Delighted to announce the next meeting of The Intersection Discussion Group! The brilliant Lama Karamé will present her work on childhood & judicial discretion in Lebanon's juvenile courts. Online only, all are welcome. 🗓️ 11 June, 3pm CEST More info and sign up here: law.mpg.de/event/judgin...

Judging Childhood: Law, Morality, and Discipline in Lebanon’s Juvenile Courts - Max Planck Law

The paper highlights the distinct role of juvenile judges in Lebanon, where the legal framework grants broad discretionary authority.

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Last night, israeli occupation forces raided Al Kamandjati Center located in Qalandiya Refugee Camp, destroying all musical instruments inside the center. This will be met, yet again, with silence from our classical music industry www.instagram.com/p/DUBUWwSiCxl/

‎Al Kamandjati - الكمنجاتي‎ on Instagram‎: "⁨ قامت قوات الاحتلال ليلة أمس باقتحام مركز الكمنجاتي الكائن في مخيم قلنديا لللاجئين والذي يعود ملكيته لجمعية مركز البرامج النسوية في المخيم. حيث قامت قوات ا...

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Thrilled to see "The Boundaries of Criminalisation: Rethinking Public Goods and Legal Interests in Domestic and Transnational Criminal Law" published Many thanks to editors Jannemieke Ouwerkerk, Konstantinos Zoumpoulakis, Jeroen ten Voorde, and Jacob Öberg for bringing the volume together.

Preorder now | contributions include chapters by @vmantouvalou.bsky.social, @nunazekic.bsky.social, @joeatkinson.bsky.social, @marthe.bsky.social Co-edited by Jeevan Hariharan (@laws.ucl.ac.uk) and me (@uvalawschool.bsky.social) @hartpublishing.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/digitally...

Digitally Monitored

This book explores the rights of individuals subjected to digital surveillance and monitoring through a range of legal and theoretical perspectives.As digitisat…

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Another reporter fired JUST FOR ACCURATELY REPORTING WHAT CHARLIE KIRK SAID. They want that guy elevated to sainthood not because of what he did but DESPITE it. This shit is as fixed as wrestling.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

I never thought I'd do a midnight search for UK contract law on a whim, but here we are, down the rabbit hole.

I am delighted to be returning to Leiden University on 11 September to present my paper 'What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberalism' at the Centre for Political Philosophy. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

CPP Colloquium

The Centre of Political Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter, postdoc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department o...

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I am delighted to be returning to Leiden University on 11 September to present my paper 'What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberalism' at the Centre for Political Philosophy. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

CPP Colloquium

The Centre of Political Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter, postdoc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department o...

universiteitleiden.nl

This is how I've set up Text-to-Speech, using Kokoro Install kokoro in terminal: pip install kokoro>=0.9.2 soundfile python-docx then create a .py file with the script, the code I have used is now available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem... this creates a .wav file based on the .docx.

text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro

text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro - gist:5e73a7a375c0409f47c5cb3d380d4910

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Went down a text-to-speech rabbit hole because my current version of Microsoft Word cannot read text out loud in a mechanical voice, and the AI app readers have a limit, and now I have a python script running in terminal creating an audiobook-for-the-purposes-of-proofreading-with-tired-eyes

I have a post on Criminal Justice Theory Blog (@theoryjustice.bsky.social) about personhood theory and understanding wrongs of non-contact offences, here: image-based sexual abuse. Many thanks to @markedsouza1.bsky.social and Liat Levanon! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i...

Image-based sexual abuse and personhood: A relational approach to wrongfulness

by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter In this post, I argue that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and that this infringement is more fully captured when …

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3 more days to submit your abstract for this great conference on Thicker Notions of Human Rights #Accountabilities which will take place in Brussels 19-21 November! The final conference of our great project on future proofing #humanrights 🤩 futureproofinghumanrights.org/news/closing...

Closing Conference - Call for Abstracts - Future Proofing Human Rights

The Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities Conference revisits the questions of what qualifies as a human rights violation, who holds human rights duties and how to actually deliver human ri...

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Isreal murdered 6 brothers delivering food to starving Gazans. The youngest was 10 years old.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · last yr.

6 brothers worked as humanitarian aid volunteers in Gaza. Israel bombed their car and murdered them all.

Fascist fucks. And even if they did have a criminal record, this is still fascist fuckery.

60 Minutes@60minutes.bsky.social · last yr.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

🚨New Publication on *Creating* Sexually Explicit Deepfakes & Criminal Law. Pleased to share my latest research with Ruya Tuna Toparlak on why term 'sexual digital forgeries' is preferred, distinct harms of creation & analysis of law reforms around the world onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A third police officer is arrested in Rotherham for raping a 14-year old girl. When we say male sexual violence is "systemic", this is what we mean: It's when a child victim of rape is either ignored by the police or raped by the police. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Third ex-police officer arrested in Rotherham child sexual exploitation inquiry

Former officer with South Yorkshire force arrested on suspicion of raping teenage girl in 2004

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Here's a radical thought: Assume that girls' feelings reflect facts. Assume that girls can read their environment and are adept at risk assessment. Assume that girls' are ... right. Take them seriously. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Girls in England feel less safe at school than they did pre-Covid, survey finds

Study finds larger drop-off among girls aged 13-14 who feel safe than among boys, compared with age group in 2019

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Justine McCarthy: Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Justine McCarthy: Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy

Oonagh Peters says she was led to a cell by a woman garda, told to remove her jeans, pull down her knickers and lift up her bra

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A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there is evidence of execution-style killing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says

Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage

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"Samira Moyheddin recently wrote, '...Don’t stay in jobs where your knowledge is a liability.' [We are compelled] to say out loud, all the time, that if the university has become a place where our knowledge—of genocide, Palestine, racism, fascism—is a liability, then we must change the university."

Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism

We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…

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I have a post on Criminal Justice Theory Blog (@theoryjustice.bsky.social) about personhood theory and understanding wrongs of non-contact offences, here: image-based sexual abuse. Many thanks to @markedsouza1.bsky.social and Liat Levanon! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i...

Image-based sexual abuse and personhood: A relational approach to wrongfulness

by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter In this post, I argue that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and that this infringement is more fully captured when …

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“My biggest advice to the trans youth out there is seek out your community, because we're out here. You have a community of people who love you, who are rallying around you, who support you … You are not alone. We will fight with you and we will fight for you.” Solidarity. Today and every day. 🏳️‍⚧️

We're In the Fight of Our Lives: What's at Stake This Transgender Day of Visibility

Teen Vogue spoke with advocate Angelica Christina about how trans people are feeling this TDOV.

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NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation

A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

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And here it is: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i... Comments and reflections most welcome! Thanks to @marthe.bsky.social!

Image-based sexual abuse and personhood: A relational approach to wrongfulness

by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter In this post, I argue that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and that this infringement is more fully captured when …

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Criminal Justice Theory Blog@theoryjustice.bsky.social · last yr.

In our next post, @marthe.bsky.social (Max Planck, Freiburg) argues that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and this infringement is better captured using a relational definition of persons. Coming this Friday: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com

Proposal to automatically give babies mother’s surname ignites row in Italy Politician says idea would be ‘compensation for centuries-old injustice’ of children being assigned father’s name. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Proposal to automatically give babies mother’s surname ignites row in Italy

Politician says idea would be ‘compensation for centuries-old injustice’ of children being assigned father’s name

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Next week I will be publishing a postdoc vacancy on children’s rights & digital investigations to work @crisresearch.bsky.social in Brussels on a new EU Research Project on digital investigations of child sexual abuse. Keep an eye out for it here, linkedin and VUB jobsite! #criminology #crimsky

Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.

Charles Я. Davis@charliearchy.bsky.social · last yr.

Ozturk's attorney tells me they still have no idea where she is. ICE says only that she is in the agency's custody. www.salon.com/2025/03/26/d...

You truly could not make it up. You could not.

I am delighted to be returning to Leiden University on 17 April to present my paper 'What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberal personhood'. I argue that a relational definition of persons doesn't necessarily spell the end of liberalism. More here www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

CPP Colloquium

The Centre of Political Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter, postdoc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department o...

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In our next post, @marthe.bsky.social (Max Planck, Freiburg) argues that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and this infringement is better captured using a relational definition of persons. Coming this Friday: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com

Criminal Justice Theory Blog

Accessible, Interesting, Excellent

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