@mjdurkee

Law Prof @ Washington University in St Louis. International law, business law, global governance, environment, theory. Bsky: mjdurkee

 St Louis, MO
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Joined November 2008
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It's out!! 🎉"States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions." A multidisciplinary exploration into the contingency of entities. Why are states and firms what they are? How and why does law construct and maintain them this way? Check out the contributor list...!
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The Theory Forum is today! Come join us in the Embassy room on the Terrace level of the Washington Hilton at noon. #ASILAM25
MJ Durkee@mjdurkee14 Apr 2025
Are you heading to the @asilorg Annual Meeting in Washington DC this week? Please join us to workshop three great projects. ⤵️ This is hosted by the International Legal Theory interest group, but all are welcome. #ASILAM2025 @asilorg_iltig
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Are you heading to the @asilorg Annual Meeting in Washington DC this week? Please join us to workshop three great projects. ⤵️ This is hosted by the International Legal Theory interest group, but all are welcome. #ASILAM2025 @asilorg_iltig
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Welcome to @WashULaw, @CymiePayne! Cymie is next up in the @HarrisWorldLaw International Law Colloquium, presenting on how international law can best address environmental consequences of war.
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If you're on this app and attending the ASIL Annual Meeting in DC in April, then this is for you! There a few more days to submit a proposal. Feel free to pass on to others who have left the chat. ⤵️
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Here at @WashULaw & @HarrisWorldLaw in St. Louis today we're taking a moment to think about restorative justice. Welcome to Diane Amann @UGASchoolofLaw for "Child-Taking Justice and Forced Residential Schooling of Indigenous Americans" in the International Law Colloquium series.
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Happy to welcome my former colleague @harlangcohen of @FordhamLaw to the @WashULaw International Law Colloquium in St. Louis for hugely timely and interesting project on defining security in international law. ⤵️ Commentator is my WashU colleague Brian Tamanaha!🔥 @HarrisWorldLaw
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Delighted to welcome @gregorycshaffer of @GeorgetownLaw to @WashULaw today! He'll present on such a timely topic: China's participation in international legal ordering. We'll also have commentary by emerging China & Trade scholar @Lawrence_J_Liu of @BerkeleyLaw. @HarrisWorldLaw
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Thanks to ABILA and the awards committee for this honor! 🙏It's such a joy to have readers and feedback. Congrats to all the awardees. Want to read? Here's the link (discount code "durkee23" is good through 12/31): cambridge.org/us/universityp… @WashULaw @CUP_Law @ABILA_official
ABILA@ABILA_official2 Nov 2024
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Finally, the ABILA Best Edited Volume Award went to MJ Durkee (@mjdurkee) for 'States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions – Attributing Identity and Responsibility to Artificial Entities' (@CUP_Law, 2024). Congratulations to all of our winners!
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Hard to believe it's already been a year since I started at @WashULaw, but here we are. This is a fantastic place, crackling with the energy of good thinking. Plus warm, kind, fun, all the things you want. This is relevant because ... we're hiring! Check out the invitation below.
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Here's the invite⬇️ feel free to reach out if you want to chat about it.
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Avoid the summer slump with... ideas! Find yourself some ice water and air conditioning and join us next week at noon eastern for what should be a great discussion.⛱️
ASIL_ILTIG@asilorg_iltig20 Jun 2024
Coming up a week from today! Join us for the legal theory summer workshop. Four great projects to discuss. Details below & a place to register for the link.
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Spotted in the wild! Exciting moment for a first time book creator: “States Firms, and Their Legal Fictions.” If you’re at #LSA2024 you can check it out at the @CambridgeUP table. Here’s a discount code if anyone wants to actually buy it 🤞- DURKEE23 cambridge.org/core/books/sta…
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Happening now at #LSA2024 @law_soc. 🔥
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Are you at #LSA2024 in Denver? Come to Mineral C at 12:45 today, Thursday, for a really interesting set of theoretically-inclined internationally-inclined papers, moderated by yours truly. Really original takes on legal orders re Nature, Animals, Genocide. Cool stuff.
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If you’re looking for more of the same, this is part of CRN 36, Transnational and Global Legal Ordering, which is also sponsoring some other great panels at #LSA2024. Questions or want to get involved? Hit me up or talk to @gregorycshaffer.
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🥁Announcing... the Legal Theory Summer Workshop! You're warmly invited to join us to discuss great works in progress by @rchenlaw, @de_Legiz, @jorgefabraz & David Hughes. June 27, noon Eastern. Register for papers & link forms.gle/e3GKTntEkdxnpvmC8 Questions? @mjdurkee & @AdHaque110
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There's still time to get an abstract in for the ASIL Theory summer workshop! Feel free to reach out with any questions.
ASIL_ILTIG@asilorg_iltig13 May 2024
Reminder -- send us your abstracts today!
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Wow this is a great issue. Summer reading list here we come.
AJIL and AJIL Unbound@AJIL_andUnbound29 Apr 2024
The April issue of AJIL is now online! Featuring work by Miles Jackson & @federica_paddeu, Kevin Baumert, @bodanskydm, @DrCWardSC, @PJanig, @calibasak, José Alvarez, Nora Stappert, @astridiversen, & Antoine Pécoud. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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We had so much fun at the Theory Forum at the @asilorg annual meeting that we're doing it again! Consider sending over an abstract for the summer workshop & feel free to reach out with any Qs.
ASIL_ILTIG@asilorg_iltig1 May 2024
🚨Call for papers alert! We had many great submissions for the @asilorg Theory Forum and just a few slots, so let's do it again. This time in a virtual format. Would you like a chance to present a theory-ish work in progress? Read on for details⤵️
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