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The latest episode of @CalifLRev.bsky.social’s official podcast discusses @georgetownlaw.bsky.social’s Prof. Emily Chertoff article (physical) “Violence in the Administrative State.” Check out the paper and the podcast below!

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The Big Ten Law Schools present Rule of Law in 2025 | College of Law | Nebraska

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Check out Professor @iajunwa.bsky.social article published in Yale Law Journal Forum called “AI and Captured Capital” #WomeninAcademia #WomenAlsoKnowLaw buff.ly/iyis5oC

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This Wednesday join the Big Ten Law Schools for a panel titled ‘International Law and U.S. Threats to Sovereignty.’ Panelists include Profs. @profkarimabennoune.bsky.social and Sarah Dadush of @law.rutgers.edu! #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

The Big Ten law schools have coordinated a series of virtual panel discussions that examine the Rule of Law in 2025 after an unprecedented series of executive orders, legal interpretations, and…

Open Call for Fellowship Applications, Academic Year 2025-2026

April 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM Everybody can reply

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Fellowship opportunity! The Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society has opened its applications for 2025-2026 fellowships across academic, post-doc, & non-academic tracks. Apps are due 4/30. #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcomes applications for its 2025-2026 fellowships.

Nebraska Law women honored with campus awards | College of Law | Nebraska

April 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM Everybody can reply

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Congrats to @unlcollegeoflaw.bsky.social‬ Prof. Stefanie Pearlman, who was recently named a Woman of Courage Character, and Commitment at the University’s Gender and Sexuality Center Women's Empowerment Celebration. #WomenAlsoKnowLaw #WomeninAcademia

Associate Dean Stefanie Pearlman, Sabrina Ehmke Sergent and Meghan Rivera received awards celebrating their contributions to Nebraska Law and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Women of Service…

Debunking Criminal Restitution

April 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM Everybody can reply

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Check out GW Law Prof. Lula Hagos’s article, recently published in @michlawreview.bsky.social , unpacking the way criminal restitution perpetuates existing inequalities. #WomeninAcademia #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

Criminal restitution—the money paid by a defendant to a victim—is often overlooked amidst growing scholarly consensus about the adverse impact of criminal court

April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM Everybody can reply

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Tune in to hear @stanfordlaw.bsky.social Prof. Nora Freeman Engstrom speak about America’s civil legal crisis as a guest on Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast! #WomenAlsoKnowLaw #HighlightWomen
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@uvalaw.bsky.social Professor @amandafrost.bsky.social analyzed the recent Supreme Court orders concerning the Trump administration’s deportation policies. Listen here: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2... #womenalsoknowlaw

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What’s Behind DHS's Abuses

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Check out @umichlaw.bsky.social Professor @mjschlanger.bsky.social’s new piece “What’s Behind DHS’s Abuses” for a discussion of the elimination of DHS’s civil rights office. buff.ly/v80hrNK #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

DHS was created with a civil rights office to prevent the abuses we’re seeing now. Funny thing—Trump shut it down.

Contributor: Echoing McCarthyism, federal firings will inflict generations of trauma

April 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM Everybody can reply

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If you’re interested in learning about how the past is being repeated in the present, check out @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social Professor Catherine Fisk’s article “Echoing McCarthyism” in the @latimes.com buff.ly/1B59Ir2 #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

I grew up in a home where that trauma hung in the air like smoke from the cigarettes chain-smoked by my mother — a civil servant fired without cause in the McCarthy era.

Second Hundt Family Lecture: Funhouse Footnote Four

April 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM Everybody can reply

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If you’re going to be in Berkeley, join @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social for “Funhouse Footnote Four: How the Roberts Court Has Distorted the Civil Rights Settlement and the Judicial Role” tomorrow 4/10 with @profmmurray.bsky.social. RSVP: buff.ly/r6MqUI1 #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

Melissa Murray will be presenting the 2nd lecture on 'How the Roberts Court Has Distorted the Civil Rights Settlement and the Judicial Role'

Shamed - Virginia Law Review

April 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM Everybody can reply

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@maybell.bsky.social’s new piece Shamed is now out in Virginia Law Review! Check out the full piece and the beautiful full color images here: buff.ly/GqxcQKX #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

Victims of rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse have long had to contend with victim blaming and victim shaming. While legal scholars have had fruitful and theoretically engaging debates regarding…

‘Unwilling to admit the truth or unwilling to follow the law’: How Trump is changing the judiciary

April 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM Everybody can reply

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Check out our very own @leahlitman.bsky.social on @velshimsnbc.bsky.social (hosted by @profmmurray.bsky.social) where she talked about Trump, the DOJ, and the courts! buff.ly/2JqcaVx #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

During his first term in office, Donald Trump succeeded in shaping the federal judiciary, including by transforming the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court. Now that he’s back in the White House,…

April 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM Everybody can reply

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The Origins of Family Rights and Family Regulation: A Dual Legal History

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Congratulations to @bridgetdooling.bsky.social, professor of law at @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social ‬on her newest manuscript, Ghostwriting the Government buff.ly/5FXUbpN #WomeninAcademia #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

April 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM Everybody can reply

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We’re so excited for Prof. @alexyelderman.bsky.social, who will be joining the
@chicagokentlaw.bsky.social faculty this fall!! #WomenAlsoKnowLaw #WomenInAcademia

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In a forthcoming article, Prof. Laura Savarese studies how a wave of 19th century habeas litigation shaped modern American family law, arguing modern ideas were created
through legal challenges to growing power to remove children from their parents. #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

<div> <i>The history of the state’s intrusions on the rights of marginalized parents has become central to today’s critical accounts of American family law and

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Congrats to @auwcl.bsky.social Prof. Elizabeth Beske for publishing her article on big states' control of products for sale in their own market, concluding that unless they discriminate against out-of-state products, the Constitution gives them free rein to act. buff.ly/lY0nyos
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Don’t feel like reading? Watch this 5 minute clip of @cardozolaw.bsky.social Prof. Jessica Roth on CNN AC360 discussing President Trump’s recent executive orders targeting law firms and the new agreements between big law firms and his administration.
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April 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM Everybody can reply

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Jurisdiction and Remedy in J.G.G. v. Trump

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Check out @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social Amanda Tyler’s article in @lawfare.bsky.social on possible remedies to recent deportations by the Trump administration #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

There is ample support for the D.C. Circuit’s jurisdiction in the case. But can it order the return of individuals no longer in the country?

Procedure's Narrative: A Narratology of Civil Pretrial Litigation

April 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM Everybody can reply

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Check out “Procedure's Narrative: A Narratology of Civil Pretrial Litigation” by Prof. Anne Ralph of @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social
She examines how pretrial rules and practices shape the narrative of a case before it ever reaches trial. 📚⚖️
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<p>Law is a storytelling discipline. Perhaps the most well-recognized example of this is the American criminal trial, during which lawyers for each side present

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Check out this @nytimes.com article on @umichlaw.bsky.social ‘s @profrrothschild.bsky.social and why her work in climate legislation has lead to legal action #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She’s a Target.

A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal companies to pay for climate damage.