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irina cerić

@irinaceric.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof @windsorlaw.bsky.social. JD+PhD. Researching #lawandprotest, movement defence & injunctions. Activist. Lawyer. Jugoslovenka. Cyclist. Aging punk. Windsor+Toronto via Belgrade. she/her/comrade. #SFSN 🍉

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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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darko k @darkokrznaric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"For Jewish people, the personal has always been political and the political always personal. This year I’m reflecting on the fact that we failed to do our part to stop an ongoing genocide committed in our name." charlieangus.substack.com/p/national-p...
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NATIONAL POST CROSSES LINE ON THREAT AGAINST LEWIS
A recent editorial on New Democratic Party leader Avi Lewis crossed the line into an extremist hate threat. It needs to be called out.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Huge news! Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, have been stayed. Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that the compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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Blueprints of Disruption Podcast @blueprints.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Legal Observers are our eyes and ears on the ground as we face increased police violence at protests. We interviewed the @orangehats.bsky.social about the tactics used against us for Episode 2️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ 🎧 pod.fo/e/38dae9
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Blueprints of Disruption: Strategic Incapacitation: Toronto Police and Protests
Two Toronto based Legal Observers from the Orange Hats return to give us details on the tactics Toronto Police are using to try to bring down the Palestinian Solidarity Movement.Tasked with keeping...
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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
unreal what we permit on our roads whilst screaming at politicians to ban e scooters. www.thestar.com/life/autos/r...
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Ram’s new 777-horsepower super truck can launch its three-tonne frame to 96 km/h in just 3.5 seconds
Priced at $147,990, the 2027 TRX SRT lands at Canadian dealerships this fall with a supercharged V8 and luxury cabin.
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment." www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is so much more horrifying than I thought it would be
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It was a toss-up between Party Down and Community (which is somehow #97 on the NYT list!?!?!) but the rest I stand by, at least today.
Screenshot of My Top Shows from the NYT's 100 Best TV shows of the 21st Century site

The shows are listed with a poster for each:
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Heated Rivalry
The Good Place
Somebody Somewhere
Game of Thrones
Party Down
Our Flag Means Death
What We Do in the Shadows
BoJack Horseman
Hacks
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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm very excited to be giving the 2026-27 W.J. Alexander Lecture in English Literature on October 15th at University College, University of Toronto! It will be called "Joseph Brant's Unwritten History: Towards an Indigenous Antiquarianism."
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Joseph Brant’s Unwritten History: Towards an Indigenous Antiquarianism | University College U of T
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.
A line chart showing temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the Pacific Ocean, compared to a 30-year rolling base period since 1982.

A gold line shows temperatures in 1997, a teal line in 2025, and a red line in 2026. The red line surpasses all others reaching 3.07ºC, and at an earlier point (September) than the previous El Niño that reached a comparable range in November 2015.
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Pierre 🐟🦑🦀🦈🐋 @pierrecloutier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Devastated by the news ... She was truly the kind of person I wanted to be "when I grow up" (and still do) and a dear friend. Rest in power Karen.
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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 20/09/2026
now listening to @copystar.bsky.social ’s new radio show (!) and you can too: cjamfieldtrip.neocities.org?ref=uofwinds...
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Field Trip on CJAM 99.1 FM, Wednesdays 6:30pm to 8:00pm, Windsor-Detroit
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gutted to hear about the passing of Karen Pearlston @kaypear99.bsky.social. A lifelong feminist activist, Palestine solidarity organizer, and groundbreaking queer legal scholar who never stopped circling her As, Karen was brave and kind and hilarious. May her memory be a blessing (and a revolution).
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Court: Is it maybe a little archaic and too on the nose for us to say in 2006 that fraud is valid when it comes to stealing Native land? Nah, let's do it!
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Steven Tufts @stufts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Friday afternoon drop by Liberals, limiting right to strike after an investment conference. (Sort of saw this coming). archive.ph/2026.08.02-1...
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Emma Arkell @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This "significant labour legislation" could very likely end the right to strike for thousands of workers through expanding whose work is "essential," lengthening bargaining timelines or introducing US style laws. pressprogress.ca/mark-carneys...
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Mark Carney’s Government is Rushing Through Major Changes to Canada’s Labour Laws. Unions Say Workers Should Be Alarmed.
Unions are warning Carney is planning to place limits on the right to strike and deliver other items on 'Corporate Canada's wish list'
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Cole Webber @colewebber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thanks to Briarpatch for publishing an excerpt from Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City in their housing issue
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another Whatcott case on the books... www.thestar.com/news/gta/ant...
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Anti-gay campaigner guilty of promoting hate at Toronto Pride Parade. Judge rejects ‘purported religious’ motivation
The messages in Bill Whatcott's flyers went beyond "merely being offensive," the judge wrote. "It is intense and extreme. It is hatred."
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Scott Neigh @scottneigh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Check out my interview with long-time organizer and writer @withmovements.bsky.social about his book, *For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World*, out next week from @akpress.org and @btlbooks.com: mediacoop.ca/node/119372
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is still the best metaphor
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yes, this is the Letterkenny/Heated Rivalry crossover we needed
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Can Confirm Katy
Alt: A GIF of a scene from Letterkenny. Katy, a young white woman with long brown hair sitting in a kitchen, nods and says "can confirm".
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Ivana Nikolić @evanin21.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CREDO WORKSHOP! Event Details: 📅 21–23 October 2026 | 09:30 – 15:00 CET 📍University of Belgrade & Online (Hybrid) ✅ Free participation | Certificate of attendance ⏰ Register by 18 October 2026 🔗 Register here: lnkd.in/dKqv77uz collab.credo@gmail.com Instagram: @credo.global
Keynote speakers for the CREDO workshop
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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🆕 FRESH AUDIO! Part 3 of our 2026 mini-summer series "Petrostate Pushback" looks at the climate implications of infrastructure in all its forms ⚙️ 📻 HEAR:👇 pod.fo/e/60d1c5
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MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs program: Petrostate Pushback: Part 3 (ep 380)
On the third instalment of "Petrostate Pushback," our 2026 mini-summer-series on the Indigenous-led struggle for climate justice, we look at the climate implications of infrastructures, structures ...
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The population of unhoused people Ontario is projected to be nearly 90,000 by 2028-29.
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great piece by @isaacphannay.bsky.social. I've been thinking about this because I don't remember the last time I saw a bike courier in Toronto. And it's a cultural loss for city cycling. For better or for worse, I learned to ride from couriers... thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Riding with Vancouver’s Last Bike Couriers | The Tyee
How the city’s dwindling number of bicycle messengers outpace the app workers and gig economy giants.
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.
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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Essex County
A glorious yellow and purple sunset over a barn and a pick up truck
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yup. The reason @ntusikov.bsky.social and I are comfortable saying that people *will* (not may, will) be harmed and die from the Carney government’s AI strategy is because it’s already happened. The goal is to get us to accept these deaths and ruined lives as the price of progress.
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Carney’s AI push risks harm as Ottawa automates public services
From immigration errors to social-assistance breakdowns, early use of automated systems shows how public services can fail without human judgment.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you watch one video today... Dr James Makokis speaking at the historic announcement by Saddle Lake Cree Nation that they are establishing a safe haven for gender affirming care... Is that video. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Through the 'medicine chest' clause of Treaty 6, this initiative places these services outside provincial jurisdiction, directly challenging Alberta’s attack on gender diverse people and their families."
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Saddle Lake Cree Nation asserts treaty rights over access to gender-affirming care
Saddle Lake takes steps to establish safe haven for gender-affirming care on reserved lands, invoking Treaty No. 6 'Medicine Chest' clause.
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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
On why the Trump administration is targeting international students, the Haitian community in Ohio, and other migrants with legal status.
If the administration’s goal is to reduce the number of immigrants in the country, these initiatives are somewhat counter-intuitive, as the targeted communities are not the most vulnerable migrants lacking legal status, while many undocumented people continue to labor in fields and meatpacking plants in red states across the country. The goal of these efforts, then, should not be seen as attempting to limit immigration entirely. Rather, they are efforts to render migrants more vulnerable. The attack on student visa holders, for instance, can be understood as an effort to prevent the expansion and stabilization of a class of educated migrants with access to higher-wage jobs. In other cases, the attack represents an effort to prevent admission with paths to legal status or to eliminate the contingent, pre-citizen statuses that have been granted by the state. These efforts, which overwhelmingly focus on black and brown migrants, lead to deportation, sometimes in contravention of law, and expand the migrant precariat.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026
Isaac Newton famously wrote “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Academic progress is always iterative and builds on the work of others, and a key component of academic culture is proper citation & attribution. It would be a travesty to let LLMs destroy that.
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Romy @romygarrido.ca · 06/09/2026
We did it. We ignored the warnings, and now we're at the point of no return. Even if we decrease the temperature and 'stabilize' the climate, the impacts are inevitable. Rising sea level, species extinctions, human displacement, changes to food and water systems, and more.
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For the first time, a key UN report says the 1.5 C global warming threshold is lost | CBC News
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the...
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
With mounting fights against IHRA around the world, sharing my piece on IHRA definition I argue IHRA defn is state-sanctioned legislative tool of anti-Palestinian racism. It suppresses opposition to Zionism thru liberal & colonial "anti racism" strategy. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Colonialism, racism and the IHRA | CCPA
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Dr Ivan Simic @ivansimic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The future is going to be glorious! Right? Right? 😬 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canadians should prepare for a 5 C hotter future, report warns | CBC News
The federal government's new report summarizing the latest science on climate change warns that under current climate policies, the impact on Canadians will likely be "far from benign."
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My mother had to drag me to see Tom Jones in Croatia a couple of years ago and dear lord did I eat crow. He gave a masterful performance. Truly legendary. So I wasn't surprised to find myself completely undone by this version of Tower of Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTWy...
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Sir Tom Jones brings Coaches to TEARS with this INCREDIBLE performance | The Voice UK
YouTube video by The Voice UK
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katiza ⋆ 🆓🇵🇸 @felixthekat.cryptoanarchy.network · 05/09/2026
COVID NEVER LEFT
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 04/09/2026
This kind of report should be accompanied by a press conference—not with some low-level bureaucrat, but with the prime minister. Flanked by all of his ministers. In prime time, with technical briefings. This report says we're facing unimaginable disaster, yet we didn't even get a briefing.
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The climate is doomed and now so is high-speed rail. The Friday-before-a-long-weekend hits just keep coming…
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vlado @mejs.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026
how it started (September 19th 1991) how it's going (September 3rd 2026) the visual mirror of countless lives destroyed and zero lessons learned, almost to a day, 35 years later
Soldiers sitting on APCs waving to crowds on the overpass above, who are waving back to themMen in black holding sign above a highway thanking the dead war criminal
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tell Doug Ford to fight Trump, not Toronto. Add your name:
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Fight Trump Not Toronto
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As the OG Astra I want to say: OpenAI sucks, Sam Altman is a fascist, and my name deserves better. The meaning of astra is stars. It should connote wonder at the beauty of the cosmos, not a blinkered obsession with profit and a willing to burn this world for a vampiric facsimile.
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Roxana Parsa @roxanaparsa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Our client has lived here for almost 30 yrs as a PR. He is waiting on a hearing at the FCA about the constitutionality of the legislation that led to the loss of his permanent residence status. We are now trying to stop his removal. Pls sign the petition & write to the minster: shorturl.at/mt00j
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Sign the Petition
Stop Roman’s Removal!
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis." Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
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The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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Movement Law Lab @movementlawlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
During the Red Scare, Arnold, Fortas & Porter courageously defended individuals targeted by state loyalty investigations. Their refusal to back down defined their legacy. Today’s legal community must channel that same courage against state intimidation. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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At a Time When Lawyers Feared Defending Government Enemies, One Law Firm Stood Up
A scrappy law firm decided to represent federal workers accused of disloyalty and survived to become a legal behemoth.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Are you a law student experiencing the dizzying process of moral decontextualization, as questions of power and justice seem oddly absent from the curriculum? If so, the Law and Political Economy movement might be for you. Check out this classic post on what LPE has to offer to new law students.
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Law and Political Economy: A (Very) Brief Field Guide for 1Ls
Two 3L LPE fans (and Blog editors) reflect on what LPE has to offer to new law students.
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I signed.
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