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Assistant Law Prof researching atrocity Author: Invisible Atrocities (CUP, 2022)
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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP
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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...
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UNC Athletics celebrated Pride month in social media post. Now, itās deleted.
Pride month posts from both UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Greensboro have been deleted.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article316009998.html
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NYCLU
11 days ago
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.
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NYPD set to hire 580 extra cops under Mayor Mamdaniās latest budget
The announcement was the latest sign of Commissioner Tischās power in the Mamdani administration.
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-set-to-hire-580-extra-cops-under-mayor-mamdanis-latest-budget
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Frank Edwards
17 days ago
If you can get down to Delaney to support the strikers please do. My union has a bunch of folks there today and Iāll be heading back down there tomorrow.
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Steve Vladeck
21 days ago
Abrego GarcĆa should apply for the āAnti-Weaponization Fund.ā How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?
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Philadelphia Inquirer
27 days ago
The nonprofit Philadelphia Prison Society, which runs the program, needs $600,000 to keep it running next year.
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A bus program has taken families for decades to visit incarcerated loved ones could disappear without funding
https://www.inquirer.com/crime/philadelphia-prison-society-bus-program-at-risk-20260511.html-2?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1778949261
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Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as āpolitical actorsā
In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American publicās misconceptions about the Supreme Court.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/chief-justice-john-roberts-says-justices-are-not-political-actors-rcna343958
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
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
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Adil Haque
about 2 months ago
"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 universityās main commencement" Disgraceful. Pathetic.
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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
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/5401819.pdf?abstractid=5401819
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Trump warns 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran fails to meet his deadline An explicit, unequivocal public statement of genocidal intentā¦. As if aggression wasnāt bad enough
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Margaret H. Zhang
7 months ago
I continue to believe that pregnant people should not be Incarcerated. (And really, should anyone be?)
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Iva VukuÅ”iÄ
7 months ago
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...
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Uyghur genocide
This Symposium aims to raise awareness among students about the Uyghur genocide currently happening in the Xinjiang region, perpetuated by the Chinese government. We will discuss what are the events t...
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025/11/uyghur-genocide
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Anjali Dayal
8 months ago
Andrew Cuomo is a bad man pulling on a dangerous thread because he wants to win a job he doesnāt actually want to do in a place he hates
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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.
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https://www.pennlawjil.com/
8 months ago
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The White Civility Council
As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright i...
https://campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-white-civility-council/
9 months ago
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Childrenās literature professor fired by Texas university over āgenderā content āTexas A&M is a great university ⦠that honors academic freedom and academic responsibilityā Lmao
9 months ago
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Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say
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Mark Kersten
10 months ago
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.
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Mark Kersten
10 months ago
"As of February 2025, the only reasonable inference from the cumulative evidence is that Israelās conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide." -
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Eleven international law experts were asked: is there genocide in Gaza. Nine said yes.
www.lto.de/recht/hinter...
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International Law Experts: Genocide in Gaza?
Does Israelās conduct in Gaza constitute genocide? LTO asked eleven international law experts. After 22 months of war, a clear tendency is emerging.
https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/gaza-is-israel-committing-genocide-assessments-international-law-experts#collapse8-65399Aside
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Spoiler alert: a virtual unanimous āyesā, with the sole uncertainty being the mens rea of individual perps, and whether can be attributed to state of Israel as a whole.
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International Law Experts: Genocide in Gaza?
Does Israelās conduct in Gaza constitute genocide? LTO asked eleven international law experts. After 22 months of war, a clear tendency is emerging.
https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/gaza-is-israel-committing-genocide-assessments-international-law-experts
10 months ago
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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!
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Suit Accuses N.Y.P.D. of Continued Aggression at Protests Over Gaza
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/nyregion/nypd-gaza-protest-suit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
10 months ago
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DAWN
10 months ago
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:
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UN General Assembly: Deploy International Protection Force to Gaza
(Washington D.C., August 11, 2025) ā In response to the formal request of Minister Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, during the August 10 Emergency UN ...
https://dawnmena.org/un-general-assembly-deploy-international-protection-force-to-gaza/
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Margaret H. Zhang
10 months ago
So ashamed and sad to hear about this from my alma mater š£
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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.ā This is at minimum extermination as a CAH
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Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
https://www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-starvation-gaza-global-imperative/
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Just Security
11 months ago
The UN has determined that the āworst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.ā Alex DeWaal and
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call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.
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Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
https://www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-starvation-gaza-global-imperative/
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Margaret H. Zhang
11 months ago
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The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
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Opinion | The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/opinion/gaza-genocide-hospitals-health-system-israel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Evelyne Schmid
11 months ago
Two political prisoners in Iran š®š·, 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
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Tom Dannenbaum
11 months ago
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"
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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. Itās just so sad and pathetic.
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Margaret H. Zhang
11 months ago
This is a thorough explainer on the escalation between DOJ and the NJ federal courts.
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Melissa Stewart
11 months ago
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...
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Librarian III or Librarian IV, #0082296
I. Duties and Responsibilities: Librarian III or Librarian IVĀ Ā The University of Hawai'i at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law seeks to hire a tenure-track Reference and Instructional Services...
https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawaiiedu/jobs/4940198/librarian-iii-or-librarian-iv-0082296
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Shane Darcy
11 months ago
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.
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Amnesty International says Israel and aid system use starvation to commit Gaza genocide
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Rachel Lopez
about 1 year ago
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...
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Participatory Law Fund - Temple Law
Participatory Law Fund Apply by June. 30, 2025 The Participatory Law Fund (PLF) is devoted to supporting the production of an emergent genre of legalā¦
https://law.temple.edu/academics/intellectual-life/participatory-law-fund/
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genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/privacy-dign...
Great quick read by my colleague, the wonderful Elena Cohen!
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Privacy, Dignity, and Erotic Justice - Gender Policy Report
Privacy was never enough to ensure freedom for LGBTQ+ and other sexually- minoritized groups, such as sex workers. We need to move beyond privacy rights to achieve erotic justice in US law.
https://genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/privacy-dignity-and-erotic-justice/
about 1 year ago
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Kyle Reed š„
about 1 year ago
The "plan" is a bunch of crimes against humanity stacked together
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The Onion
about 1 year ago
āStudies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics of the term āconcentration campā as they pertain to a place the government is actively sending people with no criminal history is highly associated with national stability,ā said historian Kristen Boyd
theonion.com/histori...
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
NEW HAVEN, CTāCalling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling over the exact definition of a concentration camp was a sign of a healthy society. āStudies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics [ā¦]
https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/
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Kumar Rao
about 1 year ago
Another clear demonstration of why dismantling the carceral system has always been key to fighting fascism and building a real democracy.
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Tom Dannenbaum
about 1 year ago
Worth re-reading the ICCās 2019 authorization of a crimes against humanity investigation in the Bangladesh/Myanmar situation:
www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...
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Interested in dignity as a legal concept in teaching, advocacy, and scholarship? Come join us at Widener Law Delaware April 11. Iāll be moderating a panel on dignity and crim law w/
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, Terrell Woolfolk, Jocelyn Getgen-Kestenbaum & Dwayne Bensing of ACLU-DE
about 1 year ago
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Fantastic piece by
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Couldnāt agree more
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Pax Americana: How Not to Hide an Empire
Reconsidering Pax Americana and why the international order worth fighting for is a radically different world altogether.
https://www.justsecurity.org/108311/how-not-to-hide-an-empire/
about 1 year ago
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www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
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Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrested on ICC warrant
The International Criminal Court has been probing Duterte since 2018 over his anti-drugs campaign that killed thousands.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/11/philippines-ex-president-rodrigo-duterte-arrested-on-international-warrant
over 1 year ago
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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? Iāve heard some accused want to avoid sex offense convictions but havenāt seen much on this ā¦
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He really out here floating crimes against humanityā¦..
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Live updates: Trump wants US to take ownership of Gaza Strip
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington, D.C. to meet with President Donald Trump. Robert F. Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard's cabinet confirmations advance. Trump's tariffs against China ...
https://apnews.com/live/trump-presidency-updates-day-16
over 1 year ago
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Bec Hamilton
over 1 year ago
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.
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Bec Hamilton
over 1 year ago
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
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www.justsecurity.org/106593/natio...
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@marknevitt.bsky.social
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www.justsecurity.org/106621/withd...
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