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Haley S. Anderson
@hsanderson.bsky.social
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Academic Fellow @ Columbia Law School.
PhD Candidate @ Berkeley JSP.
Postgraduate Fellow @justsecurity.bsky.social.
Working on sovereignty, civil procedure, and international law.
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joshchafetz.bsky.social
1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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jamalgreene.bsky.social
Sauer saying something is unconstitutional because it "would be unconstitutional under Justice Scalia's dissent" is a remarkably cogent statement of the Roberts Court's approach to precedent.
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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melissastewart.bsky.social
If SCOTUS sides with the gov, it will drastically change our conception of American citizenship and lead to children being rendered stateless.

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December 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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debgoldendc.bsky.social
Me: freaking out I might have filled a brief with an inadvertently italicized period in a citation.

Other lawyers: filing what the make up machine makes up.
December 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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umnlawschool.bsky.social
The University of Minnesota Law School is thrilled to announce @hsanderson.bsky.social will join the faculty in fall 2026 as an associate professor of law. Welcome, Professor Anderson!
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Haley S. Anderson, Associate Professor of Law; maroon block M
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
hsanderson.bsky.social
A fantastic FAQ resource on the law that applies to and illegality of these strikes and related actions
December 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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becingber.bsky.social
I join @tessbridgeman.bsky.social, @bcfinucane.bsky.social, and Rachel Goldbrenner once more for our Murder on the High Seas series.

There were a lot of new details to unpack, including recent revelations about the still secret—and nevertheless undeniably flawed — OLC memo.

Tldr: It’s still murder
justsecurity.org Just Security @justsecurity.org · 8d
A fourth installment of Murder on the High Seas is here. Listen for expert analysis of recent reports of the deliberate killing of two survivors from the first strike, how the DOJ is justifying the campaign, Congress’ role, allies’ reactions, and more.

www.justsecurity.org/126056/the-j...
The Just Security Podcast: Murder on the High Seas Part IV
A panel of experts, co-hosted with RCLS, discuss the Trump administration's campaign of lethal strikes against suspected drug traffickers.
www.justsecurity.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
hsanderson.bsky.social
I guess this means it's official!! I am beyond thrilled to be joining Minnesota Law as an associate professor next year.

Now taking recommendations for your favorite winter gear!

law.umn.edu/news/2025-12...
Screenshot of Minnesota Law website announcement
December 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
On the patently unlawful boat strikes

It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.

WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:

1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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leahlitman.bsky.social
More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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chowleen.bsky.social
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
www.chosun.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
hsanderson.bsky.social
A bit belated, but I’m very excited to share that my job market paper is now forthcoming in the Washington & Lee Law Review.

And I’m officially on the law faculty market for civ pro, int’l law, fed courts & related fields. I appreciate help spreading the word!

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Screenshot of first page of "The Sovereignty of Personal Jurisdiction," which can be found at the SSRN link above.
September 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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david.noll.org
apparently PACER has been severely compromised for some time (🎁)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
www.nytimes.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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bcfinucane.bsky.social
If only the U.S. president had some leverage—like critical U.S. military support—in this situation.

www.axios.com/2025/07/20/i...
"He's a madman": Trump's team frets about Netanyahu after Syria strikes
"Netanyahu is sometimes like a child who just won't behave."
www.axios.com
July 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
hsanderson.bsky.social
Petition to make today's scholarship sound more like the early moderns'

(From Bynkershoek, "De foro legatorum," 1744)
Screenshot from Bynkershoek's "De foro legatorum," quoting: "The range of popular discussion of the origin of arrest and attachment is amazing. You may sate your mind on these dainty morsels by reading Peck, De iure sistendi, chapter 2; Busius, note 7 of his comments on Digest, V.i, De iudiciis; Hillinger on Doneau, XVII.15.2; Groenewegen on Code, III.xviii, Ubi conveniatur qui certo loco dare promisit; and Voet in notes 22 and 23 on Digest, II.iv, De in ius vocando. But you need pay no more attention to these comments than if they had never been written, and may direct your attention exclusively to the different types of authority which now exist and to the different kinds of subjection of persons and things which result from them."
July 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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aclu.org
We sued in 1990 after performance artist and activist Tim Miller had his grant rescinded from the National Endowment for the Arts because of LGBTQ themes in his work.

The NEA is now under political pressure to force grant applicants to adhere to President Trump's anti-trans agenda, and we're suing.
A black and white photo of Tim Miller crossing his arms, wearing a dark shirt with a triangle on it and the phrase "silencio=muerte."
July 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
Usually, when the phrase “extended pro-Hitler rant” is in the same sentence as some HR news, that news is not a hiring. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Congrats on the New DOD Gig, MechaHitler!
Turns out, going on anti-Semitic tirades didn’t stop Grok from winning a big government contract.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
hsanderson.bsky.social
Everything old is new again
Screenshot of the opening sentences of a law review article from Dec. 1940. It reads: "While the following pages were written the world witnessed events which demonstrated with brutal clarity the complete collapse of the international community and its traditional legal order. It is almost impossible to imagine that international law in its classical sense, as the law regulating the relations among sixty odd members of a family of nations, can and ever will be revived and revitalized along the lines shaped during the past three centuries. Yet the American courts, at the present as well as in the future, will be confronted with questions involving foreign relations. It might even be that in times like ours the treatment by the courts of legal issues which involve foreign relations has gained increasing importance in a country which wants to stay out of foreign embroilment without sacrificing its ideals of an administration of justice."
July 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Here is the full scope of the nationwide class provisionally certified by Judge Laplante accompanying his preliminary injunction stopping the #Birthright citizenship executive order.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
July 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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nateraymond.bsky.social
Breaking: Trump's birthright citizenship order is blocked nationwide again, after a judge in New Hampshire said he would certify a nationwide class of children who would be deprived of citizenship if the policy took effect.
July 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
hsanderson.bsky.social
The Columbia Journal of Transnational Law asked me to review Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji's recent book, and my review, "Modeling Immunity in International and Domestic Courts," is now live.

www.jtl.columbia.edu/bulletin-blo...

And on SSRN for those who prefer footnotes: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Modeling Immunity in International and Domestic Courts
<div> Into what can sometimes appear a chasm of impunity, Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji has published a timely new book and call to action, <i>End of Immunity: Holdin
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July 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
hsanderson.bsky.social
“[T]here is no moral or legal obligation to obey the order, but more importantly: there is a moral – and legal – obligation to disobey it.”
rgoodlaw.bsky.social Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · Jul 8
1/ A remarkable essay by two eminent Israeli scholars

"We wrote this essay to give [former IDF chief of staff's] words legal backing... We felt compelled to fulfill our human, conscientious, and civic duty, as Israelis – and as Zionists – who have expertise in areas related to the IDF’s ... order."
Moving the Population in Gaza is a Manifest War Crime
We wrote this essay to fulfill our human, conscientious, and civic duty, as Israelis – and as Zionists – who have expertise in areas related to the IDF’s order.
www.justsecurity.org
July 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
hsanderson.bsky.social
Brilliant and timely legal analysis paired with moral clarity, as always, from @melissastewart.bsky.social
justsecurity.org Just Security @justsecurity.org · Jul 7
Melissa Stewart explains how the Supreme Court’s decision in CASA opens the door to statelessness—exposing U.S.-born children to legal uncertainty, denial of basic rights, and the unraveling of longstanding citizenship protections.

www.justsecurity.org/116328/trump...
Trump v. CASA and the Risk of Statelessness
For the first time in modern history, children born on American soil may be rendered stateless. The risk to non-citizen children is urgent.
www.justsecurity.org
July 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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annmlipton.bsky.social
"due process pause"

www.law360.com/securities/a...
Justices Extend Due Process Pause To South Sudan Removals - Law360
The U.S. Supreme Court clarified Thursday that its recent order allowing the Trump administration to send noncitizens to countries they have no connection to with little notice or chance to object ext...
www.law360.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM