Chris🌻

“No worries at all!” I write back when there are in fact many worries

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Getting ready to explain to my MAGA relatives that Tylenol doesn’t cause autism this holiday season after explaining that no, public school nurses’ offices were not performing sex changes last year…

Timely, poignant, & funny: 10/10 no notes

To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”

PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.

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Live footage of me trying to stay up to date on US news

Spending hours cleaning up Zotero, knowing I’m just gonna add more messy downloads later this afternoon…

…for a moment, it was really beautiful

Still a few more days to submit an abstract!

In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.

"In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal: The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials." -- www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Abortion Bans Worsen Violence in Relationships, Study Finds A new study shows that intimate partner violence increased in places requiring far travel to abortion clinics.

Abortion bans worsen intimate partner violence, according to a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

There was ~9,000 additional incidents of IPV in states that limit abortion rights in 2023 vs 2017. That adds up to $1.24 billion in additional social costs.

Call for Abstracts! Disrupting your daily doom-scroll to share the call for ILW 2025's Emerging Voices Panel. ABILA provides *full funding* specifically for junior scholars to come present their research at ILW 😱 Consider submitting an abstract and pls reach out with any questions!

Tell me you study IR without telling me you study IR. I’ll go first:

I just explained Greggs as “sausage roll hegemony”

Can someone PLEASE tell me the point of endnotes I just don’t get it

Got a text from my dad: “best Father’s Day present ever!” with a picture.

It was worms. My brother got him worms for his compost bin and he’s delighted about it.

GW Law Celebrates Commencement 2025 | GW Law | The George Washington University The 158th Commencement of the George Washington University Law School was held on Sunday, May 18, 2025.

Harold Koh: “What I’ve learned from my dad, from my wife, from my family is that courage is contagious. So is cowardice. What you decide is a choice. And when your moment come—and believe me, it will—please make sure that the decision you make is one you can live with."

Show us your writing process in a gif.

This is pretty dystopian

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Announcing: the International Law Weekend 2025 Organizing Committee! Including @jesspeake.bsky.social, @chris4short.bsky.social, @corrarino.bsky.social, @ewickeri.bsky.social, @freyadw.bsky.social and @leilasadat1.bsky.social
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I have exactly one skill, and it’s being able to pick up a large suitcase and go “that’s just under 23 kgs”

New paper alert 🚨

Now up @ssrn.bsky.social is "Experiential Expertise: What Lived Experience Can Teach" forthcoming in BU L. Rev. It explores the contours of experiential expertise—what is it? how is it formed? how should it inform the law?

Would love any feedback!
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You guys can hang out and speak Italian together it’ll be lit

(Im not subversively pressuring him to pick either of those options for that reason at alll 👀)

He hasn’t decided yet but all options are trainable! 🥳 (and a couple are QUITE close to you)

Just found out my brother is going to grad school in Europe next year and will be just a train ride away 🥹🥹

👀👀👀 that’s always my goal

🫣🫣🫣

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Me to me: you will not take on any more commitments until your first-year defense is over

Also me, currently:

Une aventure parisienne pour les Barbies de droit internationales peut-être