The Robbins Postdoctoral Scholar at @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social. Working on Business Law, Private Law and International Law in no particular order. #BizHumanRightshttps://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3mqua3ewwi22yA revised (and better) version is now available! The paper now tackles the post-Cisco ATS landscape and discusses non-federal tort law more extensively. It also has a simpler title, "Rights Over Remedies." You can read it at the same link. 👇🏽 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6875323 [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jul 2026 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqua3ewwi22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3mpmsyft47224Incredibly honored to see the paper as "Highly Recommended"! The piece reinterprets tort rights of action as a mechanism of epistemic resistance, particularly for marginalized victims of corporate abuse. Substantive update coming soon after the ATS is now gutted in Cisco v. Doe. Stay tuned! [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Jul 2026 00:53 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmsyft47224https://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3mplxd4qnlk2nExcellent list. Includes a series (Andor), which goes well with Silo, The Expanse, and For All Mankind. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplxd4qnlk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3mngfxj6dqk2rWho thought it would be a good decision for a research paper website to discontinue their research paper series? [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Jun 2026 00:54 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mngfxj6dqk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3mklhz5fm2k23Thrilled to see my forthcoming Brooklyn Law Review article, “Postcolonial Private Law,” featured in the @lpeblog.bsky.social spring scouting report! 🎉 The piece argues for a paradigm shift in how we tackle transnational corporate exploitation. 🧵 1/2 [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2026 20:58 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklhz5fm2k23https://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3lyh5nedx5s2eExcited to share my job talk paper "Postcolonial Private Law" now on SSRN where I bring international law into conversation with private law theory in arguing for empowering Global South people as rightsholders in transnational supply chains. Thanks for the shout-out @lsolum.bsky.social! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Sep 2025 02:08 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyh5nedx5s2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3lxulbzxvf22wEver wondered how TWAIL and private law theory can benefit each other? I am excited to share my job market paper, “Postcolonial Private Law,” forthcoming in Brooklyn Law Review (Vol. 91) and now available on SSRN. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=541785502 Sep 2025 16:52 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxulbzxvf22whttps://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3lsdcjhjfxs2x1/2 Are there humans in human rights due diligence? Read my latest draft paper on SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5316055 I argue there that HRDD laws entrench the marginalization of people whose human rights they ostensibly protect by focusing on stakeholder engagement clauses.24 Jun 2025 04:54 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsdcjhjfxs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3lrl5ecknys2o1/2 🚨 Big news from Geneva: The ILO just voted to create a Convention on gig workers! This could mark the beginning of the end for “creative contracting” and misclassification—issues I highlighted in my Verfassungsblog piece. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Jun 2025 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrl5ecknys2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3lq3ruzsa7k2w1/3 🚨 Gig giants use “independent contractor” labels to strip wages, sick pay, and social security—while admitting in filings that reclassification would gut their profits. In the Verfassungsblog, I break down this practice. Time for labor anti-avoidance rules? https://verfassungsblog.de/international-labour-law-platform-economy/26 May 2025 18:17 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq3ruzsa7k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3lheukdxv2t271/4 Excited to share my latest draft chapter, called 'The Tort of Irresponsible Contracting', now available on SSRN! It challenges the notion that business decisions are isolated from human rights considerations. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=512454504 Feb 2025 20:12 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lheukdxv2t27https://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3ldlyoij4zc261/2 My new blog is out on how the French corporate responsibility law, while emphasizing protection of Global South people, systematically excludes their voices. Do give it a read here: https://bhrj.blog/2024/12/18/the-marginalisation-of-rana-plaza-workers-in-the-rana-plaza-law/ #BizHumanRights #UNGPs #HRDD #DevoirDeVigilance #CSDDD18 Dec 2024 18:34 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldlyoij4zc26https://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3ldgxz4zcgc24🔔 Reminder before Christmas week: Abstracts are due by January 5! What do you think are the tensions behind the decolonial future(s) of international law? We'd love to hear from you! [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Dec 2024 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldgxz4zcgc24https://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3lcdqabw6fc221/4 Read our new blog series unveiling the dance between human rights and economic laws. 💃 https://rightsasusual.com/2024/12/02/symposium-human-rights-reactions-to-economic-laws/ It follows from the Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws symposium at Tilburg Law School, hosted with @nnhrr.bsky.social colleagues Dalia Palombo and Gustavo Becker.02 Dec 2024 18:16 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcdqabw6fc22https://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3lbfzfye3is2kFor interested people, here is an (incomplete) IEL Collective starter pack. Please let me know if I should add you or someone else! go.bsky.app/ByVGYq6 [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Nov 2024 22:40 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfzfye3is2khttps://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3lbfhe53ns22o📢 Call for Papers 📢 Join us for an engaging two-day workshop on 5th & 6th June 2025 at the University of Amsterdam to explore local contestations about the 'future' in international law. 📚✨ (Limited) travel funding available https://decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/news/2024/11/call-for-papers-international-laws-local-encounters-experiences-and-imaginaries-of-de-coloniality.html20 Nov 2024 17:17 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbfhe53ns22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3km3qe4tmkc22Where is the long-drawn struggle between human rights and economic laws taking us? Let us think! We’re excited to announce a call for abstracts our symposium “Human Rights Reactions to Economic Laws” on June 19 at Tilburg Law School & online. Further info: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/overview/symposium-human-rights-reactions-economic-laws23 Feb 2024 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3km3qe4tmkc22https://bsky.app/profile/dbose.bsky.social/post/3kbaqnf7zb32x1) My PhD gives a private law theory justification for supply chain responsibility for human rights 2) What if there were only human duties enumerated instead of human rights? [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Oct 2023 14:54 +0000at://did:plc:6we7srxlu5ymmlitwembsstr/app.bsky.feed.post/3kbaqnf7zb32x