Excited to moderate this joint @columbiaigp.bsky.social + Workshop webinar with a great panel of folks to understand what Americans are thinking about AI policy amidst all of the debates about AI's impact on our economy and communities. Tune in live here August 5th at noon!

What Do American Workers Want from AI Policy?

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Columbia Institute of Global Politics@columbiaigp.bsky.social · 2w ago

How are American workers thinking about AI, & what do they want from AI policy? Tune in to this Columbia IGP webinar on August 5 @ 12pm ET: youtube.com/live/xcuyP9z... Speakers: Mary Beech, @alexsjacquez.bsky.social, @michelleimiller.bsky.social, @aijenpoo.bsky.social, @awhf.bsky.social, Jen Klein

Spain should get an extra star for holding the women’s World Cup at the same time.

For those interested in the constitutional nitty gritty on advancing Supreme Court term limits, I highly recommend this memo from the Brennan Center published today www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Supreme Court Term Limits Are Constitutional

This legal analysis of leading proposals for term limits demonstrates that they can be implemented by statute.

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KBJ’s concurrence —ode to 14th amendment purpose as anti-caste and equal citizenship—is really good reading pre-July 4th.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last mo.

Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:

We're hiring at Democracy Docket. HMU if you're interested in any of these: We need: 1) a JD to lead our legal research team, 2) a news editor to lead our legal reporting, and 3) a lead video producer. 1+2 will get to work a lot with me; take that however you will ats.rippling.com/democracy-do...

Despite Callais, this conversation made me hopeful about Court reform and legislative strategies to strengthen voting rights.

Brennan Center@brennancenter.org · 3mo ago

The Supreme Court has made itself a political topic, and many Americans support reforming it. Listen to this week’s episode of The Briefing with Michael Waldman to hear experts discuss how to reshape the Court to improve U.S. democracy: bit.ly/3PaNq3E

We've launched a new @knightcolumbia.org podcast about lawyering and authoritarianism, and how law can function both as a safeguard for democratic governance and as a tool of its erosion. First episode is out 👇 and more to come, exploring the legal profession's duty to the rule of law itself.

Knight First Amendment Institute@knightcolumbia.org · 3mo ago

“We’re very far into autocratic capture of our legal system.” That’s how @kimlanelaw.bsky.social describes the current moment—and what she breaks down in the first episode of Lawyering Without Law. Hosted by @katygb.bsky.social and Madhav Khosla. Listen: buzzsprout.com/2609059/episodes/19105365

📣 Attending #AALS this week? Join @brennancenter.org and ACS tomorrow for a discussion on Democratic Reconstruction, feat. Kate Andrias, Joseph Fishkin, Risa Goluboff, @michelegoodwin.bsky.social, & @olatij.bsky.social! Reception to follow.

The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Washington Post editorial board really speaking truth to power

Lively conversation last night: Giuliano Amato, John Bessler, Marian Da Silva, Spyridon Flogaitis, Olatunde Johnson, Sarah Maree Knuckey, & Miguel Ángel Moratinos on "Universal Rights in Practice: Int'l Frameworks & Domestic Legal Systems" organized by Barbara Faedda. @olatij.bsky.social

Next Friday: epic. If you’re a Yalie, rsvp! @ryandoerfler.bsky.social @stevevladeck.bsky.social @olatij.bsky.social

Next week! Tue, Nov 18, 5PM "Universal Rights in Practice: Int'l Frameworks & Domestic Legal Systems" Giuliano Amato, John Bessler, Marian Da Silva, Spyridon Flogaitis, @olatij.bsky.social, @sarahknuckey.bsky.social, & Miguel Ángel Moratinos Register: tinyurl.com/mvhfvsvh

UPDATE: Following court order, UC has posted the UCLA settlement proposal on its website: ucop.edu/communicatio...

Jaweed Kaleem@jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 10mo ago

BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Italian Academy, Columbia University@italianacademy.bsky.social · 10mo ago

"Universal Rights in Practice: Int'l Frameworks & Domestic Legal Systems" Tue, Nov 18, 5PM Giuliano Amato, John Bessler, Marian Da Silva, Spyridon Flogaitis, Olatunde Johnson, Sarah Maree Knuckey, & Miguel Ángel Moratinos Register: tinyurl.com/mvhfvsvh @olatij.bsky.social, @sarahknuckey.bsky.social

Inspiration and a road map from my colleague Kate Andrias. The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

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KQED Forum@kqedforum.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🎙️ ON AIR: We're talking to Columbia Law's @olatij.bsky.social, @slate.com's @mjsdc.bsky.social and @NYULaw's @profmmurray.bsky.social about what role the Supreme Court will play in supporting or stopping Trump's efforts to shape the country. ❓What are your Qs about the new Court term? 📻 Listen:

With contributions from @olatij.bsky.social @genevievelakier.bsky.social @dorfonlaw.bsky.social @jamalgreene.bsky.social @kendraserra.bsky.social @kateruane.bsky.social @evelyndouek.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social & others

A series of short posts from leading scholars about the constraints the First Amendment imposes on the government's authority to impose conditions on federal funding. Seems relevant! This is a @knightcolumbia.org series from earlier this year. knightcolumbia.org/research/fed...

Federal Funding and the First Amendment

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This morning, members of the Knight Institute’s leadership team published a critical analysis of Columbia University’s settlement agreement with the Trump administration. Read the full analysis here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

What the Columbia Settlement Really Means

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@olatij.bsky.social on how the admin is contorting Title VI (also at issue in Harvard v. HHS) and the SFFA ruling in an effort to assert power over federally funded institutions: knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-str...

The Strange Use of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard to Control Teaching and Learning

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I read an interesting, related law review article once, coauthored by @olatij.bsky.social, that really got into the fraudulence of Dobbs' language about democracy & women's electoral power, and the deficiencies in the Court's view of political equality scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last yr.

So Alito and Thomas' position appears to be: Women have no constitutional right to reproductive autonomy. But PARENTS may have a constitutional right to restrict their kids' reproductive autonomy. This is not law and it's barely pretending to be. Dobbs' "democracy" language was just a total lie.

Read the first response from Columbia law professors Kate Andrias, Jessica Bulman-Pozen, Suzanne Goldberg, @jamalgreene.bsky.social, @olatij.bsky.social, Jeremy Kessler, Gillian Metzger, and David Pozen. knightcolumbia.org/blog/a-title...

A Title VI Demand Letter That Still Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)

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Excellent piece from our Board Chair @olatij.bsky.social on the weaponization of Title VI and how attacks on racial equity are unmoored from what the Supreme Court actually held in SFFA.

The Strange Use of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard to Control Teaching and Learning

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This is a great essay by @olatij.bsky.social, and worth reading alongside Trump's "proclamation" restricting foreign visas at Harvard, which cites (among other things) the university's purported non-compliance with the Supreme Court's decision in the SFFA case.

Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · last yr.

And now @olatij.bsky.social on the Trump admin’s distortion of SFFA v Harvard. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-str...

And now @olatij.bsky.social on the Trump admin’s distortion of SFFA v Harvard. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-str...

The Strange Use of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard to Control Teaching and Learning

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The great @olatij.bsky.social writes for our @knightcolumbia.org series on federal funding & the First Am, about how SFFA and Title VI are being stretched far beyond their intended reach in service of Trump’s attacks on universities.

Knight First Amendment Institute@knightcolumbia.org · last yr.

For our blog series on Federal Funding and the First Amendment, @olatij.bsky.social writes about how the Trump administration is distorting the Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard in its efforts to assert control over universities. knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-str...

Last week I promoted my essay about conditional funding, the First Amendment, and academic freedom on the Knight Institute website. I've posted the same essay on my blog, now with a link to some of the other essays that have come in. I'm looking forward to a day discussing these issues tomorrow.

A helpful and compelling piece on all that the disparate impact EO gets wrong.

Thomas Silverstein@tsilverstein.bsky.social · last yr.

From me - on the train wreck of an executive order on disparate impact.

The PI ruling is here. www.aclu.org/documents/pr...