@akapczynski.bsky.social
Law prof at Yale, LPE Associate Justice, all things political economy, but not yr grandpas version.
The one thing that will get me to the Harvard Yale tailgate!! Join us tomorrow, and stand up for academic freedom - going to be fun. @yaleaaup.bsky.social
21.11.2025 13:21 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Apparently, it is negotiable!
10.11.2025 01:44 — 👍 1897 🔁 333 💬 10 📌 4Conference update! 📬📬
We are thrilled by the outpouring of proposals we received for the inaugural ALPE conference. Those of you who submitted proposals should have received a final decision via email on October 20th. If you did not get an email, check your spam folders, and feel free to reach out!
A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them.
That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...
Good for everyone to understand a little more about the “Campus Reform” grift. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...
23.10.2025 16:34 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Today, Rana Jaleel & Risa Lieberwitz of the @aaup.org explain how the Trump administration has used Title VI to pressure universities to undermine free speech and entrench inequality, and how universities have largely crumbled in the face of this pressure.
lpeproject.org/blog/the-cor...
From me in @lpeblog.bsky.social today:
The lesson of the US investment in Intel is "public capital without accountability. The result is not sovereign wealth but corporate capture—an arrangement that entrenches incumbent power while eroding the state’s ability to direct economic development."
W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it.
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
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Child-drawn sign reading DONT MAKE me GO to LAW SCHOOL
Amazing sign being held by a small child
18.10.2025 16:59 — 👍 4722 🔁 750 💬 21 📌 42Are people allowed to peacefully protest their government in America? The GOP is doing everything they can to suppress turnout on Saturday.
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Proud to join this group of 39 Brown University alumni who are law professors in urging the university to reject the Trump-Vance presidency's enforced loyalty "compact": drive.google.com/file/d/1COIp...
15.10.2025 21:28 — 👍 590 🔁 83 💬 5 📌 5which also describes the last-mile issues getting these needed drugs to patients. Check it out! wustllawreview.org/2025/09/03/d...
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Wow - California's public insulin will be on the market in Jan! Big milestone for public pharma efforts. Could help millions of diabetics, esp if they can build a more public supply chain too. We describe why public pharma is important in this paper ... www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
17.10.2025 12:53 — 👍 32 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education
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Excited about the first @lpenyc.bsky.social Night School event of the new academic year, now at @cuny.edu Law — with @masonbwilliams.bsky.social and Gregory Louis in conversation with @llchristyll.bsky.social!!
RSVP below!
“One of them, Albert “Skip” Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...
Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.
08.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 2120 🔁 540 💬 16 📌 33
"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
The key thing now is "that the government does not actually have the capacity to successfully negotiate a bespoke 'deal' with every university in the country. All universities have to do now is do nothing—no accepting the compact, no counter-offers, nothing." Great analysis by @fishkin.bsky.social
08.10.2025 23:53 — 👍 34 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 0
"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
08.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 624 🔁 180 💬 12 📌 24
NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!
Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.
Please click below, sign, & share.
#DefendHigherEd
"I am purposefully “belittling” a “conservative idea.” Or maybe I am not. I’m not really sure what the legal threshold of “belittling” is, and while I have a pretty good idea which ideas should be considered “conservative” ... I am pretty sure McMahon does not."
07.10.2025 18:13 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
My friend @sivav.bsky.social with a sharp essay in the New Republic explaining why universities that sign Trump's noxious "compact" are not only cowards but utter fools. newrepublic.com/article/2013...
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