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Carl Landauer

@carllandauer.bsky.social
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Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Institute for South Asia Studies. Lawyer, legal & cultural historian; contributing editor to "Poetry Flash"; writer of poetry. berkeley.academia.edu/CarlLandauer

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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m reading Saturday at 1:00 for the MERCED LITFEST sponsored by U.C. Merced—along with Lucille Lang Day and Geraldine Connolly. Full schedule: writingstudies.ucmerced.edu/2026LitFestS...
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Two of my “refracted ekphrases,” poems on films adapted from lit, appeared CHARLIE’S FARE’s inaugural issue: (1) on the Stockton-based boxing film that John Huston adapted from Leonard Gardner’s “FAT CITY.” (2) on the adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE.” tinyurl.com/CharliesFare
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The BANGALORE REVIEW just published my on Anthony Minghella’s film adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s THE ENGLISH PATIENT. I’m extremely grateful to Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury and others on the Bangalore team for their response to my poem. tinyurl.com/2whh6bku
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My poems in PENUMBRA ONLINE: “THIS’S GONG TO FIZZLE OUT IF SOMETHING DON’T HAPPEN” on James Franco’s adaptation of Steinbeck’s “In Dubious Battle”, and “GREAT LAKES NAVAL TRAINING CENTER 1945” on my 18-year-old German-Jewish refugee father in the navy. tinyurl.com/2s3sv925 3rd and 10th poems.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I am so grateful again to EXACTING CLAM for publishing one of my refracted ekphrases, this time, my poem on George Cukor’s 1936 “Camille,” his adaptation of the 1848 novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, “The Lady of the Camellias”!! www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-22...
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I am immensely flattered to be a speaker representing the “Cambridge History of International Law: Asia” at the double book launch at Oxford this coming October. My contribution was on twentieth-century Indian readings of ancient Indian interpolity law. tinyurl.com/Oxford-Book-...
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My poem, “It’s a Pity Lily Makes Herself So Conspicuous” on the 2000 film adaptation of EDITH WHARTON’S 1905 novel “THE HOUSE OF MIRTH,” just appeared in “Great Cities: New York.”
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Excited to see my poem on John Huston’s movie adaptation of James Joyce’s iconic short story, “The Dead,” posted online in the ORANGE BLOSSOM REVIEW. Thanks so much to Deirdre Fagan for her interest my engaging Huston and Joyce! orangeblossomreview.org/journal/how-...
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Just published—my poem on THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE one of my “refracted ekphrases” on the 1962 movie after the 1959 novel—in the number 58 of the PEMBROKE MAGAZINE. A deep thanks to the editor, Peter Grimes, for taking an interest in the poems in my project!
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
My poem on “Z”—the 1969 movie as adapted from the 1966 novel—was just published in EXACTING CLAM. The film has been my absolute favorite, although I hadn’t seen it since it first hit the screen. www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-21...
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I just had one of my “refracted ekphrases”—poems on films adapting from literature—appear. This time on “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” Blake Edwards’s film adapted from Truman Capote’s novella. Hope you like it!
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Exciting—my chapter in “The Cambridge History of International Law, vol. 2: International Law in Asia,” TWENTIETH-CENTURY INDIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF ANCIENT INTERPOLITY LAW, is now posted on the press’s website: tinyurl.com/57v6tcej
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Twentieth-Century Indian Historiography of Ancient Interpolity Law (Chapter 26) - The Cambridge History of International Law
The Cambridge History of International Law - May 2026
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
My poem, “Kavanaugh, J., Concurring,” just appeared in the “Second Coming” substack of daily poems highlighting the dangers posed by Trump and his administration. My poem focuses on Kavanaugh’s concurrence in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo. secondcoming.substack.com/p/second-com...
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Second Coming No. 462 — April 26, 2026
A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by Donald Trump and his fascist regime
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
EXCITING! The Cambridge Press site now has a page for the CAMRBIDGE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, VOL. II: INT’L LAW IN ASIA—My chapter in it tells the story of twentieth-century Indian readings of India’s ancient inter-polity law tinyurl.com/2n3b6h87
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It’s a blast to see my poem, “Either Too Trivial or Else Too Important to be Discussed,” appear in LONDON (Great Cities vol 2). The poem, one of my refracted ekphrases, engages Monica Ali’s novel, “Brick Lane,” and its film adaptation by Sarah Gavron. (3 linked posts)
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I’m very grateful to the “Santa Clara Review” for publishing my poem in their special “California Edition”—written a few years back with rain coming all of a sudden in a year hit by severe drought following other drought years.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Saira Mohamed of UC Berkeley Law has provided an excellent primer regarding the illegality of the Maduro extraction and the boat strikes in the Caribbean. It might seem overtaken by events in the Middle East—but the illegal throughline is worth understanding. tinyurl.com/Saira-Mohamed
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Maduro raid flouted ‘central rule of international law,’ Professor Saira Mohamed says
Mohamed analyzes what’s happened, what could come next, and how governments and institutions outside the U.S. could and might respond.
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Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Big news! Not only is Issue 20 out today, but from here on in you can create your own account on the website, where all issues will soon be available in their entirety. Some already are. Plus digital-only subscriptions at a much, much lower price! www.exactingclam.com/subscribe
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I’ve been having nightmares—unfortunately while I’m awake—that Trump will announce a strike on Iran DURING his State-of-the-Union speech. Can he resist such drama?
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My new article, “WE OWN IT, SO WE CAN BREAK IT: THE TRUMP NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY 2025 AS SKELETON KEY" was just published by VERFASSUNGSBLOG. Hope this contributes to the understanding of Trump's foreign policy. verfassungsblog.de/we-own-it-so...
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We Own It, So We Can Break It
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
A very meaningful event, “A Courage of Poets,” at the State Capitol Building, in remembrance of Renée Good, Alex Pretti, and all other victims of ICE known and unknown. Poets each read three lines followed by California poet laureate Lee Herrick with a poem recognizing our grave moment.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Two of my poems—my “refracted ekphrases” on film adaptations—just appeared on “Verseville.” One on “The Pawnbroker” and the other on Vijay Anand’s adaptation Narayan’s “The Guide.” www.verseville.org/poems-by-car...
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Poems by Carl Landauer
Poems by Carl Landauer
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I’m excited—I just signed a contract with Sagging Meniscus Press for my first book of poetry, THE REEL AND THE PAPERBACK: REFRACTED EKPHRASES, to come out in Fall 2027.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
My review of LAUREN BENTON’s book on colonial ‘small wars’ just came out. Laurie does as convincingly global history as anyone in the history of law, tying wonderfully sculpted microhistories from various continents to a larger picture. academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
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Lauren Benton. They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
With her new book, They Called It Peace, Lauren Benton has produced another immensely important and provocative study in her global work on law and empire.
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Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center (MoSt Poetry) @mostpoetry.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Please join us! More information at www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-p...
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The SF Chronicle just published its obituary for my good friend, Jack Foley. They justly gave him a lot of words, but there was always more to say about this wonderfully many-sided person with so many deep talents. Here, the overused Whitman “I contain multitudes” fits! tinyurl.com/d6wj6scw
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Jack Foley, Bay Area poet and host of long-running KPFA literary program, dies at 85
Jack Foley’s show about poetry was called “Cover to Cover,” and he embodied that title by compiling a 1,300-page anthology including just about every poem published in California from 1940 to...
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Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I am thrilled to be the new #ASLH president, receiving the gavel yesterday from former president Barbara Welke at our Detroit conference awards ceremony. My term is 2025-27. Excited to get to work! #legalhistory
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Here’s the flyer for my reading with Lucille Lang Day sponsored by the Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center on Saturday, Nov. 22 in Turlock! The MoST poets are a great group—so I’m really eager to share with them!
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Trump announced new nuclear tests, the first since George Bush (père) instituted a moratorium in 1992. He said the when and where are TBD—we all know that he has Chicago and Portland in mind. Oh, and the Supreme Court will say it’s under his Constitutional powers. www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
My talk in D.C., Mon, 3 Nov, at Johns Hopkins SAIS on modern India and its engagement with its ancient interpolity order. If you’d like to attend, I need to supply names to the organizers.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Just voted YES ON 50! Dropbox on Moraga Ave., Oakland, CA.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Wondered where the room was for off-putting men.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Because of the states with legislative elections this November, I just made a contribution to the DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE—the national organization funding Democratic candidates in key state legislative races, which Democrats have too long ignored. dlcc.org/spotlight-ra...
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Spotlight Races
Winning back the states starts with these critical races. Learn how you can directly support the state legislative candidates who are rebuilding the Democratic Party from the ground up.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Time set, Monday, Nov. 3, 12:30—I’ll be giving a talk at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) on modern India and its engagement with its ancient interpolity order. (flyer to come)
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
“Exacting Clam” #18 is out with my poem, “Innocent Man on the Run,” on Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Richard Buchan’s 1915 novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, quite different from Hitchcock’s replotting.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
How fun! The Mary McCarthy Society republished my poem on Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of Mary McCarthy’s “The Group”! Thanks to Mary McCarthy scholar, Sabrina Fuchs Abrams, author of Mary McCarthy: Gender, Politics and the Postwar Intellectual (2004)! www.marymccarthy.org/landauer-poe...
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Landauer Poem — The Mary McCarthy Society
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The KENYON REVIEW just published four of my “refracted ekphrases” poems on film adaptations of novels in the Spring 2025 issue!! (on Mrs. Dalloway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Man in the Gray Flannel Suit & Remains of the Day) kenyonreview.org/journal/spri...
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Spring 2025 | Journal
In the Issue Cover Image Alia Ali Jade of Jaipur, JADE series (2024)Pigment print on French-produced Canson Baryta Photographique Baryta Matte Paper, 310 gram, with UV laminate, mounted on aluminum […...
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I’m waiting for the flying monkeys! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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200 million year-old jawbone revealed as new species
The newly discovered flying reptile is the oldest pterosaur in North America.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Not a surprise. The owner of Star Grocery in Berkeley observed today that his customers were back—they were all out protesting yesterday!
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
My poem, “She Had Been Registered for Vassar at Birth,” one of my “refracted ekphrastic” poems—this time on Sidney Lumet’s “The Group” (1966) after Mary McCarthy’s “The Group” (1963)—just appeared in “Exacting Clam.” www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-17...
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I was extremely privileged to participate, along with amazingly brilliant & imaginative scholars in the “Workshop on Traveling Expertise in Modern South Asia & Beyond,” organized by Rohit De and David Engerman for the Yale South Asia Studies Council. macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/wo...
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
No, I can't take this.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
In the mtg of the AM SOC OF INT’L LAW, the elephant in the room was ever present; in some sessions a large, wrinkled pillar of leg crashed through conference room ceilings—as in the session with Harold Koh (former legal advisor to State & Yale L Sch dean) on challenges to int'l law by Trump.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I just received a letter from Jackson Lears that the wonderful RARITAN will cease publication. What a loss! RARITAN has been a treasure!
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
50 yrs today! Stanford-in-France students at Mt-St-Michel—I’m at bottom rt w/ arms around knees. Studied Surrealism, 19th-c. Fr. socialism, 19th-c. novel, small reading course on Am. expatriates by Austryn Wainhouse (of Merlin mag crowd & transl of Sade), Fr. peasantry & ind. study on Bergson!
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
My poem on “The Spy who came in from the Cold”—both the film and the novel—was just published by “The Exacting Clam.” This is the first in a long series of poems on films that are in turn based on literature, which I’ve called “refracted ekphrases.” www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...
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Grey Wall With the Scraggly Barbed Wire | Exacting Clam
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I had a great time giving my talk at SOAS hosted by Parvathi Menon & Catriona Drew of the Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire & International Law. Stayed at my favorite little Fitzrovia hotel that used to be the home of Pre-Raphaelite painter, John Everett Millais.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Now, Trump ordered a pause on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prosecutions—great, open season for bribery! In the financial services, e.g., employees get trained and tested on these and related laws on an annual basis. Just too much trouble for Trump's crowd. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump to loosen enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials
President Donald Trump on Monday planned to sign an executive order that directs the Justice Department to pause prosecutions of Americans accused of bribing foreign government officials while trying to gain business in their countries.
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Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
My law school friend, Norm Eisen, was—along w/ Anthony Blinken, Letitia James & Alvin Bragg—deprived by a petulant president of his security clearance, which spurred me to donate again to Norm’s State Democracy Defenders Fund to take on activities by Musk et al. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
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Trump to Revoke Security Clearances for Antony Blinken, Letitia James and Alvin Bragg
Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Attorney General Letitia James of New York and the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, were among those the president singled out.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I wrote about the importance of "prebunking," in light of rumors that Elon Musk may have purchased $40 million in Super Bowl ads to spread misinformation about the "fraud" and "corruption" in this vital agency. I hope you will read and share asharangappa.substack.com/p/prebunking...
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Prebunking Elon Musk's Super Bowl Propaganda
Perception is reality.
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