Working on finishing up a law review article for the upcoming submission cycle? ICYMI, the final version of @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & my essay "The Part IV Problem in Legal Scholarship" is now online at the Columbia Law Review: columbialawreview.org/content/the-...

THE PART IV PROBLEM IN LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP - Columbia Law Review

Introduction As legal scholars, we have tremendous freedom to choose what we study and how we study it, to engage with the relationship between how law is and what legal arrangements might help move u...

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So, this is in print now. Title pretty much says it all. virginialawreview.org/articles/abo...

New must read @lpeblog.bsky.social post on the Prairieland trial and its implications for the criminalization of left politics & protest:

zohra ahmed@azohra.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I wrote about the Prairieland trial, the first to pilot the White House’s theory that antifa is a vector for terrorism. The case is a dangerous escalation in the admin's war against the left. Yet it also highlights a longer history... lpeproject.org/blog/guilty-...

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.

a powerful account of what’s happening in Minneapolis from Amna Akbar www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Amna A. Akbar | In South Minneapolis

ICE have gone from wearing tactical army gear to Midwestern civilian garb; I have even seen photos of agents in...

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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:

LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Today, @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social and @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social challenge the idea that law review articles should conclude with a set of actionable prescriptions. This convention, they argue, constrains ambition, sidelines critique, and conflates near-term feasibility with rigor.

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...

What's Left of the New Deal State? - Michigan Law Review

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State. By Anthony Gregory. Harvard University Press. 2024. Pp. 473. $45. Introduction A vast body of scholarship situates itself i...

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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.

Cultivating Solidarity When Responding to Political Repression with Dean, Zohra, and Jocelyn

Podcast Episode · Outlaw · 10/29/2025 · 1h 1m

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Appreciate thinking with @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social & Amna Akbar again, inspired by resistance movements confronting incipient fascism across terrains of struggle lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...

Movement Law Under Fascism

As fascist tendencies intensify across the United States, social movements continue to organize against the forces of state repression. Legal scholars must stand with these movements…

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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...

Movement Law Under Fascism

As fascist tendencies intensify across the United States, social movements continue to organize against the forces of state repression. Legal scholars must stand with these movements…

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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...

📣 📣CONFERENCE ALERT: "Facing the Future: Organizing and Lawyering for Justice" For justice-oriented law folks hoping to resist Trump 2.0 and help imagine and work for a better world. BREAKING: Draft schedule is up, and registration is open. Space is limited. Learn more at facingthefuture.net!

2025 Conference: Facing the Future: Organizing and Lawyering for Justice - Harvard Law School | Systemic Justice Project

The 2025 Justice Conference on Facing the Future – Organizing and Lawyering for Justice…

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🚨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:

LPE NYC@lpenyc.bsky.social · 2y ago

NYC: Brooklyn Law's LPE Collective is hosting an excellent event on the Bangladesh student movement and movement lawyering tomorrow at 5PM ET! @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social and Chaumtoli Huq will be in conversation.

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: 🙏

Gautam Hans@gshans.bsky.social · 2y ago

Great to see @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social's excellent work "Radical Acts of Justice" as today's Jot by my friend and colleague Jessica Eaglin! crim.jotwell.com/doing-crimin...

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.

A Crisis of Purpose in Public Defense

That public defense is in a state of crisis is far from controversial. Crushing caseloads and rampant underfunding have created untenable working conditions under which even the most well-meaning…

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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:

James (Jamie) Macleod@jammacleod1.bsky.social · 2y ago

My world-renowned colleague @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social teamed up with a little-known artist named John Legend to write this op-Ed about threats to bail funds in georgia time.com/collection/t...

Tonight!

Excited to have Radical Acts of Justice included among this company!

Inquest@inquest.bsky.social · 3y ago

Featuring works by Felicia Arriaga, @dnbrgr.bsky.social, Orisanmi Burton, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social, @genderhorizon.bsky.social, @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social and more, our annual book list pushed us to imagine a future without mass incarceration.

@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/

Keeping Each Other Safe | Jocelyn Simonson | INQUEST

Acting within the criminal legal system cannot be the solution, on its own, to the existence of the carceral state.

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Hi Bluesky! I am still learning how this place works, but the in the meantime... I wrote a book! It's out today, and I'm really excited to be in conversation with people I admire at these events (w/more to come). Please join, & learn more here - https://thenewpress.com/books/radical-acts-of-justice