Erika JS Buell

Erika JS Buell

@ejsbuell.bsky.social

Startup lawyer, advisor, educator. Fmr Law Prof Duke Law and Dir of Law and Entrepreneurship program. www.buell-law.com

580 Followers 206 Following 137 Posts Joined Aug 2023
1 month ago

There seems to be a fundamental misconception about journalists and the First Amendment. You don't get 1A rights in exchange for being accurate and impartial. The ideal of journalistic neutrality was inconceivable to the founders. Journalism in the 1780s was partisan! And they still protected it!

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1 month ago
Bob Weir Homecoming sign on tv. It shows a picture of Bob, with his guitar and hat.   It reads HOMECOMING
CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF
BOBBY WEIR

Anyone watching with me? #bobweir

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2 months ago

Heartbreaking to lose this artist

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2 months ago
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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

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2 months ago

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

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2 months ago

Happy new year!

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4 months ago

The alt text is 🔥for cat lovers 🐾

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4 months ago
LawHub — Law School Transparency Find the best law school for you using the most comprehensive source of law school data.

Hi, fellow faculty teaching undergrads. As we are getting into law school application season, please encourage your students to interact with good data sources. Steer them away from USNWR. They should instead be doing comparisons through lawschooltransparency.com.

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5 months ago
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Brown University president declines invitation for Brown to join federal Compact In a letter to the White House, President Christina H. Paxson wrote that Compact provisions restricting academic freedom and undermining autonomy would impede the University’s ability to fulfill its m...

Congratulations to Brown University. An institution dedicated to timeless principles must not yield to temporary improper pressures.

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5 months ago

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

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5 months ago

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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5 months ago
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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

I wrote about the “compact” for higher education

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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5 months ago
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Letter Regarding Compact MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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5 months ago

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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6 months ago
"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

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7 months ago

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

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7 months ago

And he vehemently wants separation of church and state. I hope you’re right

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8 months ago

Yes, and income eligibility folks need “aid.” I’m really sorry to read about your elder care experience, from one only child to another. Sending you strength 🙏

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8 months ago

This breaks my heart. I’m so sorry this is happening to him

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8 months ago

Writing is thinking

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10 months ago
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Happy Mother’s Day.
This is a flower I saw yesterday on a hike; it reminded me of the strength of beautiful things even in harsh, inhospitable environments. Shine on, my friends. Radiate. Resist.
💕

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10 months ago
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This Five-Hundred-Word Bumper Sticker on My Tesla Explains Why I’m Not a Bad Person Right now, you’re behind me, within reading distance on the freeway, at the stoplight, in the parking lot, maybe in the drive-thru line, or perhaps...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/thi...

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10 months ago
Pope Francis receiving a warming stripes stole. Photo: Vatican Media

“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility. Those who will have to suffer the consequences will not forget this failure of conscience and responsibility.” — Pope Francis

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10 months ago
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6 Things You Can Do to Secure Your Phone as You Reenter the Country After Traveling In some instances, government agents can search your digital devices legally after an international trip

Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state
www.aarp.org/travel/trave...

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10 months ago
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Never forget: Sen. Elizabeth Warren kicked off her career as a college professor.

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10 months ago

So proud to be part of the NYU Law faculty

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11 months ago
US Applicant Week

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18.
Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
#ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

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