🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.24 ♀️ #IWD2025 #ExtractiveIndustries threaten land and lives in the Amazon. But #Indigenous women are not just resisting destruction — they are transforming political systems and shaping the future of environmental democratic governance, writes Camila Montero bit.ly/4kDNcNc

NEW: Trump announces even higher tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium, in response to Ontario electricity surcharge. Will be imposed from Wednesday.

This looks like a great opportunity for the right candidate!

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper’s cruel change means refugees fleeing conflict, torture and human rights abuses, and who’ve long been granted protection and the right to live and work in the UK, will no longer be able to become British citizens.

Co-hosted by our friends at BU's @gdp-center.bsky.social. Register here! gdpcenter.org/HPE-Webinar-1

Next Friday! Join us as we launch our Histories and Futures of Global Governance initiative to bring policy reform advocates and historians into conversation. First webinar: Feb 21 at 12pm EST with Adriana Abdenur, Richard Kozul-Wright, @jamiemartin2.bsky.social, and @quinnslobodian.com.

EU Commission Issues Guidelines on Prohibited AI Practices Under EU AI Act https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/eu-commission-issues-guidelines-on-8943884/ #AI

Thousands of Uber, Bolt and Addison Lee drivers are to strike today from 4pm, demanding better pay, rights and safety measures in response to worsening conditions that are requiring them to spend dramatically more time on the road to earn a living www.theguardian.com/business/202...

You might have missed it, but Amazon warehouse workers in Raleigh, NC are voting this week on whether to form a union. If they win, they'll be the first unionized Amazon facility in the South. Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.

Horrific. Reporters are beginning to collect the names of specific people that Musk and Trump have killed by abruptly terminating USAID—in this case Pe Kha Lau, a Burmese woman living in Thailand

Top tip. Don’t have insomnia in the middle of a coup. An executive order has now given DOGE oversight of all government departments. It’s a complete takeover of the federal government by Musk. A Musk ‘team lead’ will now make all hiring decisions according to a ‘data-driven’ model

For the last four years, Jennifer Abruzzo vigorously defended workers' rights and cracked down on union-busters as General Counsel at the National Labor Relations Board. She was one of the strongest pro-worker voices in the federal government. Trump just fired her.

New opinion poll shows 85% of Greenlanders do not want to join US

Trump’s decision to halt virtually all federal grants and loans is a blatant assault on our constitutional system, and today we are seeing the ways it will inflict severe harm on the American people.

Awful situation across the University sector 🥲 qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Did you see this experiment my colleague Kristina conducted not just at my university but *in my department*? She and the male instructor assumed eachothers’ names for an online course: and the difference in feedback they received was horrifying.

Want a chance to moot at the UK Supreme Court? Are you an undergraduate, postgraduate or legal apprentice? Do you want to help improve social mobility in the legal profession? Apply by 3 Jan to be a Moot Mentor in BVL's Mooting Competition. Details here: www.bvl.org.uk/mooting-comp... Pls share

For International Migrants' Day, a great short film from the Voice of Domestic Workers demonstrating how 2012 changes to the Overseas Domestic Worker visa expose workers to abuse and exploitation. Without renewal possibilities, it is very difficult to change employer. www.youtube.com/shorts/yRD0o...

Amazon to settle a group claim from delivery drivers that it deprived them of thousands of pounds - article states this is 'based on the argument that drivers’ working conditions are dictated by Amazon' - not completely clear but seems to relate to worker status www.theguardian.com/business/202...

New Post, discussing Minister of Labour's recent intervention in Canada Post labour dispute: "Feds Dust Off Section 107 again at Canada Post, But With a Twist" lawofwork.ca/feds-dust-of... Bill Kaplan appointed special investigator, CIRB tasked with deciding if deal possible. 1/2

An interesting case- even though the government has put the brakes on NZ having modern slavery reporting or a due diligence in supply chains obligation, the Court of Appeal is upholding a bank's right to close the accounts of a cult associated with forced child labour www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Update: Member States' representatives are due to sign off on the EU negotiation position on a youth experience scheme treaty with the UK tomorrow. Text still not public.

Since Monday, the ICJ has been holding hearings in what has been described as “the world’s biggest legal case” 🌐⚖️ We spoke with Tejas Rao, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, and Markus Gehring about what the landmark ICJ climate hearings are all about. verfassungsblog.de/the-advisory...

EU and Mercosur agree free trade agreement: ec.europa.eu/commission/p... Qs and As: ec.europa.eu/commission/p... Still needs to go through ratification process, of course

In case you missed it, a Wisconsin judge this week struck down former Gov. Scott Walker's Act 10 law. The move will restore public sector workers' collective bargaining rights. This is a moment of celebration and hope in these troubled times.

Another bummer for 2024. No legally binding treaty to cut plastic production. The opposition came from Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran and fossil-fuel allies... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The arbitration process in this EU/UK dispute is now underway. Some details 1/

More on the strange move by Canada Post to pretend that striking employees are really “laid off”. Ask this budding labor law students: Can a worker have a legal status of being BOTH on strike AND laid-off at the same time? www.thestar.com/business/can...

Another employment lawyer taking the Times Lawyer of the Week spot. This time Ann Rooney of Thompsons following last week’s PCSU success on reliance on the Contracts (Third Party Rights) Act to enforce check-off arrangements. www.thetimes.com/article/49ce...

EU discrimination law - summary of how Member States' national laws address intersectional discrimination - data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...

Spain said it could give residency and work permits to about 900,000 undocumented migrants in the country over the next three years to help address a growing need for workers, even as other European countries embrace tougher stances on immigration.

The PCS union has won a Supreme Court case against government depts that withdrew the check-off facility, which allowed union members to have dues deducted from their salary by their employer, described as 'a naked attempt by the coalition govt to bankrupt our union' www.ier.org.uk/news/pcs-win...

Spain to grant residency and work permits to around 300,000 undocumented migrants per year for next three years, allowing registration either as self-employed or salaried workers, and providing them with additional labour rights guarantees www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

On agenda of EU Member States' representatives next Wed - agreement on revised EU law on smuggling of migrants, extension of Schengen to Romania/Bulgaria - data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document... - texts not available yet - would need formal sign-off by ministers, Euro Parliament for smuggling law

My first substantive post on Bluesky! The deadline for abstracts for the Socio-Legal Studies Association annual conference (15-17 April 2025) at Liverpool Law School is *18 December*. A fantastic opportunity to share one's research slsauk.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-202...

SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.

Shocking news. 36% of UK children are living in poverty according to the latest Social Metrics Commission research (I am one of the Commissioners) www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

🚨job alert🚨 Queen's University (Canada) is hiring for an Assistant or Associate Professor who will focus on the intersection of labour and employment law and emerging technologies, and the future of work, and serve as Director of the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace.

On next week's big CJEU hearing on LGBT rights - the Commission (joined by 16 Member States and the European Parliament) is suing Hungary for banning/restricting LGBT media content - in front of the Full Court of the CJEU (which rarely sits) - www.linkedin.com/posts/reclai...

Kalayaan, a brilliant charity providing advice, support and advocacy to migrant domestic workers, for which I am proud to be a trustee, is recruiting for a new Community Engagement Lead - deadline 5pm on Thursday 5th December. Please share widely! www.kalayaan.org.uk/get-involved...

The book is out as of today! 😱😱😱

‘Woman Worker’ edited by Mary MacArthur, paper of the National Federation of Women Workers - an all-female trade union organisation that made determined efforts to utilise strike action as the chief means of organising women workers

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Heart-breaking photo essay on women’s lives in Afghanistan: “their hearts are tightened not only by the weight of repression but by the indifference of a world that seems to have forgotten them. Their stories deserve to be heard.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Today, the Board ruled that, going forward, an employer will violate the National Labor Relations Act by requiring employees to attend “captive-audience” meetings in which the employer expresses its views on unionization under threat of discipline or discharge. www.nlrb.gov/news-outreac...