Praxivist. Thinks. Legal/Political/Economic Agnostic.
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You ever read one book and feel like you are an expert on its topic? You’re not. Stop it.
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Stop accepting the lie that academia—especially legal academia—is full of liberals and leftists. Academia is the domain of ideological centrists and political pragmatists. And law school is the methodological training ground for literal conservatism and bothsidesism. 🤷🏾♀️
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You know what they call a lawyer who took the bar 2 times before passing? A lawyer. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾 Congrats @BlaineWHardaway Esq.
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Took my kids to the laundromat as a cross-class experience. It cost $75 to wash and dry our clothes (exclusive of detergent). Taxes on poverty imposed by the “free” market are unconscionable.
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I spent a decade in BigLaw. I was never yelled at. People were nice. Unreasonable client demands were recognized as such and shared equitably. Partners cared about me as a person. We (mostly) represented (mostly) decent businesses, banks, and countries. We did pro bono 🙌🏾
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Accepting this reading would mean the people in power get to decide for the people who are oppressed how to speak. That’s a problem. That’s not ok. Why do they have to confirm to your reading but you don’t have to even listen to them?
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This shows how politicized the notion of “gender affirming” care has become and how invisibilized, naturalized, and internalized gender policing is. Even if waxing is not gender affirming for this woman, it’s OBVIOUSLY gender affirming in general.
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Teaching legal writing is the lord’s work. Seriously. Even more than clinicians legal writing professors do thankless, status-less work that should be recognized as the *only* absolute requirement of law school. It’s literally the only thing that is nonnegotiably foundational. 🤷🏾♀️
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Today in class a student said “.... taxpayer money...” and I looked at the class and said, “public money.... this very little nothing to do with what we are learning right now, but it’s public money.”
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No shade. But I’d really like to see fewer law professor tips/tricks/solidarity angst and more law professors making it so law school isn’t the kind of toxic environment that requires tips/tricks/solidarity angst. 🤷🏾♀️
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I feel your pain. I was so out classed at water aerobics by women 40 years my senior that they were dismissive in the locker room and I never went back. Stay strong!
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There is so much bad here. But one that really peeves me are the non-accommodating accommodations. I get so many students who are comfortable revealing their disability to me only to learn that their accommodation is totally irrelevant/unhelpful/harmful to their disability.
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, real question: Why on earth is your political strategy to make ppl angry? Shouldn't good choices, not alienation, = goal
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This man is conducting a phone interview at the airport for a position at a—LAUNDROMAT—as if he’s vetting an officer for a Fortune 500. It’s been going on 15 minutes. Put him on the no fly list.
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Just saying -- you have essentially announced that your national policy goal is to troll *liberals*.
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So... this happened. 🤯🤗🙌🏾 #tenure #fullprofessor
Congratulations to the KU faculty and scholars awarded promotion and/or tenure for fall 2019, including #KULaw Professor Lua Yuille!
@ProfYuille teaches courses on business associations, corporate governance, immigration and property.
rockcha.lk/professor-lua-yui…
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When you say that, in the future, all jobs will be automated/tech/obsolete, you perpetuate the exclusion of caregivers (mostly women) from the economy. You reinforce the devaluation of teachers. You insinuate that art is not labor. 1/
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PSA:
The professors ARE. NOT. ALRIGHT.
The students ARE. NOT. ALRIGHT.
The administrators ARE. NOT. ALRIGHT.
The staff ARE. NOT. ALRIGHT.
No one is okay. It’s not getting better. Show some grace.
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Imagine a #JobGuarantee culture. I’m not talking economics or law or politics. CULTURE. How many workers would stay at home if they a good job they knew would be waiting? How many people would redeploy to support critical needs? What stress would be alleviated in your life? #jg
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.@VancouverSun: The fact that there's such thing as a "government secret" *should* bother a large % of ppl in a democracy... Just saying.
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ALT Critical Race Theory at KU and Beyond Two-Part Event Presented by the Faculty/Staff DEI Committee and hosted by Professor Yuille Tuesday, November 16 Thursday, November 18 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
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There is nevertheless a whole lot to hate about BigLaw—why it exists at all and it’s role corporate capitalism, business hegemony, and pathological wealth. I wish we’d think more about that.
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PSA: I cannot emphasize enough the importance of property professors NOT rapping in class. Like, nothing we teach needs to be rapped… unless and this is a major unless you are an actual, talented rapper.
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That’s not to say that terrible working conditions don’t matter. And lawyers are subjected to unconscionable stuff in prestige jobs. But—like—I’m not sure that’s why you should rag on BigLaw, if you do.
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I get being strategic. But when Palestinians say “we mean X” and Israelis or other people in power say “we hear Y, and we don’t care that you have stated repeatedly that you mean X, we are going to use our power to invalidate meaning X” that’s just another form of oppression.
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I agree strongly with this shout out, add many heterodox folks, and state what I think is the most impt point: These ppl answer the questions that I was told “weren’t economics” and they reframe and revive conversations that I was told but wasn’t convinced had been settled
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This is important across all law/econ/business decision-making. Laissez-faire *is* proactive policy making. Laissez-faire *is* ideological. It is *not* letting the natural course of things play out. There is no natural course of things.
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Yup. Fighting is silly and the consequences are treble for poor/POC. But this isn't even hood code. It's the prevailing code of the world. If you step to me, I *might* throw hands. So don't step if you're not ready to catch.
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This point is underappreciated: talking about state/local governments as if they operate like the federal government is just as nonsensical (legally and economically) as talking about the government as if it were a household.
Goes without saying, but a Governor (or a Mayor) is supposed to be fiscally conservative. They lack the power of the purse. 👊🏼👛
When you move from state/local to federal government, you need a different frame because the constraints are totally different. #MMT
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I’m really interested in the WOC—especially Black women—who wear jeans. I have never worn jeans and have never known a Black woman professor to wear them. I’m situated in a law school and business school context, which makes it that much less likely to see.
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If you fix it so it makes sense graphically, then we have to assess its accuracy. As it is—a total mess—it’s a mood that works.
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And this is why black men are the white people of black people. Sending care and solidarity.
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Also my 6yo—made worse because *I* am from California. And she’s like, “daddy’s Dominican and you say so am I, so I’m from California because you are.” #GoodArgument
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So we did a thing… on racial capitalism. Journal of Law and Political Economy escholarship.org/uc/lawandpo…
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Last year at @mmtconference, I said I didn’t know what the future of #MMT was, but that I wanted it to look more like me.
@thepublicmoney listened.
This year @rohangrey introduced the opposite of a “white manel” and—not surprisingly—I now have an idea of the future! 🙌🏾👏🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾👏🏾
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This is an extremely generous take. “Screeching” is patently weird and inappropriate. So, this reporter saw/heard a group of matchy dresses black women behaving “inappropriately” and was basically like, ‘that tracks. No need for additional data.’ 🤬
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"Fiat money" is a descriptive that fails to engage power and responsibility. "Public money" is a distinctly political alternative to the unequivocally ideological term "taxpayer money." Public money is also descriptively accurate, but it is normatively loaded. And that matters.
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I had the urge to contact all my American exceptionalism profs on Jan. 6 to gloat. It may have been hollow a victory, but I was also right.
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Imagine saying "There are more important things than living" to discuss the economy which is literally just the mechanism by which we allocate the resources needed to, checks notes, live. #reallybadtakes
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What?? .... this is nonsense. Hair discrimination is real. But we don’t fix it by helping people better conform to the demands of the white gaze. 🤬🤬🤬 And we don’t celebrate it when they are/feel forced to.
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I literally only wear African print items that were given to me by a person from the relavent country with an explanation of why I’m not going to look like a fool if I put it on. (So... I have one item).
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Do you think it’s judgment or that they are trying (maybe inartfully, unnecessarily, or counter-productively) to say that supporting the right to choose doesn’t have to be self-serving and that you can be “religious” (‘cause most of the “buts” are) still support abortion rights?
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Let’s be more precise: There’s neither a labor shortage nor a living-wage-job shortage. Per the prevailing economic wisdom, there’s an employers-willing-to-pay-a-wage-capable-of-securing-workers shortage.
Repeat after me, loud enough so the mainstream media will stop running these misleading stories:
There is no labor shortage. There's a shortage of jobs paying a living wage.
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It‘s important to recognize that status plays a role. A black, woman assigning her free, open access materials *will* have to deal with the student who doesn’t think she’s competent to write one. They want a “real” book to confirm that I know what I’m talking about. 1/
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Yes and yes.
I used to host a “kaffeeklatsch” every year for students. Almost no one ever showed up and those that did usually older students. It never occurred to me that they just might not have a clue what it was. 😬
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Did I say that? That is pretty good!
"The moment that I realized property is not stuff, property is power, it became infinitely more important. I realized that is the conversation that I want to be having." -@ProfYuille 2/2
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If you are wondering how work from home is going, today my older child hurled the word “colleague” at my younger child as an insult. As in, “uuuugggh! COLLEAGUE!🙄🤬” So, that’s how it is going.
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Do people think companies’ infrastructure is maintained and managed by robots in a clean room? Ummmmm... there are actual humans with little ability to avoid spreading #Covid_19 whose precarious labor is making you feel good in your confinement.
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The job pays $11 per 30lbs of laundry (which he estimates is about every hour). In a room he describes as “very hot but we try to relieve that with a swamp cooler.” #guillotine
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Parents *don't* have a reasonable fear of this. Schools never scramble to support lowest performers.
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I feel… conflicted. Like, hooray; somebody with power and voice is saying something almost decent. But also WTF governments… can you *not* need friggin’ Moody’s to ping your moral compass.
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I go further. Your grades (in law school or otherwise) almost never reflect how smart you are. The people writing the assessments don’t even *know* how to write exams or perform assessments that might start reflect something we might agree on as “smartness”.
Some ppl need to hear this: Students, your grades in law school don't always represent how smart you are, how hard you've worked, or what you will accomplish. Don't beat yourselves up. If you did your best, find self-worth in your principles, relationships, & commitments.
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This morning, I gave a riveting law and political economy lecture (which referenced proto-racism, MMT, and the Peace of Westphalia)...
to my self...
in my car.
Then, I went to a 4 hour meeting and, poof, it’s gone. If genius strikes and nobody witnesses...
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My kid just cited me as their authority in their virtual class meeting. And I’m like, I’ll take them where I get them. #citeblackwomen #accordingtomymom
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I don’t know which white person needs to hear this but #FYI, there is a very good chance that the 2 or more black people standing near each other acting like strangers are, in fact, strangers.
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Dear law students:
It’s not the end of the world if you don’t remember case names. I’m lazily googling random descriptions of a seminal case I’ve been teaching for a decade but whose appellation I can’t recall right now. 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
-Signed a successful lawyer and law professor.
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This is why Black Lives Matter did not have to revise to All Lives Matter. This is why black people can use the n-word while telling others they can’t. And on…
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Providing services to low performers is not "scrambling" and NEVER comes at the expense of high performers or high income students. These parents fears are misplaced. Plain and simple.
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The WHOLE point is that these are medical terms of art. They are used for monitoring and predicting things about pregnancies. They were NEVER intended to be used colloquially, then, transformed into a “scientific” legal timeline.
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My provost, chancellor, president, Dean, associate Dean all send the invite. Sometimes it’s their assistant. Sometimes it’s them. For the higher ups (Dean and above), they do this even if I request the meeting because they want to control their calendar.
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Fact: Not have a job is NOT a moral or personal failing. But telling workers that our positions are privileges for which we must be thankful is about keeping us subjected to unconscionable labor conditions and preventing us from revolt. I'm underpaid and I won't say thank you.
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I just learned of a family lynching in Mississippi (which also resulted in significant property theft). Not yet ready to research it. My family has avoided the matter for literally 100 years. Sending you care and strength.
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Let’s add: What’s with random white women calling me “gurrrrl!”?
Oh wait! I know exactly what’s with that. But please, please, please stop. I get called “guuurrrl” several times a week by random white women.
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My kid just said “thank you so much for signing me up for school.” Wondering whether I have to tell her it’s compulsory or if I can ride this wave?
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You reproduce the invisibility of manual labor.
When you do this, you naturalize the marginalization of people from the world of work and workers. You naturalize the outsized rates of unemployment in black and other communities. 2/
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So let me get this straight. No institutions really wanted to pay anybody to do transformational DEI work, but now they *all* want someone with a proven track record of institutional change?
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I just got a university parking ticket. I’m parked in my driveway... at my private residence... working from home. I guess the university has fully commandeered my house.
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Gonna be honest:
I had zero interest in jumping on the #okboomer train, which seems to indelibly paint boomers as white folx (🤮), until I spent a couple of minutes reading boomer hot takes railing against it. Now, I’m like ...
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Same for the term "dox"; since when is publishing the name of an arguably newsworthy person who's neither a minor nor rape victim doxxing?
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Today, I began teaching Coase and the Theory of the Firm in my course on Business Organizations. Next time, I’m going to invite some of @umkcecon grad students to this class to be proper heterodox hecklers. Can we collaborate @mattybram / @stf18?
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👆🏾 And it’s not even hidden. It’s built in the local language. MD is the only state that talks in counties, instead of municipalities. Everybody knows Baltimore is Baltimore county (which is home to all the wealth).
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Cut for time, but needs to be trumpeted: I refuse to accept that having a job or having this job is a privilege. I will not be told that I am lucky or should be grateful for my position. I worked hard to get here; I work hard to stay; my contributions are (in)valuable.
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Without diminishing the interesting work and activism of the presenters, I can't stop wondering about the #aals2021 street art panel that had no black people and nary a mention of race.
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I mean… it’s purposeful rhetorical gaslighting that began in earnest when critical perspectives gained some legitimacy and women and POC were given a modicum of space. The claim is 100% dog whistle and that’s why it’s bad to cede it as the baseline.
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I’m all for rethinking labor and a mos def appreciate the mistrust of work in a capitalist system built on chattel slavery, but miss me with the reductive takes. 5/5
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Hard questions: If whiteness is property. And blackness is property. Is gang identity property? #propertynoproperty
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When I went to pre-2010 earthquake Port-au-Prince & saw a fountain w/ a visibly BLACK mermaid I literally danced. Haitians were like, WTF?
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There is nothing so disempoweringly white feminist as suggesting that anger is per se illegitimate. The problem with misogyny is not anger; it’s power. DV is not about anger; it’s about power.
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I’m assuming he’s driving on girls night because he has basically commandeered the car. If she took it, he’d be without the car—which is obviously unacceptable to him.
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OMFG—You don’t get to build a box, force us all to live in it, police it, lock the box, call us stupid when we escape it, and then act like the messiah when you say, “maybe there are answers outside the box.”
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Hey #MMN / #MMT folx — you need to start selling the #jobguarantee as an anti-voter suppression policy. #Poverty and #unemployment is #disenfranchisement
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I’d love for people to stop trying to defend to me their decision to eat/serve Chik-Fil-A. I’m not going to change my mind.
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Wait! What?!? Let me get this right: All I had to do was increase my consumption (with money I didn’t have) and invest (money I also didn’t have) and I’d have been rich. Why didn’t someone say that *before* I was born poor. 💆🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
If you do rich people stuff, eventually you will be rich. If you do poor people stuff, you will eventually be poor.
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