vijayraghavan.bsky.social
@vijayraghavan.bsky.social
Associate Prof., Brooklyn Law. Consumer debt and stuff like that. Profile pic by Dev Raghavan. More about me: http://tinyurl.com/jcmw7w8y
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If you’re preparing for spring courses and looking for a short critical source on “efficiency” as a normative concept, here’s something I put together: lpeproject.org/blog/who-car...
Who Cares About Efficiency?
Efficiency is a slippery term, and legal scholars frequently shift between distinct and even incompatible meanings as is convenient. This lack of clarity can inhibit students from challenging certain�...
lpeproject.org
December 18, 2023 at 7:17 PM
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As the US Constitution & federal laws get most of the attention in voting rights talk, state constitutions get short shrift. In this @brennancenter.bsky.social #StateCourtReport piece I explain how and why state charters are key resources for folks who want to safeguard voting: tinyurl.com/39uukvdb
November 1, 2023 at 6:10 PM
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New CFP for an issue of radical history I’m co-editing with @golnarnikpour.bsky.social & @sepoy.bsky.social & Marissa Moorman. Abstracts due Jan 8 - please help circulate ! www.radicalhistoryreview.org/radical-hist...
October 27, 2023 at 1:25 PM
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If, in the midst of *this* magnifying and continuing catastrophe *of which oir government is a but for cause,* the primary topic among intelligent and caring people today, Saturday, is Harvard student politics ... I simply give up any and all hope that I have apparently wrongly held.
October 14, 2023 at 3:21 PM
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In response to coordinated right-wing assaults on universities, appeals to "academic freedom" aren't enough for building a mass political defense.

In this new essay, Isaac Kamola and I call on academics to build with the broader movement for the Freedom to Learn:
academeblog.org/2023/10/11/f...

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Freedom to Learn and Academic Freedom for All!
BY ELI MEYERHOFF AND ISAAC KAMOLA Learning is under attack. Right-wing politicians, activists, and well-funded political organizations have organized assaults on schools, universities, and librarie…
academeblog.org
October 11, 2023 at 4:00 PM
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On my birthday, I've got an explainer on why to reject allocative efficiency without throwing out the concept of efficiency altogether up at @lpeblog.bsky.social. It's written at the request of law students, but it's surely of interest to law profs and maybe 📉📈

lpeproject.org/blog/who-car...
October 11, 2023 at 12:10 PM
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Today, the Biden administration is resuming student debt payments today for the first time in almost four years. Despite having the ability to cancel this debt immediately, Biden is collecting on 45 million families, putting people at risk of losing their housing or being unable to afford groceries.
October 1, 2023 at 3:29 PM
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Important testimony from Raul on privacy in digital currency

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September 18, 2023 at 8:16 PM