By deleting these posts, UNC administrators have also taken a stance on political and social issues. They have declared that they tolerate bigotry and that the voices of conservative activists matter more than those of the majority of North Carolinians. Cowards! www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

NYPD Commissioner Tisch will command a force of 35,555 uniformed officers by the end of the year. That's a larger police force than under Mayor Adams. We all want safe communities. More police does not make us safer.

If you can get down to Delaney to support the strikers please do. My union has a bunch of folks there today and I’ll be heading back down there tomorrow.

Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?

The nonprofit Philadelphia Prison Society, which runs the program, needs $600,000 to keep it running next year.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup... 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

"There will be no live student speakers at CUNY School of Law or at NYU's school-specific ceremonies after former students gave speeches that were fiercely critical of Israel" "Columbia officials said there will not be a student speaker at the university’s main commencement" Disgraceful. Pathetic.

Justice Blackmun (dissent in Bailey): "The atrocities and inhuman conditions of prison life in America are almost unbelievable" I explore ongoing atrocities at US carceral sites through the lens of ICL in my article: American Carceral Atrocities in the Penn JIL papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver...

Trump warns 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran fails to meet his deadline An explicit, unequivocal public statement of genocidal intent…. As if aggression wasn’t bad enough

I continue to believe that pregnant people should not be Incarcerated. (And really, should anyone be?)

Friends and colleagues at Leiden Uni are organizing a discussion on a lesser known and followed case, so do join and learn more. #Genocide #MassViolence www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Andrew Cuomo is a bad man pulling on a dangerous thread because he wants to win a job he doesn’t actually want to do in a place he hates

Delighted to announce my article, American Carceral Atrocities, is forthcoming in the Penn Journal of IL and is up on SSRN (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) The piece theorizes the sprawling US carceral system as a system of ongoing atrocity violence, perpetrated against detainees.

campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-white-ci... Yes

Children’s literature professor fired by Texas university over ‘gender’ content “Texas A&M is a great university … that honors academic freedom and academic responsibility” Lmao

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say

If Israel is willing to target and kill journalists in a hospital with double tap strikes over a camera (a fucking camera, like WTF), what is it doing when it believes there are actual Hamas figures? These war crimes will not stop until those responsible are held to account.

"As of February 2025, the only reasonable inference from the cumulative evidence is that Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide." - @itamann.bsky.social Eleven international law experts were asked: is there genocide in Gaza. Nine said yes. www.lto.de/recht/hinter...

www.lto.de/recht/hinter... Spoiler alert: a virtual unanimous “yes”, with the sole uncertainty being the mens rea of individual perps, and whether can be attributed to state of Israel as a whole.

Suit Accuses N.Y.P.D. of Continued Aggression at Protests Over Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n... Courageous and important lawyering including by my wonderful colleague, Elena Cohen!

In response to the formal request of Minister Riyad Mansour, State of Palestine's Permanent Observer to the UN, during the August 10 UN Security Council Meeting, for "an immediate international protection force to save the Palestinian people from certain death," DAWN issues the following statement:

So ashamed and sad to hear about this from my alma mater 😣

Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative at www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-... "a lot of the children have already passed the point of no return where [...] even refeeding could potentially cause death itself.” This is at minimum extermination as a CAH

The UN has determined that the “worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.” Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.

The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Two political prisoners in Iran 🇮🇷, Behrouz Ehsani & Mehdi Hassani, were executed today. According to @amnesty.org, they were tried in a 5-minute trial. Stop executions, arbitrary detention, unfair trials and torture. Urgent action is needed. @un-spexperts.bsky.social

Very rare for the ICRC: "Every political hesitation" in failing to bring the "abhorrent" practice of extreme deprivation and indiscriminate attacks to an immediate and decisive end "will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war" States "must do more"

I wrote a few things on starvation/famine and ICL nearly a decade ago. I figured it was not going to be relevant moving forward, yet he we r, witnessing at bare minimum a slow process of extermination (as a CAH) unfold in Gaza. It’s just so sad and pathetic.

This is a thorough explainer on the escalation between DOJ and the NJ federal courts.

Looking for an amazing job in paradise? We're hiring a tenure-track Reference and Instructional Services Librarian @uhawaiilaw.bsky.social Our librarians are all amazing and you couldn't ask for a better place to live and work. Come join us! www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...

A grave and shameful attack, in a very long line of attacks by the US, on the UnIted Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. She and her predecessors have always faced smears and hostility for their work on Palestine but this is a serious and disgraceful escalation.

Amnesty International says Israel and aid system use starvation to commit Gaza genocide

We have officially launched the Participatory Law Fund at Temple Beasley School of Law! The fund is devoted to supporting the production of an emerging genre of legal scholarship called Participatory Law Scholarship (or PLS). More info about the application process @ law.temple.edu/academics/in...

genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/privacy-dign... Great quick read by my colleague, the wonderful Elena Cohen!

The "plan" is a bunch of crimes against humanity stacked together

“Studies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics of the term ‘concentration camp’ as they pertain to a place the government is actively sending people with no criminal history is highly associated with national stability,” said historian Kristen Boyd theonion.com/histori...

Another clear demonstration of why dismantling the carceral system has always been key to fighting fascism and building a real democracy.

Worth re-reading the ICC’s 2019 authorization of a crimes against humanity investigation in the Bangladesh/Myanmar situation: www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

Interested in dignity as a legal concept in teaching, advocacy, and scholarship? Come join us at Widener Law Delaware April 11. I’ll be moderating a panel on dignity and crim law w/ @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social, Terrell Woolfolk, Jocelyn Getgen-Kestenbaum & Dwayne Bensing of ACLU-DE

www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-n... Fantastic piece by @matiangai.bsky.social Couldn’t agree more

Anyone aware of literature or interesting jurisprudence on strategic guilty pleas in international criminal law by accused seeking to avoid convictions for offense of sexual violence? I’ve heard some accused want to avoid sex offense convictions but haven’t seen much on this …

apnews.com/live/trump-p... He really out here floating crimes against humanity…..

PSA - It is great that members of the public are joining the Congressional delegation to rally outside USAID. But please DO NOT POST identifiable photos of those members of the public here, or on other social media, without the express permission of each individual captured in the photo.

If you're looking to stay on top of all this [gestures broadly] without getting completely overwhelmed, check out our "What Just Happened" brief explainers @justsecurity.org - www.justsecurity.org/106593/natio... (@marknevitt.bsky.social) - www.justsecurity.org/106621/withd... (Sue Biniaz)