IMPORTANT: The folks at LUCE: Immigrant Justice Network are organizing a week of action in MA to support the PROTECT ACT.
Stop Massachusetts' complicity with ICE kidnappings and violence. Show up for these events!
Once upon a time, a law professor set out on a quest to do some good in the (trademark) world. Yesterday, that quest ended. But I'm still proud of my friend & colleague, Rebecca Curtin, for fighting a good fight.
The gap between what international courts say on climate change & what governments do is stark.
But across the world & in UN fora, Indigenous leaders, civil society, and climate-vulnerable countries are working hard to turn global climate court rulings into action.
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Some 350 million people worldwide live with one of more than 5,000 genetic diseases. Many of these conditions could, in theory, be treated with personalized therapies, which correct a single genetic mutation in a person’s DNA using the CRISPR gene-editing tool.
Aluminium used to build cars can now be reused to build cars. A new alloy called RidgeAlloy turns contaminated scrap into strong structural vehicle parts. This solves the problem where recycled aluminium from mixed or dirty auto scrap was too weak for structural use buff.ly/tmDSuWf
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Once again I am begging my fellow legal academics to remember that judges are the objects of our study, not our bosses, priests, or revered elders.
The Market Basket lore has been an amazing part of moving to Boston 😂. It came up right away when I first taught Business Entity Fundamentals at Suffolk Law and it was example number infinity that it’s all about the market for control.
is there anyone else out there with a passion for market basket that also has strong feelings about particular Delaware Court of Chancery judges because this 126 page opinion was something
"our leadership has remained conspicuously silent when faculty members — disproportionately women and faculty of color — have had their scholarship and qualifications impugned by members of Congress and by right-wing outlets like Fox News..."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
This really highlights the issue of excluded persons within the territory of a designated GI. If it redefines certain practices as 'within' the GI and others as 'outside' I remain worried about barriers to entry and incumbency advantages. But this one doesn't seem to raise even those issues.
✊🏽 This week, CIEL Senior Attorney Luisa Gomez will join the 25th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) at UN Headquarters in New York.
CIEL's engagement focuses on Indigenous Peoples’ health in conflict contexts, alongside land rights and climate justice.
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#UNPFII: CIEL joins 100+ civil society organizations in strongly condemning the arbitrary detention of Indigenous leader Daria Egereva and human rights defender Natalia Leongardt for their peaceful work defending human rights & the environment.
READ: climaterights.org/wp-content/u...
A portrait photo of a boy. His face and shoulders can be seen in an oval fuzzy frame. His hair is very short. He is wearing a shirt with a rather wide collar unbuttoned at the neck.
20 April 1929 | A Polish Jew, Michał Lask, was born in Będzin.
On 24 June 1943 he was deported from the ghetto in Będzin and was murdered in a gas chamber in #Auschwitz.
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▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
The books are good but I would support a Tolkien revival on the sole basis that people really need to understand how dumb it is to call a company Palantir
It’s just frustrating to see the media refuse to acknowledge that views like this exist. This guy is pretty regularly quoted as a “concerned therapist“
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
If this weren't so horrifying, the idea of the Palantir dweebs as the standard-bearers for a "culture producing vital advances" would be beyond fucking hilarious
Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.
Fair point.
oh no. I'm not sure what the relevant level of contribution should be from a supervisor but that might not be it.
I think that's really interesting to note. I don't know where the relevance/scholarly contribution assessment goes, but I think that even the smartest students may not be equipped for that part, but leaving it to professor/supervisors,introduces weird bias if its not blind. It's such a hard problem.
Someone really ought to write a book about the significance of #SCOTUS doing so many major things through unsigned and unexplained rulings, and how so much of it really is a recent phenomenon.
Still not perfect given the sheer volume of submissions. I don’t think we should rely on peer review to do deep structural editing and citation. I did it recently for a piece that reeked of AI writing and errors but I could not review every piece at that level.
It’s really hard separating the two which is why I think law review faculty supervisors (supported by internal doctrinal specialty faculty should play a larger role in initial blind first read) after students do baseline pool construction.
I do think there is a distinction (made by many others I’m sure) between article selection (not a student strength) and editing/citation/reference/ revision.( a real advantage)
I will point to this the next time some law professor complains about the competence of law review editors and suggests peer review instead.
I really did think that Hegseth’s use of the “Pharisees” was one of the ugliest acts of public anti-semitism in a moment. To describe journalists as “Pharisees” is to touchdown deep into “Jewish journalists are in cabal territory.” Hegseth is trying to run Giliad over in the DOD.
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
He’s asking this question in context knowing the answer, but it’s worth saying. Black students, trans students, and many other groups face very real discrimination on a regular basis at law schools. But no one has stepped forward with a sovereign wealth fund to help them.
Where is the money from the settlement going to come from is what is I am asking? Can Congress refuse to appropriate money to the settlement? Can the money come from the account in Quatar where the President is hiding money from Venezuela?