Kate Jackson

@katejackson.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽‍♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 11h

At the university of Cincinnati, where I work, we got a significant application bump after joining the Big 12. So I wonder how much of the shifting applications have to do with Big Sportsball.

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 11h

I finally got the latest version of my Civil Procedure Game! Now with a box, better cards, and individualized pawns and tokens..

A closeup of the game board (a stylized map, with humorous state names) with dice and pieces and standees.

Tag! The Jurisdiction game, a picture of the game board, cards (for parties, claims, damages, etc.), pieces, the gameboy, and instruction booklet.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 11h

So yeah, libtard, don’t bring guns to DC. Or anywhere else. They’re not for you.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 11h

Also, guns were never meant to protect against “tyranny” in the abstract. They are mean to protect agains the “tyranny” of a plural inclusive society that occasionally allowed non-white Christians to occupy places of power and esteem.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve moved on from war documentaries to US domestic terrorism documentaries. It’s…harrowing to draw the through line from ruby ridge, Waco and Oklahoma City to ICE today. Or, rather, the white Christian nationalist/aryan nation/
gun nut backlash thereto.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me you abuse women without telling me you abuse women

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a dreamer though. Alas. It’s congenital and has no cure

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

And here we are. Shareholder primacy ushering us in to an economy of rent-seeking and debt.

Tell me where I'm wrong!

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, since US companies make LESS (relatively) than they used to, stockholders would make money only if corporations started cutting costs. Happily, managers could trust the credit markets to supplement stagnating worker salaries (thanks to aforementioned foreign investors).

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

The momentum only speeds up when pension funds are privatized everywhere - even more cash is looking for a home in US capital markets.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Of course those dollars come back to the US. they're not used to buy US goods. Instead, they're poured into the capital markets - and they bid up stock prices. Real handy for takeover artists looking to flip corporate conglomerates.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

So what we have are a bunch of U.S. companies that make less and, thanks to trade deficits, a bunch of US dollars in the hands of foreign countries looking for a home.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

The 1970s was also when Nixon took us off the gold standard; it was the end of Bretton Woods. The US is turning into a trade deficit country. Its manufacturing is dying.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

"common sense" held that the reason companies were undervalued was because of inefficient managerialist practices nurtured in the warm waters of monopoly power.

But.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

The world was ripe for SP: in the 70s, there was a bear market and corporate raiders discovered that they could sell companies for cheaper than they could buy them.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

At the same time, financial markets could "discipline" management the way a product market should have disciplined them.. but no longer did, thanks to corporate concentration.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

It was hoped that a "counter power" of shareholders would stymie the self-serving and inefficient behavior of corporate managers. With power, SHs would force management to run companies better.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

I'm picking through the history of shareholder primacy and trying to tie it to larger macrofinancial/geopolitical trends. Looking for feedback!

SP arose in the 1970s: corporations should be managed to maximize share price (shareholders are presumed to all want this - despite its vagueness).

Reposted by William Myers, Kate Jackson

Beau Baumann 🍎 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 1d

1/x @jedshug.bsky.social and I have put up an updated version of our paper, "Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition," up on SSRN.

This paper shows that the quasi-judicial function from Humphrey's Executor is simpatico w/ both originalism and a history-and-tradition approach.

Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition

<div> <p>The Supreme Court’s recent removal cases have revived a foundational question in constitutional law: whether all administration must be controlled by

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Putting together some thoughts for a panel on corporate gov the @lpeproject.bsky.social conference this week and I’ve come to the conclusion that ESG stakeholderism is indeed immanent critique

Sorry not sorry

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it.

Spread this one far and wide.

How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism

Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.

www.bostonreview.net

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

TLDR: To solve the housing crisis, cutting red tape won’t work. Sorry abundance. And taxing the public to build public housing is just us subsidizing billionaires again: this time, when they mess up the housing market.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently, as Dr oz tells us we all have to work longer and harder to pay for billionaire tax cuts, we also have to build more houses to make up for billionaires making an already adequate housing supply unaffordable

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Let them eat tastycakes

Housing Affordability and Housing Demand - San Francisco Fed

Understanding housing demand dynamics through two indicators, income growth and population growth, provides important insights into housing affordability. Research shows that average U.S. income growt...

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

MTG is using Mamdani’s colors as a zoom background. The irrational hopefulness in me is Seeing Signs.

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

He seems to have changed his mind www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Trump Calls for $1 Billion Settlement From Harvard | News | The Harvard Crimson

U.S. President Donald Trump demanded Harvard pay $1 billion in a settlement in a Truth Social post Monday night, pushing back against reports that the White House would no longer demand a cash payment...

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Literally is a romance novel. Based off Julia Quinn

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

Women whose sexuality has to hide behind stupid cover art hidden in the back corner of Barnes & Nobles. Instead of being plastered over every ad ever made

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

folks sneer at romantic fiction, but it’s just another fantasy that invites the reader to imagine themselves as a hero in a wonderful, emotional story that ends happily. Like a John Patterson book. It’s just “for women.”

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

He’s still be pissed if Helen of Troy was cast as someone from Türkiye

Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 1d

And what does movie casting have to do with university DEI programs anyway

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