Kevin Keller

Associate Professor at University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law. Researching history of international and comparative law, economic development.

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

Delighted to be on 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.

[LPE Blog @LPEblog]

The intricate patterns of the Alhambra. The Knicks’ ability to blow a fourth-quarter lead. The volume and quality of scholarship being produced by the LPE community. Some things you have to see to believe.

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I wrote about @DriessenMiriam 's fantastic new book, which digs into the messy world of lawsuits against Chinese businesses in Ethiopian courts. Thanks to @SinicaPodcast for publishing!

https://t.co/LCFfuoJWcK

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

Terrific piece by @MarkZJia

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“The United States still enjoys dominant legal power, and as things stand, China will be slow to catch up,” writes @MarkZJia. “But even as China seeks to grow its legal power, the United States is willfully eroding its own.”
https://t.co/nIZu58mf91

[Foreign Affairs @ForeignAffairs]

“The United States still enjoys dominant legal power, and as things stand, China will be slow to catch up,” writes @MarkZJia. “But even as China seeks to grow its legal power, the United States is willfully eroding its own.”
https://t.co/nIZu58mf91

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

Astonishing stats in here. Value of trade between Taiwan and AZ is higher than Mexico-AZ!

[Rest of World @restofworld]

New on Rest of World: Arizona wants Taiwan’s investors to think beyond chips https://t.co/wYddYlsMsy

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

(Which is obviously infuriating for other countries, who are told that repayment of debt is the first rule of sovereign lending.)
https://t.co/o8qzcJ50cC

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

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.

https://t.co/IyY1nKkZmS

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

I wonder who the audience is. People in the Philippines, who are being compared to a crab? Others in Asia, who also live "underwater"? Or is it people in China? (Otherwise, why the Chinese subtitles?)

[ChineseEmbassyManila @Chinaembmanila]

The "South China Sea arbitration" drama, explained in an AI cartoon.
Jurisdiction? None.
Historical rights? Irrelevant.

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

@nw_donahue conscription is IN

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

1/ Two really interesting pieces out this week, both making a similar point: for at least a decade, things at universities haven't been going great. First (by Nils Gilman) is about AI:
https://t.co/UOzziKSpX8

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

7/ My stupid proposal is that we institute something like jury duty for book clubs. You get a summons in the mail: two weeks from today, report to City Hall to discuss Middlemarch

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

6/ If we want people to be able to read (I do), and we also think people deserve a chance at guided learning as adults, if desired (I do), then we might need to think creatively about how to solve those specific problems, and not bundle them with "fix the whole university."

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

Fantastically interesting.

[Xiao Ma @maxiaoalex]

🚗🔋 Many think Beijing masterfully planned China's EV takeover. Fengming Lu (@ANUBellSchool ) and I spent 3 years and 60+ interviews finding out what actually happened in our latest article @TheChinaJournal. A thread 🧵

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

Being a TA is about to get way harder

[Bloomberg @business]

More than two-thirds of Harvard University faculty voted to cap the proportion of A-grades in undergraduate courses, instituting one of the strongest policies against grade inflation in US higher education in decades https://t.co/KxdyL5UTAa

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

3/ For a lot more about Kenya, and the railway, and the contracts saga, see here:

https://t.co/J9qt8YyNTm

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

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.

[The China-Global South Project @ChinaGSProject]

Kenya’s Court of Appeal has ordered the government to disclose China Exim Bank SGR loan contracts. https://t.co/oaPMcgpsOZ

[Kevin Keller @KevinBKeller]

2/ What stands out to me is this: access to Chinese capital has set off an intense fight in Kenya about whether (and how) to use that capital--and more broadly, about what kind of legal system is conducive to growth. Government transparency is part of that larger debate.