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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 3d

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · 23d

I agree; and with the additional burden of having to check all forthcoming citations before the article goes into production in case the forthcoming articles are now included in an issue . . .

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · 23d

They use OSCOLA, right? The 'forthcoming' word is correct in OSCOLA.

Screenshot from OSCOLA (4th. ed. Hart Publishing) page 38 showing Rule 3.3.3 to rule 3.3.5 on citing forthcoming articles.

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thanks for linking this paper. Excited to read it, especially the aspects on civil recourse & the state!

Indeed, the 'empowerment' aspect of civil recourse is quite useful (in Part IV.A). However, reliance on it in transnational contexts inevitably leads to problematic questions like 'Which state?'

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Sep 10

Excited to share my job talk paper "Postcolonial Private Law" now on SSRN where I bring international law into conversation with private law theory in arguing for empowering Global South people as rightsholders in transnational supply chains.

Thanks for the shout-out @lsolum.bsky.social!

Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · Sep 9

Bose on Postcolonial Private Law, buff.ly/J3zvLV4 - Debadatta Bose (University of California, Berkeley - School of Law) has posted Postcolonial Private Law on SSRN.

Bose on Postcolonial Private Law

Debadatta Bose (University of California, Berkeley - School of Law) has posted Postcolonial Private Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: For decades, theorizing postcoloniality in law has remained…

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Sep 9

Oh no! Hope you are alright!

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Sep 2

I show a postcolonial future endogenous to private law. I reconceptualize private law subjects as real people embedded in neocolonial power structures, demonstrating private law's potential through adjudicatory tools like Alien Tort Statute claims and emerging HRDD laws that empower individuals.

Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Sep 2

Problem? International law has embraced a postcolonial ideal that focuses on redistributing wealth or on political struggles and neglects individuals as individuals. Meanwhile, private law theory embraces abstract agents who are fictional equals and neglects real people.

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Sep 2

The novelty: I argue that postcolonial struggles against corporate exploitation should move from the abstract realm of international law (focused on wealth redistribution between states) to the immediate, tangible site of private law, focusing on interpersonal justice for farmers, miners, workers.

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ever wondered how TWAIL and private law theory can benefit each other? I am excited to share my job market paper, “Postcolonial Private Law,” forthcoming in Brooklyn Law Review (Vol. 91) and now available on SSRN.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Postcolonial Private Law

<div> For decades, theorizing postcoloniality in law has remained captive to the framework of international law with a focus on distributive justice. This appr

papers.ssrn.com

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Sep 1

No problem! I have not personally had it but I know people who have used it. The subscriptions are great and you can access almost all of them via a proxy service they have, as far as I remember.

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Jul 28

Looking forward to continue reading your wonderful work! Hope you're doing well (and celebrating properly!).

Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Jul 28

Congrats León! This is amazing news! 🎉

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · Jun 26

Bose on Human Rights Due Diligence and Marginalization, buff.ly/qQT6a9j - Debadatta Bose (University of California, Berkeley - School of Law) has posted Are there Humans in Human Rights Due Diligence? on SSRN.

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Jun 24

2/2 HRDD laws grant incredible power to companies to select who stakeholders are, how they are engaged with (if at all), when they are engaged with, etc. I cover the Norwegian, French, German laws and EU CS3D (which is the only exception by incorporating actual stakeholder engagement provisions).

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Jun 24

1/2 Are there humans in human rights due diligence?

Read my latest draft paper on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I argue there that HRDD laws entrench the marginalization of people whose human rights they ostensibly protect by focusing on stakeholder engagement clauses.

Are there humans in human rights due diligence?

The Article shows that, with the exception of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D), all mandatory human rights due diligence laws, by

papers.ssrn.com

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Jun 14

2/2 For years, gig giants used “freedom” rhetoric to deny workers minimum wage, social security, and sick pay. Next: negotiations in 2026 to define the treaty’s scope. The era of global minimum floors for labor rights is near—can labor anti-avoidance rules be conceptualized soon?

Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Jun 14

1/2 🚨 Big news from Geneva: The ILO just voted to create a Convention on gig workers! This could mark the beginning of the end for “creative contracting” and misclassification—issues I highlighted in my Verfassungsblog piece.

Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · May 26

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🚨 Gig giants use “independent contractor” labels to strip wages, sick pay, and social security—while admitting in filings that reclassification would gut their profits.

In the Verfassungsblog, I break down this practice. Time for labor anti-avoidance rules?

verfassungsblog.de/internationa...

Taking Labour Law for a Ride

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · May 26

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🛑 The fix? Labor anti-avoidance rules (like tax law’s GAAR) to rethink sham self-employment.

A global legal floor for labor rights could:

- Block contractual workarounds that violate human rights

- Treat labor avoidance like tax evasion

Should contractual freedom have human rights limits?

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · May 26

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💡 Human Rights Watch's “Gig Trap” report reveals:

- Most platform workers can’t afford basic needs

- Algorithms enforce opaque working conditions

- Few penalties for companies dodging labor laws

This isn’t innovation—it’s structured exploitation. Report: www.hrw.org/report/2025/...

The Gig Trap

The 155-page report, “The Gig Trap: Algorithmic, Wage and Labor Exploitation in Platform Work in the US” focuses on seven major companies operating in the US: Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, ...

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · May 26

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🚨 Gig giants use “independent contractor” labels to strip wages, sick pay, and social security—while admitting in filings that reclassification would gut their profits.

In the Verfassungsblog, I break down this practice. Time for labor anti-avoidance rules?

verfassungsblog.de/internationa...

Taking Labour Law for a Ride

verfassungsblog.de

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Amsterdam Center for International Law @acil-uva.bsky.social · May 15

What do calls for decolonial futures mean when articulated through international law?

Limited places at our workshop, 5-6 June. @uvalawschool.bsky.social

Organised by @kanadbagchi.bsky.social, @dbose.bsky.social, @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social & @tim-lindgren.bsky.social
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International Law's Local Encounters: Experiences and Imaginaries of (De-)Coloniality - ACIL

Please join us in interrogating international law’s local encounters and (de)coloniality during a two day workshop on the 5th & 6th June 2025 at Amsterdam Law School. The workshop is generously sponso...

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Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Feb 4

4/4 Begum marks a shift from the traditional US and UK interpretation of contracts as purely bilateral and economic instruments. It scrutinizes ordinary business dealings as decisions that affect human rights beyond contractual relationships which seem exclusively bilateral.

Debadatta Bose/দেবদত্ত বোস @dbose.bsky.social · Feb 4

3/4 The chapter focuses on the UK case of Begum v Maran, which introduces a principle of Global Value Chain liability. This case potentially holds a corporation liable for harms in a Bangladeshi shipyard where a ship it sold was demolished. 'Potentially' because the case was settled before trial.

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