The Trump family stablecoin surged to 7th largest in the world because of a shady crypto deal with the United Arab Emirates—a foreign government that will give them a crazy amount of money. The Senate shouldn’t pass a crypto bill this week to facilitate this kind of corruption.

I am very pleased to host my dear former PhD supervisor @profjohnlinarelli.bsky.social for this upcoming @cblpleeds.bsky.social Guest Seminar at @lawatleeds.bsky.social on 21 May. Please join us! The event is free and open to the public, and will take place in hybrid format.

🚨New Paper🚨 (hi law reviews!) ‘Digitizing the Fisc’ is the first article to address the current separation of fiscal powers crisis, exemplified by Trump's takeover of the Treasury's payments IT systems, through a tri-dimensional legal, political economic, & technological lens.

Well, at least we're getting Canadian news now in the USA.

Semafor@semafor.com · last yr.

Canada’s Liberal Party elected Mark Carney as leader, propelling the former central banker who has never held office to become the country’s prime minister at a pivotal moment.

Is the USA a rule of law state?

Greetings, Still in need of an author for an entry on the Philosophy of Criminal Law. If you are interested, do please let me know. It is a 1500-2000 word entry.

John Linarelli@profjohnlinarelli.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm editor of the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory & Philosophy, in search of authors for entries on (1) John Rawls, (2) Theories of Justice, & (3) Law and Political Economy. Pls email me if interested.

Many of you have already seen it, but I wanted to wait until my version was complete. My version has my newly set up youtube channel, some minor fixes to the transcript &a bevy of links throughout the transcript. Also a PDF version. Thanks @pkrugman.bsky.social www.crisesnotes.com/musk-in-your...

Musk In Your Computers: An Interview With Paul Krugman

Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Thirty Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5,...

crisesnotes.com

Europe as “a haven” for US researcher - The EU’s research funding bodies are thinking of ways to welcome US scientists and European ex-patriots who might be looking for a more sympathetic place to work now that Donald Trump is in the White House #AcademicSky 🧪 sciencebusiness.net/internationa...

Europe could be a ‘haven’ for US researchers, says ERC president

The EU’s research funding bodies are thinking of ways to welcome US scientists and European ex-patriots who might be looking for a more sympathetic place to work now that Donald Trump is in the White ...

sciencebusiness.net

I'm editor of the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory & Philosophy, in search of authors for entries on (1) John Rawls, (2) Theories of Justice, & (3) Law and Political Economy. Pls email me if interested.

I'm Editor of the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory & Philosophy. Looking for authors to write entries on (1) Derrick Bell, (2) Autopoesis & Law, (3) Coase Theorem, (4) Law & Morality of Armed Conflict, (5) Philosophy of Criminal Law, & (6) Nudges. If interested, please email me.

On my new role as Vice Dean at Pitt Law www.law.pitt.edu/news/dean-je...

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged far-right coup plot to seize power in Brazil

Former president is charged by attorney general following police report that accused him of organising a conspiracy to stop Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva taking power.

theguardian.com

Recently uploaded to SSRN. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Congratulations to my colleague, Professor and Vice Dean Jerry Dickinson, who has been named the new dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Hail to Pitt.

Congrats to Jerry Dickinson, our new Dean at Pitt Law! Jerry is a star.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette@post-gazette.com · 2y ago

Pitt names Jerry Dickinson as new law school dean

Missing Durham but not the lack of snow removal capacity in the UK

Martin Bauer@martinmbauer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Durham on the weekend from Liam McCormick

And, in fact, there have been no major internet companies founded elsewhere. But such shameful putz behavior is typical of these narcissistic adult toddlers. Tantrums as far as the eye can see.

a cartoon of a baby in a diaper crying

ALT: a cartoon of a baby in a diaper crying

media.tenor.com

What an ingrate move to denigrate the only state that gave him the space and freedom to innovate. None of these tech bros could have done what they did anywhere else but in tolerant and inclusive places like California or Washington www.thedailybeast.com//zuckerberg-...

Zuckerberg Turns Facebook Full MAGA and Smears California Staff

The Meta CEO said his company is ditching its fact-checkers and will copy one of Elon Musk’s changes to Twitter.

thedailybeast.com

Well would you look at that.

The gift of Pittsburgh. I am passing it along. www.pittsburghmagazine.com/pittsburgh-i...

Pittsburgh Has Big Ideas. One Professor Is Documenting Them.

University of Pittsburgh law professor and author Mike Madison has chronicled Pittsburgh icons as part of his Intellectual Property Hall of Fame.

pittsburghmagazine.com

John Linarelli@profjohnlinarelli.bsky.social · 2y ago

Outstanding work by my great Pitt Law colleague @michaelmadison.bsky.social

Outstanding work by my great Pitt Law colleague @michaelmadison.bsky.social

WESA@wesa.fm · 2y ago

Heinz ketchup. Mister Rogers’ “It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” Smiley cookies. Pgh professor and author Mike Madison has chronicled these unmistakably Pittsburgh things as part of his Intellectual Property Hall of Fame. He began the project in 2020 during the pandemic — just for fun.

This is ridiculous. The Democrats have learned nothing. www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nbcn...

Gerry Connolly beats out AOC in key vote for Oversight ranking member

The race between Connolly and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had been seen as a fight over seniority as younger Democrats pushed for new blood and generational change.

www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org

To all my American prof friends: happy grading. Tis the season.

This hurts

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2y ago

Still looking for authors on (1) critical race theory and law and (2) Joseph Raz, for the Elgar Encyclopedia of Legal Theory and Philosophy. If interested email me.

John Linarelli@profjohnlinarelli.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm editor of the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory & Philosophy. We're in need of contributors on: (1) Raz, Joseph; (2) Critical Race Theory & Law; (3) Discourse Theory & Law; (4) Empirical Legal Studies; & (5) Law & Risk. If you're interested, let me know via email. #academicsky

Antonio Delgado, the Lt Gov of NY, gets it. It's about inequality. . . . www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

Opinion | Democrats, It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Our Neoliberal Era

The Democratic Party can seize defeat to establish a new order, but the era of tinkering around the edges is over.

nytimes.com

I'm editor of the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory & Philosophy. We're in need of contributors on: (1) Raz, Joseph; (2) Critical Race Theory & Law; (3) Discourse Theory & Law; (4) Empirical Legal Studies; & (5) Law & Risk. If you're interested, let me know via email. #academicsky

Congrats to Nicholas Williams who wrote a fantastic paper in my Law, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice seminar on inequities in the agricultural credit market for small farmers. www.law.pitt.edu/news/3l-nich...

Have a big philosophy of international law paper almost done but have not looked at it since August. Would like to get it out in the Feb 25 submission window for US law reviews. Hope I don't go back to it and question everything all over again. Haven't sent anything to law reviews in a long time

All the best in the new week. We finish teaching right before Thanksgiving. I hope your exam situation is light this term.