@gregorycshaffer.bsky.social
Past President of the American Society of International Law. Author of Emerging Powers and the World Trading System (CUP), and The Rule of Law under Pressure: A Transnational Challenge (CUP)
A powerful address of @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social It is important for all law students and those in the academy, and indeed for everyone, given at the graduate students luncheon at this year's meeting of LSA in Chicago @lawandsociety.bsky.social. Pass it on: www.lawandsociety.org/2025/08/06/l...
13.08.2025 20:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2a very powerful address
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Gaza Hospitals Report 15 Starvation Deaths in 24 Hours, Hunger-related Deaths Up to 101
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Nothing sinister about this
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Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.
By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba
Remember: The internet is written in indelible ink.
18.07.2025 19:09 — 👍 1599 🔁 454 💬 44 📌 20
This seems like a notable sign of how the energy on the young US right is in a very different place when it comes to Israel-Palestine than older Republicans are: www.timesofisrael.com/in-sign-of-s...
19.07.2025 02:40 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1I don’t know of a single democracy where the enforcers are masked and unidentified in the course of their regular law enforcement work and the lawyers who defend them in court are also unidentified.
reason.com/2025/07/17/a...
Also, again, they're wildly illegal under both the domestic laws supposedly justifying them, as well as a host of international treaty obligations that are also part of US code.
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Do Check it out. It is in paperback at a reasonable price and available online Open Access on the CUP website.
11.03.2025 20:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump’s retaliation against law firms is having its predictable chilling effect. Punishing law firms for representing clients the president dislikes infringes on the 6th Amendment right to counsel of one’s choice and the 1st Amendment right to free association.
09.03.2025 20:38 — 👍 2649 🔁 855 💬 200 📌 65
The Chief Justice and destruction of voting rights.
www.vox.com/21211880/sup...
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
"It has been this way for a long time."
👇🎯💯 Yes, this is the only way 🇪🇺 can finance these things, or challenge the dollar. Anyone who tells you otherwise is fantasizing about 🇩🇪/🇪🇺 tolerance for national-level debt or pretending that 🇩🇪/🇪🇺 can achieve these goals without major economic policy change.
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He aims to leave up to his name -- Don.
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The rush (and the need) to get all these names/have everyone on the record? Methods tried and tested by Stalin and the Mafia: Make everyone complicit.
28.02.2025 23:18 — 👍 66 🔁 19 💬 5 📌 6Hey look, <yet another> rich democracy has counted all of its votes in 24 hours, all parties (yes also the far right) have accepted the results of the election, there are no lawsuits & is no political violence, & everyone is going about their business on a normal day 🇩🇪
We, too, could have that in 🇺🇸
@stevevladeck.bsky.social on the ominous removal of the judge advocates general by the Trump administration. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Shame on the US & Israel. UN general assembly backs resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war
US, Israel, Russia, Belarus and North Korea vote against resolution as 93 countries vote in favor. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
On Feb. 7, I joined @mccourtschool.bsky.social & @georgetownlaw.bsky.social for a critical discussion on challenges facing democracy & the rule of law after a year of decisive elections around the world.
Thank you @gregorycshaffer.bsky.social & Daniel Kelemen for having me.
#RuleOfLaw #Africa
FAA notice saying "Change from Notice to Air Missions to Notice to Airmen."
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What Project 2025-era leadership of FAA/DOT thought worth spending time on today:
Culture-war pettiness of changing name of NOTAMs (frequent safety updates) to "Notice to Airmen," from "Notice to Air Missions."
Everyone in aviation just calls them NOTAMs. This adds zero to safety / efficiency.
Absurd. And another constraint that's binding until ... it's not www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
11.02.2025 13:32 — 👍 71 🔁 20 💬 11 📌 2
Critical points here - opposition is being invisibly silenced now and in the future as people opt out of public life. We can't stand aside as "America is on the cusp of competitive authoritarianism"
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Always seeking leverage to exploit, always a protection racket in some form
PS cc: the kneebenders at Meta et al. You too will face another shakedown.
My latest @thenation.com with @gregorycshaffer.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci... @oneillinstitute.bsky.social @georgetownlaw.bsky.social
11.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
It also follows my new book The Rule of Law under Pressure: A Transnational Challenge www.cambridge.org/core/books/r... with @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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