Jamie Abrams

I got a first rejection that seemed to acknowledge explicit political pressure played a role. Top journal’s online companion. “Unfortunately, various constraints keep us from publishing some essays, such as yours, that would otherwise merit publication.” I applaud the student candor in signaling.

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.

By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom. An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

NEW: The Victims Who Fought Back

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers.

Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

By @pamelacolloff.bsky.social

This article is stellar!

Ugh.

Under the leadership of Prof. Jamie Abrams (@jrabrams.bsky.social), Prof. Elizabeth Keith and Shalala Valiyeva visited @ADAUniversity School of Law in Baku to advance the AUWCL–ADA partnership and collaborate with visiting instructors (and recent AUWCL grads), Nathan Sebree and William Siefert.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

This is a searingly powerful infographic.

So grateful for the insightful Book Review of "Inclusive Socratic Teaching" (@ucpress.bsky.social) authored by @suemcmahon.bsky.social and infused with all the wisdom, expertise, savvy, and experience in law teaching, wellness, and justice that she brings to all things!

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The Pitt, Ginny & Georgia, All’s Fair – how did this year’s biggest TV shows tackle abortion? We tracked this year’s hits and misses in our Abortion Onscreen report. www.ansirh.org/research/res...

@jillwieberlens.bsky.social is in the house at AUWCL, and I’m so excited to learn from her about stillbirth and the law.

Join AUWCL’s Health Law & Policy Program for Preventing Stillbirth: Legal, Policy, and Public Health Perspectives on Thurs, Nov 13 from 12–1:30 PM ET (Hybrid).

Experts explore stillbirth prevention, legal frameworks, and reproductive justice.

Register (Free): tinyurl.com/4xvm6s6b

And if you want to check out more of the details behind this for yourself, please see this stellar work by the @justsecurity.org team at: www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Really helpful post capturing so many worrisome events and developments together. Thanks @marzhang.bsky.social.

Marching today? Consider running for office next. @runforsomething.net will help you get started. runforwhat.net

1. Washington DC

#NoKings 👑

Looks like people showed up in DC

D.C. is out in patriotic and peaceful solidarity fighting for democracy!

This is a beautiful use of art to empower more action and courage!

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

If you read one thing today, make it this piece by @nytimes.com's Kurt Streeter about the extraordinary Bryan Stevenson. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Re-sharing a piece that preceded Bluesky. "A family law lens exposes profound dissonance in how the state interacts with immigrant families to harm instead of to protect. These conclusions [are] a call to action for family law . . . and [its] practitioners to engage in immigrant justice advocacy."

Congresswoman McClellan is delivering an amazing keynote address to the Arlington Branch of the NAACP tonight, reminding us of the power of community. “We the People is working, but we’ve got to be in it for the long haul.”

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

@azizaahmed.bsky.social delivered an amazing talk today at @auwcl.bsky.social about her impactful book “Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS”. @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social beautifully summarized that Prof. Ahmed “practices her brilliance with grace.”

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda is entirely corrupt.

“The federal government should not, under any circumstances, dictate who goes to college, what can be researched,or learned, and what can or can’t be the subject of critical academic inquiry.”

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

“Trump is free to spout any partisan nonsense he wants from his giant bully pulpit. But he may not coerce federal employees into joining his choir. I am calling on every agency and Department head implicated in these forms of Orwellian miscommunication to remove them immediately.”

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

Higher Ed. must mobilize and organize. These is no limit on the political capture otherwise.

“Among other steps, universities would also be required to change their governance structures to prohibit anything that would “punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas.”