A revised (and better) version is now available! The paper now tackles the post-Cisco ATS landscape and discusses non-federal tort law more extensively. It also has a simpler title, "Rights Over Remedies." You can read it at the same link. 👇🏽 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · last mo.

Bose on Rights of Action and Epistemic Injustice Debadatta Bose (University of California, Berkeley - School of Law) has posted Can the Subaltern Sue?...

Incredibly honored to see the paper as "Highly Recommended"! The piece reinterprets tort rights of action as a mechanism of epistemic resistance, particularly for marginalized victims of corporate abuse. Substantive update coming soon after the ATS is now gutted in Cisco v. Doe. Stay tuned!

Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · last mo.

Bose on Rights of Action and Epistemic Injustice Debadatta Bose (University of California, Berkeley - School of Law) has posted Can the Subaltern Sue?...

Excellent list. Includes a series (Andor), which goes well with Silo, The Expanse, and For All Mankind.

LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · last mo.

Yesterday, we shared fifteen of our favorite films exploring issues of law and political economy. What did we miss? So far, we've heard: Trading Places, Chinatown, Eddington, and Hustlers(!) Help us construct the LPE film canon by adding your favorite in the thread below!

Who thought it would be a good decision for a research paper website to discontinue their research paper series?

Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...

Thrilled to see my forthcoming Brooklyn Law Review article, “Postcolonial Private Law,” featured in the @lpeblog.bsky.social spring scouting report! 🎉 The piece argues for a paradigm shift in how we tackle transnational corporate exploitation. 🧵 1/2

LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today, a spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements 🎉

Today, a spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements 🎉

Some of the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship

A selection of worthy additions to your “important PDFs” folder.

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Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

Legal Theory Blog

Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!

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Excited to share my job talk paper "Postcolonial Private Law" now on SSRN where I bring international law into conversation with private law theory in arguing for empowering Global South people as rightsholders in transnational supply chains. Thanks for the shout-out @lsolum.bsky.social!

Lawrence Solum@lsolum.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Bose on Postcolonial Private Law, buff.ly/J3zvLV4 - Debadatta Bose (University of California, Berkeley - School of Law) has posted Postcolonial Private Law on SSRN.

Ever wondered how TWAIL and private law theory can benefit each other? I am excited to share my job market paper, “Postcolonial Private Law,” forthcoming in Brooklyn Law Review (Vol. 91) and now available on SSRN. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Bose on Human Rights Due Diligence and Marginalization, buff.ly/qQT6a9j - Debadatta Bose (University of California, Berkeley - School of Law) has posted Are there Humans in Human Rights Due Diligence? on SSRN.

1/2 Are there humans in human rights due diligence? Read my latest draft paper on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... I argue there that HRDD laws entrench the marginalization of people whose human rights they ostensibly protect by focusing on stakeholder engagement clauses.

1/2 🚨 Big news from Geneva: The ILO just voted to create a Convention on gig workers! This could mark the beginning of the end for “creative contracting” and misclassification—issues I highlighted in my Verfassungsblog piece.

Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস@dbose.bsky.social · last yr.

1/3 🚨 Gig giants use “independent contractor” labels to strip wages, sick pay, and social security—while admitting in filings that reclassification would gut their profits. In the Verfassungsblog, I break down this practice. Time for labor anti-avoidance rules? verfassungsblog.de/internationa...

1/3 🚨 Gig giants use “independent contractor” labels to strip wages, sick pay, and social security—while admitting in filings that reclassification would gut their profits. In the Verfassungsblog, I break down this practice. Time for labor anti-avoidance rules? verfassungsblog.de/internationa...

Taking Labour Law for a Ride

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What do calls for decolonial futures mean when articulated through international law? Limited places at our workshop, 5-6 June. @uvalawschool.bsky.social Organised by @kanadbagchi.bsky.social, @dbose.bsky.social, @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social & @tim-lindgren.bsky.social acil.uva.nl/content/even...

International Law's Local Encounters: Experiences and Imaginaries of (De-)Coloniality - ACIL

Please join us in interrogating international law’s local encounters and (de)coloniality during a two day workshop on the 5th & 6th June 2025 at Amsterdam Law School. The workshop is generously sponso...

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1/4 Excited to share my latest draft chapter, called 'The Tort of Irresponsible Contracting', now available on SSRN! It challenges the notion that business decisions are isolated from human rights considerations. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

1/2 My new blog is out on how the French corporate responsibility law, while emphasizing protection of Global South people, systematically excludes their voices. Do give it a read here: bhrj.blog/2024/12/18/t... #BizHumanRights #UNGPs #HRDD #DevoirDeVigilance #CSDDD

The Marginalisation of Rana Plaza Workers in the Rana Plaza Law

The French devoir de vigilance law is also known as the ‘Rana Plaza law’ owing to its impetus and political will arising from the Rana Plaza disaster. This was the first adopted law on human rights…

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🔔 Reminder before Christmas week: Abstracts are due by January 5! What do you think are the tensions behind the decolonial future(s) of international law? We'd love to hear from you!

Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস@dbose.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 Call for Papers 📢 Join us for an engaging two-day workshop on 5th & 6th June 2025 at the University of Amsterdam to explore local contestations about the 'future' in international law. 📚✨ (Limited) travel funding available decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/news...

We're launching a massive (it will stretch over 10 days) interdisciplinary symposium on the French Duty of Vigilance Law on the BHR Journal blog today! Our (with Nadia Bernaz) introduction is already out at bhrj.blog/2024/12/09/t... #BizHumanRights #HRDD #UNGPs #CSDDD #DevoirDeVigilance

The French duty of vigilance law after its implementation: (in)effectiveness, (un)accountability and (in)justice?

Introduction to Blog Symposium This blog symposium is the result of a collaborative project between the Asser Institute and Wageningen University aimed at investigating the implementation of the Fr…

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Join us in Amsterdam on 16 December for the first Decolonial Futures Annual Lecture with the fabulous Tendayi Achiume🔥🔥 More info and registration link at: decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...

Decolonial Futures Annual Lecture: E. Tendayi Achiume - Decolonial Futures

E. Tendayi Achiume delivers the Decolonial Futures RPA's first Annual Lecture, titled 'Border Imperialism(s): A View from Law'

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1/4 Read our new blog series unveiling the dance between human rights and economic laws. 💃 rightsasusual.com/2024/12/02/s... It follows from the Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws symposium at Tilburg Law School, hosted with @nnhrr.bsky.social colleagues Dalia Palombo and Gustavo Becker.

Symposium: Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws

This post is by Dr Debadatta Bose, postdoctoral scholar at the Berkeley Center for Private Law Theory. Readers of Rights as Usual are well-versed in the complex dance between human rights and econo…

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I put together this #BizHumanRights starter pack, but I know there's more of you out there! go.bsky.app/JcbrRb8 Let me know who I missed and hope to see some of you at the #UNForumBHR.

For interested people, here is an (incomplete) IEL Collective starter pack. Please let me know if I should add you or someone else! go.bsky.app/ByVGYq6

📢 Call for Papers 📢 Join us for an engaging two-day workshop on 5th & 6th June 2025 at the University of Amsterdam to explore local contestations about the 'future' in international law. 📚✨ (Limited) travel funding available decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/news...

Call for Papers: International Law's Local Encounters: Experiences and Imaginaries of (de-)Coloniality - Decolonial Futures

For a two day workshop to take place on the 5th & 6th June 2025, organised by the seed funding project Global Conversations, Local Inspirations: Locating Decoloniality in International Legal Practice

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I made a first attempt, there are DEFINITELY people missing, so I PROMISE this does not arbitrate who is inside and outside of LPE! You can reply to be added or DM me, also feel free to suggest other people, etc. go.bsky.app/P2sMKhK

Where is the long-drawn struggle between human rights and economic laws taking us? Let us think! We’re excited to announce a call for abstracts our symposium “Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws” on June 19 at Tilburg Law School & online. Further info: www.tilburguniversity.edu/overview/sym...

Symposium: Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws | Tilburg University

June 19, 2024 Tilburg University, the Netherlands

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delighted to see this out and grateful to Wanshu Cong and @fjquintana.bsky.social for bringing us together to think about the past and future of international law through Allende’s lens. look out for the rest of the posts starting from today! cil.nus.edu.sg/blogs/rememb...

Beyond delighted to share my first ever published article ‘The UNGPs and ISDS: Should Businesses Assess the Human Rights Impacts of Investor–State Arbitration?’ available open access in the wonderful Business & Human Rights Journal

1) My PhD gives a private law theory justification for supply chain responsibility for human rights 2) What if there were only human duties enumerated instead of human rights?

Alex Green (文浩航)@glexareen.bsky.social · 3y ago

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. Here's mine: - Whether we can have statehood without inhabitable land. - The legal-philosophical symbolism in Wagner's Ring.