Kate Jackson
@katejackson.bsky.social
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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Hottest economy in the world
January layoffs, closures affect over 400 workers in Ohio
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
January layoffs, closures affect over 400 workers in Ohio
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February 5, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Hottest economy in the world
January layoffs, closures affect over 400 workers in Ohio
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
January layoffs, closures affect over 400 workers in Ohio
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
Could really deal without the “and next we’ll invade Poland” vibes
Let’s hope it’s just “I want a huge slush fund to give $$ to my bribers er donors er tech company contractors”
Let’s hope it’s just “I want a huge slush fund to give $$ to my bribers er donors er tech company contractors”
We do not need a $1.5 trillion dollar defense budget.
50% increase in one year?!?
breakingdefense.com/2026/02/excl...
50% increase in one year?!?
breakingdefense.com/2026/02/excl...
EXCLUSIVE: HASC chair seeking $450B for defense in reconciliation - Breaking Defense
Mike Roger, the House Armed Services Committee chief, wants to use reconciliation for a massive increase in defense spending.
breakingdefense.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Could really deal without the “and next we’ll invade Poland” vibes
Let’s hope it’s just “I want a huge slush fund to give $$ to my bribers er donors er tech company contractors”
Let’s hope it’s just “I want a huge slush fund to give $$ to my bribers er donors er tech company contractors”
Wish his ex would have bought it instead
February 5, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Wish his ex would have bought it instead
When I was in law school I got sick working for a local firm one summer and we got season tickets to Busch gardens and had happy hour there daily. 100% peak legal academia experience.
February 5, 2026 at 5:13 AM
When I was in law school I got sick working for a local firm one summer and we got season tickets to Busch gardens and had happy hour there daily. 100% peak legal academia experience.
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I finally got the latest version of my Civil Procedure Game! Now with a box, better cards, and individualized pawns and tokens..
February 4, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I finally got the latest version of my Civil Procedure Game! Now with a box, better cards, and individualized pawns and tokens..
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.
February 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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.
So yeah, libtard, don’t bring guns to DC. Or anywhere else. They’re not for you.
February 4, 2026 at 2:17 PM
So yeah, libtard, don’t bring guns to DC. Or anywhere else. They’re not for you.
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.
February 4, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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.
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.
gun nut backlash thereto.
February 4, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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.
gun nut backlash thereto.
Tell me you abuse women without telling me you abuse women
February 3, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Tell me you abuse women without telling me you abuse women
I’m a dreamer though. Alas. It’s congenital and has no cure
February 3, 2026 at 10:27 PM
I’m a dreamer though. Alas. It’s congenital and has no cure
And here we are. Shareholder primacy ushering us in to an economy of rent-seeking and debt.
Tell me where I'm wrong!
Tell me where I'm wrong!
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
And here we are. Shareholder primacy ushering us in to an economy of rent-seeking and debt.
Tell me where I'm wrong!
Tell me where I'm wrong!
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).
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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).
The momentum only speeds up when pension funds are privatized everywhere - even more cash is looking for a home in US capital markets.
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
The momentum only speeds up when pension funds are privatized everywhere - even more cash is looking for a home in US capital markets.
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.
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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.
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.
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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.
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.
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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.
"common sense" held that the reason companies were undervalued was because of inefficient managerialist practices nurtured in the warm waters of monopoly power.
But.
But.
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
"common sense" held that the reason companies were undervalued was because of inefficient managerialist practices nurtured in the warm waters of monopoly power.
But.
But.
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.
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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.
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.
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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.
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.
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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.
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).
SP arose in the 1970s: corporations should be managed to maximize share price (shareholders are presumed to all want this - despite its vagueness).
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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).
SP arose in the 1970s: corporations should be managed to maximize share price (shareholders are presumed to all want this - despite its vagueness).
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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.
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
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<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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February 3, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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.
This paper shows that the quasi-judicial function from Humphrey's Executor is simpatico w/ both originalism and a history-and-tradition approach.
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
Sorry not sorry
February 3, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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
Sorry not sorry
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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.
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
February 3, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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.
Spread this one far and wide.