Whistling at the Edge of Law The whistle is sounding in Minneapolis. The question before the legal profession is whether we will hear it, amplify it, and act accordingly, or instead insist that the ground eroding beneath our feet...

Today, Emmanuel Mauleón reflects on the situation in Minnesota, what it tells us about the law, and how the legal community should respond.

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Is there room in the @lpeproject.bsky.social budget to invite @nehrujackets.bsky.social for next conference?

Visual with photos of Bonnie Shucha, Elizabeth Mertz, Christopher Lau and Lisa Washington.

Congratulations to our UW Law faculty who were honored this month at the Association of American Law Schools (@theaals.bsky.social) 2026 Annual Meeting in New Orleans: Bonnie Shucha, Elizabeth Mertz, @christopher-lau.bsky.social and @slwashington.bsky.social.

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

let's take stock here:

(Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it.

Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷‍♀️ YOLO?

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"

our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got

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Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp. This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

"The Nazis... imagined their targets would self-deport. Once the myth of self-deportation collapsed, they turned to more punitive measures. On Tuesday, Noem similarly noted the Everglades camp was meant to frighten immigrants into self-deporting. 'If you don’t,' she said, 'you may end up here.'"

‘We’re the Last Hope’ Wisconsin Innocence Project changes lives for students and the wrongfully-convicted.

Last fall, the Wisconsin Innocence Project (WIP) achieved the release of two clients, both incarcerated for 25+ years. Learn more about how WIP is changing lives for students and the wrongfully convicted in our magazine feature: bit.ly/45cureM
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Courts and the Abolition Movement — California Law Review This Article theorizes and reimagines the place of courts in the contemporary struggle for the abolition of racialized punitive systems of legal control and exploitation. In the spring and summer of 2...

The arrest of judge Dugan in Wisconsin underscores the central role that local courts and judges are expected to play in upholding the carceral state.

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Court Records Undercut Bronx DA’s Testimony on Discovery Rollbacks Hochul's proposed rollbacks are one of the last sticking points in this year’s budget negotiations. One prosecutor’s support rested on a faulty anecdote.

In the push by Gov. Hochul and DAs to roll back discovery reform in New York, they have been missing one ironic thing: evidence. Where they do attempt to claim that serious crimes are dismissed on “minor technicalities,” they don’t hold up. Sounds familiar. nysfocus.com/2025/04/08/d...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

It uses 911 Call Analysis, a forensic technique that often evades evidentiary challenge, as a lens to examine the failure of the criminal legal system to exclude unreliable forensics, and offers the concept of Shadow Forensics to describe how the state shields unreliable junk forensics generally.

Amidst the demise of civilization, excited to share that my next article, "Shadow Forensics: Uncovering 911 Call Analysis" will be published in Volume 111 of the Cornell Law Review.

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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Again, the Secretary of State has no authority to “revoke” green cards.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

No big deal, just @slwashington.bsky.social winning another award for her scholarship.

@rachelburg.bsky.social did amazing work to make this happen.

Wisconsin Innocence Project Receives $1.5 Million Grant | University of Wisconsin Law SchoolSite iconsUniversity logo that links to main university websitefacebooktwitterxyoutubelinkedininstagramUW C...

NEWS: The Wisconsin Innocence Project has received the largest grant in its history to investigate cases that could benefit from recent advancements in DNA testing. law.wisc.edu/newsletter/a... @christopher-lau.bsky.social @rachelburg.bsky.social

31,000 children affected across 21 states: 2024 school shootings in numbers Monday’s deadly shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, brought the number of people killed in U.S. school shootings this year to 13.

31,000 children affected across 21 states: 2024 school shootings in numbers

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WI Innocence Project victories point to systemic problem in justice system The Wisconsin Innocence Project is ending the year with some key victories including helping with the release of two men who each spent decades in prison but the wins highlight a long-standing systemi...

Had the chance to speak to @publicnewsservice.bsky.social about recent Wisconsin Innocence Project victories and deeper structural issues in the criminal legal system www.publicnewsservice.org/2024-12-11/c...

Judge releases innocent man who has been behind bars for 27 years

Loved seeing Channel 3000's coverage of Manuel Cucuta's release, and particularly the critical role that clinic students, Gabriella Marquez and Noemi Reyes, played in his case.

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Donate to Support Manuel Cucuta's Fresh Start, organized by Gabriella Marquez On November 25, 2024, Manuel Cucuta - a client of the Wisconsin Innocence Projec… Gabriella Marquez needs your support for Support Manuel Cucuta's Fresh Start

This Giving Tuesday, please consider contributing to our client, Manuel, who was just released after 27 years of incarceration www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...

Wisconsin Innocence Project Client Manuel Cucuta Released After 27 Years in Prison | University of Wisconsin Law SchoolSite iconsUniversity logo that links to main university websitefacebooktwitteryo...

Thrilled to share that our client, Manuel Cucuta, was released yesterday after serving nearly three decades in prison. Just in time for his first Thanksgiving with family in 27 years.

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