Gregory Shaffer

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

This Advanced Introduction provides the first concise and integrated exploration of the five core sub-fields of international economic law (IEL) (trade, investment, money, finance, and tax). Gregory Shaffer and Michael Waibel assess the contested principles, concepts, and contemporary challenges of IEL.

Advanced Introduction to International Economic Law by
@gregorycshaffer.bsky.social of @georgetownlaw.bsky.social and Michael Waibel @univie.ac.at

Available in hardback, paperback and eBook www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

Instructors, access your exam copy
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There is an excellent podcast named TrustTalks by Severin de Wit. We had a stimulating discussion regarding "what happens when law no longer constrains power?" It starts with US threats to takeover Greenland through coerced acquisition or otherwise. You can find it here: trusttalk.co

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

Extraordinary US government surveillance of ordinary people is beginning
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A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...

Arizona, November 2020

Amanda Gorman poem For Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

Poem by @amandagorman.bsky.social (via Twitter):
For Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
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It is called murder in Minneapolis and the man, Alex Pretti, like the woman, Renee Good, are martyrs. Remember their names.

It is a time for everyone to speak out whenever they can. Thank you Bruce Springsteen!

YouTube video by MarcGlenRock Promised Land - for Renee Good, Bruce Springsteen, Light of Day, 1/17/26, Count Basie Theater

Springsteen nails it, as usual
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1/This is something you say when you know you aren't in compliance with the law.

Add that to ignoring:

-UN Charter prohibition on use of force (which is supreme law of the land)

-Constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law

-Congress' authority to decide when the US goes to war

But also:

So it seems we’re done with head of state immunity in domestic courts (exactly where it was designed for) even as we fight for it tooth and nail at an international court? Actually, we’re probably just done with it in US courts.

Opinion | The Best Sentences of 2025

Thanks to Frank Bruni and David Litt for 1st of best sentences of 2025! From The Contrarian: "One CBS article about his immigration crackdown said Trump ‘invoked muscular presidential powers,’ which is a bit like saying Jeffrey Dahmer ‘displayed omnivorous taste.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

New images offer closer look at demolition for the White House ballroom The project reflects Trump’s expansive view of presidential authority — even over the White House itself.

1/n

Powerful and gut-wrenching photo-essay presentation in @washingtonpost.com by Jonathan Edwards.

Investigative/explanatory journalism at a very high level.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

If you haven't lived in DC, you may not appreciate how much this is a city of **trees**.

The current Supreme Court has forfeited all legitimacy.

Democrats (and everyone) need to address that reality.

John Roberts > Roger Taney.

Court needs to expand. And have fixed terms—like *every* other supreme court in developed world. And have ethics rules, like all normal organizations.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

I imagine everyone of dreaded Boomer era has similar story:
-My uncle fought in Battle of Bulge, vs Nazis
-My future father-in-law was in submarine, vs Nazis
-My dad was in training as Navy doctor, to fight Nazis

Now MAGA/Trump/Hegseth: "Who are we to judge?"

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Pauli Murray's profile, surrounded by brightly colored stars and stripes.

"I sing of a new American...
I have been enslaved, yet my spirit is unbound.
I have been cast aside, but I sparkle in the darkness.
I have been slain but live on in the river of history."
-- Pauli Murray, Nov 20 - 1910 - July 1, 1985
The Trump regime wants to erase Pauli's legacy. Don't let them.

“If the president can do whatever the president wants with respect to tariff rates based on declaring a national emergency and national emergencies are nonreviewable, then basically, Congress no longer has a role to play," @gregorycshaffer.bsky.social told @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social.

LSA 2025 Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop: Keynote Address with Michele Goodwin - Law and Society Association Georgetown Law Professor Michele Goodwin gave a keynote address at the LSA2025 Graduate Student Early Career Workshop in Chicago.

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...

a very powerful address

Gaza hospitals report 15 starvation deaths in 24 hours, hunger-related deaths up to 101 ***

Gaza Hospitals Report 15 Starvation Deaths in 24 Hours, Hunger-related Deaths Up to 101

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Nothing sinister about this

Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say 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.

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.

In sign of shift, far-right US network airs segment on unchecked settler violence Arab reports say settlers killed 117 heads of livestock, stole 400 from Bedouin community in West Bank; IDF disperses Palestinians protesting illegal outpost

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...

I 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.

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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.