More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Every day it is something dumber than the next I am TIRED

Finally - recognition of Palestine was long overdue and is better late than never. Now the debate needs to shift to real sanctions and mass divestment to end the slaughter in Gaza #gaza #palestine #recognition

Australia recognizes the State of Palestine

Grim

Out now! Can international courts adapt to the rise of digital evidence? Sarah Zarmsky argues that if international criminal law is to survive, it must catch up with advances in technology. Episode out now👇 www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

Free speech! (as long as we like what you say) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Was lucky enough to see From Ground Zero at the QFT this evening - everyone should watch this film.

What are the ethical dilemmas of using digital evidence in international criminal law for the victims and survivors involved? In this week’s podcast, we sit down with Sarah Zarmsky to discuss what she calls “digital harms.” 🎧 Tune in tomorrow!

The United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry concludes that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The most significant finding of a UN body to date on genocide against the Palestinians. Full text of the report is here: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Every time I start to feel less imposter syndrome about not being a lawyer and working in a law school, somebody does something like ask me for a reference for the bar and it goes all the way back to 100% 🥲

And it’s a wrap on #ESIL2025 ! This year, with my colleagues of the ESIL IG on Int’l Law and Technology, we have had the privilege of welcoming Francesca Albanese, UN SR on the oPt, and Eyal Weizman, Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture, as keynote speakers for our annual workshop. 1/

A shameful move from Berkeley. “The names targeted seem to be Muslim and Arab individuals who expressed support for Palestine.” www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

The last 48 hours has exposed so many people I grew up with as being crazy right wingers that I’m almost in disbelief. The fact that it’s ones I really didn’t suspect is even scarier.

A must-read piece by @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa... “As academic and other institutions in the Global North closed ranks in support of a nuclear state unleashing unspeakable violence against an intentionally starved population, /1

This has the same energy as the Boston Marathon Bombing investigation on Reddit.

What struck the Gaza Aid Flotilla? After we published the story, the Tunisian Ministry of Interior issued a statement describing the incident “that took place yesterday” as a “premeditated attack” stating that an investigation had been launched.”

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.

Tomorrow I will have the great privilege of moderating the 2nd panel of our IG workshop on “Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to Reconstructing International Law: A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide”.

I’m in Berlin this week to take part in the ESIL IG on Law & Technology pre-conference workshop on a cartography & anatomy of the Gaza genocide (Programme here: esil-sedi.eu/wp-content/u...). Saddened that this workshop was necessary but honored to be a part of it.

Targeting palestinian civil society fundamentally unacceptable these are some of the most diligent and brave human rights defenders I know. When will this end? When there is no one left to speak of human rights violations ? www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

If you're around Belfast in October and are interested in human rights, two of my favorite people are coming to speak at QUB Law! @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

29 is definitely the weirdest birthday yet since I just feel like a very old teenager with one year left until real adulthood

My mom has turned the family home into a surveillance state using ring cameras (against my tech&human rights scholarly advice) in the latest move in her war with a local bear. Today’s footage was particularly wild (and floofy)

The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said Monday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Belfast Vital 2025 🇵🇸

Turns out it’s very easy to entertain a law of the sea academic in Belfast @mitchlennan.bsky.social

Finding it pretty discouraging that as an ECR I’ve been declining speaking invites bc of concerns I have about the institution/other speakers’ views on Gaza but some of those I’ve looked up to for years in the field don’t seem to care that they’re helping platform pro-genocidal voices.

You don’t know chaos until Taylor Swift gets engaged during your very basic white girl reformer class

Academic or student in the USA? Our research techniques can be useful in assessing fake news. We're helping students to investigate and better understand the anti-democratic online ideologies that threaten their communities with two free webinars on digital investigation skills this September 🧵

This is a must-watch.

Request from the Int Commission of Jurists for Pres Iwasawa to investigate Sebutinde's statement & to remove her form the #SAf v #Israel case. #ICJ #intLaw www.icj.org/icj-communic...

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products

As I've explained elsewhere, apartheid is often a necessary precondition and precursor to genocide. Ben Gvir & Smotrich are architects of apartheid & among the biggest promoters of genocide. Genocide doesn’t “just happen” – Genocide as a Process, not an Event: justiceinconflict.org/2024/01/19/g...

"As this Famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed." "The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading." "Any further delay—even by days—will result in a totally unacceptable escalation of Famine-related mortality."

Last call - abstracts due today!

PSA to those considering a career in academia: when people tell you it never stops, it truly never does 🫠

Not going to lie, that VR blue alien named Merv on tik tok might be the thing that pushes me to finally accept AI

Only a few more days to submit!

If you call your institution something like “atrocity/genocide prevention centre” but have zero posts or publications referencing what’s happening in Gaza, pls check yourself 🚩

Seeing Donald Trump clapping Putin walking on to US soil after murdering tens of thousands of allies in an unprovoked and illegal war, is stomach churning. All laughter and bonhomie when they eventually shook hands after a long lovers' walk towards each other. #AlaskaSummit

Following a joint investigation between +972 Magazine, @mekomit, and The Guardian, Microsoft launches inquiry, says use of its cloud technology to store millions of intercepted calls would breach terms of service. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Iconic

Given Judge Sebutinde has years of her term left, this would be the right move by the other court members - it’s clear that there can be no impartiality in future proceedings

Completely crazy…

I'm just a girl begging you guys to stop submitting clearly AI-generated abstracts to the pop culture symposium