In “The Law of Racial Resentment,” I critique the Supreme Court’s validation of racial resentment in SFFA v. Harvard, and propose better legal and structural responses to address and counteract resentment. ✍🏽⚖️
Forthcoming in
@UCLALawReview
. Draft
@SSRN
.
Some exciting news: Received word from
@YaleLawSch
that I am to be Dr. Yuvraj Joshi! 🎓🌈✨
Couldn’t have done it without my conscientious advisor (
@samuelmoyn
) and committee, generous mentors and colleagues, and cheerleading partner, family, and friends.
Some personal news for
#PrideMonth
🌈
Starting July 2021, I’ll be an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law. I’m grateful to be joining this wonderful faculty and continuing to work on issues of justice.
#FirstGen
#LGBTPOC
@UBC
@AllardLaw
Some personal news for
#PrideMonth
🌈
In July, I will become an Assistant Professor at Brooklyn Law School. I will miss colleagues and students at
@UBC
immensely! But I am also grateful to join the incredible
@brooklynlaw
community and to continue working on issues of equality.
I came out 15 years ago today. Final day of high school, over the intercom:
“Good morning staff and students. I’m gay, and here are your morning announcements.”
Best 🌈 decision 🌈 ever 🌈.
#PrideMonth
#Pride
In “Racial Time,” I study how inequality can shape people’s experiences and expectations of time and how Supreme Court decisions (e.g., Shelby County, SFFA v. Harvard) enact dominant ideas about time.
Forthcoming in
@UChiLRev
. Draft posted on
@SSRN
.
My colleague Professor Susan Herman is going on leave. Knowing that I’m a new faculty member with very few books, she offered to give me ALL Constitutional Law textbooks on her office shelf! I gratefully took several and created The Professor Susan Herman Library in my office:
Immensely grateful that my latest article, Racial Equality Compromises, is now forthcoming in
@CalifLRev
. This article reconsiders the value of compromise (e.g., on policing, voting) by learning from Black advocates who lived through the consequences of past equality compromises.
Learned that
@brooklynlaw
colleagues voted to reappoint me as Associate Professor. Grateful for everyone’s support and especially BLS and external reviewers who wrote incredibly thoughtful letters. I ❤️ my job and am glad to be able to continue a couple more years. 🙏🏽🌈✨
Today, I join the faculty of the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law, where I will teach constitutional and transnational law and write on issues of equality:
Grateful for this opportunity and excited to meet
@UBC
#AllardLaw
community! 🌈
One year after Neil Gorsuch's confirmation to the Supreme Court, I write in
@Slate
about how the legacy of his nomination fight is much deeper than anything he has yet to write, and may ultimately prove to be greater than his actual judicial legacy.
I write in
@Slate
about
#India
’s decision decriminalizing same-sex relations.
#LGBTQ
Indians need not retreat from public life to be who they are, nor must they change who they are to appear in public. They are a part of Indian social fabric.
#Section377
In “Racial Justice and Peace,” I argue that last summer’s
#BlackLivesMatter
protests and chants of
#NoJusticeNoPeace
should lead us to reconsider American equality law.
Article forthcoming in
@GeorgetownLJ
and draft posted on
@SSRN
. Comments appreciated.
Excited to begin teaching Transnational Law at
@UBC
! 🌏⚖️ My course will cover principles of transnational, international, and comparative law, and pressing issues such as Covid-19, Indigenous rights, and racial justice. Here are the course readings for those interested:
In “Weaponizing Peace,” I study how racial justice opponents regularly wield a desire for peace, stability, and harmony as a weapon against racial equality.
Essay builds on “Racial Justice and Peace” (). Forthcoming in
@ColumLRev
:
Grateful that my latest article, The Law of Racial Resentment, is now forthcoming in
@UCLALawReview
.
In this piece, I critique the Supreme Court’s validation of resentment in SFFA v. Harvard, and propose better legal and structural responses to address and counteract resentment.
@cmclymer
I watched Legally Blonde every night of my first-year law school exams. Years later, I wrote a law review article inspired in part by Elle confronting Congresswoman Rudd before her interview with Connie Chung.
My first article to cross 100 citations 😊
I started writing "Respectable Queerness" as a
@UCLLaws
student and refined it during my tenure at a London firm. Grateful to
@ColumbiaHRLR
for taking a chance on a non-U.S. practitioner and for all who have found the article useful.
That’s a wrap on Year 1 of teaching at
@brooklynlaw
! 🤗 I couldn’t have asked for kinder students and more generous colleagues and guest visitors. Building all new courses from scratch again has been enormous work, but so rewarding. Feeling grateful.
How has the Supreme Court tried to surmount America’s racist past? In “Racial Transition,” I show how the Court has shifted from “reckoning” with the past to “distancing” from it, underestimating key transitional justice values.
Now in
@WashULRev
. 🧵 1/n
In “Racial Time,” I study how inequality can shape people’s experiences and expectations of time and how Supreme Court decisions (e.g., Shelby County, SFFA v. Harvard) enact dominant ideas about time.
Forthcoming in
@UChiLRev
. Draft posted on
@SSRN
.
“And O my people, out yonder, hear me, they do not love your neck unnoosed and straight. So love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it and hold it up ... For this is the prize.” RIP Toni Morrison
#StopMateer
—who called trans kids a part of “Satan’s plan”—is tip of the iceberg. Slew of Trump nominees have built their careers denigrating
#LGBTQ
people; some deny that LGBTQ people really exist. Unless Senate stops them, they will become federal judges
1/ What's at stake
Justice Kennedy, who occupied one of the most conservative centers in the Supreme Court’s history, cast consequential (and often deciding) votes upholding LGBTQ rights, reproductive rights, and affirmative action.
Trump's nominee won't be an Anthony Kennedy.
Today, I join the faculty of the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law, where I will teach constitutional and transnational law and write on issues of equality:
Grateful for this opportunity and excited to meet
@UBC
#AllardLaw
community! 🌈
“Weaponizing Peace” is out in
@ColumLRev
. It shows the weaponization of peace against racial justice—historically; in legal cases about property, education, protest, and public utilities; and in current anti-BLM/anti-CRT/anti-affirmative action campaigns.
How has the Supreme Court tried to surmount America’s racist past? In “Racial Transition,” forthcoming in
@WashULRev
, I show how the Court has shifted from “reckoning” with the past to “distancing” from it, underestimating key transitional justice values.
In case you, like me, are catching up on oral arguments in the
#Harvard
and
#UNC
#AffirmativeAction
cases, here are leading scholars, lawyers, and commentators: 🧵
We are honored to welcome Professor
@RabiaBelt
from
@StanfordLaw
to Law and Inequality! We will discuss a chapter from her essential book project, Disabling Democracy in America: Mental Incompetence, Citizenship, Suffrage, and the Law, 1819-1920.
That’s a wrap on Year 1 of teaching at
@brooklynlaw
! 🤗 I couldn’t have asked for kinder students and more generous colleagues and guest visitors. Building all new courses from scratch again has been enormous work, but so rewarding. Feeling grateful.
Delighted to welcome Professor
@monicacbell
from
@YaleLawSch
to
@brooklynlaw
’s Faculty Workshop! Professor Bell will present her book project, Fifty Mothers: Empirical Poems on Policing, Punishment & Poverty Governance. ✨✨
*Everyone* should read Professor Khiara Bridges! 🧵
1. Critical Race Theory: A Primer:
2. White Privilege and White Disadvantage (
@VirginiaLawRev
):
3. Race, Pregnancy, and the Opioid Epidemic (
@HarvLRev
):
.
@ProfOsamudiaJ
’s “Valuing Identity” in
@MinnesotaLawRev
(2017), cited by Justice Jackson, explains why Black identity is “not just a vehicle for anti-discrimination claims, but also a positive social good.”
@unc_law
Near-final version of “Affirmative Action as Transitional Justice,” forthcoming in
@WisLRev
, is now posted on SSRN. This is the first of my three doctoral articles exploring issues of racial transition. Please read and share with others interested.
I just posted my chapter on how an international transitional justice lens could benefit U.S. law and racial justice efforts. 🌎✊🏾 Forthcoming in Race & National Security, edited by
@matiangai
and published by
@OUPAcademic
@just_security
. Draft on
@SSRN
:
Kudos to my student who wrote a paper on federal disability assistance and named each section using a
@britneyspears
song: Piece of Me, Toxic, Work B*tch, and Gimme More.
#FreeBritney
#LawTwitter
Delighted that “Affirmative Action as Transitional Justice” received an Honorable Mention for
@TheAALS
Mark Tushnet Prize in Comparative Law! Many thanks to Profs. Mark Kende
@RichardAlbert
& Penelope Andrews for selecting it &
@WisLRev
for publishing it:
An upcoming lawsuit is challenging the University of California system’s use of the SAT or ACT on the basis that these tests are deeply biased and provide no meaningful information about a student’s ability to succeed.
@anemonanyc
This lawsuit is decades in the making. A thread.
A coalition of students, several advocacy groups and a California school district said they would file suit against the University of California system on Tuesday to stop it from using standardized test scores in its admissions
*Thrilled* to welcome Justice Mahmud Jamal to my public and constitutional law class at
@UBC
! Justice Jamal will discuss his path to the Supreme Court of Canada and the role of judges in interpreting the Constitution. 🇨🇦⚖️
“Weaponizing Peace” is out in
@ColumLRev
. It shows the weaponization of peace against racial justice—historically; in legal cases about property, education, protest, and public utilities; and in current anti-BLM/anti-CRT/anti-affirmative action campaigns.
In “Weaponizing Peace,” I study how racial justice opponents regularly wield a desire for peace, stability, and harmony as a weapon against racial equality.
Essay builds on “Racial Justice and Peace” (). Forthcoming in
@ColumLRev
:
Academics at times talk about the reality of
#rejection
, but the manner of rejection also matters. Rejections need not be silent or uncaring and can even be encouraging.
In “Racial Equality Compromises,” I urge us to reconsider the value of compromise (e.g., on policing, voting) by learning from Black advocates who lived through the consequences of past equality compromises.
Forthcoming in
@CalifLRev
and draft on
@SSRN
.
Delighted to welcome Professor Aziz Rana (
@BCLAW
) to
@brooklynlaw
Constitutional Law!
Aziz will present his forthcoming book, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them, which is 🔥🔥🔥
@nhannahjones
Agreed, and this would require universities to look inward to their own legacies of racism. Part of the appeal of diversity-based affirmative action is that it allows universities to support integration without reckoning with their own role as segregationists and enslavers.
*Thrilled* to be welcoming the Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella to Transnational Law at
@UBC
! Justice Abella will speak with our students about her trailblazing career and the role of Canadian judges in the world. 🇨🇦🌎
Excited to begin teaching Transnational Law at
@UBC
! 🌏⚖️ My course will cover principles of transnational, international, and comparative law, and pressing issues such as Covid-19, Indigenous rights, and racial justice. Here are the course readings for those interested:
Grades are in! Next: I’m on pre-tenure research leave until January 2025. 📚
Though I’ll miss teaching, I’m excited to write and workshop projects and connect with colleagues. Please let me know if you’re passing through NYC or if there are opportunities to visit your city. 🗽✈️
That’s a wrap on Year 1 of teaching at
@brooklynlaw
! 🤗 I couldn’t have asked for kinder students and more generous colleagues and guest visitors. Building all new courses from scratch again has been enormous work, but so rewarding. Feeling grateful.
#BrooklynLaw
students: Please consider taking Law and Inequality in Fall 23! We will discuss how law promotes and impedes the pursuit of equality by studying constitutional and antidiscrimination law, as well as other bodies of law. We will also be visited by innovative scholars.
“Comstockery: How Government Censorship Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom, and May Again Threaten It”
By Professors Reva Siegel and
@maryrziegler
Forthcoming in
@YaleLJournal
. Draft on
@SSRN
It’s amazing the number of people I meet who “always knew” they would become scholars or lawyers, attend Harvard or Yale. My path to academia was quite different. I grew up largely without parents from the age of 13, and it took countless mentors to make academia fathomable.
1/ New preprint! The “Socioeconomic Roots of Academic Faculty,” with
@alliecmorgan
@laberge_nick
@DanLarremore
Mirta Galesic:
We surveyed 7000 U.S. faculty from 8 disciplines to study how socioeconomic status shapes the academic workforce. 🪴 A summary:
Incredibly sad to learn about the passing of Professor Lani Guinier. She was a pathbreaking scholar who somehow managed to remain humble. I met her in New Haven in 2015 and gushed over her latest book. She said she worried whether it was one of the “good ones.” I told her it was.
My latest, “Racial Equality Compromises,” is now published in
@CalifLRev
. This article invites us to reconsider the value of compromise by learning from Black advocates who lived through the consequences of past equality compromises.
Excited to share that my article, “Racial Transition,” will be published next year in
@WashULRev
! This article bridges American racial equality law with international transitional justice. I’ll post a draft on SSRN and Academia soon, and I’m happy to share via email before then.
With SFFA v. Harvard moving through the appeal process this week, I write in
@Slate
that affirmative action doesn’t need to be perfect in order to be valuable and worth preserving.
#DefendDiversity
Today, we welcome Professor
@SarahRileyCase
from
@LawMcGill
to the “Law and Inequality” seminar! Her article—“Black Life under the Genocide Convention and Third World Solidarity”—offers an incredibly rich history and analysis of We Charge Genocide (1951):
Official! 🌈🌈🌈
My sister-in-law demands that I now update all my social media to “Dr. Yuvraj Joshi.” As I could never buy her the car I promised, Twitter is my temporary peace offering.
Some exciting news: Received word from
@YaleLawSch
that I am to be Dr. Yuvraj Joshi! 🎓🌈✨
Couldn’t have done it without my conscientious advisor (
@samuelmoyn
) and committee, generous mentors and colleagues, and cheerleading partner, family, and friends.
Excited to be in Tucson ☀️🌵⛰️ for
@uarizonalaw
's National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars!
I will present The Law of Racial Resentment (👇🏽) alongside latest work from
@daniel_b_rice
@LauraPortuondo
and
@juriscott
, with comments from Professor Reva Siegel.
Grateful that my latest article, The Law of Racial Resentment, is now forthcoming in
@UCLALawReview
.
In this piece, I critique the Supreme Court’s validation of resentment in SFFA v. Harvard, and propose better legal and structural responses to address and counteract resentment.
In “Racial Time,” I study how inequality can shape people’s experiences and expectations of time and how Supreme Court decisions (e.g., Shelby County, SFFA v. Harvard) enact dominant ideas about time.
Forthcoming in
@UChiLRev
. Draft posted on
@SSRN
.
On February 6, I will present “Racial Time” (
@UChiLRev
) in
@NYULaw
’s Race and Inequality Colloquium.
Hugely grateful to
@DeborahNArcher
and
@vmsoutherland
for including me alongside scholars I deeply admire. 🙏🏽🙏🏽