Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University. International law, history of property, political economy of science and technology. Writing on patents + climate struggle.
annasaunders.net
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Miriam Driessen @driessenmiriam.bsky.social Anthropologist and writer
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
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Matthew @mapoochoo.bsky.social Creator of anthropeum.com (daily artifact guessing game) Coin collector. UW ’27.
History + fishtanks + code
Jeff Gordon @jeffgordon.bsky.social Tax law, industrial policy, decarbonization, between state and market in American law. Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt Law School.
Benjamin Braun @benbraun.eurosky.social Political economist @ LSE | Finance, central banking & more | benjaminbraun.org
Jotwell @jotwell.bsky.social The Journal of Things We Like (Lots). Homepage at https://jotwell.com
Boston University Global Development Policy Center @gdp-center.bsky.social The BU Global Development Policy Center advances policy-oriented research for financial stability, human well-being + environmental sustainability across the globe. Subscribe to newsletter updates: gdpcenter.org/GDPC-Subscribe
Erez Manela @erezmanela.bsky.social International history @Harvard. scholar.harvard.edu/manela
AmPhoenixTrade @amphoenixtrade.bsky.social Trade policy architect.
AJIL and AJIL Unbound @ajil.bsky.social Official Bluesky Social account for both the American Journal of International Law and AJIL Unbound, featuring scholarly articles on international law issues.
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social The aim of Just Money is to encourage policy and scholarly debate around the monetary design of financial capitalism, its historical roots, its distributive implications, its social and ecological costs, and its alternatives: https://justmoney.org/
Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social Assistant Prof @windsorlaw.bsky.social | legal history of money, banking and central banking, especially in Canada | LPE/Const Approach to Money | co-ed @justmoney.bsky.social | Bio: https://www.uwindsor.ca/law/3424/dan-rohde
LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social A blog that explores the co-constitution of law and political economy. Part of the @lpeproject.bsky.social. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://lpeproject.org/subscribe/
Douglas Irwin @douglasirwin.bsky.social Trade/economic history @Dartmouth College @Peterson Institute for International Economics Website: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/dirwin/
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
Ian Johnson @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social Ian Johnson is a fellow at the @wiko-berlin.bsky.social He lived and worked in China for 20 years as a correspondent, teacher, and writer. He currently lives in Berlin. More at www.ian-johnson.com
Siobhan "Shiv" Mukerji Barco @siobhanbarco.bsky.social Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Legal Historian. Host of the Talking Legal History podcast.
https://aslh.net/talking-legal-history/
Liz Papp Kamali @lizpappkamali.bsky.social Professor at Harvard Law. Author of Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England. English Legal History. Criminal Law. Greenhorn gardener.
Meng Yi Wang @oldpointeshoes.bsky.social Ass. Prof at San Diego Law
Ballet/piano/economic history
Art credit: Oskar Schlemmer, Costume Designs for the "Triadic Ballet", Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, BR50.428
Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
Tristan Brown @tristangbrown.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese History @MIT
Sarah R. Meiners, PhD @srmeiners.bsky.social Assistant Professor at James Madison University // Historian of US refugee policy in the US empire, 1975 - present // also writing about unaccompanied minors at Guantánamo
Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social
Jason Jackson @jasonbjackson.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Economy || Director, Political Economy Lab ||
Department of Urban Studies and Planning ||
MIT
jasonjackson.net
Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social Harvard professor, realist, FP columnist. Tennis enthusiast, amateur musician, proud dad, & grateful husband. Troubled by the state of the world & looking for solutions. For speaking engagements contact John Bute at john@chartwellspeakers.com
Chloe Hawkey @c-i-hawkey.bsky.social Lecturer in History and Literature, Harvard
Retired River Guide
Caitlin Barker @caitlinbarker.bsky.social Historian of Africa, China, and the Cold War | Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College | Book review editor, H-Africa
Vivien Chang @vivienlchang.bsky.social Visiting scholar at Harvard. Historian of decolonization, development, postcolonial Africa, US & the world.
Chloë Mayoux @chloemayoux.bsky.social Nuclear Technology, European Empire, Global Africa | Ernest May Fellow @Harvard | Teaching Military History @BostonU
H-Diplo with the Jervis Forum @h-diplo.bsky.social H-Diplo: diplomatic & international history, and international relations and The Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum
Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social Official account for the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Sciences Po.
https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/
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Iza Ding @izading.bsky.social Political science professor at Northwestern • Writer • Photographer
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David Tamayo @davidtamayo.bsky.social Historian writing a book on the conservative middle classes in 20th-c Mexico | Professor at UM | https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/faculty/tamayo.html.
Yasmina Martin @yasmartin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, SUNY Brockport | | transnational anti-apartheid movements and decolonization |
Kate Birkbeck @katebirkbeck.bsky.social Writing about militia, federal finance, the international arms trade. | Postdoc @Brown | Ernest May Fellow @Harvard
Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social Professor of Law @ UCLA School of Law; faculty co-director, Emmett Inst on Climate Change & the Environment; Walter & Shirley Wang Chair in US-China Relations; Chinese law & politics.
alexwang.org
Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social Historian of US foreign aid, disasters, and international humanitarianism. Author of *Making the World Safe* (OUP ’13) and *Catastrophic Diplomacy* (UNC ’24). Co-editor of *InterConnections: The Global 20th Century* (UNC) and *Journal of Disaster Studies*.
SHAFR @shafrhistorians.bsky.social The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
est. 1967
Andrei Mamolea @andreimamolea.bsky.social Historian of international law and politics | asst prof at BU
https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/andrei-mamolea/
Melissa Stewart @melissastewart.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law ~ University of Connecticut School of Law & Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute
Public International Law | Human Rights | Statelessness | Int’l Environmental Law
Mike Forsythe 傅才德 @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social Reporter on the investigations team at the NYT. I always have a China-focused story in the works. Co-author of bestselling “When McKinsey Comes to Town”. Navy veteran. Send tips to Michael.forsythe@nytimes.com. DM for Signal.
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social Professor emeritus, George Washington University Law School, specializing in modern Chinese law. "Softhanded scribe". Gradually shifting over from Twitter/X.
Website: http://donaldclarke.net
Twitter: @donaldcclarke
ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social Online magazine from Asia Society
Reporting, Analysis, Photography, Video and Conversation on China
Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Law, American U. Washington College of Law; Assoc. Member, Oxford Law; lawyer & anthropologist; writes on non-liberal law, international development, transnational business, property, justice; https://www.matthewserie.com/ Views are my own.
Tracy Alloway @tracyalloway.bsky.social Co-host of the Odd Lots podcast. I like financial crisis hindsight, spurious correlation and puppies. London ➡️New York ➡️Abu Dhabi ➡️Hong Kong ➡️New York
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
Mona Paulsen @monapaulsen.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Economic Law, LSE Law School. Specialisation in international trade law and economic security, in addition to research and teaching interests in international investment law, international development, and IPE.
Anna Gelpern @agelpern.bsky.social Law professor
#DebtCon #PublicDebtIsPublic #sovereigndebtforum #lawandmacro
Monica C. Bell @monicacbell.bsky.social Law prof & sociologist at Yale. I write about poverty, race, place, gender, policing, and justice, and I use qualitative and humanistic methods.
In Carolina in my mind. 🏳️🌈✊🏿
zohra ahmed @azohra.bsky.social law prof
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3079682
The LPE Project @lpeproject.bsky.social Legal scholars, students, & practitioners working to expose & transform law's role in the perpetuation of economic, racial, & gender inequality. & check out our Blog: @lpeblog.bsky.social
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Legal History Blog @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social Scholarship, news and new ideas in legal history
Katharina Isabel Schmidt @katisasch.bsky.social “Artificial Justice" Research Group Leader @maxplancklaw | legal history & history of science | legal modernism | law and AI
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
Oona Hathaway @oonahathaway.bsky.social Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; President, American Society of International Law; Executive Editor at Just Security; former Special Counsel at U.S. Department of Defense. Website: oonahathaway.com.
Jack Goldsmith @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social Prof Harvard Law School, Co-founder of Lawfare, Non-res. sr. fellow at AEI; executivefunctions.substack. Opinions mine alone. Likes ≠ agree; = save to read. https://jackgoldsmith.org/
Alex Fay @alexfay.bsky.social Law Prof, University of Tulsa; tribal sovereignty & jurisdiction; banjo novice
Jonathan Gienapp @jgienapp.bsky.social Professor of History and Law, Stanford University. Books on early Constitution: http://tinyurl.com/yynk95aa; and originalism and history: http://tinyurl.com/3dd5hnt6
jonathangienapp.com
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Ben Heath @jbentonheath.bsky.social Associate Professor, Temple University School of Law. I post about things that interest me, some of which are about law.
Maria Dieci @mariadieci.bsky.social Health policy, dev econ, global health. Asst Prof Health Policy and Management @EmoryRollins. Previously @UCBerkeleySPH,
@poverty_action. All views are my own.
Emily Rains @erains.bsky.social International development: 🇮🇳 cities, informality, and gender | Asst. Prof of Political Science at Tulane | Ada's mom
New Orleans via California > New York > India > North Carolina > Baton Rouge
https://www.ekrains.com
Philip Thai @philipthai.bsky.social Associate Professor, Northeastern University | Author, China's War on Smuggling | Modern China, East Asia, Law, Economy, Diplomacy
China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com A digital magazine on all things China and bookish, publishing reviews, essays, excerpts, lists and more. Organizer of the Baifang Schell China Books Prize
https://chinabooksreview.com/
Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social History prof @ Yale, writing book on history of offshore capitalism and tax havens. Also feminism, climate emergency, LGBTQ+. Obsessed road and gravel cyclist 🏳️🌈
Rohit De @itihaasnaama.bsky.social Between Clio and Themis| Lawyer, Historian @Yale | Author of 'A People's Constitution (Princeton, 2018) | Politics. Pop Culture. South Asia
Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social Researching development and its discontents. Pell grant prof. Co-director @hpe-project.bsky.social. Naclista pa’ siempre. #NoMoreDrugWar
Kyle Chan @kyleichan.bsky.social Princeton postdoctoral researcher. Focused on industrial policy, clean tech, infrastructure, development, China, India. Newsletter: http://high-capacity.com
The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social Independent, non-partisan coverage of China in Africa & the Global South: www.chinaglobalsouth.com
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Kaiser Kuo 郭怡廣 @kaiserkuo.bsky.social Host of the Sinica Podcast (https://sinicapodcast.com), former guitarist of Tang Dynasty, currently of the newly re-formed 春秋 (Spring & Autumn). Living in Beijing. Chinese history, politics, culture, society.
Andrew Larkin @alarkin.bsky.social researching international economic law. interested in histories of imperialism, capitalism, corporations, money, the carceral state, abolition, surfing. assistant professor at south carolina. he/him.
Anatol Klass @anatolklass.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History at US Naval War College
Aden Knaap @adenknaap.bsky.social Historian. Chauncey Fellow at Yale. PhD from Harvard. Writing a history of international courts for Princeton University Press. 🏳️🌈
Taisu Zhang @zhangtaisu.bsky.social Comparative historian, legal theorist, Chinese law and politics observer @Yale.
John Fabian Witt @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social Duffy Prof @YaleLawSch, legal history. Germantown born and bred. Fisherman, orchardist, baseball. Profile photo sitdowners park in Flint. The Radical Fund is out from Simon & Schuster.
The Capitol Forum @capitolforum.bsky.social News & analysis informing policymakers, investors, and industry stakeholders on policy's impact on market competition
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Business Scholarship Podcast @busscholarship.bsky.social Interdisciplinary conversations about new works in the broad world of business research. Apple, Spotify, TuneIn, YouTube, and other apps! Hosted by @andrewkjennings.com
Andrew Jennings @andrewkjennings.com Corporate/securities law professor, Emory University
Host, Business Scholarship Podcast (@busscholarship.bsky.social)
Creator, KFilings (@kfilings.com)
https://andrewkjennings.com // https://kfilings.com
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
Mark Jia @markjia.bsky.social Associate Professor, Georgetown Law
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/mark-jia/
Association of Law and Political Economy @a-lpe.bsky.social
The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social hpeproject.org
Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social https://www.renata-keller.com/
Assoc Prof of Latin American History, UNR. Author of *The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War* and *Mexico’s Cold War*. Co-editor of InterConnections book series at UNC.
Nathaniel Donahue @nwdonahue.bsky.social Ass. Prof. @nyulaw. Goat aficionado. Grackle enthusiast. Living off the largesse of big noodle.
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