My latest for the Contrarian on how Trump has weaponized the national budget to destroy university autonomy. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Why is it still getting EU grant money?

In Jericho, the occupied West Bank, I met Palestinian fathers who were working in Israel before October 7, 2023, and have spent almost two years since unable to be reunited with their families. Report here: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

🚨IDF firing 'warning shots' near diplomats is a violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations and sets an unacceptable precedent in international relations. My new piece in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/idf-firing-w...

'All States, including the UK, are legally obliged to take all reasonable steps within their power to prevent and punish genocide; to ensure respect for international humanitarian law... The UK’s actions to date have failed to meet those standards.' lawyersletter.uk

Join our team! We are advertising a Senior Lecturer post in Medical Law and Ethics in our Derry Londonderry Campus. Deadline 2 June. Full details and to apply at www.ulster.ac.uk/peopleandcul...

I joined colleagues in RTÉ to once again express our outrage at Israel’s continued killing of journalists in Gaza. Apart from the huge personal tragedy, targeting & killing journalists is also killing media freedom and the truth. #SupportPalestinianJournalists

UCD Sutherland School of Law has launched a new Master’s scholarship in law memorialising the late Declan McCourt.

There's still time to apply for this p/t post on project comparing penal supervision across 5 nations. Working with great team @bethweaver.bsky.social @fergusmcneill.bsky.social @drhannahgraham.bsky.social @jakephillips.bsky.social Fern Gillon & Sarah Doxat-Pratt. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY924/r...

Open letter from lawyers and academics on Ireland’s international law obligations concerning Palestine ichrgalway.org/2025/05/23/o...

"The Slovak law is a pivotal step in following the Kremlin’s playbook ... The draft Hungarian legislation represents a Rubicon. If enacted, it will forbid civil society organizations (CSOs) critical of the government to receive any form of support from abroad, including EU funding"

Eilis Barry of FLAC: What the rows over skorts and public toilets reveal about Irish attitudes to equality www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

On the tenth anniversary of Marriage Equality, an eloquent piece from Maria Ni Fhlatharta on the personal cost of the campaign. “A survey conducted after the referendum found that fewer than ​​one in four LGBT+ people would be willing to go through it again.” www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Food and yet they starved. Southern Star editorial. West Cork newspaper, based in Skibbereen.

"Sinn Féin officially banned from Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin after period of engagement," says this press release from Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin.

You might also be interested in a sneak peek reading by the brilliant Evgenii Shtorn, 'Refugee Chronicles: Extracts on Friendship, Instrumentalisation and Loss', which comes from his memoir, 5.45pm, Thurs 15th May, School of Education, North Campus, Ground floor. All welcome! @maynoothuniversity.ie

My latest for the PublicPolicy.ie at @ucdgearyinst.bsky.social on housing policy actions to address discrimination against migrants in Ireland. I propose an human rights-based policy recommendations to enhance the housing experiences for everyone living in Ireland.

Our Intertwining #criminal justice & #migration control book v/N. Vavoula & V. Mitsilegas out in Aug! www.routledge.com/Intertwining.... Check out @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social @majagrundler.bsky.social

Want to join me & my @erc.europa.eu team @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social as an #MSCA postdoctoral fellow? Check out the new call: europa.eu/!fBTMgF (d/l 10 Sep.), our webinar w/tips for applicants www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jPZ... & feel free to reach out w/ideas!

The second position @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social is hiring for: Matheson LLP Assistant Professor in Corporate Governance and Law. 🗓️Deadline 02 June 2025 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNB177/m...

Come 💼work with us in @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social Assistant Professorship in Criminology, 5 yr temp.🗓️ Deadline 03 June 2025: 🔗https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNB652/lecturer-assistant-professor-in-criminology-temp-5-year Please share!

🇭🇺 ‘s descent into fully-fledged authoritarianism has accelerated in past year & yet @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu continues to act in a too little too late fashion while also continuing to pretend Orban’s regime remains a democracy rather than a mafia state with rigged electoral framework

How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

The programme for the 25th Summer School on the International Criminal Court is now out. Terrific line-up of speakers. Taking place @uniofgalway.bsky.social from 9-13 June 2025. Registration closes 31st May.

Madeleine Allen: Jim O’Callaghan’s public theatrics mask the truth about asylum seeker deportations - The Irish Times www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Thanks to Dr Rosaleen McDonagh for writing this piece for us about the Grace scandal, our framing of disability and vulnerability, and remembering at the heart of this story is a citizen whose essential human rights have been disregarded. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

That's all very well but I think we'd be better off if we just continued to lose our shit about Kneecap...

NI deserves public bodies that give careful consideration to a ruling like FWS, and reflect on the different equality law applicable in NI, rather than rushing to apply what they think the UKSC says because of a media frenzy about Trans people: wearetyrone.com/news/omagh-p...

Sandra Duffy responds to the #ForWomenScotland decision of the UK Supreme Court, which creates the category of legally-female-but-not-a-woman for the purposes of equality law! criticallegalthinking.com/2025/04/24/s...

Number of people in homelessness reaches new record high of 15,418

The EU Commission has proposed the early application of parts of the EU 'asylum pact' - and an EU-wide list of 'safe countries of origin'. My analysis of the proposal: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/04/jump...

The call for papers for the next British Legal History Conference is out. Deadline is Sept. Further details here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro...

Happy to see "Putting #ChildRights at the Heart of #StrategicLitigation Practice" -which draws on Advancing Child Rights Strategic Litigation project (www.acrrisl) findings-in this 100th edition of Cuadernos Deusto de Derechos Humanos orgd by Felipe Gomes www.deusto-publicaciones.es/deusto/pdfs/...

Taylor & Francis have made my note on Gaza and the crisis of international law freely available online. You can access it below and partake to my impeding sense of doom.

There’s a city of 237,000 refugees on the Chadian/sudanese border in Adre. The Sudan war is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world right now. 150,000 dead and 12 million displaced. Chris Maddaloni and I spent a week in refugee camps in east Chad. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

"these are life choices that people make" is straight from ye olde homophobic playbook. It's the thought process that that led to lesbians being treated as predators in women's changing rooms for decades. It is exactly the same and it is just as wrong now as it was then.

If Mac Lochlainn and Cullinane can publicly express their "personal opinions" which are not (yet) official Sinn Féin policy, then non-transphobic elected SF reps can also do the same and for god's sake the time to do it is now. #speirghorm

This is an appalling, EuroTrumpian proposal that doesn't merely list supposed "safe countries of origin"; it removes basic human rights standards/effective judicial review from applying to the EU when it adopts such a list. Excoriating blog post from me coming soon. In the meantime, happy Easter!

So migrants, Trans* community, wonder who is next on the hit list of hate from Sinn Fein.

Democracy in Danger: The Global Challenge of Autocratic Legalism #RuleofLaw @kimlanelaw.bsky.social keynote to @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social youtu.be/u8oSQxk_BrQ?... Even for those of us (or just me lol) deeply suspicious of Rule of Law discourse, give this a listen/watch.

Ah for gods sake!! I can’t anymore with SF! Biological determinism which feminism has long fought against has always been the route through which women and girls, and their bodies were / are survelled, controlled, governed and oppressed - read a bit of feminist theory ffs! #speirgorm

This (below), climate change and immigration - progressives within SF have more than one internal battle to fight if they think the party can lead a genuinely progressive alternative to FF-FG…cynical pivoting passed off as ‘common sense’ will fool no one, and it erodes trust:

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

Here's my brief and non-lawyer language thread on the FWS judgment. Will answer questions as and when I have time.

I must admit, I am rather surprised to learn that the Equality Act 2010 all but repealed the Gender Recognition Act 2004, and that it took until 2025 for anybody to notice.

Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral. Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law. 📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...

The Rainbow Project's statement on the judgement today. We will continue doing everything we can to fight for the rights of trans people in Northern Ireland, and defend against any attempts to diminish or remove those rights. Please reach out if you need support.