Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Institute for South Asia Studies. Lawyer, legal & cultural historian; contributing editor to "Poetry Flash"; writer of poetry.
https://berkeley.academia.edu/CarlLandauer
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Spring 2025 | Journal
In the Issue Cover Image Alia Ali Jade of Jaipur, JADE series (2024)Pigment print on French-produced Canson Baryta Photographique Baryta Matte Paper, 310 gram, with UV laminate, mounted on aluminum […...
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The KENYON REVIEW just published four of my “refracted ekphrases” poems on film adaptations of novels in the Spring 2025 issue!! (on Mrs. Dalloway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Man in the Gray Flannel Suit & Remains of the Day)
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I am thrilled to be the new #ASLH president, receiving the gavel yesterday from former president Barbara Welke at our Detroit conference awards ceremony. My term is 2025-27. Excited to get to work! #legalhistory
Here’s the flyer for my reading with Lucille Lang Day sponsored by the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center on Saturday, Nov. 22 in Turlock! The MoST poets are a great group—so I’m really eager to share with them!
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Trump announced new nuclear tests, the first since George Bush (père) instituted a moratorium in 1992. He said the when and where are TBD—we all know that he has Chicago and Portland in mind. Oh, and the Supreme Court will say it’s under his Constitutional powers.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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My talk in D.C., Mon, 3 Nov, at Johns Hopkins SAIS on modern India and its engagement with its ancient interpolity order. If you’d like to attend, I need to supply names to the organizers.
Just voted YES ON 50! Dropbox on Moraga Ave., Oakland, CA.
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Sep 29
Spotlight Races
Winning back the states starts with these critical races. Learn how you can directly support the state legislative candidates who are rebuilding the Democratic Party from the ground up.
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Because of the states with legislative elections this November, I just made a contribution to the DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE—the national organization funding Democratic candidates in key state legislative races, which Democrats have too long ignored.
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dlcc.org/spotlight-ra...
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Sep 25
Time set, Monday, Nov. 3, 12:30—I’ll be giving a talk at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) on modern India and its engagement with its ancient interpolity order. (flyer to come)
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Aug 25
“Exacting Clam” #18 is out with my poem, “Innocent Man on the Run,” on Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Richard Buchan’s 1915 novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, quite different from Hitchcock’s replotting.
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Aug 14
Landauer Poem — The Mary McCarthy Society
www.marymccarthy.org
How fun! The Mary McCarthy Society republished my poem on Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of Mary McCarthy’s “The Group”! Thanks to Mary McCarthy scholar, Sabrina Fuchs Abrams, author of Mary McCarthy: Gender, Politics and the Postwar Intellectual (2004)!
www.marymccarthy.org/landauer-poe...
www.marymccarthy.org/landauer-poe...
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Jul 10
Her workshops are incredible--I've gain an immense amount from them.
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Jun 15
Not a surprise. The owner of Star Grocery in Berkeley observed today that his customers were back—they were all out protesting yesterday!
My poem, “She Had Been Registered for Vassar at Birth,” one of my “refracted ekphrastic” poems—this time on Sidney Lumet’s “The Group” (1966) after Mary McCarthy’s “The Group” (1963)—just appeared in “Exacting Clam.”
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-17...
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-17...
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· May 11
I was extremely privileged to participate, along with amazingly brilliant & imaginative scholars in the “Workshop on Traveling Expertise in Modern South Asia & Beyond,” organized by Rohit De and David Engerman for the Yale South Asia Studies Council.
macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/wo...
macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/wo...
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Apr 21
In the mtg of the AM SOC OF INT’L LAW, the elephant in the room was ever present; in some sessions a large, wrinkled pillar of leg crashed through conference room ceilings—as in the session with Harold Koh (former legal advisor to State & Yale L Sch dean) on challenges to int'l law by Trump.
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Apr 12
I just received a letter from Jackson Lears that the wonderful RARITAN will cease publication. What a loss! RARITAN has been a treasure!
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Apr 12
I just received a letter from Jackson Lears that the wonderful RARITAN will cease publication. What a loss! RARITAN has been a treasure!
50 yrs today! Stanford-in-France students at Mt-St-Michel—I’m at bottom rt w/ arms around knees. Studied Surrealism, 19th-c. Fr. socialism, 19th-c. novel, small reading course on Am. expatriates by Austryn Wainhouse (of Merlin mag crowd & transl of Sade), Fr. peasantry & ind. study on Bergson!
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Feb 26
great first interview--especially at the end regarding what should be done now.
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Feb 25
Grey Wall With the Scraggly Barbed Wire | Exacting Clam
www.exactingclam.com
My poem on “The Spy who came in from the Cold”—both the film and the novel—was just published by “The Exacting Clam.” This is the first in a long series of poems on films that are in turn based on literature, which I’ve called “refracted ekphrases.”
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Feb 24
I had a great time giving my talk at SOAS hosted by Parvathi Menon & Catriona Drew of the Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire & International Law.
Stayed at my favorite little Fitzrovia hotel that used to be the home of Pre-Raphaelite painter, John Everett Millais.
Stayed at my favorite little Fitzrovia hotel that used to be the home of Pre-Raphaelite painter, John Everett Millais.
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Feb 11
Trump to loosen enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials
President Donald Trump on Monday planned to sign an executive order that directs the Justice Department to pause prosecutions of Americans accused of bribing foreign government officials while trying to gain business in their countries.
www.reuters.com
Now, Trump ordered a pause on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prosecutions—great, open season for bribery! In the financial services, e.g., employees get trained and tested on these and related laws on an annual basis. Just too much trouble for Trump's crowd.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Carl Landauer
@carllandauer.bsky.social
· Feb 10
Trump to Revoke Security Clearances for Antony Blinken, Letitia James and Alvin Bragg
Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Attorney General Letitia James of New York and the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, were among those the president singled out.
www.nytimes.com
My law school friend, Norm Eisen, was—along w/ Anthony Blinken, Letitia James & Alvin Bragg—deprived by a petulant president of his security clearance, which spurred me to donate again to Norm’s State Democracy Defenders Fund to take on activities by Musk et al.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
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Prebunking Elon Musk's Super Bowl Propaganda
Perception is reality.
asharangappa.substack.com
I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...
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Literally one of the most -basic- constitutional law cases, the Youngstown case, involves the Supreme Court telling the President that he could not order his Secretary of Commerce to seize steel mills during a strike when the U.S. was at war. 🙄
Fund - State Democracy Defenders Action
State Democracy Defenders Action is a nonpartisan organization working to defeat election sabotage and vanquish the threat of autocracy in America.
statedemocracydefenders.org
Co-founded by my law-school friend Norm Eisen, STATE DEMOCRACY DEFENDERS FUND is taking on important litigation tasks, especially in battling the dangerous steps taken by Musk and his DOGE team. Do consider donating to support their efforts!
statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/
statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/