Andrew Selbst
@aselbst.bsky.social
UCLA Law Prof. Focused on law, tech, and justice. Posting is mostly rage at fascists, their journalist enablers, and feckless Dems who need to retire. Sometimes I even post about things people call me an expert in. He/him. http://ssrn.com/author=1328346
This isn’t satire?
November 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This isn’t satire?
Do we all get to celebrate Biden’s erasure of student loan debt now that it’s been retroactively upheld?
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Do we all get to celebrate Biden’s erasure of student loan debt now that it’s been retroactively upheld?
As a legal scholar, this is one of the more dispiriting things happening specifically from a work standpoint. Taking new doctrines and arguing that they apply in potentially surprising ways is not useful when courts don’t just cynically make up doctrines but cynically abandon or ignore them too.
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
As a legal scholar, this is one of the more dispiriting things happening specifically from a work standpoint. Taking new doctrines and arguing that they apply in potentially surprising ways is not useful when courts don’t just cynically make up doctrines but cynically abandon or ignore them too.
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My latest on the AI bubble in finance: 6 charts that tell the story in ways that are hard to put into words.
1. U.S. data-center build-out. Notice the explosion in 2025. That's the permitting gold rush happening now. Would be shocking if 1 in 20 of these get built, but they factor into projections.
1. U.S. data-center build-out. Notice the explosion in 2025. That's the permitting gold rush happening now. Would be shocking if 1 in 20 of these get built, but they factor into projections.
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My latest on the AI bubble in finance: 6 charts that tell the story in ways that are hard to put into words.
1. U.S. data-center build-out. Notice the explosion in 2025. That's the permitting gold rush happening now. Would be shocking if 1 in 20 of these get built, but they factor into projections.
1. U.S. data-center build-out. Notice the explosion in 2025. That's the permitting gold rush happening now. Would be shocking if 1 in 20 of these get built, but they factor into projections.
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This memo is almost an admission of legal *vulnerability* for those carrying out bombings.
“It signals fear that what they’re doing is illegal and that they could possibly be subject to criminal action under US law and international law,” Rep Adam Smith tells me. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
“It signals fear that what they’re doing is illegal and that they could possibly be subject to criminal action under US law and international law,” Rep Adam Smith tells me. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This memo is almost an admission of legal *vulnerability* for those carrying out bombings.
“It signals fear that what they’re doing is illegal and that they could possibly be subject to criminal action under US law and international law,” Rep Adam Smith tells me. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
“It signals fear that what they’re doing is illegal and that they could possibly be subject to criminal action under US law and international law,” Rep Adam Smith tells me. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
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I mean you literally aren’t but it’s fine
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I mean you literally aren’t but it’s fine
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I should have started even earlier with the caption of the case: not UC, but AAUP, v Trump et al.
The @aaup.org and UC faculty associations, unions etc representing huge numbers of UC employees brought this suit.
The UC itself maintains its mysterious strategy of standing very, very still & quiet.
The @aaup.org and UC faculty associations, unions etc representing huge numbers of UC employees brought this suit.
The UC itself maintains its mysterious strategy of standing very, very still & quiet.
November 15, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I should have started even earlier with the caption of the case: not UC, but AAUP, v Trump et al.
The @aaup.org and UC faculty associations, unions etc representing huge numbers of UC employees brought this suit.
The UC itself maintains its mysterious strategy of standing very, very still & quiet.
The @aaup.org and UC faculty associations, unions etc representing huge numbers of UC employees brought this suit.
The UC itself maintains its mysterious strategy of standing very, very still & quiet.