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woke up one day last week with two papers due that I hadn't started; several reviews and clerkship letters; a mountain of exams and student papers. I want to declare
#academicbankruptcy
but will settle for reorganization rather than liquidation
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Thank you to
@asilorg
readers!
Congratulations to
@tomginsburg
for winning the
@asilorg
2023 Robert E. Dalton Award for 'Democracies and International Law'!
Learn more about this award-winning title here:
#InternationalLaw
#ASIL23
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In 1989 Cody's Books in
#Berkeley
was bombed for selling
#Rushdie
's
#SatanicVerses
. Owner Andy Ross had to decide whether to keep selling. “I stood and told the staff that we had a hard decision to make. We needed to decide whether to keep carrying [the book] & risk our lives /1
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Thank you and committee for this great honor!
Robert E. Dalton Award for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Foreign Relations Law: Tom Ginsburg, Democracies and International Law:
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Looking like a massive defeat for the
#Chile
constitution. Two thoughts: the process undermined the coherence of the draft; and the "no" campaign, along with misinformation, was pretty effective. /1
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A form of collective punishment that isn’t going to reduce polarization, to say the least.
Thirteen federal judges say that absent major changes at Columbia, they won't hire anyone who chooses to go there (undergrad or law school) following this year.
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for what we believed in. Or to take a more cautious approach and compromise our values. So we took a vote. The staff voted unanimously to keep carrying the book... I realized that bookselling was a dangerous and subversive vocation. Because ideas are powerful weapons." /end
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Wow, a surprise, I thought this wasn't coming out for another month. Thanks to
@CUP_Law
@ABFResearch
and
@UChicagoLaw
and especially to the great Arthur Wright of
#HydePark
who let me use his piece for the cover!
Democracies and International Law by Tom Ginsburg
@tomginsburg
Contrasts democratic and authoritarian approaches to international law, explaining how their interaction will affect the world in the future.
#internationallaw
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One of the most gratifying things in my scholarly career has been a set of private communications from scholars in (unnamed) authoritarian regimes, engaging with my article on
#Authoritarianism
and
#internationallaw
. God Bless Open Access & thank you
@AJIL_Unbound
#openaccess
New AJIL Unbound symposium on "Authoritarian International Law" by
@tomginsburg
, edited & introduced by Katerina Linos, is now available online and always Open Access.
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I’m immensely humbled to receive this award, alongside great prior contributions by
@tamir_moustafa
, Hirschl, Rosenberg and others
The section has given the award for Lasting Contribution to two publications this year. The first goes to Tom Ginsburg's 2003 book, Judicial Review in New Democracies.
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My late father had a collection of historical stamps from the tiny Polish town of
#Przedborz
. Today I returned them to live in local museum. Honor to share
#Polands
rich
#history
. thanks
@Aleksandra_dzie
@AdamKKrzywon
for arranging!
@Adbodnar
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RIP Ruth Gavison, who never shied away from the hardest questions about
#constitutionaldemocracy
. One of the most brilliant minds I've been privileged to encounter.
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My thoughts on the Israeli Government plan to reshape the courts: - Jewish Telegraphic Agency via
@jtanews
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"All approaches to constitutional interpretation rely on unwritten understandings. Going outside of the text is essential to reading the Constitution," George Thomas writes:
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And
@aziz_huq
! It is a real honor, since the society stands for all that is best in scholarship.
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Isaac Asimov: "There is a cult of ignorance in the U.S., and always has. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread...nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
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I don't understand all the concern about the Supreme Court. We have the best Court that money can buy.
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we wrote this thing on comparative impeachment, thinking it would be hopelessly out of date by now. Congrats
@UChiLRev
--certainly first law review to publish an article on impeachment the day Articles of Impeachment are introduced in the House.
Articles:
"Stickiness and Incomplete Contracts" by
@JulianNyarko
"The Comparative Constitutional Law of Presidential Impeachment" by
@tomginsburg
,
@aziz_huq
, & David Landau
"Proximate Cause Explained: An Essay in Experimental Jurisprudence" by
@scottjshapiro
& Joshua Knobe
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My testimony at in a nutshell: the Pope, the Dalai Lama, 12 apostles of the Mormon church, 28 monarchs and 9 supreme court justices are the only people on the planet who can expect to die in office f natural causes. US would never make this choice again.
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Lessons for next time: don't allow anti-political impulses to dominate process. Independents shouldn't run on lists; 2/3 vote article by article made harmonization difficult; and more attention to the "engine room" of politics important as per
@Rgargarella
/end
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With my famous Bangkok suit
Keynote Speech by Professor
@tomginsburg
, discussing about "The Expressive Complexities of Constitutional Equality"
Such a good way to start our
@iacl_aidc
Roundtable in Siena!
@unisiena
@GroppiTania
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Just learned that the first chapter of our edited book Comparative Constitutional Law of Africa is available for free download at
@ElgarPublishing
. Thanks!
@AdamAbebe
@rosalinddixon15
Pub
https://www.elgaronline.com/display/book/9781839106897/9781839106897.xml
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Pleased to announce that the Comparative Constitutions Project has released an updated version of our chronology of constitutional events, now through 2019!
@ccpconstitute
hopes to have a new data release this year.
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#RichardEpstein
has gotten a lot of criticism for his Darwinian pseudo-scientific analysis of
#COVID19
. I am convinced the New Yorker piece could not have talked to the real Richard because it says "He was initially wary of talking..."
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For those who have followed Adrian Vermeule's integralist polemics, this great review says he "must choose between Schmitt’s unbounded executive and the Church’s vision of dignity and human rights. He cannot have both."
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Future law professors!
@UChicagoLaw
Bigelow Fellowship application for next year is now open: Academic Jobs | The University of Chicago
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Three myths about
#CancelCulture
: it is new; it somehow restricted to the political left (remember the
#dixiechicks
?); and it is among the most important issues facing our society in an era of actual
#AmericanCarnage
.
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The most disturbing developments in our backsliding
#Democracy
are in the unsexy realm of what
@aziz_huq
& I call the bureaucratic rule of law: the
#postoffice
, the
#Census2020
etc
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Sorry state of legal education: “Coming out as a moderate was more difficult than coming out as gay at Stanford Law School.” With some of my fellow Stanford Law students, there’s no room for argument
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Comment from last set of course evals: "One male student in particular raised his hand at least 4 times per class session so he could ramble and Ginsburg never stopped calling on him. It felt like a bad Tinder date." Ouch!~
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United States of America: UN Human Rights Chief troubled by law enforcement actions against protesters at universities
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Another student evaluation comment: "The amount of reading is wholly unreasonable. It also comes in awful formatting (like 2000s style)." I'm
#Old
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We are launching an academic workshop on Buddhism and comparative constitutional law this spring!
@ccpconstitute
Very excited to announce this virtual workshop series on Buddhism and constitutional law, which I'm co-organising with Tom Ginsburg, starting January 14, 2021. Join us by clicking 'join' on the website below.
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Working for
@thechicagoforum
in the greatest city in North America
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'Today's Authoritarians Are Very Creative At Turning Democratic Institutions To Their advantage' : Interview With Tom Ginsburg
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Very excited to be on my way to Santiago at this historic juncture for
#Chile
📚
@tomginsburg
, experto internacional en constituciones y académico de
@UChicago
, visitará Chile para exponer sobre los puntos clave del proceso constituyente que enfrentaremos en los próximos meses.
👀 Cupos limitados ➡️
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#BlackPeople
just saved American democracy, first is S Carolina by choosing Biden over leftier candidates, and now in Detroit, Milwaukee and Atlanta by turning out in difficult conditions.
#saveconstitutionaldemocracy
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My take on job offer withdrawals: “The world’s very unjust, and students are trying to figure it out...They should be able to try things out and not carry the weight of their future selves with their speech experiments"
@thechicagoforum
@UChicagoLaw
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It was wonderful speaking with
@veronicaundurra
@Rmontero_
and Isabel Aninat among others about
#Chile
's
#Constitution
draft. Looking forward to seeing the results on Sunday!
In episode 3,
@cfloed
and
@tomginsburg
talk to Chileans in Santiago about Chile’s new draft constitution, soon up for vote.
Why do Chileans want a new constitution and what would it mean for equality in Chile?
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with all the insanity going on about campus free speech in the US, I wanted to share an image from
@UChicago
. This blackboard has gone undefaced for weeks, apparently. We
@thechicagoforum
want to take the next step to provide folks with opportunities to talk through the issues.
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This was an amazing event. The papers were very strong, we met scholars from all over the region. We felt utterly safe, and were dancing in the streets to celebrate
#Iraq
victory over
#Japan
in the
#AsianCup2023
. Baghdad is back, baby!
Something completely different and new happened in the field of comparative constitutional law last week: an international academic conference on democracy and populism took place in Baghdad, Iraq and was attended by guests from all the continents and from 25 different countries.
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After being compared with a bad tinder date, I want to ask academics: worst comment in a course evaluation you've received?
@DianeDesierto
@sujit_choudhry
@scottjshapiro
@WilliamBaude
and many others
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My congrats to my friend
@Rgargarella
--it was an honor to engage with your work. In English, my piece is called "Notes on a Continuing Conversation" and can't wait to continue at our next meeting.
A Revista Derecho Del Estado do Departamento Del Derecho Constitucional
@UExternado
está perdível, homenageando
@Rgargarella
Com artigos de
@JorgeRoaRoa
@tomginsburg
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Today was the day we first heard a friend got COVID 19. She has all the symptoms. This being the United States, her insurance will not cover the test, so she will never be in any statistics, unless she has to be fully hospitalized or dies. But hey,
#freedom
!
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This is a tough and fair review of our book by the mighty Roberto Gargarella. Gracias a todos!
Roberto Gargarella reviews the book from Tom Ginsburg
@tomginsburg
and Aziz Huq “How to Save a Constitutional Democracy”, in the last number of Revista de Derecho del Estado Law Journal 2018
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At long last, our article on
#disqualification
in comparative constitutional law is out. Can the US learn anything from other countries?
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Just published a paper on
#UDHR
with
@zedtex
in
@world_pol
! It’s called “Imagining a World without the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” /1
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Shame on the 47 "No" votes for a truly dignified, humble twice-confirmed federal judge. Shame on you.
Applause broke out in Senate chamber as Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman ever confirmed to sit on the nation’s highest court.
Read more on the historic confirmation:
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Nice story of our workshop on
#Buddhism
and constitutional law, sponsored by
@ABFResearch
and
@UChicagoLaw
--its been even better than I expected
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"Democracy as compared with other ways of life is the sole way of living which believes wholeheartedly in
the process of experience as end and as means;"--John Dewey, Creative Democracy (1939). Thx to
@AgnesCallard
for pointing me to the essay.
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The incomparable
@knakano1970
corrects for naive western hagiography of
#ShinzoAbe
“It’s time for Japan to bid farewell not only to Mr. Abe but also to his nationalist rearmament agenda,” writes
@knakano1970
, a political scientist at Sophia University in Tokyo, in a guest essay.
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Thanks,
@RichardAlbert
!
One of the most important and impactful books in constitutionalism in over a generation. It opened an exciting new world of possibilities for constitutional studies.
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White supremacist Steve King out! I am an eternal optimist and hope this a harbinger ....
Breaking News: In a major defeat, Rep. Steve King of Iowa lost his Republican primary for a 10th term. He has long made racist comments and was disciplined in 2019.
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"One would not err much in thinking that the strategic problem of the "founders", pretty much everywhere, was how to construct representative government for the elites while protecting it from the poor"--
@AdamPrzeworski
in Crises of Democracy
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“
#Patriotism
is when love of your country comes first;
#nationalism
, when hatred for people other than your own comes first.” —Charles
#DeGaulle
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alas, its 6 am Chicago time so I dont expect a lot of attendance but perhaps my friends in
#Santiago
can get up that early
TOMORROW at 8 A.M
Check out ABF Research Professor
@tomginsburg
in
@horizontalchile
's virtual forum on, "The Chilean Constitutional Challenge: Lessons from International Experience."
He will discuss lessons about comparing constitution-making processes.
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Important new
#ClimateChange
provision in
#Tuvalu
Constitution: "The baseline coordinates...shall remain unchanged, notwithstanding any regression of the low water mark or changes in geographical features of coasts or islands, due to sea-level rise or other causes.
@ccpconstitute
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How do we know if we’re in a constitutional crisis? 11 experts, including me and
@aziz_huq
explain.
@UchicagoLaw
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International Workshop Series to Discuss Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law | Buddhistdoor
@UChicagoLaw
@ABFResearch
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Best academic book I read this year! Continual thinking about its implications for
#Asia
. Congrats
@DBoucoyannis
Kings as Judges: Power, Justice, and the Origins of Parliaments by
@DBoucoyannis
now available from
@CUPAcademic
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Honored to be in this list with
@aziz_huq
and what a service for young scholars to compile this!
A list of 100 Democracy Books. Some are classics, while others are contemporary. I really felt this was missing for new scholars. I'm hoping to add some more book lists soon. Below I am tagging authors included in the list.
@GroupDemocracy
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We are trying to encourage scholars to reimagine institutions for a world beset by multiple crises.
@law_soc
#2021
meeting
Program Chairs:
@Alex_Huneeus
of
@WisconsinLaw
&
@tomginsburg
of
@UChicagoLaw
"A conference focused on crisis foregrounds the present, but it also looks to the past and to the future with the themes of healing and re-imagining."
#LSA2021
Read more ⬇
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The best case for diversity training at universities I’ve seen. This is a graduation and the chancellor is mocking Asian languages
When I see an older white male authority figure joke like this and see how the faculty and students laugh, it reminds me of how I was not seen as equal growing up in the US, and how Asians are easily written off and ridiculed. But it’s just a joke, right?
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Amazing news from
#Chile
that if the constituent assembly option is chosen, it will be composed of 50% women. well done to
@pfigueroarubio
and others pushing for equality in constitution-making
Estamos FELICES porque ¡HICIMOS HISTORIA! 👏🏽🙋🏽♀️Es importante entender en qué consiste el mecanismo que asegurará una
#ConstituyenteParitaria
👀 A continuación les dejamos la gráfica de
@latercera
que lo explica:
#ParidadYa
#Constituci
ónConMujeres
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Very proud to take on this mission with
@tonybanout
in a time of great peril for
#academicfreedom
The University of Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression will launch this fall, deepening the University’s longstanding commitment to these elements of its culture. Prof. Tom Ginsburg and Tony Banout will serve as the Forum's inaugural leaders.
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The scandal here is not the money: its the mentality of SF School Board. A civilization that destroys art is not worthy of the name. via
@NYTOpinion
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Twitter is getting people fired and doxxed even when they’ve apologized for their mistakes. What a horrible unforgiving culture.
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and how do I get him to start tweeting about comparative constitutional law? hey Donald--look over here!
The President of the United States has spent all morning tweeting about "critical race theory", fun! You may ask, gentle readers, what exactly is that, how can I learn more, and does it have any relevance to me? Sounds really interesting, no? It is! A few points below.... /1
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Trump's speech not only attacked the Supreme Court and electoral officials of both parties, but the Republican Party. Good luck to both the GOP and the MAGA Party, may the best team win.
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Great piece by
@tarunkhaitan
: in an era in which everything has been politicized, the academy will not long last unless we get our collective house in order and take inquiry seriously.
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"Website under maintenance" after Columbia Law Review Board delays piece by
@RabeaEghbariah
. seems an outrageous w autonomous law review operation as well as academic freedom.
Timely new article “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept” by Rabea Eghbariah in Columbia Law Review seeking to “transcend existing legal limits and imagine new ways of apprehending the Palestinian condition in law…”
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Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests
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and special thanks to you for your major role in the project!
@NuriaBooks
came through with this book edited by Professor
@tomginsburg
. Can’t wait to indulge!
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New piece out, thanks to
@UCLALawReview
and
@UChicagoLaw
In "How To Lose A Constitutional Democracy," Profs. Aziz Huq &
@TomGinsburg
discuss the threats of democratic backsliding and the comparative risks our
#democracy
faces in the modern day.
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Good piece on our approach
@UChicagoLaw
and how it differs from the competition. there is more to say about why our students--who are as smart passionate as those at Yale and Stanford--understand and create a culture of free expression
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“Secession is back in style.”
And, as Profs.
@tomginsburg
of
@UChicagoLaw
and Mila Versteeg of
@UVALaw
argue, constitutions may be the cause.
Check out why here:
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There is a way in which this old book of mine is very relevant right now. A powerful judiciary that protects rights can reduce the stakes of electoral loss, making the loser more willing to concede. There have been no gun-toting
#GOP
mobs out trying to overturn the
#Democracy
My latest blog reflects on the judiciary with a review of a modern classic from
@tomginsburg
, "Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in Asian Cases." I reflect on the role of judicial review and the courts in democracy.
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Thanks to
@AJIL_Unbound
for bringing this superb and diverse set of authors together. I’m humbled and grateful for their engagement.
Fantastic symposium
@AJIL_Unbound
on
@tomginsburg
’s recent article.
Shirley Scott’s contribution is especially 🔥: “It was thus not necessarily the United States that was functioning as the imperial power within international law, but civil society.”
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Overheard in cafe before my lecture on impeachment: “going to a talk by whatsisname...Ginsburg. See you at 530.”
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Excited that my paper with Taisu Zhang on legality in China is now out!
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Here is the excellent five-judge bench judgment (with a summary of the orders) of the High Court
#Kenya
stopping the President from proceeding with an unconstitutional amendment process
@waikwawanyoike
@tomginsburg
@ahmednasirlaw
@kipmurkomen
@makaumutua
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