Hegsethโs Own Lawyers Sound the Alarm on Trumpโs Drug Boat Killings
Career military officials say their opinions were ignored in the lead-up to the strikes.
Military lawyers within the Pentagon have taken issue with the legal justifications for the strikes, warning that the soldiers involved could be held personally liable for the killings.
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An appropriate topic for today. It couldn't come from a better scholar on this question! @allard.ubc.ca
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El derecho a la seguridad en tiempos iliberales
| Teorรญa & Derecho. Revista de pensamiento jurรญdico
Pleased to see my article 'El derecho a la seguridad en tiempos iliberales' out in Teoria & Derecho teoriayderecho.tirant.com/index.php/te...
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No One Was Supposed to Leave Alive
Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during four months in CECOT.
Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration tell Gisela Salim-Peyer that they were tortured during their months inside El Salvadorโs megaprison.
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Balkinization: Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
Characteristically clear-eyed thinking on the dangers of "regulation by deal" from my colleague David Pozen. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
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In short, the agreement gives legal form to an extortion scheme _the first of its kind!-that defies the relevant statutes as well as the constitutional separation of powers and the First
Amendment.
Fantastic and timely intervention by the indispensable Dave Pozen on the true meaning of the Columbia shakedown for higher ed: replacing the rule of law with regulation by deal, which ultimately undermines both regulation and education.
balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
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Joint Statement by Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK:
"the war in Gaza must end now."
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#BREAKING: By 5-4 vote, #SCOTUS puts on hold a Mass. district court temporary restraining order that had required the Department of Education to pay out grants for teacher training to schools with "DEI" policies.
Chief Justice Roberts and the three Democratic appointees dissent. (Link coming.)
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Sanewashing will be the OED word of the year for 2025
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Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI launches Accelerator Fellowship
The University of Oxfordโs Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligenceย is launching the Accelerator Fellowship Programme, a pioneering five-year initiative designed to address the ethical
NEW: The University of Oxfordโs Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence is launching the Accelerator Fellowship Programme, a pioneering five-year initiative designed to address the ethical challenges posed by AI technologies.
Find out more โฌ๏ธ
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Press endangers judges
Inaccurate report led to security threats, lady chief justice says
An inaccurate newspaper report that was followed up at prime ministerโs questions two weeks ago has resulted in โextraordinarily serious security threatsโ to judges, the lady chief justice of England and Wales told the Lords constitution committee yesterday.
rozenberg.substack.com/p/press-enda...
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Completing Humanity with Umut รzsu
The LPE Project hosted a lunch talk on Thursday, February 20th, from 12:10โ1:30 pm ET, featuring Umut รzsu, Professor of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, to discuss his latest bookโฆ
Huge thanks to Umut รzsu for an incredible talk on international law and decolonization, to @samuelmoyn.bsky.social for a great discussion, and to everyone who joined us for such a rich and engaging conversation!
The recording is now availableโwatch here: lpeproject.org/events/compl...
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Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...
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Quote from the published article by our author Kim Lane Scheppele: "The US is no clearly on an autocratic path, paved by law."
The situation in the US ๐บ๐ธ is serious, with the constitutional and political order rapidly changing.
KIM LANE SCHEPPELE (kimlanelaw.bsky.social) explains in our editorial what has happened in the past few weeks and what is at stake.
verfassungsblog.de/trumps-count...
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41 cases already.
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Good quotes from Janina and Marko.
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Criminally insane
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Elon Musk Is President
The worldโs richest man has declared war on the federal government, and his influence appears unchecked.
The worldโs richest man has declared war on the US government and, in just days, has moved to slash its size and reach, gaining access to its most sensitive secrets. He has also threatened to use his fortune to bankroll electoral challenges to anyone opposing him.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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GDPR/UKGDPR question - how is the adequacy decision for the US going to work if even a tenth of the rumours about what is happening to federal data are true?
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"When voters eventually wake up to the damage done (usually too late, as the new autocrat has by that time destroyed any channel through which alternative views may be expressed) they have few options to resist because their constitutional system has been captured" verfassungsblog.de/what-is-rule...
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โFifteen North American Jewish organizations announced on Monday that they will be pivoting their social media content away from X, citing the platform's harmful discourse & promotion of โhate, antisemitism, and societal division.โโ 1/28/25 www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...
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Associate professor of political science, Virginia Commonwealth University. Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy. Assoc. Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies. Formerly The Guardian & Latin America advisor, Bernie Sanders. ๊ตํฌ
michaelpaarlberg.org
Somos el Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Facultad de Derecho de la @uchile.bsky.social | Weโre the Human Rights Center at Faculty of Law of the @uchile.bsky.social | Promociรณn, educaciรณn e investigaciรณn en DDHH.
Human Rights Watch es una organizaciรณn de derechos humanos no gubernamental y sin fines de lucro que trabaja en mรกs de 90 paรญses de todo el mundo.
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Professor of Global Security at Oxford, Co-director of ELAC (IHL, Law & Ethics of War, Attitudes toward Violence)
Ezra Kleinโs tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on bluesky.
A Thomson Reuters journal publishing research on public law: https://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/en-gb/products/public-law. This account is maintained by the editors: public.law@durham.ac.uk
Reader (Associate Professor) School of Law, University of Warwick | Non-practising barrister (call 2016) | Scholar of Middle Temple | Filmmaker | Co-EiC of Constitutional Studies | UKCLA ExCmt |
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Constitutional law and national security law etc at the University of Glasgow
Law prof at the University of Texas; co-director, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. Write and teach about international human rights law; labor, land, and livelihoods; reproductive justice and the carceral state.
Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. posts express my own views.
As an interdisciplinary hub, the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) leads in research, innovation & learning on policy & global affairs.
Professor of constitutional law (Marmara Uni.)
Visiting scholar (Humboldt Uni.)
Anayasa hukuku profesรถrรผ ve avukat.
Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Dublin City University. Owner of a left foot described as "cultured" in the Roscommon People, October 2006.
Law prof - public law, legal theory
Professor of International Law & Security, University of Copenhagen, Centre for Military Studies. Special Adviser to the ICC Prosecutor on War Crimes. Academic Member, Doughty Street Chambers (UK). Arsenal, Bears, Magpies, All Blacks.
Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law Co-Director of the Centre of European Law and Internationalisation (CELI) University of Leicester
disaffected glass-half-empty type; starting to think belatedly about more than humans
๐ 'The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire' (Pluto Press, 2025) | https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350769/the-psychic-lives-of-statues/
Professor of Journalism at Stellenbosch University. Director of Centre for Information Integrity in Africa. Interested in information integrity, disinformation, journalism with a focus on the Global South. https://ciia.africa email: hwasserman@sun.ac.za
