Professors @sonofdavid.bsky.social and @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social encourage scholars to look to bottom-up sources of knowledge for a richer understanding of the relationships between law, politics, economics, and the material world.
Might I humbly suggest checking out the conclusion of the essay that Adam Davidson @sonofdavid.bsky.social & I wrote for the same symposium: lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...
a powerful account of what’s happening in Minneapolis from Amna Akbar
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
Yay, we're the luckiest to have you as a colleague! 🎉
Hooray! We're the grateful ones!
I agree & do think you can get a sense of that in a workshop, including by asking about implications beyond the paper. But that's not the same as some of the "gotcha"-type questions that focus on whether Part IV will work, which aren't aimed at thinking about the person as a collaborator or teacher.
The CLR essay has no Part IV! But, we do suggest some questions that scholars can ask themselves as they decide what their endings will look like.
We may actually agree to a large extent--Sabeel and I are not against Part IVs, just the de facto expectation of them and the results of that expectation in writing & in evaluation of scholarship.
Interesting. I'm not sure LR articles are necessarily the place for that kind of immediate actionable thinking, which imo is often best done collectively and w/attention to place, power, etc. Scholarship can certainly point the way toward that strategizing, as we suggest in the longer piece.
Based on a longer essay, forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review Forum and on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
For years, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & I have been frustrated with what we call the Part IV Problem in legal scholarship, the expectation of neat & feasible prescriptions to end pieces. Our frustrations are heightened in this moment of authoritarianism, as we wrote today at @lpeblog.bsky.social:
New from me in @michlawreview.bsky.social reviewing ‘New Deal Law & Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State’
michiganlawreview.org/whats-left-o...
NEW EPISODE 🚨 ANTI-REPRESSION 101: Tune in to hear @deanspade.bsky.social @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social @azohra.bsky.social discuss why the way we talk about political repression matters and five questions everyone should consider to avoid common anti-solidarity traps.
Appreciate thinking with @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social & Amna Akbar again, inspired by resistance movements confronting incipient fascism across terrains of struggle
lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...
Today I wrote in @lpeblog.bsky.social with Amna Akbar & @sameer-ashar.bsky.social about how legal scholars & teachers might act in solidarity with movements in this moment, in the face of fascism: lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...
Book Talk: No Cop City, No Cop World, with info about the event on 9/17 6pm-7:30pm at Brooklyn Law School, and image of the book cover
Join us at @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social Weds 9/17 @ 6pm for a @bkbookfest.bsky.social Bookends panel on NO COP CITY, NO COP WORLD @haymarketbooks.org, w/@micahh.bsky.social @kamaufranklin.bsky.social, Priscilla Grim, Mariah Parker, & free food&drink! RSVP: registration.brooklaw.edu/academic-eve...
🚨BREAKING🚨
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
Join us tomorrow at 5pm at Brooklyn Law School, organized by the BLS student LPE Collective:
Grateful to Jessica Eaglin for this Jotwell review of my book Radical Acts of Justice, highlighting an expansive idea of what it means to "do" Criminal Law: 🙏
Today, Premal Dharia concludes our symposium on @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social's *Radical Acts of Justice,* by discussing a crisis of purpose in public defense - whose workers must contend with the reality that a better world may obviate the need for their labor.
Luke, can you say more what you mean - is this distinguishing bet. constitutionalism at the level of ideological conflict v. within formal legal institutions?
Thank you @evanbernick.bsky.social for this generous & provocative engagement with my book. I love both of your points, but especially want to engage more with you about the idea - and necessity - of violence in movement struggles!
I am excited that this piece, co-authored with John Legend, is out in the world - we write about the new wave of repressive laws aimed at bail funds and collective care:
Tonight!
Excited to have Radical Acts of Justice included among this company!
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@jocelynsimonson.bsky.social writes at @inquest.bsky.social that “although law and legal battles run through both [Sharlyn Grace and Micah Herskind’s] descriptions of long-term struggle, law is not at the heart of their stories: + https://inquest.org/keeping-each-other-safe/
