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Kevin Keller

@kbkeller.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law. Researching history of international and comparative law, economic development. www.kevin-keller.com

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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about @driessenmiriam.bsky.social's fantastic new book, which digs into the messy world of lawsuits against Chinese businesses in Ethiopian courts. Thanks to Sinica for publishing! www.sinicapodcast.com/p/law-versus...
sinicapodcast.com
Law Versus Development
Chinese businesses are pouring into Ethiopia. When someone gets hurt, what happens?
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Great piece, and highlights one of the strangest features of sovereign lending: that for some countries, nobody really expects (or wants) them to pay off their debts.
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
1/ Two really interesting recent pieces, both making a similar point: for at least a decade, things at universities haven't been going great. First (by @nilsgilman.bsky.social) is about AI: www.persuasion.community/p/the-multiv...
persuasion.community
The University As We Know It Is Finished
That’s a good thing.
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Huge thank you to Just Money for spotlighting my forthcoming piece. There's still time to alert me to any goofs in the article!
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
1/ More developments on the elusive contracts for the Standard Gauge Rail! This is especially interesting right now, as a lot of discussion on law + China/Africa focuses on the recent cancellation of RightsCon in Lusaka.
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Exciting stuff!
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Nathaniel Donahue @nwdonahue.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The final version of the paper is now published and live, with a greatly expanded application section and some new historical finds. Thanks to everyone who gave me comments and workshopped the piece with me—it’s so much better for everyone’s input! yalelawjournal.org/pdf/01KQD1GF...
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Delighted to be part of this list! My paper "The World Bank and the Origins of Chinese State Capitalism," is forthcoming in the Berkeley Journal of International Law. Getting to the draft requires a lot of clicking around, so I thought I'd pull out my most widely relevant arguments here. 1/9
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Terrifically interesting interview, with helpful introductions to some ideas / terms that are trending on the Chinese internet.
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Fascinating stuff from leading gun buff @katebirkbeck.bsky.social
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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I'm so excited to return to my old stomping grounds next Monday to give a talk about The Fate of the Americas. If you're in the Boston area, it would be great to see you there! #History 🗃️
Poster for book talk at Boston University on April 13 at 2pm
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Happy to share that this article is forthcoming in the Berkeley Journal of International Law! Please send along any comments or critiques. Draft available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The latest from health law buff Heather Romero!
americanbar.org
Skin Substitute Crackdown Is Wounding Providers and Patients
At the outset of 2026, wound care providers, and skin substitute treatments in particular, are under significant stress from the government on two fronts.
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Makes me fee better about academia "When Mr. Redzepi wanted to discipline them but there were customers in the dining room, several employees said, he would crouch under the counters in the open kitchen and jab them in the legs with his fingers or a nearby utensil, like a barbecue fork."
nytimes.com
Punching, Slamming, Screaming: A Chef’s Past Abuse Haunts Noma, the World’s Top-Rated Restaurant
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
What motivated foreign policy in Nigeria in the 1960s? And what can this tell us about post-colonial African history? Very interesting new piece by @chloemayoux.bsky.social !
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Terrific piece. Must add the latest book from @seanvanatta.bsky.social and @petercontibrown.bsky.social to my reading list.
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Fascinating piece by Yuen Yuen Ang -- that our current moment is not a "polycrisis," but a "polytunity."
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Polytunity - The Ideas Letter
“Polycrisis” has become a ubiquitous descriptor for the multisector, intersecting problems afflicting the world—but the term masks the systemic nature of these crises and overwhelmingly reflects Euroc...
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Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Tempted to steal my daughter’s sign for my office door…
Child’s homemade do not disturb sign
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Johns Hopkins only has 84 classrooms?
publicbooks.org
The Misuses of the University - Public Books
Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?
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Kevin Keller @kbkeller.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
How did Chinese state-owned enterprises become some of the world's largest corporations? My latest paper (finally posted on SSRN!) tackles the question.
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