McKinney v. University of Guelph, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 229

'The legal autonomy of the universities is fully buttressed by their traditional position in society.'

For 5 days, no fuel & virtually no humanitarian aid has entered Gaza. Without fuel, maternity wards cannot function, lifesaving equipment (ventilators, incubators) stop working, water desalination plants & water wells cannot function...

@unicef shar.es/agtX6G

Next week's UCL Quain lectures with Amia Srinivasan are naturally oversubscribed, but there are not insurmountable waiting lists for Lectures 2 and 4 that you can join, and that for Lecture 3 (Thursday) is worth a try. The drafts promise an outstanding set of lectures.

This is a crucial point—the admin seems to have decided to sidestep its own legal obligations at the last minute in favor of ad hoc discretion. Not surprising, I suppose, but troubling.

I wrote for the London Review of Books about crackdowns on student protest, universities, open letters, and free speech.

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

This is not my university.

Excited this is out!
It's on a deep conceptual problem: With the right substantive view, you can recast most excuses (affecting culpability) as justifications (affecting wrongness)--or vice versa. How do we make progress if key distinctions are so mushy?
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Donaldson on the League of Nations, lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/20…

“The Constitution of the War on Drugs” by David Pozen

This is the full book posted online! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

There are indications from reliable sources that New York University administration has requested that NYPD drop all criminal trespassing charges against our students, faculty, staff re Apr 22. This is something many colleagues including myself have been pressing for. Wise & just.

The UDH is norm, but not fact… As with all normative systems, a system’s reach ought to exceed its grasp. Whats a heaven for?
 
On the commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDH) at Johns Hopkins SAIS Full vid here: youtube.com/watch?v=gWfPbN…

'Several carried children in their arms, some apparently bleeding and unconscious .... CNN footage also showed panicked children arriving in ambulances without their parents and one barely responsive child with a heavily bandaged arm being carried on a stretcher.'

Jobs at my place. Lots of em. Come work with us. Pls retweet and share etc and happy to talk to anyone abt these jobs: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5247…

My new public philosophy piece is out: 'The Limits of Data'! It's about what data leaves out - about what gets systematically filtered out of the institutional process of data collection. 🧵:

nybooks.com/online/2024/05…

📢STARTING TOMORROW📢
'American Constitutionalism in Crisis?'

Keynotes by Maggie Blackhawk, Jonathan Gienapp, & Rogers Smith

Presentations by Yasmin Dawood, Zachary Elkins, Rob Goodman, Ran Hirschl, Victoria Nourse, Max Mishler, Robert Schertzer, & Emily Zackin

Details: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/2024-bis…

#Gaza :
⚠️ If fuel imports are not allowed to resume, stocks that sustain humanitarian aid operations risk being depleted within days.

⚠️ A full-blown military assault on Rafah could result in all main medical facilities there becoming inaccessible or inoperable.

Learn more 🔽

'To take out over half of water and sanitation would be very difficult without intentionally doing so. So the pattern is evidence of either a reckless approach to civilian objects or the intentional destruction of them; these were not all mistakes,' leila sadat added.