theory and Indigenous peoples law and philosophy. Neorepublican legal theory, a critical
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August 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Very pleased to share my newly published "Indigenizing Legal Republicanism," out with the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. What can a neorepublican lens (eliminating domination) offer Indigenous Peoples Law? How can Indigenous philosophy refine legal republicanism?
Reposted by Kip M. Hustace
“The nature of the Constitution … is that it is a brief against the exercise of arbitrary power. And here is the Supreme Court blessing a president’s exercise of arbitrary power as if the executive were the sovereign lord of the nation and not a mere servant of the Constitution.”
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Opinion | We Know Exactly Where the Supreme Court’s Change of Heart Has Come From
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June 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“The nature of the Constitution … is that it is a brief against the exercise of arbitrary power. And here is the Supreme Court blessing a president’s exercise of arbitrary power as if the executive were the sovereign lord of the nation and not a mere servant of the Constitution.”
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@jamellebouie.net
Reposted by Kip M. Hustace
thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
March 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
It feels trivial, if also vital, to indulge in and share theory scholarship right now. But as I mused with my Civ Pro II students this morning, the lawyer’s greatest, most unique power is *to insist*: . . .
February 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It feels trivial, if also vital, to indulge in and share theory scholarship right now. But as I mused with my Civ Pro II students this morning, the lawyer’s greatest, most unique power is *to insist*: . . .
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New: critical civ pro + legal change! I parse claim from count (theory of relief); theorize count proliferation; imagine cross-centuries doctrinal flux—simplicity (fewer open-textured counts) to complexity (more rigid counts) and back (at system failure or new rules).
New: critical civ pro + legal change! I parse claim from count (theory of relief); theorize count proliferation; imagine cross-centuries doctrinal flux—simplicity (fewer open-textured counts) to complexity (more rigid counts) and back (at system failure or new rules).
July 11, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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New: critical civ pro + legal change! I parse claim from count (theory of relief); theorize count proliferation; imagine cross-centuries doctrinal flux—simplicity (fewer open-textured counts) to complexity (more rigid counts) and back (at system failure or new rules).
New: critical civ pro + legal change! I parse claim from count (theory of relief); theorize count proliferation; imagine cross-centuries doctrinal flux—simplicity (fewer open-textured counts) to complexity (more rigid counts) and back (at system failure or new rules).