The full report on academic freedom in the wake of the National Security Law is available here! www.hrw.org/report/2024/...

“We Can’t Write the Truth Anymore”

The 76-page report, “‘We Can’t Write the Truth Anymore’: Academic Freedom in Hong Kong Under the National Security Law,” documents that long-protected civil liberties, including the rights to freedom ...

A HUGE HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to @benjaminabarsky.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD in health policy!!!

Clear sign of me faking it til I make it: Student: "We really appreciate the energy you bring in the morning." Me anytime before noon:

I'm officially the Crillon C. Payne II Professor of Health Law! Cril Payne was a longtime civil servant, including for UT Medical Branch. He was also a former FBI agent charged with infiltrating left-wing groups. He ultimately repudiated the whole enterprise and wrote an expose

I was a Slocan Valley hippie for the FBI

In the spring of 1973, you might have met a guy in the Slocan Valley named Bill Lane, who was living in his van.He looked like many other young Americans who came north during that era, either escapin...

Here's a trick to buying books: Look online at $$ headphones, and then look at the books you want: Voilà! Books are cheap! Bought: Sara Bronin's "Key to the City" & @profgoldberg.bsky.socialwww.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

“He’s clearly having a very hard time processing that.”

New faculty headshot say, "Let's unpack the incongruencies of that synergism."

What I love about Los Angeles is that I can type in the name of any neighborhood in Google and "murders" will immediately populate.

Today in Torts, False Imprisonment and Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress. To summarize, was the conduct "truly, truly, truly outrageous?"

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