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Jens Theilen

@jtheilen.bsky.social

they/them — international law, human rights, citizenship and migration law — feminist, queer and decolonial perspectives — personal account, opinions my own

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Judith Beyer@judithbeyer.bsky.social · last mo.

"Ob wir Antisemitismus nur beklagen (Bild des Holocaust Mahnmals) ... oder Judenhassern wirklich die Stirn bieten (Demonstration mit Palästinaflaggen und Polizei)." Ausschnitt aus aktuellem CDU-Werbespot (www.cdu.berlin). Ich halte mich normalerweise zurück, aber hier nicht. 🧵

Jens Theilen@jtheilen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

An important and wide-ranging interview with Nahed Samour on international law and Palestine, among other things on the role of law and narrative, on the relation between positivism and critique, and on transnational resistance: academic.oup.com/lril/advance...

International law, populism and Palestine: an interview with Nahed Samour

In this interview, Dr Richard Joyce and Professor Sundhya Pahuja are joined by German-Palestinian international legal scholar, Dr Nahed Samour, currently b

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Feminist Legal Studies@flsjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights. While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…
Jens Theilen@jtheilen.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Duncker & Humblot - Berlin: Recht schreiben?

Ein Forum für die Wissenschaft seit 1798.

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Isa Lischewski@isalischewski.bsky.social · last yr.

Bevor alle denken ich wär endlich still, im neuen STAAT mal wieder wat Schönes zum #Gendern und so

Verso Books@versobooks.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Extractive Capitalism

Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that drives re...

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EJIL: Talk!@ejiltalk.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Civilizational Hierarchies and the Notion of ‘Europe’ in the European Convention on Human Rights

Abstract. When the European Convention on Human Rights was adopted, several states parties were major colonial powers forcefully engaged in retaining that

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Blog of the European Society for Comparative Legal History@esclh.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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)

(image source: OUP ) Abstract: When the European Convention on Human Rights was adopted, several states parties were major colonial powers...

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Illan wall@illanwall.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

The Politics of Vision, Targeting, and Palestine

‘The whole history of Palestinian struggle has to do with the desire to be visible.’ Edward Said On the evening of March 3rd, 1991, Rodney King, a

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Jens Theilen@jtheilen.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Volume 36 Issue 1 | European Journal of International Law | Oxford Academic

Covers rapidly evolving issues of international law through a distinctive combination of theoretical and practical approaches. Provides systematic coverage of the relationship between international la...

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Jens Theilen@jtheilen.bsky.social · last yr.

📄 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...

A screenshot of the title (“Civilizational Hierarchies and the Notion of ‘Europe’ in the European Convention on Human Rights”) and abstract of the paper available at the link above
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Andrea Maria Pelliconi@ampelliconi.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Development as Domination: Settler Tourism in Western Sahara and the Commodification of Occupied Territories in Trumpist International Law

[Andrea Maria Pelliconi is a Lecturer in Human Rights Law & Global Justice at the University of Southampton, where she researches demographic engineering, displacement, and inter…

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Jens Theilen@jtheilen.bsky.social · last yr.

“[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”

International Law & Politics CRN@intllawpoliticscrn.bsky.social · last yr.

The Element is *FREE* to access online for the next 2 weeks and pre-order print copies can be purchased in advance of print publication in June at a VERY reasonable price: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Adil Haque@adhaque.bsky.social · last yr.

"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."

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last yr.

‘Adults are going hungrier to keep children better fed. The most vulnerable – infants, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and others needing special diets – are already starving.’ Alex de Waal on famine in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...