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James Fallows Tierney

@jamesftierney.bsky.social
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Associate professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law (Illinois Tech). I study financial markets regulation & law of capitalism. But this ≠ IIT. DSA Fund board and treasurer 🌹🤝, Rstats, NLP, Phish dad, etc. Semper ubi sub ubi.

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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Heard the most wildly unprofessional comment from a professor to another professor at a conference today, along the lines of “you are going to have to explain to me why anyone should care about this topic. Because I don’t”
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James Fallows Tierney @jamesftierney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My students in office hours brought up the new Andrew Garfield movie about Wat Tyler, which I am still salty is not called something like “Jack Straw”
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