Leaving aside all the doctrinal issues, the 30000 feet functional angle to normatively analyze universal injunctions is simply the following: in general, should it be easier for the federal government to do stuff, in which case you should oppose a system that lets any district

This is an animation of, in my view, the best Chinese fantasy novel of the past 15 years. Looking forward *very* much.

From the academic who spearheaded the rejection of universal injunctions. nytimes.com/2025/06/28/opi…

Another central directive on formal adjudication. The skepticism toward any “mediation-centric” model that some judges were nudging toward over the past 5 years is pretty obvious here.【受权发布｜中共中央关于加强新时代审判工作的意见】 h.xinhuaxmt.com/vh512/share/12…

This account may have been hacked—apparently it’s been reposting messages about shitcoins. I’m trying to figure out how to secure it. If you get any weird messages from me in the meantime, please disregard…

“He never forgot the sight: Chinese civilians and captured Allied soldiers preserved in formaldehyde, their bodies flayed open or cut into pieces. They had been infected with bacteria and dissected alive to see the effects on living tissue.” nytimes.com/2025/07/28/wor…

It seems like, well, an opportune time to push this paper again. We find qualitative similarities in how the Chinese and American governments produce economic statistics, but even we couldn’t anticipate how quickly those similarities would strengthen… vjil.org/the-law-of-inf…

If everyone already accepts (do they, really?) that race-conscious admissions is now illegal in the U.S., then what, really, is the principled argument against having the Department of Education collect admissions data to enforce that rule? The only possible argument would have

406 applicants in the first AALS FAR distribution! Weren’t all the hiring freezes supposed to deter applications?

One interesting observation from reading FAR forms: the number of candidates with peer-reviewed journal publications seems to have plummeted since I last did this in 2019, while the number of people with “top” student-edited journal placements has gone way up. Is this because the