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Lisa Washington

@slwashington.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @University of Wisconsin Law School | Criminal procedure, family law, evidence, feminist legal theory | Former public defender @The Bronx Defenders

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Courtney Joslin @courtneygjoslin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Looking forward to this upcoming conversation about the "Poverty of Family Law" at @nyulaw.bsky.social. We've got a great line up, including Khiara Bridges, Erika Wilson, Cynthia Godsoe, Chris Gottlieb, Doug NeJaime, @slwashington.bsky.social, ... www.eventbrite.com/e/nyu-law-re...
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N.Y.U. Law Review presents The Poverty of Family Law
Explore the deep and racialized divide between “private” family law and “public" family law. Join us for the whole day or for any panel.
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My paper “Intimate State Power: The Carceral State through the Family Regulation Frame” is now forthcoming in the N.Y.U. Law Review. I’m looking forward to revising over the next few months so feel free to reach out! You can find the draft here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
So many generative contributions that will carry me through the rest of the fall semester. Thank you to my co-chair Renagh O’Leary and the many scholars, students, and staff who made these events a success!
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
It was a big weekend for me @law.wisc.edu. I had the great pleasure of being in conversation with Prof. Melissa Murray for both the Wisconsin Law Review Symposium on the Shadow Carceral State and my Care and Carcerality conference the next day.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Really can't downplay the seriousness of this for all of higher ed. But at the same time you wonder how putting powerful enemies into an unmistakably existential crisis will pay off for a regime still consolidating power
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We both have a 16-month old! Yesterday, we gave him five different types of fruit….
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This looks amazing!
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
That’s so kind, Rachel! Thanks so much!
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
So happy that I was voted classroom teacher of the year. Thank you!
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Amy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
LPE friends, big announcement! 🔥🔥 This Sept, the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association! Been working hard on this, with an amazing crowd of LPE fac and groups - more here: law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau....
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Inaugural Law and Political Economy Association Conference - School of Law - University of Richmond
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University of Wisconsin Law School @law.wisc.edu · 14/02/2025
Join the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society for "The Policy and Politics of Caregiving" Symposium -- Feb. 21, in person or virtually! Presenters include our own @slwashington.bsky.social. And @francescahong.bsky.social. apps.law.wisc.edu/calendar/?tr...
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I’m done.
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Same here!
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Kat Macfarlane @katmacfarlane.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Forthcoming piece from Britney Wilson looks terrific. Predisposed: Race, Disability, and Death Investigations 72 UCLA L. Rev. _ (2025) (forthcoming) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Predisposed: Race, Disability, and Death Investigations
<div> <div> <div> <p><span>Disability, preexisting conditions, or underlying conditions might seem like uncontroversial factors to cite when determining a
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Pretty great to see this in print. It was a joy to work with the editors at the Yale Law Journal. Now what to do with all of these copies?
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Ha!! Thanks, Megan.
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Thanks!!
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Thanks!
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Thanks so much, Neoshia!
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Thank you!
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Grateful to receive the #AALS2025 Section on Family and Juvenile Law Emerging Scholars Award. The picture feels right since I wrote Time and Punishment while pregnant and submitted it during the early postpartum period.
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Such good news!
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Sociologist: how we understand the cup is actually the result of socially constructed interpretations of the world
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Yes!
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I like you even more now.
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Lisa Washington @slwashington.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Thank you so much!
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