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Last time I'll post a new version of this paper, I promise. This is after v useful comments from Gali Racabi, Aneil Kovvali & Marshall Steinbaum (not all of which I could take up, alas). And this time I've provided a proper abstract.

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Sanjukta Paul

@sanjuktampaul

7 months

Prominent American 'liberals' already jumping to defend the latest images of men stripped naked and lined up blindfolded as 'fighting-age men in a war zone.' [A war zone that happens to be the entire territory on Earth allowed to them] If you think this center is going to hold...

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Sanjukta Paul

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8 months

This happened last night, in the United States, to undergrads at Brown & Haverford (despite tweet). I hope, though likely groundlessly, that the people who currently claim most loudly to care about safety on campuses have a single moment of reflection.

Remi Kanazi

@Remroum

8 months

Three Palestinian university students were shot in Burlington, Vermont. Two of the students are still in surgery. The three students are Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdel Hamid and Tahseen Ahmed. They went to the Friends School in Ramallah

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Sanjukta Paul

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2 years

Very, very excited for this next chapter, and so happy I get to stay in Michigan as a @waynestate alum.

Daniel A. Crane

@DanielDancrane

2 years

I’m delighted @sanjuktampaul will be joining the Michigan faculty. In difference, strength!

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Sanjukta Paul

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4 months

The claim that "management has value" is a concession that economic planning has value. The idea that there is some magic sauce to planning ("mgmt") that takes place in a boardroom rather than a public office or in some "private" cooperative form, is just that: magical thinking

Geoffrey Manne

@geoffmanne

4 months

The hubris of the progressive elite is unmatched. When you spend yr life denigrating capitalism you believe mgmt has no value & anyone can run a successful business. All u need is some unorganized resources, some unionized workers & a few tax dollars. If it doesn’t work, just add

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Sanjukta Paul

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2 months

What's driving me out of my mind is that real commentators--not just internet trolls--are repeating the mantra "hamas could end this by freeing hostages and ceasing rocket fire." This is verifiably false! There was a deal on the table a few weeks ago on those terms!

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Sanjukta Paul

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8 days

To be clear this is the court appointed monitor coming out of the ED mich case. This is utterly outrageous.

Luke Ramseth

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8 days

The UAW's federal monitor called Shawn Fain to share "personal concerns about the union’s position" on Gaza, a letter says. The union said it was "inappropriate" and "blatantly outside the monitor's jurisdiction." @BreanaCNoble @bykaleahall scoop:

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Sanjukta Paul

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2 years

Robin Wall Kimmerer performed a study showing that in areas of forest in which Indian basket weavers regularly harvested mature black ash trees, young trees survived because they could access sun & space. Where harvesting of older trees had stopped, the species was dying out.

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Sanjukta Paul

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6 months

To do so would have been costless. My soul fills with disgust at the prospect of being lectured in a few short months re Trump (someone I've more to personally lose from than most who will lecture). We SHOULD have coalition against Trump. A coalition requires two-way compromise.

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6 months

Palestinians aren’t even mentioned once in this statement from Biden

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1 year

Open letter from Michigan faculty regarding University request for judicial injunction to stop GEO strike:

Open Letter from Faculty on U of M request for injunction against GEO

This letter was closed, and then delivered to the President by email at COB on Friday, April 7, as planned. Note that the hearing on the matter at hand was set for (and took place on) Monday, April...

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Sanjukta Paul

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2 years

Something I've been wondering for a while is whether we shouldn't create new occupational licensing requirements for journalists that would prevent unqualified hacks from gaining arbitrary first-mover market shares due to their arbitrary unearned privileges.

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Sanjukta Paul

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9 months

Horrific and shocking news. Anyone who has been there knows what a particularly special place Isaac Agree is. Deep condolences to the whole community, and to her loved ones. Senseless violence is erupting all around us and we must, must not treat it as inevitable.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.

@JamaalBowmanNY

9 months

I am sick to my stomach to hear about the stabbing death of Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll. She was only 40 years old. Woll led the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue since 2022 and was very involved in Democrat politics. According to the news outlet, Woll

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2 months

Footage from another Columbia prof. This is profoundly insane.

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2 months

Jesus, I am scared

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Sanjukta Paul

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8 months

It's very heartening to see the union taking this on as a workplace issue (which, obviously, it is)

Harvard Grad Students Union-UAW Local 5118

@hgsuuaw

8 months

BREAKING: Harvard is evicting a Black @hgsuuaw student from campus housing today for serving as a student safety marshal during a recent campus protest organized by @HarvardPSC

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2 months

The head of the Center for American Progress--you know, the mainline Democratic Party think tank. I don't mean that everyone in the coalition agrees; rather that there's a real shift here that cannot be swatted away as - a) bias, b) terrorism, c) leftist fringe + youthful fad

Patrick Gaspard

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2 months

I have trespassed in peaceful protest. I have shutdown govt offices in civil disobedience. I have made the powerful uncomfortable in their routines as I’ve dissented in peaceful but committed disorder. Those are the American traditions of Thomas Paine, David Thoreau, Rosa Parks

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Sanjukta Paul

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1 year

The University of Michigan has filed a request asking a state court to enjoin the grad student strike and order them back to work (even while ULP's from both sides are pending before the state labor board). Labor injunctions are, appropriately, against state public policy.

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Sanjukta Paul

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2 years

This is easily the most inspiring thread I've ever read here.

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2 years

I want to tell a story. When I was in like 3rd grade, I went with my mom while she dropped some drugs off (yes, she was). Anyways. She left me in the car. This guys comes out to “watch” me and it’s just me and him. He looks over and asks. “You don’t know what a haiku is, do you?”

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Sanjukta Paul

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2 years

I am really excited to share this (DRAFT) paper with you all. It's called "On Firms" & is forthcoming in @UChiLRev (many thanks to editors & symposium participants). Caveats: It's a draft and the citations/notes in particular are NOT DONE. Comments welcome

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Sanjukta Paul

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1 year

Is it true that the university is charging @geo3550 (public/market rates i assume) for room rental for bargaining? If that is indeed true, it bothers me almost as much as some of the other more public stuff.

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Sanjukta Paul

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2 years

Lots of lessons here but the one that comes immediately to mind is for the Democratic Party

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Sanjukta Paul

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1 year

The Michigan Daily has an op-ed from me on the University's motion for a state court injunction against graduate student workers who are on strike -- the court's hearing on that motion is tomorrow morning.

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Sanjukta Paul

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9 months

Legal scholars: please consider signing this letter, and please circulate widely--time is of the essence. Information to add your name is in the document.

Legal Scholars Demand to Withdraw US Support for Attacks on Gaza

October 16, 2023 Dear President Biden, On October 7, Hamas committed deliberate atrocities against Israeli civilians. We join other Americans in condemning Hamas’s killing and kidnapping of unarmed...

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Sanjukta Paul

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2 years

FIRMS ARE JUST ONE WAY TO DO ECONOMIC COORDINATION & ARE SHAPED BY LAW. COORDINATION CAN BE DIFFUSE OR APPARENTLY CONTAINED, BUT NO MARKETS ARE GOVERNED BY COMPETITION ALONE. INTRAFIRM COORDINATION SHOULDN'T NECESSARILY BE SANCTIFIED, WHILE SOME 'CARTELS' ARE GOOD ACTUALLY

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8 months

The near-instantaneous dismissals of this story from some pundits are staggering. This is a diplomatic cable - not random comments from journalists or even politicos.

Priscilla Alvarez

@priscialva

8 months

Scoop: The Biden admin has received stark warnings from American diplomats in the Arab world that its strong support for Israel’s destructive and deadly military campaign in Gaza “is losing us Arab publics for a generation,” according to diplomatic cable.

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Sanjukta Paul

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6 months

I strongly rec this long essay by @SethAckerman . It's a one-stop shop on the long view of the I/P question + Gaza in article rather than book form, updated to now. It's deeply researched, and frankly very measured--any ideological frame here is minimal .

There Was an Iron Wall in Gaza

Addicted to territorial aggrandizement and encircled by enemies of its own making, Israel has freed itself of all moral constraints.

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Sanjukta Paul

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2 years

As a formally unemployed person, I just learned that I now officially have tenure (well, starting in August) in my next job. These circumstances validate the guild-like nature of this & other professions, and the inability of enterprise/agency relationships to fully capture them.

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Sanjukta Paul

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6 months

Let me get this straight: a student who's lost 20 family members under horrific circumstances is making meaning of this loss as best he can--something literally all humans do--and a professor is publicly implying that this act of meaning-making is wrong, nefarious, punishable?

Jeff Melnick

@melnickjeffrey1

6 months

Plenty of people (me!) have joked about Shai Davidai's hysterical antics. But for months he has been putting vulnerable students of color on his campus at great risk. It is beyond time for . @columbia to investigate his purposeful targeting of these students...

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2 years

Think I'm going to go ahead and quote one of the greatest legal realist statements of our time (made by @JWMason1 on this app) in book: "a rent is an income that someone receives under the current rules, that they would not receive if the rules were different.”

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Sanjukta Paul

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2 months

The latest horror was foreseeable a few weeks ago when it became clear there was no "red line" from Washington. I am not posting much about this anymore, because I don't think it matters. Nothing will reach anyone who hasn't been reached by now--not until much later.

Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

2 months

When bombs drop on tent camps filled with babies, those babies are decapitated. This stuff is on video. It’s horrific and heartbreaking. We, the U.S. taxpayers, are paying for this and if we saw every night on the news what’s happening to kids in Rafah, we would be outraged.

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2 years

Very very happy to be here!! 🙏🏽 Also got to chat a little here about how I (circuitously) got to current work and why the labor-antitrust intersection matters.

Michigan Law School

@UMichLaw

2 years

Professor Sanjukta Paul ( @sanjuktampaul ) Expert in antitrust law with a focus on labor and workers A former civil rights litigator, her forthcoming book reinterprets the origins and development of antitrust law in relation to labor and worker.

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1 year

"Correlation is not causation" I say as the handmade ceramic mug someone just gave me as a going away present breaks apart at the same time that it drops on the cement

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Sanjukta Paul

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2 years

Thank you to the airlines for lifting their mask mandates while my 3-year-old unvaccinated niece was halfway through a round trip--that they'd undertaken counting on masking during travel--so that she now has covid (and up to 104ﾟfever).

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Sanjukta Paul

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7 months

Interesting development. "Swing-state Muslim leaders launch campaign to ‘abandon’ Biden in 2024" A rational thing for Dems to do right now would be respond to this development + fact that Biden has effectively lost the youth vote (defined broadly!)

Swing-state Muslim leaders launch campaign to ‘abandon’ Biden in 2024

The bubbling anger among Arab and Muslim Americans over the president’s handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict could threaten his chances of reelection.

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10 days

@ettingermentum Just incredible jaw dropping narcissism

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2 years

What is the functional purpose here?

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2 years

Omg!!

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2 years

Great essay per usual by @JWMason1 : "A great part of the power of economics in policy debates derives from the conflation of these two meanings" of efficiency, namely the (un-operationalizable) welfare sense & the (common-sense) technical efficiency sense

The Tyranny of Homo Economicus

How “thinking like an economist” has thwarted progress in America.

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Sanjukta Paul

@sanjuktampaul

11 months

How is this not being discussed more widely in antitrust circles & the press? (Perhaps I've missed it!) Seems relevant that this is a particularly visible person at the front of the charge against reformers. Yet there's plenty of time for supposed "scandals" about Lina Khan.

Law Prof. Christa Laser

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11 months

Prof. Josh Wright continued to harass, proposition, and sleep with students as late as Fall 2021. Shared from a current @georgemasonlaw student.

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I just want to note one thing: the statutory authority for this rule-making is clear...genuinely, clearer than most legal questions that get litigated, in my experience. And that authority doesn't rely on Chevron, as many seem to be assuming.

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A federal court judge appointed by Trump in 2019 just blocked the FTC's immensely popular noncompetes ban. So much of Biden's sweeping pro-worker economic agenda has been torn down by an unaccountable activist judiciary.

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1 year

I literally could not be more excited to buy a union-made (Steelworkers) Speedqueen washer/dryer next month for the new house, with zero digital/pointless controls, made to last a few decades, and transported a couple of hundred miles from Milwaukee.

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7 months

It's not just that this racism is ignored while we conduct witch hunts on premise that student activism for Palestinian lives is dangerous; it's not just that a palestinian student lies paralyzed after being shot wearing keffiyeh; it's that THESE 2 THINGS ARE BASICALLY CONNECTED.

The Sparrow Project

@sparrowmedia

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“Thank you for walking through neighborhoods with your terrorist scarf.” A Harvard graduate student wearing a keffiyeh, was subjected to Islamophobic harassment on campus by Eve Gerber, wife of Jason Furman, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School and a former Obama Admin advisor.

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4 months

For this to happen essentially spontaneously, with a few days' loose organizing at best, is really something

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4 months

Minnesota Democratic primary uncommitted vote trickling in at 18% right now.

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Sanjukta Paul

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1 year

Important piece by @zachdcarter regarding the recent trajectory of @IsabellaMWeber -- who has gone from being roundly excoriated (by the existing spectrum of influential economists) to being widely celebrated -- which represents much broader currents

What if We’re Thinking About Inflation All Wrong?

Isabella Weber’s heterodox ideas about government price controls are transforming policy in the United States and across Europe.

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Sanjukta Paul

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2 years

The first half of @rohangrey 's law review article "Administering Money" is an amazingly clear overview of the law and operation of the public fisc in the US. Highly recommended.

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2 years

At this point I look forward to @MalloryRubin and @jowrotethis talking about house of dragon almost as much as the show itself

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Sanjukta Paul

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4 months

New essay! Broadly about economic "planning" and "competition" through the lens of NIRA, its tributaries, and its judicial reception. It benefited greatly from the editorial input of Maya Adereth, @andrewelrod Sanoja Bhaumik & Emma Fajgenbaum.

The First New Deal | Sanjukta Paul

The National Industrial Recovery Act shows how economic planning is intrinsic to markets.

www.phenomenalworld.org

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2 years

"Fewer workers and punishing schedules" (and all the operational and labor force problems that creates) is antithetical to a "quest for efficiency." We cannot rest until this framing dies.

NYT Business

@nytimesbusiness

2 years

The U.S. freight rail industry reinvented itself through decades of consolidation and a quest for efficiency. But that strategy meant fewer workers and punishing schedules — issues at the center of a contract impasse that nearly led to a strike last week.

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2 years

I have an op-ed in the @latimes today on the JCPA, currently in congress, which would permit coordination among news publishers in their bargains w/ internet platforms, for the purpose of distributing the revenues generated by the dissemination of news.

Op-Ed: A new law can help us keep the robust free press our democracy needs

The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act would authorize news outlets to bargain together for compensation from platforms that share their work like Google and Facebook.

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Sanjukta Paul

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8 months

I am proud to sign this open letter to institutional leaders from US law faculty in support of students' rights to engage in speech and advocacy around the unfolding crisis in Israel/Palestine. Please read and consider signing.

An Open Letter to the Deans of U.S. Law Schools

An Open Letter to the Deans of U.S. Law Schools As professors at law schools across the United States, we strive to foster and support our students’ aspirations to use the law to advance equal...

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6 months

I'll be in New York next week discussing antitrust and public price coordination with @NathanTankus - extremely excited for this. Join us if you care to. Thanks to Columbia LPE!!

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5 months

I have never been more certain of anything in my life than that we are going to (collectively, officially) look back on this and wonder how we watched it unfold, when we could have stopped it.

Gaza blog in bio

@comrade_sweezy

5 months

UPDATE FROM RAFAH THIS MORNING

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1 year

This is becoming a national embarrassment.

AFL-CIO ✊

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1 year

You can't make this up: @UMich is threatened by @geo3550 picket line *dancing.* This isn't Footloose. Get to the table and bargain a fair contract. (h/t to @steph_a_karol )

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1 year

The gist: The University should not pursue a judicial injunction to order grad workers back to work, full stop. Instead let's bargain a fair contract -- and then work on changing the systemic conditions that underlie the conflict!

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3 months

Just thinking about how the new school started...

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2 years

Pretty excited for this!

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2 years

It's such a shame that there hasn't been broader social investment to improve ventilation systems, particularly in key institutional sites. It's amazing to think how much that might improve health outcomes, even beyond covid.

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3 months

This deeply awful event -- serious vandalizing of the Muslim chaplaincy at a major university -- happened *on Eid* this week. As far as I can tell, it hardly made the news and Rutgers has said nothing (correct me if wrong on latter).

Sylvia Chan-Malik

@schanmalik

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The Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers was vandalized this morning, the day of Eid Al-Fitr—windows smashed, equipment destroyed, artwork smashed, Quran desecrated, & a Palestinian flag stolen. We will hold press conference tomorrow, Th 4/11 at 11am ET.

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2 years

Participation in destruction of the first generation of post-colonial leaders--leaders w/ egalitarian, democratic, universalistic orientations--is a crime against humanity we simply don't discuss, even as other aspects of US history have rightly come into mainstream discussion.

Jason Hickel

@jasonhickel

2 years

On this day in 1961, the US, Britain and Belgium assassinated Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Republic of Congo and inspiration to millions, because he sought to restore national control over the country's vast mineral reserves. Remember Lumumba.

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I'm not planning on discussing him further in this life but will note this: There needs to be disambiguation btw 1. taking antitrust/competition law very seriously as a practical & analytical tool and 2. believing "antimonopolism" is a transhistorical alternative to left politics

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Just for the record, I welcome Matt Stoller's hatred.

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@jbarab @gabrielwinant @nytimes "Whatever the roots of the conflict" ... this is a very strangely written article in general

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"a rent is an income that someone receives under the current rules that they would not receive if the rules were different" -- @JWMason1 (in an old twitter thread I love so much that I've not only quoted it in papers but can't forget it)

Ariel Ron

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The concept of “rent” in economics seems incoherent to me. If it’s just the excess beyond some ostensibly normal competitive level of profits, you would need a determinate sense of that level. But I don’t see how there could be one.

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At some point the aspiration 'work to create a society free from unearned privilege, & from excessive privilege regardless of desert, while practicing what you preach' morphed into 'treat 'privileges' as categorical personal characteristics to be ritualistically invoked'--

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This now also adds to the weight of denied injunctions in public sector worker cases in Michigan (frequently cited/appended in hearings even if not precedential). Great news!!

Grad Employees' Org UMich

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1 year

INJUNCTION DENIED

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Vanity plate that just says "WESTLAW." Why?

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"US legal scholars urge Biden to seek immediate ceasefire from Israel" @guardian summarizes our letter

US legal scholars urge Biden to seek immediate ceasefire from Israel

Letter signed by 178 members of US’s most prestigious law faculties calls Israeli reaction to Hamas attack ‘a moral catastrophe’

www.theguardian.com

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*New paper alert* "Labor Law, Ownership, and the Firm" I can't wait anymore for @SSRN to upload the corrected copy so I've cross-posted to my blog: [use this to download!] [to browse abstract]

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1 year

More people in the legal academy should be reading Rohan Grey's excellent, original, important work!

Stephanie Kelton

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1 year

The "debt" limit was never intended to serve as a brake on spending. As @rohangrey explains in this law journal article, the original purpose was to make it easier for the executive branch to carry out the payments that had been authorized by Congress. 1/

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@UMPublicAffairs @UMich Are you planning to hold a public meeting? Get input from the Faculty Senate? This rushed process is absurd.

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7 months

The juxtaposition of the images and news coming out of Gaza today and the *current* discussion, among academics, about the bounds of student and faculty speech may simply mark the impending end of my personal capacity to remain an inside participant in my professional world.

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2 months

I truly cannot believe it.

Laila Al-Arian

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2 months

In response to a Fox News question about campus protests, the White House spokeswomen said the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and the Department of Education will be involved. This means the Biden administration may be pursuing federal charges against student protestors

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Well this was not a good idea.

Democrats Quietly Nix Biden’s $100B for School Modernization From Infrastructure Package

In a major blow that left educators, school leaders and advocates stunned, Democrats pared back – and then eliminated – $100 billion that Joe Biden earmarked for school modernization in his spending...

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@sanjuktampaul

2 years

Excited and a bit nervous to present my draft paper tomorrow on firms and Chicago school theorizing about firms at ... Chicago.

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@sanjuktampaul

5 months

Just cast my vote for "Uncommitted" [to the status quo death machine] in the Democratic primary in Ann Arbor, Mich. I don't think I've ever felt better about a vote in my life -- and that even includes both votes cast for Bernie.

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2 years

Incredibly pleased to share the introduction to a new @LPEblog symposium: "Root and Branch Reconstruction in Antitrust Law." Here we gather together some of the key mid-level normative directions that should guide such reconstruction.

Root and Branch Reconstruction in Antitrust: A Symposium

Given the shortcomings of the prevailing antitrust framework, a growing chorus of voices is calling for a ground-up reconstruction of competition law and policy. But what would that look like?

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Sanjukta Paul

@sanjuktampaul

11 days

Hard to debate the straightforward disaster of this one...

Mark Joseph Stern

@mjs_DC

11 days

The Supreme Court's first decision is Corner Post. By a 6–3 vote, the majority allows plaintiffs to challenge an agency action LONG after it has been finalized. All three liberals dissent.

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Wow. Determination of "threat" to "national security" posed by a "foreign adversary controlled application" is entrusted entirely to the *discretion of the president*. People who moan about 'censorship' are backing this incredibly dangerous bill.

Peggy Barunga

@pega_tc

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@DavidAstinWalsh They’re going to do more than that. The bill gives a president, the power to ban any website he deems a national security threat.

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What really strikes me is that the supposed "conflicts of interest" are not only based on academic work; it's effectively impossible to do academic work in Khan's area without *dealing specifically with these firms* precisely BECAUSE they're so dominant*

Attacks on Lina Khan’s Ethics Reveal Copious Amounts of Projection

Before the Federal Trade Commission chair got there, the agency was brimming with conflicts of interest, including from her loudest critics.

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@sanjuktampaul

4 months

Presenting this chapter (for the first time) @ Duke Law shortly -very excited!!

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@sanjuktampaul

3 years

It's been said many times but it's *amazing* that just a few years ago, the idea that much/most work--especially at the low & middle segments of the pay scale--wd be automated in the near/medium-term future was being widely discussed as the BIG issue re: labor & society.

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This is really breaking new ground - not just in terms of the "AI exemption" idea but also in terms of targeting landlords, who frequently engage in all kinds of under the radar price coordination.

Lina Khan

@linakhanFTC

4 months

1. As landlords turn to algorithms to set rents, they should be aware that price fixing through an algorithm is still price fixing. A brief by @FTC & Department of Justice makes clear that there is no AI exemption from the antitrust laws.

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I was just wondering what it would it take to prompt a walkout of all the faculty who have essentially been providing an escape valve for months now, and how that would (or more likely would not) change the dynamics of this situation.

Tage Rai

@tage_rai

3 months

I would hope that Columbia Faculty see their admin arresting their own students for peaceful protest as a red line. These students are in our care. Our primary responsibility as academics is to nurture their minds and protect them from oppression. Faculty must walk out now.

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@sanjuktampaul

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@brianbeutler Merits aside ... your position is that putting concern for other humans (even if you think it misplaced) over individual career advancement *undermines* a person's credibility?

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2 years

My review essay of Block & Harris's _Inequality & the Labor Market_ is out. Here I argue explicitly: the discussion around competition policy & labor needs to move beyond imperfect competition, to a thoroughly legal-institutionalist study of markets

Charting the Reform Path - Michigan Law Review

Inequality and the Labor Market: The Case for Greater Competition. Edited by Sharon Block and Benjamin H. Harris. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. 2021. Pp. xix, 241. $37.99. Introduc...

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@sanjuktampaul

2 years

a) I got the house I was hoping for in ann arbor, without even sacrificing my need to be present for the inspection including (duh) watching the entire sewer scope, AND they cut the price in the meanwhile; b) just in time for today's rate hike!!

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It was quite profound at today's commencement to hear our honored guest, a sitting federal judge, call out @umich central administration's security theater in particular light of its arising in the context of "advocacy for Palestinian human rights," as a part of broader remarks

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@sanjuktampaul

6 months

Just for the record, I welcome Matt Stoller's hatred.

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@sanjuktampaul

3 months

The last bullet point in this letter is key. Too many high university officials have been 'making or supporting vague public and private allegations and spurious claims against students' (and faculty) for 6 months now. That laid the groundwork for the current chapter.

Amy Kapczynski

@akapczynski

3 months

Yale faculty to Yale administration: hands off our students.

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@ettingermentum My (extremely obvious??) take on this whole discourse is: great, so on that principle (save civilian lives--good principle!!) do you support US subsidy of Iron Dome for Gaza? If not, why not???

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@sanjuktampaul

7 months

I am proud and excited to share this article from colleague @gabrielwinant . In the midst of int'l and domestic crisis, opportunity? Please have a look--and please consider the case for Levin as a vehicle for the essential perspective so many of us share

Biden Is His Own Worst Enemy in 2024. Time for Someone Else.

In fumbling his response to Gaza, the President has redrawn the electoral map against himself—and the latest attempts to course correct won’t save him.

inthesetimes.com

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@sanjuktampaul

2 years

OK I have to briefly post on this platform to make an observation: 'Freedom of contract' and 'more competition' have *always* been in latent tension with one another! This is in fact the basic tension at the heart of "free markets" as a putatively unitary ideal.

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Just note that the actual "Uncommitted" vote is going to *greatly* undercount the actual margin Biden needs to worry about for Nov--disaffection predates this short, shoestring campaign. Many, many more who would've otherwise voted Biden are going to stay home, do a write-in, etc

Waleed Shahid 🪬

@_waleedshahid

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CHRIS WALLACE: "I was talking to a top Michigan Democrat who said that. 'It's not just Arab Americans, there's young people, people of color, blacks and Hispanics who have a lot of doubts about Biden...I'm worried about uncommitted.' It's really a vote of no confidence...in

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2 years

The actual colors (shades of olive) are 10x nicer than the lime neon green that's somehow showing up on twitter ... but still!

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WKCR student journalists reproting that during every critical encounter w/ police, now and during earlier arrests, the student protesters have been singing -- "your people are [shall be] my people" -- and boy is it difficult not to be moved to tears

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@sanjuktampaul

2 years

It's just about #LeavetheLeaves season! A couple of inches of leaf cover is habitat that invertebrates and pollinators (including native bees) who are in turn essential to healthy ecosystems rely upon.

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@sanjuktampaul

2 years

I understand the impulse to find a unified framework for why things are bad but I humbly submit it's important to come up with unified frameworks for making things better--which definitely includes critical analysis of the *actual ideas & arguments* that keep bad things in place

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@sanjuktampaul

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Levin clearly endorsing the Uncommitted vote in the MI primary; asking Ferndale and other cities to pass ceasefire resolution; and stating that Biden sending people to Michigan is irrelevant: we need a change in POLICY, not messaging ... Biden must act to "end the carnage"!

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@sanjuktampaul

6 months

Should we "commit at least 90% of incoming slots at law schools and universities to [graduates of] public schools–to match the proportion of them in the country, and to reverse the massive bias toward wealthy prep school[s] at elite colleges today?"

The Real Lessons We Should Draw from Claudine Gay’s Resignation

Free speech at universities hangs in the balance. But defending it will require much more than just resisting the assaults coming from billionaires and right-wing influencers.

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@sanjuktampaul

8 months

Never been clearer that law schools need to figure out how to loosen themselves from the political economy of white-shoe law firms. This includes seeking *public* support for both education and entry-level legal jobs (think about all the unmet demand for lawyers) .

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@sanjuktampaul

2 years

No! There are urgent social goals (not "industry demands") that we indeed need to meet through technical means. Every student--*every one*, not just the fortunate ones--deserves to study deeply about this world & why it's worth fighting for. And then to help shape those "demands"

Secretary Miguel Cardona

@SecCardona

2 years

Every student should have access to an education that aligns with industry demands and evolves to meet the demands of tomorrow’s global workforce.

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Working for a labor union is public service. It doesn't make sense for student loan repayment programs that apply to (other) nonprofits and public employment not to apply to labor jobs.

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Letter is closed and sent. Thanks.

Sanjukta Paul

@sanjuktampaul

1 year

If you would like to sign this open letter from University of Michigan faculty re: GEO strike, please do so by 5 PM today! The prelim injunction hearing is set for Monday; I'd like to email the letter over at the end of the day. Link to sign in document.

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