Jocelyn Simonson
law prof, Brooklyn Law School; author, Radical Acts of Justice, thenewpress.com/books/radical-acts-…
- For years, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & I have been frustrated with what we call the Part IV Problem in legal scholarship, the expectation of neat & feasible prescriptions to end pieces. Our frustrations are heightened in this moment of authoritarianism, as we wrote today at @lpeblog.bsky.social:
- Today, @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social and @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social challenge the idea that law review articles should conclude with a set of actionable prescriptions. This convention, they argue, constrains ambition, sidelines critique, and conflates near-term feasibility with rigor.
- Based on a longer essay, forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review Forum and on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Reposted by Jocelyn SimonsonNew from me in @michlawreview.bsky.social reviewing ‘New Deal Law & Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State’ michiganlawreview.org/whats-left-o...
- Reposted by Jocelyn SimonsonNEW EPISODE 🚨 ANTI-REPRESSION 101: Tune in to hear @deanspade.bsky.social @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social @azohra.bsky.social discuss why the way we talk about political repression matters and five questions everyone should consider to avoid common anti-solidarity traps.
- Reposted by Jocelyn SimonsonAppreciate thinking with @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social & Amna Akbar again, inspired by resistance movements confronting incipient fascism across terrains of struggle lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...
- Today I wrote in @lpeblog.bsky.social with Amna Akbar & @sameer-ashar.bsky.social about how legal scholars & teachers might act in solidarity with movements in this moment, in the face of fascism: lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...
- Join us at @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social Weds 9/17 @ 6pm for a @bkbookfest.bsky.social Bookends panel on NO COP CITY, NO COP WORLD @haymarketbooks.org, w/@micahh.bsky.social @kamaufranklin.bsky.social, Priscilla Grim, Mariah Parker, & free food&drink! RSVP: registration.brooklaw.edu/academic-eve...
- Reposted by Jocelyn Simonson🚨BREAKING🚨 Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
- Join us tomorrow at 5pm at Brooklyn Law School, organized by the BLS student LPE Collective:
- NYC: Brooklyn Law's LPE Collective is hosting an excellent event on the Bangladesh student movement and movement lawyering tomorrow at 5PM ET! @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social and Chaumtoli Huq will be in conversation.
- Grateful to Jessica Eaglin for this Jotwell review of my book Radical Acts of Justice, highlighting an expansive idea of what it means to "do" Criminal Law: 🙏
- Great to see @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social's excellent work "Radical Acts of Justice" as today's Jot by my friend and colleague Jessica Eaglin! crim.jotwell.com/doing-crimin...
- Reposted by Jocelyn SimonsonToday, Premal Dharia concludes our symposium on @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social's *Radical Acts of Justice,* by discussing a crisis of purpose in public defense - whose workers must contend with the reality that a better world may obviate the need for their labor.
- Thank you @evanbernick.bsky.social for this generous & provocative engagement with my book. I love both of your points, but especially want to engage more with you about the idea - and necessity - of violence in movement struggles!
- I am excited that this piece, co-authored with John Legend, is out in the world - we write about the new wave of repressive laws aimed at bail funds and collective care:
- My world-renowned colleague @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social teamed up with a little-known artist named John Legend to write this op-Ed about threats to bail funds in georgia time.com/collection/t...
- Tonight!
- Excited to have Radical Acts of Justice included among this company!
- Featuring works by Felicia Arriaga, @dnbrgr.bsky.social, Orisanmi Burton, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @prisonculture.bsky.social, @genderhorizon.bsky.social, @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social and more, our annual book list pushed us to imagine a future without mass incarceration.
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- Reposted by Jocelyn Simonson@jocelynsimonson.bsky.social writes at @inquest.bsky.social that “although law and legal battles run through both [Sharlyn Grace and Micah Herskind’s] descriptions of long-term struggle, law is not at the heart of their stories: + inquest.org/keeping-each-other-…
