When you give platelets it doesn’t impact exercise the following day, so while lying immobilized for two hours and preserving my long run tomorrow I listened to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an excellent talk by Ruth Okediji on TRIPS, innovation, and the future of minimum IP standards at the Cambridge Faculty of Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYMd43bvp7Y

Next was an interesting talk by William Magnuson on AI use in hedge funds at Cambridge Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ssRu9NCiNU

Next was "Scaling Migrant Worker Rights" by Xóchitl Bada and Shannon Gleeson. This book nicely lays out the complex network of organizations and systems that have developed in the US to support migrant Mexican workers. The changing orientations of the Mexican government to this community is always near the center of these discussions, with Bada and Gleeson showing how non profits often formally and informally coordinate around that center of hard and soft power. I do wonder how much of what has been laid out here has been upended by the current administration https://www.ucpress.edu/books/scaling-migrant-worker-rights/paper

Last was "Hubris" by Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe. This book is essentially a 1990s-era retelling of the history of human evolution and diffusion across the Earth using the most up to date scientific results. Pretty much everything this book covers is better covered elsewhere, and you'll avoid anachronistic framings of human supremacy and other discredited concepts. When the book inadvisably ventures into more recent centuries, we also get into the myths of the inevitability of indigenous displacement, that human evolution is over, etc. The earlier chapters do, at least, avoid those problems while including some informative if introductory content https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=hubris-the-rise-fall-and-future-of-humanity--9781509562619