The full programme for the Public Law Conference is out & registration is open. Cape Town 1-4 July 2026 Join our discussions on the future of constitutional democracies. @uctlaw.bsky.social @dansmywholename.bsky.social @natasamav.bsky.social @gerhardkempicl.bsky.social @mattia800.bsky.social

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!

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‘The Research Handbook on Penal Policy brings together an impressive group of contributors, providing readers with a remarkably rich and wide-ranging set of reflections. The result is an unusually val...

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New blog post out in @opiniojuris.bsky.social w/ @natasamav.bsky.social ! We contributed to a great symposium on Prosecuting "Heads of State", discussing "Punishing the powerful" and the allure and limits of the penal accountability paradigm ⚖️ Read here: opiniojuris.org/2026/03/27/s...

Symposium on Prosecuting Heads of State for International Crimes: Punishing the Powerful – The Allure and Limits of the Penal Accountability Paradigm

[Natasa Mavronicola is a Professor of Human Rights Law at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham; co-editor of Coercive Human Rights: Positive Duties to Mobilise the Criminal Law under the…

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If you are interested in criminal justice, children's rights, and/or feminist abolitionism, you cannot miss this presentation on 18th Feb at @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social and online! More info 👇

Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum@yclf.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our next YCLF seminar is coming 🔜! 🗣️ Marina Sáenz (EUI): ‘Juvenile Sexual Violence Against Women and the Conceptual Limits of Criminal Liability’. 🗓️ Wed 18 Feb, 15:00-16:30 📍Hybrid: @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social & Zoom ®️To join us: sites.google.com/view/yclf/

Our 5th seminar is coming 🔜 🗣️ Federico La Vattiata: ‘Comparative Approaches to Normative Causation and the Limits of the But-For Test: Between Objective Attribution and Proximate Causation’. 🗓️ Wed 25 Feb, 15-16:30 📍Online & @universityofleeds.bsky.social ®️To join us: sites.google.com/view/yclf/

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Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum@yclf.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our next YCLF seminar is coming 🔜! 🗣️ Marina Sáenz (EUI): ‘Juvenile Sexual Violence Against Women and the Conceptual Limits of Criminal Liability’. 🗓️ Wed 18 Feb, 15:00-16:30 📍Hybrid: @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social & Zoom ®️To join us: sites.google.com/view/yclf/

Just before Christmas, my article with @natasamav.bsky.social was assigned an issue in @ljil-leiden.bsky.social Want to read it? The article is open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In our article in @ljil-leiden.bsky.social @natasamav.bsky.social and I share our discomfort with equating justice to punishment in Palestine Punishment is limited in terms of justice but also distorts responses, silences dissent and undermines the 'never again' promise doi.org/10.1017/S092...

Join the next YCLF seminar! 🗣️ @silvilunazul.bsky.social presents: ‘Anticarceral feminisms, penal violence against women, and the limits of human rights’. 🗓️ Wed 3 Dec, 15:00-16:30 📍Online (via Zoom) ®️To join us: sites.google.com/view/yclf/

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Our new website is live! 🚀 👉 sites.google.com/view/yclf/ Big things are on the way: stay tuned 👀 #YCLF #ComingSoon

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Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum@yclf.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Join the next YCLF seminar! 🗣️ Caroline Lilley presents: ‘The Realities of Research: Reflections on Conducting Mock Jury Research within a PhD’. 🗓️ Thurs 20 Nov, 15:00-16:30 📍 Hybrid: Online & at University of Sheffield School of Law + our full 2025/26 lineup is now out sites.google.com/view/yclf/!

My chapter w/ @natasamav.bsky.social ‘Accountability for violations of civil and political rights: redress within and beyond the penal frame’ is published in the Research Handbook on Accountability for Human Rights Violations. DM me if you'd like a copy! www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

📣Join us today for the first #YCLF 2025-26 Seminar, we'll discuss @drfassnidge.bsky.social's paper 'The Deliberative Stage of Criminalisation and Political Turn: Theories of Criminalisation' 📅 Today, 3-4:30 pm online & @sheffielduni.bsky.social To attend, visit sites.google.com/view/yclf/

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Very much looking forward to this, and to getting a chance to discuss with colleagues in the YCLF. Should be a blast!

Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum@yclf.bsky.social · 11mo ago

For the first YCLF 2025-26 Seminar, we'll discuss @drfassnidge.bsky.social chapter: The Deliberative Stage of Criminalisation and "Political Turn" Theories of Criminalisation 📅 30 Oct, 3-4:30 pm online & @sheffielduni.bsky.social To attend join our mailing list. Info on sites.google.com/view/yclf/

Join us for the first YCLF seminar of the year! Also, follow our new page and visit our new website! All info below 👇

Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum@yclf.bsky.social · 11mo ago

For the first YCLF 2025-26 Seminar, we'll discuss @drfassnidge.bsky.social chapter: The Deliberative Stage of Criminalisation and "Political Turn" Theories of Criminalisation 📅 30 Oct, 3-4:30 pm online & @sheffielduni.bsky.social To attend join our mailing list. Info on sites.google.com/view/yclf/

In this article @ljil-leiden.bsky.social, @mattia800.bsky.social and I challenge the punishment-as-justice perspective that dominates atrocity redress and prevention, examining, with a focus on Gaza, how it can undermine prevention and fuel problematic retaliatory impulses. bit.ly/48uKHJx

In our article in @ljil-leiden.bsky.social @natasamav.bsky.social and I share our discomfort with equating justice to punishment in Palestine Punishment is limited in terms of justice but also distorts responses, silences dissent and undermines the 'never again' promise doi.org/10.1017/S092...

Just published my review of Mirosław Michał Sadowski's "Intersections of Law and Memory: Influencing Perceptions of the Past" in the Modern Law Review! Read the review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... More about this very rich book: www.routledge.com/Intersection...

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...

Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court

Cambridge Core - Public International Law - Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court

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🚨Funded PhD alert! @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PGR studentship (stipend + fee waiver). Apply by 31 May 2025. Critical human rights & crim law; socio-legal theory & methods? Get in touch: I’d love to support strong applications! Info: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...

With my brilliant colleague, @mattia800.bsky.social, last week in Liverpool, at the @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference. The joy of sharing rigorous anticanceral scholarship and collectively building a critique of human rights penality 🤓

In Liverpool, for this year's @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference? Come to our panel on human rights and anti-carceral work! With me, @silvilunazul.bsky.social & Valeria Ruiz Perez. Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...

Here it is ! So many years in the making. Paperback should be released in April.

This is tomorrow!!! 👇 Let me know if you want to attend it

Mattia Pinto@mattia800.bsky.social · last yr.

On 8th April, I'll be speaking at VERNAC TALKS by DIGNITY Vernacular Accountability Project. My talk, Restoring Harmony, explores how Nasa Indigenous justice in Colombia offers a restorative and collective model for human rights accountability. DM me for the Zoom link. @cahr-york.bsky.social

We'll be at the @SLSA_UK annual conference sharing our anti-carceral work! ⏰15:00-16:30 🗓️Tuesday, 15 April, 2025 🏢502 Hub - 1st Floor, LT2 Equality and Human Rights Law: Special Panel Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...

On 8th April, I'll be speaking at VERNAC TALKS by DIGNITY Vernacular Accountability Project. My talk, Restoring Harmony, explores how Nasa Indigenous justice in Colombia offers a restorative and collective model for human rights accountability. DM me for the Zoom link. @cahr-york.bsky.social

Help me share this opportunity! The Sam Pegram Scholarship covers tuition, accommodation, travel & visa costs, and a living stipend for 1 international student to pursue the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the University of York. Please visit: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...

An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated. nyti.ms/4hRzPq1

The Sam Pegram scholarship covers tuition fees, accommodation, travel, visa costs, & provides a monthly living stipend for one international student pursuing the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice. More info here 👉 buff.ly/ASkdkUN #UoY #Scholarship #International #Law #HumanRights

Inspired by calls to reimagine the space currently populated by international criminal law, Meg deGuzman's and my essay engages in feminist dreaming—that is, seeks to reimagine accountability as it could be, viewed through a feminist lens. Now up @ssrn.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

AJIL and AJIL Unbound@ajil.bsky.social · last yr.

AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies" is now available to read and features and incredible line-up of scholars. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...