‘The sections of “Restoring Order and Control” that mention children are chilling, suggesting that many asylum seekers bring their children not because they love and care for them but as a “fact” to “exploit ... in order to thwart removal”.’ Christopher Bertram: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

Pushing for positive change in the selection of South African #RhodesScholars. One open letter at a time… www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025... @dailymaverick.co.za @rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk @uctlaw.bsky.social

I’m on @thedigradio.bsky.social. We talk about the intertwined histories of capitalism and extraction; the origins of OPEC & new geopolitics of supply chains; what I think about degrowth; green development in the Global South; green economic populism in US; Chinese industrial policy & much more

Wrong in every way www.bbc.com/news/article...

PUBLIC LAW CONFERENCE 2026 - Call for Papers deadline extended to 8 December 2025! @nicolapalmer.bsky.social

Happening today 13:00-14:30 (UCT +2) @uctlaw.bsky.social Register in-person or online: law.uct.ac.za/criminology/...

Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure. Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation. www.podbean.com/media/share/...

In May 2025, the UK Labour government published a new immigration white paper. Ananya Kumar-Banerjee discusses how it uses the spectre of illegal migrants to obscure the systematic exploitation of those on the move. Read the full post here ⤵️ lnkd.in/eVTzY62M

If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement. mappingdeportations.com

Next year's Public Law Conference is hosted by UCT Law on the theme ‘Public Law & the Future of Constitutional Democracy’ in July 2026. Call for papers closes 14 Nov. Have you submitted yet? Details at law.uct.ac.za/publiclawcon... #PublicLaw #ConstitutionalDemocracy @nicolapalmer.bsky.social

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

“so much of what is so diffcult for so many people at this moment is the feeling that they are merely subjects” In one line Zohran channels the whole corpus of his father’s pathbreaking post-colonial work into a grassroots political campaign in NYC.

📣 Only a few tickets left! Join us this Wed (5:15pm, St Anne’s College, Oxford) for the Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture. Lea Ypi will read from her book Indignity: A Life Reimagined and reflect on the enduring legacies of migration, displacement, and forced removal. 🎟️ Register now: bit.ly/lea-ypi-rsc

Next up at @uctlaw.bsky.social, Prof Justin Deystone (University of Colorado) will be discussing his recent co-edited collection 'Race, Racism, and International Law’ (Stanford University Press). 12 November from 13:00-14:30 (UCT +2) Register in-person or online: law.uct.ac.za/criminology/...

Even having read (and reviewed!) @melindacooper.bsky.social book, I found this hugely illuminating, especially on the confusions and fantasies of class identities that underpin reactionary populist movements podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Searing truths about Israel, the West and complicity in genocide from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I was lucky enough to sit down with Ardi Imseis and discuss the law, politics and history of the recent Western recognitions of the State of Palestine for Called to the Bar: soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

🔥 These things got us talking at our annual workshop: creatively disrupting hostile border systems; navigating abolition; borderless empires vs bordered reparations. Watch to find out more! 👇 @juliawinkler.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @smilivojevic.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

Ziyanda Stuurman & Irvin Kinnes in conversation with Justice Edwin Cameron, Rebecca Gore & Sohela Surajpal discussing reform and abolitionist possibilities in South African prisons @uctlaw.bsky.social

The best of @uctlaw.bsky.social with @pierredevos.bsky.social & Nomfundo Ramalekana hosting Chriscy Blouws and Khuliso Managa from the Women’s Legal Centre talking about their role in making the decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa a real political & legal possibility. wlce.co.za

The Public Law Conference @uctlaw.bsky.social 1-4 July 2026. With Justice Steven Majiedt & Dr Nomfundo Ramalekana on the organising committee race, reparation & resistance to authoritarianism are firmly on the agenda. law.uct.ac.za/publiclawcon... @madlingozi.bsky.social @pashukanist.bsky.social

There's going to be attention to whether there are/were issues with Roberts's visa and imo it's important to not let that stuff matter. The fight shouldn't be 'only deportations where the paperwork is correct!' it should be against deportations and ICE per se www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

‘A distinctive set of proto-Trumpian sentiments began to seep into the American public sphere no sooner than the rubble of the Berlin Wall had been tidied away.’ @will-davies.bsky.social on how the political scene in the 1990s sowed the seeds for Trumpism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Dr. Nomfundo Ramalekana on racial redress in post-apartheid South Africa: "Whether from looking at reparations, remedial measures, or redistributive justice, the exclusion of the (noncitizen) 'black African other' is illegitimate, and we need to decolonise this form of remedy" #BorderCrim2025

Our afternoon panel on Law and the Courts starts with Dr Nicola Palmer. "we're seeing an extension, both of the sentencing and also of the notion of dangerousness" on immigration cases in the US #BorderCrim2025 @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

Good morning from Clare College, Cambridge! We kick off the first day of our annual #BorderCrim2025 workshop this morning with a fantastic panel from our Border Policing and Emotions thematic group. Find the whole program here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Reminder: CALS is looking for candidate legal practitioners to join our team in January 2026 The closing date for applications is 19 September 2025

The Weekly Read is "Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion," edited by Ananya Roy & Veronika Zablotsky. This collection examines how the liberal democracies of the West rarely grant sanctuary and refuge. Read the entire book now for free. buff.ly/5UCPGq4

I am excited that this special issue of the @ajil.bsky.social —on reparations in international law—is now out! 1/

Full text of the International Association of Genocide Scholars Resolution on the Situation in Gaza: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

A story about D, his mother S, and the dehumanising denialism of genocide apologists tinyurl.com/2xpa9cgv

"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."

Whether international law can help repair past harms is one of field's most difficult questions-doctrinally, technically, normatively. Answers may determine how you feel about IL as a whole. Over next month, @ajil.bsky.social will explore these Qs in print+online1/: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happening on Wednesday, 20 August 2025, 12pm–1pm SAST. You can register for free here: shorturl.at/RgheG

The Call for Papers for the 2026 Public Law Conference is open. Theme: "Public Law & the Future of Constitutional Democracy" 1-4 July 2026 at the University of Cape Town. Submit an abstract by 14 Nov 2025: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79382... Details ⬇️ law.uct.ac.za/publiclawcon....

‘Baseline communism happens wherever ‘no accounts are taken’…giving a stranger directions, buying someone a pint, offering food to a guest...Graeber finds this ‘raw material of sociality’ everywhere, usually working alongside more hierarchical and contractual relations.’

A very useful update to this post given the relevance to the UK-France deal

Working my way through the back catalogue of @thedigradio.bsky.social on my drive to @uctlaw.bsky.social. This episode on Stuart Hall’s Marxist methodology is a remarkable example of a podcast as an act of public education. open.spotify.com/episode/5ODA...

There might be an abundance of abundance discussions but this one is really special. It brings together expertise on the housing policy with the bigger question of a post-neoliberal agenda. Listen in!

There's still time to register for our annual workshop next month! We'll be in Cambridge exploring resistances to oppressive border practices and envisioning alternative futures. Sign up ➡️ www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Slovenia bans import, export and transit of weapons to and from Israel "In such circumstances, it is the duty of every responsible state to take action, even if it means taking a step ahead of others" 🇸🇮

It's easy to dismiss academic work as abstract. But as our network has shown over the past year, academia can also mean: 🔵 films made 🔵 spaces for solidarity created 🔵 collaborations with civil society 🔵 contributions to policy See our annual report for more! blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

"Life is Being Extinguished in Gaza" — Global Protection Cluster

Come and join us in Public Law @uctlaw.bsky.social. Five positions in international law, environmental law and criminal law. It is a fantastic department with a wonderful collection of colleagues doing cutting edge legal research. Further details below jobs.uct.ac.za/job/Cape-Tow...

Listening to the amazing Khomotso Moshikaro interviewing Justice Edwin Cameron, Rebecca Gore & Sohela Surajpal talking about their new book ‘Behind Prison Walls’ arguing for the decriminalisation of drugs and sex work, and the removal of mandatory sentencing in SA.

Read a new @nytimes.com guest essay by @jfcrisp.bsky.social exploring the growing tendency of states to expel refugees and other migrants to countries with which they have no prior connection: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

This is an absolutely indispensable read that provides a sharp, comprehensive materialist analysis of Palestinian oppression. Get it, read it, discuss it with comrades, use it to inform your movement’s means and ends. @pashukanist.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social