Posting an updated draft as law-review submission season gets underway: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Mara Revkin@mararevkin.bsky.social · 3w ago

New paper with Gage Gramlick: "The Civil War Origins of Fiscal Policing." Original data from the DC Metropolitan Police show rapid growth of fine revenue during the Civil War, consistent w/ theories of wartime state-building & bureaucratic autonomy. Feedback welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New working paper with @janinadill.bsky.social: "The Moral Logic of Blame for Civilian Casualties": In survey & interview data, residents of Mosul Iraq penalize the intentional killing of 5 civilians more than the unintentional killing of 125, & blame is not zero-sum: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

New paper with Gage Gramlick: "The Civil War Origins of Fiscal Policing." Original data from the DC Metropolitan Police show rapid growth of fine revenue during the Civil War, consistent w/ theories of wartime state-building & bureaucratic autonomy. Feedback welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

CfP for our 3rd Annual HPE Conference @uscprice.bsky.social @usc.edu sponsored by @usccis.bsky.social and PIPE. Submit by May 30. If you work on MENA, I am running a smaller pre-conference for HPE papers focused on the region. @polisky.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Third Annual Historical Political Economy Conference: Call for Papers

Co-organized by Allison Hartnett, Assistant Professor of Political Science; and Jeffery A. Jenkins, Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law University of Southern California Oc...

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Excited to be co-organizing the Multi-Method Conflict Consortium at Duke May 15-16 with @meganastewart.bsky.social & @dotanhaim.bsky.social! Advanced PhD candidates and postdocs are invited to apply for our funded Junior Fellowship, deadline March 10: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Mara Revkin@mararevkin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Very excited to be co-hosting with @dotanhaim.bsky.social & @meganastewart.bsky.social the Multi-Method Conflict Consortium (M2C2) Mini-Conference at Duke May 15-16! PhD candidates & postdoctoral fellows are invited to apply for our Junior Fellowship. Apply here by Mar. 10: forms.gle/Vy6h53639F8B...

Very excited to be co-hosting with @dotanhaim.bsky.social & @meganastewart.bsky.social the Multi-Method Conflict Consortium (M2C2) Mini-Conference at Duke May 15-16! PhD candidates & postdoctoral fellows are invited to apply for our Junior Fellowship. Apply here by Mar. 10: forms.gle/Vy6h53639F8B...

Important reading from @saskiabr.bsky.social on threats to women's rights in the context of democratic backsliding: "...Antidemocratic actors intentionally use gender to polarize the public and delegitimize broader human rights and equality norms." @carnegiedcg.bsky.social

Foreign Affairs@foreignaffairs.com · 7mo ago

“The world is more than a decade into a prolonged democratic recession, and the space for women to organize for political change is shrinking across all regions,” writes Saskia Brechenmacher.

You can read my take on Trump's illegal invasion of Venezuela here: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation

A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.

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🆕South Sudan is one of the most fragile states—but that fragility varies subnationally @gabriellalevy2.bsky.social and @mararevkin.bsky.social led a Duke University team to create the Fragility Index, mapping this variation Their @iom.int report shows how this novel index can inform recovery⤵️

I appreciate @nytimes reporting on this often-forgotten crisis in Syria, but the article makes a common mistake: conflating 2 *VERY* different populations & sites: • (1) ISIS combatants in prisons • (2) civilians, mostly children, in humanitarian "closed camps" ... [thread 1/6]

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts

Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

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ICYMI in a very bad news week: On 9/9, Israel ordered a complete evacuation of Gaza City; aside from clear violations of international law, this powerful visual story @josh-h.bsky.social shows how residents have nowhere to go: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... See also: www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Intentional starvation of civilians as a method of war is always a war crime. Non-reciprocity of international humanitarian law means that no amount of alleged aid diversion by Hamas could ever justify this. Horrifying but necessary reading, see also: www.btselem.org/sites/defaul... (1+ year ago)

Louisa Loveluck@leloveluck.bsky.social · last yr.

After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

We're announcing our Fall 2025 call for applications! Deadline to apply is August 14, feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop@jqconworkshop.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict Workshop Fall 2025 PhD students, postdocs & junior faculty: Present your research/practice job talk! 🗓️ Virtual: 1st & 3rd Thursdays, 1pm ET 📝 Deadline: Aug 14 Application below: #PoliSci #polisky #JobMarket #ConflictStudies

🚨FYI Search Committees! The extraordinarily talented and kind @benckrick.bsky.social will be on the political science job market soon-ish and some lucky department should hire him while you still can!

Benjamin Krick@benckrick.bsky.social · last yr.

Our article on civilian harm and military legitimacy is now available at @iojournal.bsky.social. We believe it has timely implications for events playing out now in the Middle East and beyond. From North Carolina to Northern Iraq, working with Jon and Mara has been a truly rewarding experience!

Excited to share a new open-access article with @benckrick.bsky.social @jonpetkun.bsky.social in @iojournal.bsky.social, "Civilian Harm & Military Legitimacy" www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... This project started in 2018 Mosul, Iraq’s 2nd largest city, in the aftermath of a 9-month battle … 1/7

Grateful for the opportunity to write with @oonahathaway.bsky.social & @azmatzahra.bsky.social + work with @yalelawjournal.bsky.social on "The Dangerous Rise of 'Dual-Use' Objects in War": www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-.... More on data & methods here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

It's out! The Dangerous Rise of "Dual-Use" Objects in War Coauthored with @mararevkin.bsky.social and @azmatzahra.bsky.social. We show that the targeting of dual-use objects over the last several decades has placed civilians at great risk. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We also have some great dynamic data visualizations (with links to the full dataset on Dataverse)! Check them out here: dualuse.law.yale.edu

If you're starting law school this fall, you might be interested in my short essay, "How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students." You can download it for free here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Must-read special issue in Dædalus (open-access!) on research ethics in the Middle East & North Africa by an extraordinary group of scholars covering threats to academic freedom, the politics & economics of knowledge production, disinformation, AI & much more: direct.mit.edu/daed/article....

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Terrible news and a setback for research on police violence against civilians and the many students supported by @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social's NSF grant. Follow @gsslab.bsky.social for more about her important work with the Gender and Security Sector Lab: www.sabrinamkarim.com/gsslab

Sabrina Karim@sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · last yr.

Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.

Very excited about this new article by @jonpetkun.bsky.social & Joe Schottenfeld in the GW Law Review, "The Judicial Administrative Power"! Describes three functions of "nonadjudicatory activities" performed by federal courts: rulemaking, managing & communicating: www.gwlr.org/wp-content/u... 1/2

Jon Petkun@jonpetkun.bsky.social · last yr.

Really proud of my new article with the extraordinary Joe Schottenfeld (coming to a job market near you in the not-too-distant future!). We consider the federal judiciary's vast "administrative" powers and offer a few modest ideas for reform. Read @ www.gwlr.org/the-judicial... (thank you editors!)

Really proud of my new article with the extraordinary Joe Schottenfeld (coming to a job market near you in the not-too-distant future!). We consider the federal judiciary's vast "administrative" powers and offer a few modest ideas for reform. Read @ www.gwlr.org/the-judicial... (thank you editors!)

As many of you know, staff at the US Institute of Peace (myself included) were fired en masse last Friday night. It’s a tough beat -- my amazing colleagues deserve better. It’s also not over, as USIP’s board is contesting the DOGE takeover in court. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

DOGE fires nearly all staff at U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters

D.C. employees of the institute, founded and funded by Congress, received late-night termination notices, though most of its overseas staff were left in place.

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Inspired by calls to reimagine the space currently populated by international criminal law, Meg deGuzman's and my essay engages in feminist dreaming—that is, seeks to reimagine accountability as it could be, viewed through a feminist lens. Now up @ssrn.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

AJIL and AJIL Unbound@ajil.bsky.social · last yr.

AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies" is now available to read and features and incredible line-up of scholars. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Congratulations @edebruin.bsky.social @gabriellalevy2.bsky.social, Livia Schubiger & @miweintraub83.bsky.social on this important contribution!

American Political Science Review@apsrjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

Just published on APSR First View: "Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia" by Erica DeBruin, Gabriella Levy, Livia Schubiger and Michael Weintraub. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Grateful to the editors & reviewers @iojournal.bsky.social for a very constructive review process and conditional acceptance of "Civilian Harm & Military Legitimacy in War: Evidence from the Battle of Mosul in Iraq" with @benckrick.bsky.social @jonpetkun.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thrilled to see my article -- showing how a private organization has shaped, and diluted, an international human rights norm -- in AJIL! It shows how a global sport governing body has responded to legal challenges by retrofitting 'gender equality' to align with exclusionary regulatory practices.

AJIL and AJIL Unbound@ajil.bsky.social · last yr.

The January issue of AJIL is now available online! @michelekrech.bsky.social @hosungahn.bsky.social @monicahakimi.bsky.social @jkatzcogan.bsky.social @akinkugbe.bsky.social @asilorg.bsky.social @cambup-law.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...