📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

How does the struggle over the term "genocide" shape international law? @isafei.bsky.social & members of #Ö examine genocide not only as mass killing but as the dismantling of the common - the social, cultural, & ecological relations that sustain communities. voelkerrechtsblog.org/whats-in-a-n...

Another article from our special issue on frames of human rights is out: @esrademir.bsky.social’s fantastic piece on oppositional frames, analysing how concepts like authoritarianism and populism are used and what this tells us about the Council of Europe itself www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

a timely and important symposium at @voelkerrechtsblog.org : ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’ voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...

In our article in @ljil-leiden.bsky.social @natasamav.bsky.social and I share our discomfort with equating justice to punishment in Palestine Punishment is limited in terms of justice but also distorts responses, silences dissent and undermines the 'never again' promise doi.org/10.1017/S092...

Today is the offical @versobooks.bsky.social release date of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine, by Adam Hanieh, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Licht und Schatten im BVG-Urteil zu Ramstein – mit Blick auf mögliche Präzedenzwirkung für Waffenlieferungen nach Gaza. Ein lesenswerter Beitrag! verfassungsblog.de/ramstein-voe...

Von Thunfisch und Panther bis zu Kritik am Beck Verlag ist alles dabei im Beitrag von @isalischewski.bsky.social zu “Genderverboten” an Schulen 🔥 elibrary.duncker-humblot.com/article/7560...

@jtheilen.bsky.social und ich haben für @verfassungsblog.de das Ramstein-Urteil analysiert. Trotz der sehr hohen Hürden, die das Gericht für staatliche Schutzpflichten aufstellt, wird klar: Bei Waffenlieferungen an Israel muss eine solche Pflicht greifen.

Great analysis and contextualisation of the IACtHR’s Advisory Opinion on the climate emergency by @juanauz.bsky.social

Now available for preorder - Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social "Profound and compelling … A book that I couldn’t put down." - Adam Hanieh

Has the European Convention of Human Rights overcome its colonial origins? Jens T. Theilen argues that the civilizational hierarchies around the idea of ‘Europe’ still permeate contemporary understandings of ‘European consensus’ and the extraterritorial application of the ECHR.

We wrote a thing about academic silencing of Palestine within the (feminist/queer) refugee law community. Hope you enjoy the read 🍉 feministiqa.net/en/you-canno...

🎙️ PODCAST: @erik.d-64.social und ich sprechen in der neuesten Folge des Völkerrechtspodcasts (@voelkerrechtsblog.org ) über Völkerrechtsgeschichte(n) Unsere Gäst:innen sind Prof. Dr. Miloš Vec (Wien) sowie @gonzalezhauck.bsky.social (Hamburg). voelkerrechtsblog.org/de/48-geschi...

ARTICLE: Jens T. THEILEN, "Civilizational Hierarchies and the Notion of ‘Europe’ in the European Convention on Human Rights" (EJIL XXXVI (2025), nr. 1, 113-142) @ejiltalk.bsky.social esclh.blogspot.com/2025/07/arti...

#Ö-Editorial 46 is here! Isabel Lischewski calls for a queerer legal imagination—one that resists flattening, embraces complexity, and reimagines international law beyond normativity and rigidity. #LGBTQIA+Rights, #Pride voelkerrechtsblog.org/editorial-46...

Another paper from our special issue on Frames of European human rights is out: “Seriously ill migrants in European human rights: Framing global inequalities” by @vanditak.bsky.social — absolute must-read on humanitarianism, responsibility & structural inequality www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A really superb piece by Amin Parsa: 'The key to understanding the impact of advanced visual technology of targeting... requires acknowledging how the laws of war themselves produce an ‘order of visibility’ in order to legitimize lethal violence' criticallegalthinking.com/2025/06/09/t...

ROUNDTABLE on Intellectual Property and Industrial Property (in the Era of Trump) Wellcome Collection, London | 19 June | 3:30-5pm GMT In-person and online & open to public With @mbarber.bsky.social @kathybowrey.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social Vitor Ido, Svitlana Lebendeko, Caoimhe Ring, me

Now published open access in the current issue of @ejiltalk.bsky.social — in wonderful company including @kalokyip.bsky.social on the right to life during hostilities and @gonzalezhauck.bsky.social on systematicity in the liberal internationalist ethos 🔗 academic.oup.com/ejil/issue/3...

Out now in open access and sure to be an absolute banger — can’t wait to read! 🌱

Happy to share my first piece in @opiniojuris.bsky.social on "Settler Tourism in #WesternSahara and the Commodification of Occupied Territories", where I take aim at @ryanairofficial.bsky.social & others and draw comparisons with Trump's plans for Palestine as Riviera opiniojuris.org/2025/05/23/d...

“[T]he criminalization approach provides the Court with an alibi for not recognizing or attending to the deeply structural racialized, colonial, sexual, gendered, and homophobic violence in Europe, particularly but not only against Roma communities and Black and Muslim migrants”

"Gaza is unique in the annals of starvation because of the simplicity of this calculation...." "Israel controls every shekel, every sack of flour, every connection to the outside world."

“Ist die menschenverachtende Gleichgültigkeit einmal mühevoll erschaffen, lässt sie sich schwer wieder ablegen.” Mein Kommentar zu Gaza und der deutschen Linken heute in der @taz.de taz.de/Krieg-im-Gaz...

“This is one of the most ostentatious and merciless manifestations of the desecration of human life and dignity” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Lauren Stokes @laurenstokes.bsky.social reviews 'Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement', By Tiffany N. Florvil @tnflorvil.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @illinoispress.bsky.social

[New Event] Join us for Race, Refuge & Repair: Rethinking Migration from the Global South (29–30 May, hybrid) — a powerful colloquium exploring the ties between colonial and postcolonial governance, international law, migration, and refugee protection: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Helpful thread by @maartenpvink.bsky.social summarising today’s ECJ ruling concerning investment citizenship and earlier legal commentary 👇 For the broader dynamics at play I recommend @manuelaboatca.bsky.social’s work on the coloniality of citizenship, e.g.: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

📄 New article: Colonialism continues to shape the project of European human rights. In this article I trace the continuity of civilizational hierarchies in the ECtHR’s case-law on extraterritoriality and European consensus Available in EJIL @ejiltalk.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

On European human rights, frames, and critique. @jtheilen.bsky.social and I had a very insightful conversation with Daniela Rau from Völkerrechtsblog about studying European human rights, authoritarianism, climate change, and migration through the lenses of critique and framing.

💥FREE EBOOK!💥 This book is a transfeminist call for collective liberation. Because there's no liberation without trans liberation Download your copy here: www.plutobooks.com/978074534941...

No government or court ruling can legitimately decide who I am - or, indeed, who I am not.

📣 Delighted to share that my paper "Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem" is forthcoming in Philosophy! 🎉 (1/8)

 A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI

Join our fantastic confirmed speakers Amna Akbar, Rob Knox, Ruth Kinna and Daniel Lock, and come present at our conference: ‘Law & Revolution: Prefiguration or Abolition?’ at the EUI in Florence: www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

On 1 May, we are hosting a triple book launch for the exciting new @queerjudgments.bsky.social book, and the two volumes on queer approaches to international law I co-edited with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social! Come along! It’ll be both in person in Melbs & online: events.unimelb.edu.au/IILAH/event/...

New special issue on ‘The Racism Debate in Germany’, tracing the continuities & transformations of racism, its denial & structural entrenchment, the neglected importance of anti-racist struggles & critical theorizing, and the need for solidarity against division www.tandfonline.com/toc/rers20/4...

Join us next Tuesday for a talk by @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social on her forthcoming book, "The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law"

Another sharp and necessary intervention by @jtheilen.bsky.social. If we’re serious about dismantling violent border regimes, we need to confront the structural conservatism of human rights law, not just celebrate its occasional victories #migsky #openaccess brill.com/view/journal...

Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters - my latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...

Fresh from @jtheilen.bsky.social: Framing Migration in Human Rights on how the ECtHR frames border control measures and legitimizes border regimes. Open-access read! #FramesProject @hertiecfr.bsky.social

If you lead courses on human rights, have written on these subjects or edit a journal and think your research might be useful to the textbook, please add it to the list of sources here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Gaza and the Collective Political Costs of Algorithmic Warfare | by Henning Lahmann

Do human rights provide a progressive counterpoint to migration law? In this article, I highlight their structurally conservative side & argue that the European Court of Human Rights legitimates the foundations of border regimes even when finding rights violations #migsky brill.com/view/journal...

During a workshop on 30-31 January, we critically examined #digitalsovereignty through a #feminist lens. Our collective writing exercise resulted in a blog post just published on Critical Legal Thinking. It is available via the link below! criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/18/t...