"A critical history of the police union movement, tracing how it emerged as a profoundly anti-democratic institution." Sandeep reviews Stuart Schrader 's new book 'Blue Power' on the emergence of police unions as firewalls against accountability.
A Union Apart - Sandeep Dhaliwal - Inquest
Stuart Schrader’s ‘Blue Power’ illuminates the history of how police unions coalesced as tools for guaranteeing preferential treatment and protection from accountability.
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Today, Diana Reddy argues that by focusing on diversity at the top, rather than conditions at the bottom, discrimination law has failed the workers who need it most.
Theorizing Discrimination for the Bad Jobs Economy
Employment discrimination law is primarily concerned with exclusion from good jobs. Yet this leaves unaddressed a corresponding problem: employers seeking out marginalized workers in order to reduce…
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Amna A. Akbar sat down with Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network and author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, to discuss the vulnerabilities of the deportation machine.
Unbuild the Cages
Silky Shah maps the vulnerabilities of the deportation machine.
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Our second LPE NYC Summer Happy Hour is MONDAY 7/13 at Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden in Astoria! Come through to hang with like-minded people and discuss ideas for improving the lives of New Yorkers! No need to have attended an LPE event before or have a background in law!
I've got a new article for the August cycle called Police Takeovers. It centers on the long history of state controlled policing in St. Louis, where the state retook control over the police force last year. It argues that such takeovers are a new and more aggressive version of hyper preemption.
this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4w agoDemocrats became great by fighting the far left—and today’s party can learn crucial lessons from those battles, David Brooks argues:
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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Today, Aslı Bâli argues that in this moment of deepening constitutional and geopolitical crises, the left must recover traditions that refused to separate democracy at home from anti-imperialism abroad. And no recent text has done this better than Aziz Rana's *The Constitutional Bind.*
Revisiting The Constitutional Bind during the Interregnum
As the country marks 250 years, the left faces two imperatives at once: confronting a constitutional order warped by judicial supremacy, and reorienting American foreign policy away from endless war.
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All 3 NYC Library Systems now have asks that people send a letter to the City Council calling for increased funding. In some uninformed quarters, people are claiming that our public libraries are "fully funded" when in actuality they are slated for lower funding than last year in real dollars.
“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”
Auburn Board Takes Curricular Control, Dissolves Senate
The policies mirror the directives laid out in HB 580, which doesn’t take effect until October and doesn’t apply to the institution.
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you should listen to my podcast about reconstruction people.com/barack-obama...
Barack Obama Partners with Malcolm Gladwell for New Podcast About an 'Often Overlooked' Subject
Former President Barack Obama is teaming up with journalist Malcolm Gladwell for a new, eight-part podcast series with The History Channel that aims to remind listeners of 'powerful sources of hope' b...
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We are having our first LPE NYC Summer Happy Hour on Wednesday before the Knicks game at DSK in Brooklyn, 5-8pm! You don't need to have been to an LPE event before or have a background in law, just an interest in talking about ideas & fighting for a better future for our city!
NEW in Bolts: New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board, ostensibly a police watchdog, cedes much of its power to police leadership. Experts say the mayor has the power to boost its independence.
The NYPD Has Final Say on Civilian Oversight. Will That Change Under Mamdani? - Bolts
New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, ostensibly a police watchdog, cedes much power to police leadership. Experts say the mayor has the power to boost its independence.
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The partisan attack on higher ed is undermining learning and research on campus all around the country - and, now we know, at Yale too. Read our report, based on a survey of 177 faculty members at Yale.
Yale AAUP@yaleaaup.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.
Dan Goldman voted last summer with his crypto donors & the GOP to move crypto regulation away from the SEC to the far weaker CFTC, which this NYT investigation reveals is utterly captured by the industry:
How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency
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Political expectations are below ground. I understand. But we absolutely need to raise our expectations. That needs to be the default position. HIGH EXPECTATIONS.
#NY10 poll shows Brad Lander crushing Dan Goldman -Lander 57% -Goldman 23% Lander has the endorsement of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Goldman has the backing of Gov. Kathy Hochul pix11.com/news/local-n...
PIX11 poll reveals who’s leading in Democratic primaries
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – In New York City, many congressional seats will be decided in the primary election, and there’s no shortage of interesting races. New exclusive polling from PIX11…
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www.pbs.org/wnet/america... Beyond excited for this new documentary on W.E.B. Du Bois! I'm definitely incorporating it into my Spring 2027 course, The Sociology of W.E.B Du Bois!
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause - Watch the documentary now | American Masters | PBS
Explore the life and legacy of notable Black scholar and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois, an influential voice of the Harlem Renaissance.
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I’ve been invited to testify on what the House calls “Court Packing: A Threat to SCOTUS’s Legitimacy.” Drawing on research w/ Daphna Renan for our book, Supremacy, Congress has the duty—and all the tools it needs—to protect our Constitution from judicial supremacy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...
To Protect and Serve Capital: Policing, Real Estate Development, and the Regulation of Invested Spaces in New York City - @hpullenblasnik.bsky.social, City and Community journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
Today, Greg Baltz explains why New York City’s annual Rent Guidelines Board hearings are critical for tenant organizing, and why such organizing is essential to prepare for the real estate industry’s inevitable backlash. Co-published with @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social!
The Rent Guidelines Board as Tenant Organizing Infrastructure
As New York's Rent Guidelines Board weighs a possible rent freeze, the real significance of its annual hearings lies beyond the final vote. These public proceedings serve as a crucial engine for…
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I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.
Please welcome to the stand Courts of Contempt—Hell Gate and @typeinvestigations.org new interactive investigation into the machinations of New York's broken judicial system. Secret recordings. Fixed judicial conventions. Sketchy donations. Get ready to dive in. hellgatenyc.com/welcome-to-t...
Welcome to the Courts of Contempt
Hell Gate and Type Investigations's brand-new deep dive into who actually picks New York's judges, and why it matters.
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