Rachel Lopez

Legal history people: the ASLH conference will be in the Canadian Rockies in Nov.2026! Panel proposals are due March 24, 2026. The Call links to google sheets where you can find co-panelists & chair-commentators 👇 You can @ me if you're looking for fellow panelists, too.

Hope it was a great show! I feel like I’m in hibernation mode so really impressed that you made it out!

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On the streets of Philadelphia

despite The Horrors™ I have a regular ass job to do so on that note are there any kind academics out there that would be willing to share grant applications with me

It's that time of year!

Tulane Law School invites applications for its Forrester Fellowship position, which is designed for promising scholars who plan to apply for tenure-track law school positions. The Forrester Fellow is full-time faculty in the law school and... 1/4

Not sure that I have godmother status but I really enjoyed reading and engaging with this really thoughtful and important piece!

🚨Job alert! 🚨

I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills.

⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26

More info:

Sooooo fun! Thanks for sharing!

- Krewe de Jeanne d'Arc NEW ROUTE AND EARLIER 7:30 START TIME!!! Details News from our Facebook feed.... Site editor log-in

Are you going to be at #AALS2026 this evening? My suggestion…skip the boring evening school sponsored parties at the hotel and go to the Joan of Arc parade, which marks the start of Carnival. It starts at 7:30 and is in walking distance of the conference hotel. joanofarcparade.org

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I wrote a piece about two years ago that feels scarily relevant to today. Sometimes you just want to be wrong.

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I fear we are going to have to say this a lot again:

Int law prohibits bombing countries for the sake of democracy. FOR VERY GOOD REASON. It tends not to work.

Attacking a country because its leader lacks legitimacy - whether as pretext or sincerely held rationale - is still just an aggression.

Did they play with Guerilla Toss? They were a really great opening act at the show here.

Nice! They still put on a really fun show!

Thought my 40s would look much different than my 20s but here I am again at a Built to Spill show on a Thursday. 🫤

We are seeking a Fellow to lead cutting-edge research on short-form video content and its societal implications. Bridging the gap between computer vision, causal inference, and computational social science, the Fellow will focus on the large-scale analysis of TikTok data (using an existing, massive dataset). The position involves developing novel multimodal methods to understand how short-form algorithmic content shapes public opinion, political polarization, and online culture. This is a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of the field, combining rigorous social science research designs with state-of-the-art computational techniques.

The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with an interdisciplinary team (me, @bstewart.bsky.social, and @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social).

Link: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Please apply by THIS SUNDAY, Dec. 14!

Breaking my partial social-media hiatus w/3 new papers:
Missing Children Discrimination (Wis. L. Rev 2025(4)) w/ Tanisha Brown— shorturl.at/5rl86 abstract 👇)
Anti-Holistic Algorithms (forth. Vanderbilt L. Rev)
(Re)Individualizing Criminal Law (forth. B.C. L. Rev)
More soon on SSRN—comments welcome!

Especially coming from the editor with the vision for the volumes… what better feedback could I hope for.

When academics talk about scholarly impact I don’t think they are thinking about messages like these, but more than anything else they are what keep me writing.

Thank you so much, Cris, for this motivation to keep pushing!

My gratitude to you and Tamsin for putting together these wonderful volumes with such rich contributions. I will continue to reflect on them for some time.

It was such a delight to read the volumes you put together. I hope I did them justice!

Thank you for taking the time to read it!

Israel attacked Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, data reveals Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites

By me: Israeli armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack Palestinian water sources over 250 times in five years, new data reveals @pacificinstitute.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

I encourage you to read the contributions by @karengle.bsky.social @dansheikh.bsky.social @lovedayh.bsky.social @edoardostoppioni.bsky.social & others in the volumes. They offer exactly what this week calls us to honor: the fullness of trans and queer life, grounded not only in struggle but in joy.

Witnessing my sister’s flourishing, at a time when the world is so hostile to her very existence, reminded me that human rights must be about more than shielding against suffering.

Similarly, these volumes invite us to imagine international law as a space not only for safety, but for joy.

As human rights scholars and advocates, we often focus on protection from harm, violence, and repression. That work is essential—but it can narrow our gaze to the bleakest aspects of human experience. What we too often overlook is joy.

Queer Encounters with International Law: Lives, Communities, Subjectivities This book focuses on queer people and their encounters with international law. Traversing a wide range of topics, from trans discrimination and conversion therapy to sadomasochism and abolitionism, th...

As I reflect on the joy of my sister’s transition this week, how fitting that my book review of two volumes on Queer Engagements with International Law, edited @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @claerwen.bsky.social which was shaped by her journey, was published today.

www.routledge.com/Queer-Encoun...

Published today—at the start of Transgender Awareness Week—in the American Journal of International Law, my new book review, "International Law as a Site for Queer Joy?" arrives at a moment that feels both personal and profound.

Now up at @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....