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Rohan Grey

@rohangrey.bsky.social

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Aussie in Portland. Ass't Law Prof @ Willamette, into money & finance, technology, political economy, culture, public governance, pedagogy etc. Formerly att'y for children, school teacher, and musician. rohangrey.net @rohangrey:matrix.org

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Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · May 2

Happy to announce my recent paper, 'Digitizing the Fisc', will be published by Rutgers Law Review (in slightly abridged form).

In the meantime, the paper is now citable, and version up on SSRN:

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

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 6d

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Speaker Julie Fahey @repfahey.bsky.social · 11d

There is no mistaking where Oregonians stand: we do not want federal troops on our streets. Oregon is our home, not a war zone or a military target, and our communities remain vibrant and secure.

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 12d

Has anyone connected recent debates over business entity anonymity/privacy of beneficiary owner debates with proposals for limited liability sole proprietorship entity statutory reform? Not my area but curious.

@annmlipton.bsky.social ?

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 15d

It's a spiritual movie

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 15d

**loudly on cell phone at coffee shop**

Ohhh, rap**tured**. No no it's fine we can make some last minute edits to the script, It'll still work

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 15d

If I were this generation's most widely legal scholar I simply would not do public interviews where I reveal just how dumb my thinking is about really basic fundamental things

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 15d

That's an argument I would have been very receptive to! Unfortunately I got a bunch of formalistic bullshit in response by liberals at the time

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 15d

I mean that's a very fair critique of the idea, unfortunately it wasn't the one most serious liberals made, lol they did the other thing

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 15d

"actually the dark side is part of the good, really"

"...What about all the bad things people do in the name of the dark side?"

"Well I don't know about any of that"

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 15d

"But you could have an opinion on it. You have an opinion on all kinds of things, right?"

I meant things like Star Wars! Not like, you know, the war crimes committed by my good family friend. Who has time for that!?

Jesus this interview is such an amazing train wreck.

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 16d

Can't think of a better example of actual "cause" than "the Fed is trying to force the executive branch to ignore Congress's spending directives by refusing to allow it to exercise coinage powers under a plain meaning reading of the statute". "Least unconditional option" indeed

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 16d

In light of the Court's decision to allow Slaughter's firing to stand pending review of Humphrey's, does anyone still think that the Fed would have been able to refuse to accept the trillion dollar coin if the President had deemed it necessary to prevent a constitutional crisis?

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 16d

Words, man. What do they even mean

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 16d

Executor? Humphrey, I've never even met her!

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks to Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social for doing a piece on SCOTUS - and including my thoughts on it! madness.ghost.io/leah-litman-...

Leah Litman on an unhinged SCOTUS and expanding the Court

Leah Litman on what's happening with the Supreme Court and how Democrats should respond.

madness.ghost.io

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 17d

"I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them...I can't stand my opponent"

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 19d

Seems to be working fine

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 19d

The law, in its majestic equality, permits rich and poor alike to build institutions, fund professional networks, and promote the free exchange of ideas

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 28d

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is sitting in a theatre applauding .

ALT: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is sitting in a theatre applauding .

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Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · Sep 7

For that to be true they actually need to be alternatives

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · Sep 7

There's only way to actually regain the narrative momentum and it's not Powell aploogia

"There must also be an honest, independent, nonpartisan review of the entire institution, including monetary policy, regulation, communications, staffing & research"

edition.cnn.com/2025/09/05/e...

Bessent calls to take power away from the Fed | CNN Business

The Federal Reserve must be relieved of its duties regulating the nation’s banks, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote in an essay published Friday.

edition.cnn.com

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · Sep 4

Today, Eamon Coburn argues that the legal scholars and the labor movement must confront a fundamental challenge to organizing: the erosion of social norms against union-busting.

Union Busting is (Morally) Disgusting

As legal protections for labor organizing face existential threats, the American labor movement must confront a deeper challenge: the erosion of social norms that once condemned union-busting as…

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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · Aug 27

Literally the perfect guest. @levmenand.bsky.social is not only a leading historian and theorist of US banking regulation, he rote THE article on the meaning on "for cause" removal.

Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · Aug 27

Lev Menand is blistering here. Must listen. Meeting the moment. Incredible stuff from @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social on Odd Lots.

overcast.fm/+AA5AWNdOBV0

Lev Menand on Trump’s Attempt to Fire the Fed’s Lisa Cook — Odd Lots

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Matt Blaszczyk @mmblaszczyk.bsky.social · Aug 8

"Posthuman Copyright: AI, Copyright, and Legitimacy" is out!

Delighted to share the draft of my job talk paper: ssrn.com/abstract=537...

@umichlaw.bsky.social #IP #Copyright

Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · Aug 9

“I go through the day now with gruesome images of emaciated children running through my mind...[at this time] ethical obligations far outweigh any ad hoc institutional policies, particularly those transparently aimed at stifling opposition to an ongoing genocide"

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

University of Sydney removes Palestinian flag from academic’s window after accusing him of breaching policy

Dr David Brophy claims new flag policy introduced in June was ‘precisely in response to people like me hanging Palestinian flags’

www.theguardian.com