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Ariela Gross

@arielagross.bsky.social
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Distinguished Prof of Law & History @UCLALaw, cat lady, mom, lover of democracy. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Www.arielajgross.com

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When future President John Adams walked into court to defend the British soldiers who committed the Boston Massacre, he knew he was laying down a marker for future generations about what the rule of law is. Julio Frenk, chancellor of my university, unfortunately missed that lesson and a few more.
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UCLA chancellor rebukes law school event with 9/11 'mastermind' attorney; organizers push back
After a UCLA law school symposium on 9/11 that featured an attorney who represented alleged 9/11 'mastermind' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk issued a rare message distancing the u...
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What he said.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Exactly.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tim Lovelace and Robert Chang’s wonderful piece, “Who Owns Civil Rights History?” with my comment. www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...
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Volume 106, Issue 3 | Law Review
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Fascinating, not just for what it reveals about AI use but also for what it (potentially) reveals about the impact of AI use on learning. The final scores weren't just way below the midterm scores but also way below the historical average.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It’s refreshing to see a journalist (or anyone) reflect and acknowledge a mistake. I wish more of us had listened harder. Now it’s time for him to step aside and let any other Democrat take his place.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This is the patriotism I need today. The love of country of those who fight for its soul.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Faculty Associations (along with the AAUP) have been the ones restoring research funding, defending academic freedom and free speech at the University of California. But it costs money to fight the Trump Administration in court! Give to the @cucfa.org legal defense fund today! cucfa.org/legal/
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Legal – CUCFA
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A way out of this mess?
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Another day, another Trump Administration lawsuit against UCLA - and UCLA isn’t helping! forward.com/opinion/8278...
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My university is enabling the Trump administration's worst fallacies on antisemitism
As UCLA faces yet another lawsuit, it should consider a more wide-ranging approach to combatting campus hate
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The ABA @americanbar.org caves to the Trump Administration. Shame! www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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American Bar Association votes to eliminate DEI rule for law schools
The ABA's rules have required diversity and inclusion for decades, putting it squarely in the crosshairs of the second Trump administration.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Speaking truth to power.
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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It’s very easy & common for people to shrug off the relevance of gpa/test score when the “underperformance” is white & male. Call it confirmation bias, racial/gender bias, whatever you want. Lesson is we tend to see “merit” in systems that produce our expected outcomes. 1/
There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’
Declining male enrollment has led many colleges to adopt an unofficial policy: affirmative action for men.Their findings are backed up by others. A 2019 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that 75% of white students who were recruited to Harvard as ALDCs "would have been rejected" if they had been treated as white students without those connections.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
My colleague Dave Marcus sets the record straight on the event at UCLA Law last week that @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy falsely referred to as “campus chaos.” I hope those using the false narrative in their campaign against universities pause to consider a true account: www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/05/mean...
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Meaningful Campus Engagement with Government Officials: A Response to UCLA’s Critics (Guest Post By UCLA Law Professor David Marcus)
On Tuesday, April 21, UCLA Law’s Federalist Society chapter hosted a lunchtime event with James Percival, general counsel at the U.S. Depart...
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/05/02/c... I was today years old when I learned that California state prisons hand people over to ICE and that sanctuary laws only apply to local jails and law enforcement.
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Immigrants Behind Bars Often Find ICE Waiting After Their Prison Sentences
Many state prison systems work with ICE. California, for example, has handed over 18,000 prisoners since 2015.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Name your top 15 tv shows ever, gut instincts only All In The Family MASH Friends Thirty Something The Sopranos The Americans Breaking Bad Sex Education Friday Night Lights Lost (seasons 1-3) Queen Sugar Insecure Catastrophe (Season 1) Bad Sisters Fleabag
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
www.justsecurity.org/136681/bosni... Great piece by @bwgerstein.bsky.social !
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Bosnian Serbs Wield Islamophobia to Gain Support for Secession
In U.S. and Israel meetings, Bosnian Serb leaders used anti-Muslim rhetoric to gain support for their ethno-nationalist separatist project.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
My dad won a Breakthrough Prize last night for lifetime achievement in fundamental physics. “The Oscars of Science” - strangest event I’ve ever attended. Tech bro billionaires, celebrity performers and presenters, and scientists. But the main thing is I got a photo with my favorite actor!
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Brilliant piece by @zalmanr.bsky.social about the terrifying prospect of parental religious beliefs trumping even basic public health.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Pre-ordering now!
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I was today years old when I actually watched Afroman’s videos. hilarious!
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Fabulous conversation today with @jamellebouie.net and my wonderful colleague Alexander Arnold.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
He's going to fall asleep inside ten minutes
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I mean OF COURSE this isn’t the only thing we should be doing. My friends and colleagues are filing cases, writing briefs, giving aid to immigrants afraid to leave their houses, following and documenting ICE, organizing for unions and House candidates, being immigration court observers…1/
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I love penguins.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
He’s not hiding the ball.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This has been true for decades but especially now.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I hope everyone is taking photos of every single ICE dude in the airports so we can identify them when they go back to the full-on KKK hooded look to disappear, pepper spray, beat, and shoot innocent people.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Remember when people lost their jobs for not grieving sufficiently that Charlie Kirk had died?
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Did someone say “common good”? 🤮
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Well, that’s the most repulsive thing I’ve read in a minute. I suppose I appreciate Adrian’s candor in saying all of this out loud.
The illegal alien is a line-jumper and a violator of sovereign borders, a thief of both time and space, and generally speaking a thief may pass no valid title to stolen goods. Of course the child of an illegal alien is innocent of any personal wrongdoing, but the problem is that the parents lack the kind of lawful status that could ground transmission to their descendants of the citizenship, and the share of sovereignty, to which the parents are not themselves entitled. Our law, interpreted in this way, would merely deny to the illegal alien, a violator of the republic's laws, the ability to pass on to their children the fruits of the parents' own wrongdoing, the crucial ability to vest a share of republican sovereignty in their
own descendants. A mild remedy indeed.
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AffableChap @chris-buchanan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
So supporting @npr.org just became that much more important!!
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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Dueling letters from Jewish groups dispute prevalence of antisemitism at UCLA
More than 100 Jewish faculty and staff pushed back on a Trump administration suit that alleges the school discriminated against them
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social wrote a great piece about our letter. It’s especially important that people hear this perspective because the other view is so well-financed and churns out misinformation, including a letter with 4000 completely random signatures charging UC faculty with antisemitism.
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Today I Need to Say Something About (the Stupidity of) Antisemitism
Two stories erupted in the last twenty-four hours that have to do with antisemitism. One is deeply positive. It's a letter signed by 132 Jewish faculty and staff at UCLA rejecting the Trump Administra...
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
@fishkin.bsky.social, my partner in crime, explains why the focus on punishing pro-Palestinian speech is actually harmful to Jews and takes our eyes off the actual sources of rising antisemitism in US political culture, chiefly on the Right. (Also, our letter is still open for signatures!)
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
@chronicle.com covered our letter from Jewish UCLA faculty: www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...
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UCLA Jewish Faculty Say Justice Department’s Lawsuit ‘Will Do Absolutely Nothing to Protect Jews’
More than a hundred faculty and staff members signed a letter stating that the the lawsuit “takes advantage of Jewish concerns about antisemitism to attack free speech and academic freedom.”
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This letter from 131 (and counting) Jewish faculty and staff tells the Trump Administration we oppose efforts to attack UCLA in our name. Text linked in comments.
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Last week, the 2nd Circuit upheld NY’ s ban on the provision of legal advice by non-lawyers, even to people who have no ability to pay for a lawyer and reversed the lower court decision that held the 1A granted the right to provide advice in these circs. 🧵 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Memorandum & Opinion – #136 in Upsolve, Inc. v. James (S.D.N.Y., 1:22-cv-00627) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS AND ORDER: For the foregoing reasons, the defendant's motion to dismiss with prejudice (Dkt. 121) is granted. Plaintiffs' motion to reinstate the prelimin...
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
dailybruin.com/2026/02/26/u... You hate to let a good military grade weapon go.
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UCPD keeps 40 mm projectiles, launchers despite LAPD crowd-control ban - Daily Bruin
UCPD will keep 40 mm projectiles and launchers in its arsenal of military equipment, though LAPD is banned from using them for crowd control. The department will not use the weapons for crowd control ...
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... He was the successor executor in Epstein’s will. I can’t even.
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Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
www.mpr.org/stories/2026... Support local journalism, especially public radio that’s been devastated by this administration.
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Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio
Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Good morning. This is where we are in 2026.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 09/02/2026
And there should be a gigantic animatronic William T. Sherman marching down the field burning things
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Faster than you can say “strongly worded letter”…
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
In Santa Barbara, California, an ICE goon point-blank sprayed a woman with pepper spray while she was filming. The woman required medical attention for a potentially pierced eyeball. 1/28/26
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Today, we share an open letter from seventy-two University of Minnesota Law faculty addressing the federal government’s ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence against Minnesotans.
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An Open Letter to the Minnesota Law Community
Seventy-two University of Minnesota Law faculty address the federal government's ongoing campaign of fear, intimidation, and violence against Minnesotans.
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Steve Middlebrook @stmdc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Here is the child’s drawing.
Drawing by 5 year old held in concentration camp in Texas by Trump Administration. It’s a pencil drawing of 4 stick figures with frowns behind a chain link fence depicted by a dozens of vertical and horizontal lines. Written in child-like letters, it says “Let us go” and “I am 5 years old.”
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