Matthew Erie

A Compact for Control (opinion) No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.

A must read. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Go Big Green!

(BA ‘99)

Citizen historians document Smithsonian exhibits under White House scrutiny The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education and research complex. It's a public-private trust that has long operated at arm's length from the White House, but now finds itself...

Proud to be Captain of the National Postal Museum. Shout out to the volunteers I’m working with. Citizens are heroes, too.

#savetheSmithsonian

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After 7 yrs of work, the special issue "China in Compliance" is out with @reggovjournal.bsky.social. The focus is to unpack how #compliance works in globalizing China. #Cambodia #Kyrgyzstan #Tajikistan #Fiji #Vanuatu #Singapore #Taiwan #Ethiopia #Hungary

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Hiring Announcement: PoLAR Managing Editor PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, the journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA), is hiring a Managing Editor. PoLAR is in an exciting transformational sta…

PoLAR is hiring a new managing editor. The full details are available here: shorturl.at/uqEn5

These figures rebut the “whataboutism” line of the administration.

Donate to Marathon swim for people experiencing homelessness in D.C., organized by Rebecca Hamilton People experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C. are havi… Rebecca Hamilton needs your support for Marathon swim for people experiencing homelessness in D.C.

My amazing colleague Bec Hamilton is swimming 20km to raise money for Charlie's Place, a drop-in shelter for homeless in #WashingtonDC whose numbers and hardships are increasing of late. Please consider giving here: www.gofundme.com/f/swim-for-c...

Thank you.

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

The incremental normalization of life under authoritarianism is one of its defining features.

Authoritarianism is often not a rupture but, rather, a slow tear.

*Every* day we must be vigilant to this fact.

Introverts, unite!

Yes!

Inspiring and on such a hot and humid day!

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.

“The follow-up message is that for those of us who are not Supreme Court justices or Republican legislators should resist every day in every way we can. Put sand in the gears, make it slower, make everybody else know that we are not alone, and that there are more of us than there are of them.”

A new study by Kiel Institute on How China Collateralizes show how rather than infrastructure as collateral, it's cash collateral in escrow reserves paid by debtor's commodity exports which underpin such agreements. Governance implications.

www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Da...

@agelpern.bsky.social

The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers

This.

The Far Right are the new globalists.

The Center-Left must up their game.

Better coalitions, better policies, better messaging, better *listening*.

Incredibly insightful.

Also: “While the outlook is bleak, resistance is not futile…Support independent media…Organize locally to strengthen grassroots networks that resist authoritarian policies…Strengthen ties with global democratic movements to share strategies and resources…”

Seeing these all over the city.

#FreeDC

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In solidarity.

Looking forward to presenting "Adversarial Comparativism: The Role of Emotion in US-China Comparative Law Projects" next week @georgetownlaw.bsky.social's Comparative Law Colloquium. Thanks to Yvonne Tew for the invite.

Draft paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Sharing an amicus curiae brief I co-wrote with Jeffrey Green, Rose Cuison-Villazor, @jackchin.bsky.social, and Pei (Leo) Yu. The Arkansas laws, Act 636 and Act 174, violate federal preemption and equal protection. Discriminatory state laws must be stopped.

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Walking to work in DC this morning.

The Otherworldly Ambitions of R. F. Kuang The author of “Babel” and “Yellowface” is drawn to stories of striving. Her new fantasy novel, “Katabasis,” asks if graduate school is a kind of hell.

“It revolves around Alice Law and Peter Murdoch, two graduate students who venture to Hell to rescue their adviser…He was a cruel mentor, yet they fear that they will never succeed on the job market without securing a letter of recommendation from him.”

Omg.

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“USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades…unless the abrupt funding cuts…are reversed, a staggering number of avoidable deaths could occur by 2030.”

A Casebook on Chinese Outbound Investment: Law, Policy, and Business is out in the wild - in Chile!

W/ Ignacio Tornero, a contributor, and Prof. Francisco Urdinez, @pucminas.bsky.social.

Get your free download: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Twenty Leading China Specialists Selected for Ninth Round of Public Intellectuals Program The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations is pleased to announce the ninth round of fellows in its  Public Intellectuals Program (PIP), generously funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The ...

@ncuscr.bsky.social is delighted to announce the twenty fellows who make up the ninth cohort of our Public Intellectuals Program.

Learn more about the newest #PIPFellows:
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