Sam Bookman
@SamBookman
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Kiwi by heart, US by circumstance. Fellow @Harvard_Law & @NYUGuarini. Attorney. Con law, envt'l law, int'l human rights, cricket. Not here on Shabbos.
Joined March 2015
Bottom line: recent cases push the needle forward. But cases must be be narrowly targeted and calibrated to political context. Forthcoming in.@COLawReview. Still time for changes! Comments and criticisms are very welcome.
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"Breakthrough Climate Constitutionalism?" now available on SSRN! I grapple with recent state constitutional climate cases, identifying lessons for litigators.
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RT @dwallacewells: This map is incredible for several reasons, one that it suggests that people who actually take the subway aren’t nearly….
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RT @jacobkornbluh: 🚨 Rabbi Indig of Satmar tells NYTimes he’s considering adding Zohran Mamdani to his slate of endorsements. “According t….
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An aide to Mayor Eric Adams is pushing Orthodox Jewish leaders to withhold endorsements in the New York City mayoral primary.
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RT @AdHaque110: It's important to understand that online defenders of Israel's conduct in Gaza are basically conspiracy theorists. They ex….
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🌏🎙️⚖️ For this year's Earth Day, I had a great time speaking with Aminta Ossom at Harvard's @CarrCenter about the connections between human rights and climate change. Our conversation is now available on the Center's podcast feeds or website 👇.
www.hks.harvard.edu
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RT @OrentaOren: People at HLS or around Cambridge—you should go listen to @DineshaSam who is one of the most interesting comparative con la….
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Join us for an engaging event that examines the critical link between a state’s responsibility to prevent human rights violations and the design of its constitutional institutions. Drawing on...
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RT @VeryBadLlama: I have tariffed.the penguins .that are on .Heard Island. and which.you were probably.assuming .did not export goods . for….
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RT @samuelmoyn: Masterpiece. @mroth78 “Jews have been here before, many times, and it does not end well for us.” vi….
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Antisemitism is real. But the enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend.
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Excited to head to New Haven next week for this terrific conference at @YaleLawSch conference on Climate Change and Private Law. The conference is bringing together an outstanding group of scholars on this chronically under-examined area. Details here:
law.yale.edu
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RT @laurimyllyvirta: New from us: EU CO2 emissions fell by 2.9% in 2024, even as power sector emissions posted an eye-popping 16% drop. Thi….
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My latest, Breakthrough Climate Constitutionalism?, has found a home @COLawReview. I respond to 3 2024 cases which demand reassessment of state const suits. As fed action collapses & Juliana hits a dead-end, state law & courts are vital sites of climate contestation. SSRN soon!
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RT @jason_paladino: NEW: ICE is hunting for Yunseo Chung, a Columbia student who attended pro-Palestine protests. Chung came to the US from….
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RT @SimpleSCOTUS: Congress could write a law that says they allow a federal agency to put limitations on water being dumped and the Supreme….
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Very little is shocking anymore, but the rage is acute when it targets the place I wrote most of my undergrad thesis. The message is brazen: the full destruction of Palestinian civil society is official policy. No point pretending otherwise.
Today, the JLM police raided two educational bookshops in East Jerusalem, confiscated books, and arrested the owners. The brother of the owners told Haaretz: "They went through the books with Google Translate and took away anything they didn't like. They even came across>>
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Sublime review in @LRB by Brett Christophers, reviewing the latest from Malm & Carton. Lots to despair, but a surprising invocation of EP Thompson's Whigs & Hunters in asking us to think carefully about law's traps, but also its emancipatory potential.
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RT @dharnanoor: among the orders trump signed tonight: .- an "energy emergency" ending restrictions on already-booming fossil fuel producti….
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President declares energy emergency, reiterates Paris withdrawal plan and overturns emissions standards
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And I'm happy to share the draft syllabus with anyone interested! Just DM me.
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