Hello again,

This week I would like to introduce you to Tanisha Fazal, a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. She focuses on sovereignty, international law, and armed conflict.

Tanisha Fazal’s research looks at the long-term cost of war and the effects of medical care improvements in conflict zones. 

She is the author of State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation, which looks at when and why states have disappeared from the map of the world over the past two centuries. She’s also worked on projects focused on secessionism, the phenomenon of groups seeking to create their own, new independent state. In her book, Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict, she analyzes the consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war.

Other sources of interest this week.

The Labor Department recently found that Amazon failed to keep its workers safe in three warehouses, prompting discussions about hazardous working conditions. 

Veena Dubal is a law professor at the UC College of Law, San Francisco, and an expert on the intersection of employment and labor law, technology and the precarious gig economy. Her research covers the impact of digital technologies and emerging legal frameworks on the lives of workers, the influences of law and work on identity and the role of the law in solidarity movements.

Sources of the Week on the news

Read:

• Chanda Prescod-Weinstein spoke to NPR about time as a social construct.  
• Alice Wong wrote for High Country News about the impact storms in California have on people with disabilities.
  
• Sean Sherman was interviewed by The Guardian about his restaurant, Owamni, and decolonizing cuisine 
• Dior Vargas spoke to Manhattan Times about the importance of discussing and destigmatizing mental health in communities of color. 

Watch:

• Christina Greer was on MSNBC for the first week of the 118th Congress.

Listen:

• Dorian Warren went on KQED to discuss Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for economic justice.