@emilykiddwhite.bsky.social
I write about emotions in legal reasoning. Legal & political philosophy, constitutional law, public international law. Law Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1133656
Please join us on April 10th, 2026 for the 29th Annual Osgoode Constitutional Cases Conference.
An exceptional program of speakers will critically engage with the recent caselaw, and the peerless Jeremy Waldron will deliver the annual Laskin Lecture.
Registration: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/conc...
My PhD supervisee, Xiang Zhang, did a lovely job writing up this year’s thought-provoking Grafstein Lecture by Jessica Silbey @jessicasilbey.bsky.social: “Copyright’s Edges and the Ethics of Expression in the Digital Age”.
Read about it on the #IPOsgoode #IPilogue:
www.yorku.ca/osgoode/ipos...
I’m happy to share my latest - “Data is Nothing Like Oil” - an editorial just published in the IIC: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We should see data not as oil but rather as an ocean— shifting our regulatory focus from commodification and private control to governance of the knowledge commons:👇
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
The rhetorical labour that accompanied the invasion of Iraq has been abandoned. Even senior US military officials have struggled to explain how the campaign’s objectives would be achieved. The assumption of inevitability has replaced the burden of argument. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
It seems like the most obvious thing to say in the world, but people need to be held accountable for the murder of children during an illegal war. Yet any real accountability for this will clearly require a radical political break.
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This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
Important ruling on immigration operations in Minnesota
Judge Tostrud (Trump appointee):
"Plaintiffs have made a clear showing that Defendants have adopted a POLICY authorizing federal immigration officers to conduct investigatory stops based on ethnicity or race without reasonable suspicion."
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And the good news is that the SCC majority in Kanyinda undertook an intersectional analysis focused on women refugee claimants. Section 15 Charter wins continue to be reason for celebration given the ongoing uncertainties with the Court’s commitment to equality rights, and with governments’ too.
Gratitude & respect to Bijou Cibuabua Kanyinda for pursuing justice. This is a tremendous recognition, validation & vindication of women’s rights, equality rights & refugee rights.
The Supreme Court of Canada just released its pivotal Charter equality rights decision in Quebec (AG) v Kanyinda.
It was an honour to have co-represented FCJ Refugee Centre and the Madhu Varma Migrant Justice Centre in their intervention in this case. 1/
Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"
podcast episode with Adam Hanieh, Rob Knox and Rafeef Ziadah talking about Palestine drawing on their excellent book Resisting Erasure
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This directly contradicts Trump and Hegseth’s claims that Iran bombed the area where the Iranian school was hit. We knew it, but it’s good to have the video.
Reuters Exclusive
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
The legal arguments and architecture for what's happening in Iran now, and were deployed in relation to Gaza, really did not come out of nowhere.
The pre-emption and targetted assassination arguments might appear spectacular, but they were the workaday archiecture of the war on terror.
Thank you to the most brilliant @veenadubal.bsky.social for being my conversation partner about my book on the @lpeblog.bsky.social and to the masterful @jamesbrandt.bsky.social for his support. lpeproject.org/blog/how-fem... @bulaw.bsky.social
scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol75/is...
Please join us on April 10th, 2026 for the 29th Annual Osgoode Constitutional Cases Conference.
An exceptional program of speakers will critically engage with the recent caselaw, and the peerless Jeremy Waldron will deliver the annual Laskin Lecture.
Registration: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/conc...
"Bernard Williams on Law and Jurisprudence: From Agency and Responsibility to Methodology", co-edited with Daniel Murata & Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, is finally published! (@hartpublishing.bsky.social, Law & Practical Reason series)
All the information about the volume and contents, here👇
This entire decision is worth a read.
Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
Called to the Bar is back for its 3rd (!!) season: soundcloud.com/calledtotheb... An absolute banger featuring @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social, Christine Chinkin, Dianne Otto and....Judge Hilary Charlesworth!
If you are watching the Olympics via the CBC, you have the option in the hockey finals/semi-finals of not just French and English streams, but also Atikamekw, Cree, Innu, and Inuktitut options!
I'm gonna repeat my comment.
Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.
Ten minutes later, I get a call from Marie, who is very harried, and she's like "what's going on?"
So I explain that I'm from the whistle people and we just want to make sure that she has distribution capacity for the whistles she requested, and she sighs and says, "so here's what we're planning."
This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.
This is a really good piece by Aziz Huq and @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social. I've been highlighting similar themes in my recent power-of-the-purse scholarship. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...
