Jena Martin
@jenatmartin.bsky.social
Business and Human Rights Scholar. Focusing on tech and securities. All business. Fully human.
www.stmarytx.edu/2025/law-res... So honored to be a part of this place…
St. Mary's Law Professor's research reveals ramifications of sharing private data
St. Mary's University Professor of Law Jena Martin, J.D., is emerging as a thought leader in the intersection of business and human rights.
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This is a great opportunity for new scholars hoping to do work in business and human rights. Help me spread the word! law.stmarytx.edu/academics/bu...
Business and Human Rights Program - St. Mary's Law
St. Mary's Law is creating a Business and Human Rights (BHR) Program and launching its first BHR Scholars-in-Residence Pipeline Program.
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www.npr.org/2025/02/10/n... How did I miss this one?!
The Trump administration has stopped work at the CFPB. Here's what the agency does
It's the main U.S. agency tasked with overseeing the financial products and services used by everyday Americans. The CFPB's new head has closed its offices and told staff to stay home.
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More long term effects on our current tariff policies… www.esgdive.com/news/CSDDD-i...
CSDDD is a ‘non-tariff barrier’ for US companies: House Financial Services Chair
Rep. French Hill said during a webinar that the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive will create costly barriers for U.S. corporations to do business in and engage with the bloc.
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@taravanho.bsky.social is joining me at St. Mary’s School of Law! StMU, in celebration, is launching a BHR scholars-in-residence pipeline program. It’s open to pre-tenured folks who have been at a law school for three years or less and would like to develop research in the BHR field.
Also the student editors of Yale Journal of Law & Technology were mindblowingly fabulous to work with. Professional, meticulous...challenging us on all the weak points we were hoping no one would notice... By far the most substantive editorial feedback I've gotten in my gazillion ys of academic life
Our contention is that Section 230's protections of platforms vis-a-vis third-party speech can be compatible with platform premises liability w/r/t repeated, predictable harms in the engineered spaces platforms create & control. & we lay out various advantages premises liability jurisprudence brings
Meanwhile... worrying about real-world harms to kids from online interactions got me into a long series of conversations with the brilliant @jenatmartin.bsky.social that ended us up here yjolt.org/everything-n...
Everything New is Old Again: The Coming Metaverse, Platforms as Premises, and Addressing Harms that Occur Behind the Veil of Scale | Yale Journal of Law & Technology
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theconversation.com/universities... “When universities start regulating … what they teach, support and stand for – driven by fear rather than principle – they are no longer just reacting to political threats, they are internalizing them. … that may mark … the end of their academic independence.”
Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence
Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.
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“But every time something is renamed, it loses some of its original meaning.” - AW Tozer I’ve heard folks talk about doing the work of DEI w/o calling it that. I understand why. But, this is my fear - that we will lose the meaning that made it important.
Hearing announcements that Germany’s BHR due diligence law may be repealed, ostensibly to be replaced with the CSDDD. For the German speakers in the audience… www.cdu.de
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