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First there was a glimpse at the cover 🤩
Now the book is actually available to pre-order! 🎉
You can pre-order right now (great way to start the day)!! ⬇️
and very soon through @ucpress.bsky.social. 👍🏻
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We’re in a new era of coverture. Coverture 2.0, however, is not just a return to the patriarchal household and a bevy of tradwives. Coverture 2.0 is a framework of legal oppression eroding the legal advances that gave women property rights. Read (and subscribe!) 👇🏻
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cover image, the cross-section of an apartment building.
Celebrate with me 🥳🎊⭐️!
I've turned in the last set of chapter proofs before my book goes into typesetting. Here’s the cover, which I love.
Friends in the inheritance law world, I'm delighted to announce the Sixth Biennial Critical Trusts and Estates Conference this coming October 9-10. We're hosting at Richmond Law and looking forward to a fantastic conference. Feel free to message me with questions!
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The best conference of the year! Come join us for the Richmond JFF. Meet great people, workshop papers, enjoy dinners and drinks, and get started on your summer project.
Drop a comment with questions and I hope to see you in Richmond! 🎉🤩
Inheritance is a system in which norms solidify, wealth crystallizes, and power reproduces itself in ways both big and small. By exploring inheritance, we can see how assets and beliefs take uneven shape.
Check out my Substack for weekly posts on Inheriting Inequality!
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Here's a thought....
We have a poverty line, but not a wealth line.
We think in floors and not ceilings.
What would it look like to have a wealth line and design policy around it? And what would the number be?
Read more in today's post 👇🏻💵
allisontait.substack.com/p/the-wealth...
Best read of the day. I so admire this writing.
Whistling at the Edge of Law -- lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...
It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
this is from biscuit’s new york times profile, taken after she won the national book award for her first mystery thriller, BREAD GIRL
Arthur: wrote a critically acclaimed biography of the frères Goncourt several years ago and has been delicately exhausted ever since!
“Atiles shows how those in power weaponise colonial legality to legitimate the social, economic & political violence they commit against marginalised communities.”
Vanessa Jiménez-Read reviews Crisis by Design by @joseatiles.bsky.social in our new issue.
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Agreed, it is a signpost for so much of what is wrong with this moment and it names the people without naming the people. And underscores the absolute indefensibility of their position. It's a great rhetorical move.
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
I hope everyone is still running on the incredible high of the conference but also totally relaxing today and recharging.
That was an incredible experience and I'm already looking forward to the next time!! 💚💙❤️
Just another day of Richmond Law faculty making magic happen at the @a-lpe.bsky.social inaugural conference in our town. Love my colleagues! @richmondlaw.bsky.social @lukenorris.bsky.social @marisakabas.bsky.social @erincollins.bsky.social
A wonderful book and important history about the uses and abuses of marriage.
Writing a History of Marital Privilege in an Age of Retrenchment -- lpeproject.org/blog/writing...
Looking forward to this! Spies and state intelligence seen three ways with a great set of papers.
If Senate Republicans refuse to strip out the DHS bill to put real constraints on ICE — and hold hostage the vast majority of government funding — then Republicans are complicit in the chaos and own the potential government shutdown.
It’s time to stop ICE’s violence.