Wow, amazing story: In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state – pulled the pins and then left on his bicycle. How did he do it? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

What would it mean to rethink sovereignty through an ecological lens. Join us online for the first event in Alameda’s After Order Working Paper Series.

Do human rights moderate punishment (a shield 🛡️) or expand it (a sword ⚔️)? My new chapter argues they do both as a form of "penal governance". Out now in the Research Handbook on Penal Policy! 📖 Book: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res... 📬 DM me for the accepted version!

Very sad to hear of Marc Galanter's death. His work was hugely influential for so many of us. www.lawandsociety.org/2026/04/17/l...

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Register for the Public Law Conference 2026, hosted @ UCT Law from 1-4 July. Of note is the exceptional lineup of keynote speakers - the opening keynote will be delivered by Chief Justice Mandisa Maya, who will speak on judicial leadership in a constitutional democracy. Registration @ bit.ly/4slR1s

UCT Law is hosting the 23rd IUCNAEL Environmental Law Colloquium in Dec 2026! Under the theme "It's the end of the world as we know it", you still have time to submit an abstract - DEADLINE: 30 April 2026. So submit now! Read all the info at bit.ly/4eaSsak.

It's been a long road getting to this point, but today marks an important moment in our efforts to ensure that everyone in South Africa is supported through life's final journey with compassionate care, dignity and the freedom to choose their own path. iol.co.za/news/south-a...

All welcome to this talk on the TRC by Prof Mark Sanders, who is the author of several books, including Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa; Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission; and Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid.

CfP is out for our workshop in November. Deadline for submissions is in mid May. Hope to see you there! repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon... @sciencepoulb.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social

On the podcast: in an extended extract from our Close Readings subscription series ‘Conversations in Philosophy’, Jonathan Rée and James Wood consider Virginia Woolf’s 𝘛𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 as a philosophical novel in conversation with Plato. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

"Hormuz has exposed both the fragility of the fossil fuel system and the limits of American power... Yet it would be naïve to expect American power to collapse suddenly, leaving a clean space for something better." - Mona Ali in @equatormag.bsky.social

Amid the £100m Rwanda-UK dispute at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, migration management partnerships are emerging as a key site of North/ South diplomacy. Read the new post by @nicolapalmer.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Absolutely fascinating read, really helpful for thinking about the incentives for different actors in externalisation projects (as you point out, so much discourse/coverage is focussed only on what the Global North partner wants), thank you writing this

“The UK is fighting for an expansion of the right to exclude people claiming asylum from its territory. Rwanda is fighting for a Global South state’s right to benefit from this exclusionary shift.“

North/South migration diplomacy laid bare as the UK & Rwanda dispute in The Hague. My latest @bordercrim.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi... @mollyquell.bsky.social @lizziedearden.bsky.social @fionaadamson.bsky.social @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social @hhesterm.bsky.social

War is gendered violence "More than 1 million people in Lebanon are once again fleeing for safety. At least 12,000 of all forcibly displaced individuals are pregnant women... Midwives we spoke to say women are having devastating miscarriages or premature deliveries as they flee their homes."

The economic fallout from the Strait of Hormuz isn't a hypothetical — it's already there. Most people in Europe and the US just can't feel it yet. A threat on our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social article: what's heading our way, and why the burden won't be shared equally. 1/

8/ The time to act is now—coordinated reserves releases & price caps, excess profit taxes, fair rationing protocols. Governments have the tools, hopefully for all they'll act. Full piece with @isabellamweber.bsky.social no paywall at www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

The UK/Rwanda Migration Agreement is back in the courts. Rwanda is in dispute with the UK for its failure to make two payments of £50 million & its failure to make arrangements to resettle Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees in the UK. Live-streamed today at 9:30 (GMT) vimeo.com/event/5760979

Written statements by the UK and Rwanda now published pca-cpa.org/en/cases/370/

London friends please join us at SOAS next week for event on Resisting Erasure hosted by the wonderful Center for Palestine Studies. A conversation on Palestine and imperialism and the structures shaping this moment. 17 March, 6:30pm Register: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Research Handbook on 3rd World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) [Eds] Antony Anghie, B.S Chimni, @michaelfakhri.bsky.social hri.bsky.social, Karin Mickelson & Vasuki Nesiah Contribs: @azizaahmed.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social @leslava.bsky.social Read the Intro: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

By analyzing records obtained by @deportationdata.org, I found that the total number of people who have experienced ICE detention in the first 9 months of the Trump admin amounts to the population of a mid-sized city.

Happening on 18 March at UCT. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to [email protected].

To start the academic year @uctlaw.bsky.social A/Prof Holly Porter (University of Cambridge) will be speaking on "Rebel Sex: male combatants and desire in coercive circumstances”. Register below to join us online forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... @cclas2025.bsky.social @calsza.bsky.social

This was such a special interview to conduct: the first in two episodes with historian Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...

We have updated DetentionReports.com with the most recently released data from ICE. Many people have asked that we add a map to the home page. We have added this feature. Click one of the blue icons to proceed to the report of the corresponding detention facility. detentionreports.com

The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Are you interested in guest-editing for Theoretical Criminology? #TheoreticalCrim is now accepting proposals for our 2028 special issue! Deadline for proposals is April 15, 2026. Find our full criteria here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm....

New special issue of Transnational Legal Theory on The Promises and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital platforms now available in full www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtlt20/1... - inc a piece from @joeatkinson.bsky.social and me on human rights and realising decent work for platform workers

On the arbitration between the UK and Rwanda: the treaty signed between the UK and Rwanda in Art. 22 provides for disputes to go to the Joint Committee, if that doesn't work after 21 days there's 21 days of consultations and then the possibility to arbitrate under PCA rules.

A declaration of support for the UK prisoners on hunger strike for Palestine from prominent scholars – including several of our authors and editors.

Just scheduled International & Interdisciplinary Book Forum on David Garland's new "Law and Order Leviathan: America's Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment" Join free YouTube livestream: Apr 14, 2026 Read MCLR+ Forum: Aug 2026 Info crimlrev.net/2026/01/11/l...

‘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...