Law professor at Texas A&M University School of Law, specializing in administrative law. Views are mine alone. Dog pictured is Oliver Wendell Holmes Walters Jr. (RIP 2025)
https://law.tamu.edu/faculty-staff/find-people/faculty-profiles/daniel-e.-walters
Dan Walters
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This is basically harassment of scholars willing to question the Trump administration’s targeting of Chinese colleagues. Innes already had the FBI investigate his lab and was given the all clear. Now USDA is shutting down the Lab, which focuses on making fungus-resistant plants.
Oh my god, yes!
Honestly, Slaughter might be worth it if the Court nips this creeping idea that UET authorizes presidential prerogative rule in the bud. To be clear, I'm not expecting the Court to do anything helpful--just some wishful thinking.
not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers
www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...
Those who stay will be champions.
"These are the predictable results of a system that has been steadily underfunded and reorganized around market logic rather than public purpose. When the people who educate and support students lack stability and voice, students feel the consequences directly."
Don Moynihan
Super excited to see this in print!
There is a world where this kind of issue--i.e., resisting public subsidization of tech monopolies--transforms our politics, and we're not very far from realizing it.
I just read that we're close to a 1-page memorandum of agreement that would "end" the Iran War and commit to nuclear negotiations. Just unreal to think that what we'll get out of all of this is the mere possibility of a return to a nuclear framework that Trump himself ditched in his first term.
