Two faculty positions at UVic Law 👇🏽

LAW 260-054/055 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria

Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

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Breaking: All International law and constitutional law classes will no longer have final exams. You will be graded on reflection papers, as there's just no way to put together an exam rubric at this time. #Satire

Hundreds of Oklahoma University students protested on Friday, demanding the reinstatement of a graduate instructor who was placed on administrative leave after a student alleged religious discrimination for a zero that she got on a (shitty) paper.

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 9mo ago

idk not to mention how very nuanced and normal the actual response here was

An historic first for Australia!

'Over the moon': Aboriginal activists, leader celebrate historic treaty

Leaders and activists say they are feeling the gravity of Australia's first treaty with Aboriginal people being signed and formalised as law.

abc.net.au

One thought that few seem to care to utter is that you can't have viewpoint diversity to any great degree if you keep hiring people from the same four schools, all having the same professors. You get the view of one segment of a class hierarchy. reason.com/volokh/2025/...

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

My thread* on authoritarianism in the legal academy, and its origins. *These thoughts are my own and do not reflect the views of my current employer, who has already begun to accept precompliance.

Glad to see this up on what seems like a fully functional ABlawg site. This post shd be of wide interest since it deals with how an Australian coal mining company was able to manipulate AER decision-making to shield the company’s expansion project from public review. #abpoli #cdnpoli #ableg

ABlawg UCalgary@ablawg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New Post: CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator Denies Public Hearing Rights on a Coal Application ablawg.ca/2025/09/15...…coal-application/

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 11mo ago

Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

Fired By The Post

The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Status has learned.

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Who is keeping a list of Universities that have fired faculty? You know, to assure people know what they are getting into if they go there.

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

A pogrom on professors because a dude who was a one semester engineering dropout killed someone because he chose to

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12mo ago

"The professors have to go away" -- Fox News is really trying to make fetch happen tonight with the anti-college stuff

“50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations." "for every person [killed] on October 7, 50 Palestinians need to die." "It does not matter now if they are children." "They need a Nakba from time to time to feel the price."

The Jerusalem Post@thejerusalempost.bsky.social · last yr.

Leaked recordings aired by Israel’s Channel 12 captured former IDF Military Intelligence Directorate chief Aharon Haliva making incendiary remarks about Palestinian casualties.

Come celebrate with us 🎉 www.uvic.ca/law/50years/...

UVic Law’s 50th Anniversary Celebration: October 24 - 25 - University of Victoria

Dynamic, hands-on learning; research that makes a vital impact; and discovery and innovation in Canada's most extraordinary academic environment provide an Edge that can't be found anywhere else.

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At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

mesoscalenews.com

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most

A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

bloomberg.com

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 64 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Amnesty's Annual Report out today: "At this historical juncture, when authoritarian laws & practices are multiplying the world over in the interests of very few, governments & civil society must work with urgency to lead humanity back to safer ground."

Human rights crisis as ‘Trump effect’ accelerates destructive trends

Undoing decades of painstaking work and endangering billions of people.

amnesty.org

It’s election day in Canada and universities and colleges need your help. Across the country, colleges and universities are facing drastic program cuts, layoffs and campus closures. Don’t forget to vote today – tell the federal government they need to act NOW to save PSE.

"Three US citizen children from two different families were deported with their mothers by ICE Friday morning. One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana

The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.

washingtonpost.com

“A federal judge in Louisiana expressed concern on Friday that the Trump administration had deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras “with no meaningful process” and against the wishes of her father” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects

A federal judge in Louisiana said the deportation of the child to Honduras with her mother, even though her father had filed an emergency petition, appeared to be “illegal and unconstitutional.”

nytimes.com

As the president of the Canadian Law and Society Association and co-chair of the Nominations Committee, I am pleased to announce that we are seeking new board members! The deadline for applications is May 15th. Please let me know if you have any questions.

“We are on the front line of environmental harm caused by government decisions made without us.” Xatśūll First Nation challenges B.C.’s decision to approve the dam raising at Mount Polley mine, which had a catastrophic dam failure in 2014. New by @sevawood.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/xatsull-firs...

First Nation asks court to halt infamous B.C. mining site expansion | The Narwhal

Xatśūll First Nation is challenging B.C.’s decision to approve Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam raising without its consent.

thenarwhal.ca

Read the Green Party's responses to the questionnaire the CBA sent to the parties for the 2025 federal election: https://bit.ly/42p8QOl

Why are we hearing so little about PP & CPC's plan to follow Trump's lead & cut funds to universities & organizations that promote or tolerate antisemitism (which, as we know, extends to criticism of Israel's human rights record, such as genocide in Gaza)?

Antisémitisme à l’université : le PCC veut des conséquences

Un document rendu public lundi confirme que le parti ne financerait plus les universités accusées de « promouvoir ou de tolérer » l'antisémitisme.

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Post: Dogs are good Reply 1: Dogs have killed people Reply 2: What do you do for dogs? When was the last time you saved one? Reply 3: What is this cat erasure Reply 4: People are starving! Reply 5: this is tone-deaf at best Reply 6: unfollowed Reply 7: [quote] this dude is a law prof? Lol

Fun to read this dissent, which claims the main issue is that the Court moved too quickly, with the full knowledge that without the order, the planes would have left and the dissenters would then argue there was nothing they could do because the petitioners were no longer under their jurisdiction

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

And here’s Justice Alito’s dissent, joined by Justice Thomas: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

“Harsono is Muslim and frequently posts on social media in support of humanitarian relief for Gaza. He also runs a small non-profit, which sells art and merchandise, with proceeds going to organizations aiding Gaza.”

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa