My new chapter “Urgent Interim Reparations in Ukraine: Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence” is now open access: doi-org.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/10.4324/9781... A 🧵 on my arguments: 1/

We also warmly thank the previous E-i-C, @profjmcadam.bsky.social, @profgsgilbert.bsky.social & Guy S. Goodwin-Gill for marvellously steering the journal & all EB members, past & current for rich contributions! @myrmek.bsky.social @catbriddick.bsky.social @ndftan.bsky.social @yuliaioffe.bsky.social

In our free inaugural editorial as E-i-C w/Sarah Singer @rli-sas.bsky.social we trace 40 years of scholarship @ the #International_Journal_of_Refugee_Law (OUP) & reflect on new directions: academic.oup.com/ijrl/article... @profjacob.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social

🎙️ I joined Dr. Kateryna Rashevska and Dr. Paul R. Williams on the latest Lawyering Peace episode to talk about the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. We talked about the legal classification, the challenges of bringing children home—and what must happen next.

🧵1/ Excited to share my latest article published in Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law: "Family Reunification Claims of Refugee Children in the UK."

📢 Call for Participants! @refugeestudies.bsky.social & International Journal of Refugee Law invite prospective authors to apply for the 2025 RSC/IJRL Author Workshop — an opportunity to develop your work for publication with expert feedback. 🌟 Especially valuable for early-career scholars!

👀 The newest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law is out ✍️ As the newest member of the IJRL's Case Law Editorial Team, I'll contribute with summaries covering Europe and the UK 🤝 Whenever a decision comes out in your country that you believe should be included, then please reach out

In ‘Family Reunification Claims of Refugee Children in the UK: Exploring the Potential of Article 8 ECHR Interpreted in Line with the Best Interests of the Child’, @yuliaioffe.bsky.social argues that Art 8 ECHR requires the articulation of a distinctive child-centred approach to family reunification

The new Special Issue of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum & Nationality Law which I co-edited with Violeta Moreno-Lax and @nikkibusu.bsky.social is out! The aim of this SI is to begin to investigate how we can translate legal academic work on immigration and asylum into practical legal arguments

🚨NEW: This is horrific. Musk & DOGE closed the specialist unit at Yale tracking down Ukrainian children kidnapped & stolen by Russia. HOWEVER, it now emerges the entire database may have been DELETED, destroying years of research needed to find missing children. If so, there should be arrests.

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

📣 My university is hiring for two lines: in International Politics and International Political Economy. Spread the word! Happy to answer questions about the Department.

Honoured to have been part of this panel on Russia’s forcible deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children, organised by Liliia Oprysk at the UiB Law faculty, with @yuliaioffe.bsky.social, Gaiane Nuridzanian and Svitlana Arabadzhy. Recording available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNf...

📢 Join us tomorrow for the INoGS webinar "Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Three Years On." I'll be speaking, alongside Kateryna Busol & Jessie Barton Hronesova, on the forcible transfers of Ukrainian children to Russia, building on the special issue on Ukraine in the Journal of Genocide Research 👇

Looking forward to this event in Bergen. There’s an online option as well — please join us 👇

The book isn't going to promote itself, so I will. Here is a New Books Network podcast episode on Intent to Destroy, if you don't have anything better to listen to. Thanks to John Vsetecka for the conversation.

Just started reading the book — really looking forward to this event with @efinkel.bsky.social

Due to high demand, we've moved our event with @efinkel.bsky.social to a larger venue and made more tickets available. Don't miss out, Londoners! 13/2/35, 6pm, full details+registration below. Co-organised by @uclssees.bsky.social and @ukrinstitute.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

On 9 December 2024, I will speak at the University of Vienna Faculty of Law on imperial patterns in the history of international law in Russia and the Soviet Union. Please come if interested and in Vienna on that day!

📢 Join us for an important discussion on Russia's forcible deportation and indoctrination of Ukrainian children 🕊️🇺🇦 📅 Date: 21 February 2025, at 10:00 📍 Hosted by the University of Bergen (UiB) — in person & online Learn more & register here: www.uib.no/en/jur/17487...

1/ 🚨 New Research Alert 🚨 Grateful to the German Yearbook of International Law for publishing my article: "Forcible Transfers of Ukrainian Children: Indoctrination as a Tool of Russia’s Imperialism" 🌍 🧵 A thread on the key findings below: elibrary.duncker-humblot.com/article/7488...

This paper is the outcome of a Symposium on Imperialism held by the University of Kiel in 2023. There's another 7 fantastic articles in the Special Issue, including by excellent colleagues and good friends like @yuliaioffe.bsky.social, Eric Loefflad, André-Philippe Ouellet & more. Do check them out!

📣 Publication day: a piece I worked on for a very long time - and that I wrote quite some time ago - has been published in the German Yearbook of International Law: "Russia’s Use of Demographic Engineering to Affirm Sovereignty Over Adjacent Territories" elibrary.duncker-humblot.com/article/7487...

Looking for academic readings on family separations (including in the context of the ‘enemies of the people’) in the USSR—historical, sociological, or cultural perspectives. Recommendations in any language (not just English) are greatly appreciated! 📚

Nottingham's Human Rights Law Centre & NTU's Climate Justice Hub are excited to share the Call for Abstracts for our upcoming workshop on Climate Change and Migration, sponsored by SLSA, which will take place on June 19! 🗓️Deadline for submissions: 12 April 2024 📌Full details: bit.ly/3VnXJlC

With Dr. @yuliaioffe.bsky.social of the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction​ for the European Parliament's Human Rights Subcommittee CC: @savechildrende.bsky.social @nordicukraine.bsky.social @ukraineaidops.bsky.social @uakrieg.bsky.social @stimmeukraine.bsky.social @rvps2001.bsky.social

Russia-Ukraine war live: thousands of Ukrainian children taken to Belarus, Yale research shows

Here's my quick write up of this morning's Rwanda judgment and look at the government's options. freemovement.org.uk/supreme-cour...

13 Nov 2023 Video of European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights workshop on forcible transfers of Ukrainian children by Russia multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream... With Yulia Ioffe, Mykola Kuleba, Anna Wright, Udo Bullmann & me @amplifyukraine.eu @hrw.org @amnestyuk.bsky.social

13 November 2023: Video of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights workshop on the forcible transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia with Yulia Ioffe, Mykola Kuleba, Anna Wright, Udo Bullmann and myself multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...

Tune in today for the workshop ‘Forcible transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children’ organized by the European Parliament DROI at 15:00 (CET): www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en...

India and Georgia are to be added to the list of 'safe countries', but what does that mean, and why are these countries being added? Our explainer is here: freemovement.org.uk/india-and-ge...

My new piece in the Refugee Law Initiative blog. I argue that the UK Home Office’s policy to accommodate unaccompanied asylum seeking children in hotels compromises the universality of protection mandate for all children without parental care, …: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2023/11/09/u...

Grateful for an opportunity to share my research on accountability mechanisms for forcible transfers & deportations of Ukrainian children to Russia at the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights workshop 👇

“Forcible transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children: responses and accountability measures” European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights, 13 November 2023, 15.00 – 17.00. Brussels. Room: SPINELLI 3G-2 @humanrightshouse.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social @boelleu.bsky.social @csds.bsky.social

The 13th article at JIRD Forum on knowledge production in Russia's war against Ukraine co-edited w/ Olga Burlyuk is out! Read Kseniya Oksamytna on care in war research and engagement between academics & activists working in/on the ‘Global East’ & ‘Global South’ twtr.to/Xf3vb

My piece for the pop culture symposium with @franka.bsky.social discusses some benefits and challenges posed by the portrayal of OSINT in true crime documentaries and the rise of citizen sleuths - check it out!

Many thanks to Maja for a thought-provoking lecture on trafficking & smuggling for our students at UCL. An exceptional example of research-led teaching. Please check out Maja’s excellent research: pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/m...

This is sold out due to new Eventbrite limits on registrations. If you want to attend online, message me for the Zoom link!

🇵🇱🗳️⚖️Now that the dust is settling after the Polish elections and conversations about restoring the rule of law are no longer purely hypothetical, you can read the entire Democracy Reporting International x @verfassungsblog.de (powered by Stiftung Mercator) symposium on the topic:

I reviewed Paul Dowswell's book Aliens: The Chequered History of Britain's Wartime Refugees on my We Wanted Workers substack. I found it an easy read and the parallels to the present day are inescapable. We'll pop it on Free Movement too at some point.