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Assistant Professor of Law University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law Public International Law | Human Rights | Statelessness | Int’l Environmental Law https://law.hawaii.edu/people/melissa-stewart/

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Melissa Stewart @melissastewart.bsky.social · Jun 10

Very pleased to announce that after trying my luck with a very off-cycle submission, my piece "Birthright Citizenship, Denaturalization, and the Specter of Statelessness" is now forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review Discourse.

Comments and feedback welcome.
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Birthright Citizenship, Denaturalization, and the Specter of Statelessness

Birthright citizenship is a right that has been enjoyed by nearly every person born on American soil for over 150 years. For those that dream and hope for Ameri

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

#ICYMI: Among the citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Melissa Stewart @melissastewart.bsky.social · 2d

I read one short article and I give myself an additional two books, three articles, and four chapters to read. Totally realistic work flow.

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Bronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social · 5d

Eric Fripp @opiniojuris.bsky.social on deprivation of nationality in Kuwait #citizenshipdeprivation opiniojuris.org/2025/10/21/t...

The Resurgence of Large-scale Deprivation of Nationality: The Case of Kuwait

[Eric Fripp is a Barrister at 36 Public & Human Rights, part of the 36 Group, Gray’s Inn, London and Senior Visiting Fellow for the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University …

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Melissa Stewart @melissastewart.bsky.social · 5d

Truly epic career achievement. Well done @drnajimagi.bsky.social 👏👏👏

Dr Juliette McIntyre ☯︎🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to @melissastewart.bsky.social for pointing out that one of my papers is in the Jessup basic materials this year I have now peaked and will be retiring

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 5d

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 6d

BNP Paribas shares fell up to 10% after a US jury ruled the French bank aided Sudan’s government in committing genocide by violating American sanctions, raising fears of more legal claims aje.io/40amaz

BNP Paribas shares fall after US jury’s Sudan verdict

The French bank will pay more than $20m to three plaintiffs amid allegations of human rights abuses.

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FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 9d

Un jury américain juge BNP Paribas complice d’exactions au Soudan sous le régime de Béchir

Trois ressortissants soudanais aux États-Unis ont obtenu 20,75 millions de dollars de dommages et intérêts suite à la condamnation vendredi de la banque française BNP Paribas par un jury populaire new-yorkais pour des transactions commerciales au Soudan sous le régime d'Omar el-Béchir.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 9d

US jury finds BNP Paribas liable for damages over Sudan banking role on.ft.com/42OXq6m

US jury finds BNP Paribas liable for damages over Sudan banking role

‘Bellwether’ verdict may set stage for potentially far more damages as thousands of victims assert claims

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Priya Pillai @pillaipriy.bsky.social · 8d

Next week - #advisoryopinion by the International Court of Justice #ICJ on obligations of #Israel in relation to the #UN and other #IOs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories #OPT. (This is distinct from the contentious case by South Africa relating to the #Genocide Convention)

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Melissa Stewart @melissastewart.bsky.social · 8d

Three victims were awarded over $20 million. It opens the door to additional liability with a class of over 20,000 refugees. Damages could reach billions of dollars.

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Melissa Stewart @melissastewart.bsky.social · 8d

Historic human rights victory for victims of the genocide in Sudan. A NY jury in a case rich with transnational litigation issues found BNP Paribas enabled Sudan's commission of gross human rights violations by facilitating access to U.S. financial markets in violation of U.S. sanctions regime.

Reuters @reuters.com · 9d

US jury finds BNP Paribas enabled Sudanese atrocities reut.rs/4o1yDo4

US jury finds BNP Paribas enabled Sudanese atrocities

A U.S. jury on Friday returned a historic verdict against BNP Paribas , finding the French bank helped Sudan's government commit genocide by providing banking services that violated American sanctions.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 10d

This latest "barrister meets AI" disaster is something all stage 1 law students should read. It is vital about the key skill of case reading - you mustn't use AI to substitute for the skill of being able to find cases and find key content in cases:

tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/ui-202...

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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 10d

Law of the sea expert chiming in to say there is no lawful basis for military strikes against vessels for customs infringements on the high seas or in any other maritime zone, including the territorial sea. These are unlawful extra-judicial killings.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 10d

The U.S. military carried out a new strike on Thursday against a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean, and in what is believed to be the first such case, there were survivors among the crew, a U.S. official told Reuters.

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 11d

War crimes alert as food runs out in besieged Sudan city

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Sudan siege: War crimes alert as el-Fasher runs out of food

Evidence of the intentional targeting of civilians in el-Fasher amounts to war crimes, researchers say.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 12d

Immigration Professor's Blog is BACK. Visit our new home at immprof.com for the latest on immigration law, policy, news, court cases, books, research, and more. It's a great resource going strong for 20 years. 🥳

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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 12d

El Fasher - the last city in W- #Darfur still held by #Sudan 's Army - has been surrounded & attacked by the RSF for 549 days.

c.250,000 people are 'shoehorned' into a "shrinking urban enclave": by artillery & drone attacks + a complete lack of humanitarian #aid
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Thousands trapped in El Fasher siege on ‘edge of survival’, says report

The city – the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in the west of the country – has withstood more than 500 days of attacks by paramilitary RSF

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14d

Today’s “One First” looks at how #SCOTUS and its defenders have responded to criticisms of the Court’s behavior in Trump cases either by knocking down straw men or by attacking the critics—without meaningfully defending what the Court is actually *doing*:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/183-the-mi...

After all, maybe one can defend the Court granting emergency relief more often than ever before and in cases with far greater real-world (and structural) impacts. And maybe one can defend the Court altering (if not completely scrapping) the traditional balance of the equities in these cases. But does that defense extend to the Court doing so especially in cases in which President Trump is a party—and no others? And does it extend to the Court doing all of this without usually providing written explanations of what it is doing—or why? And even if the answer is somehow “yes,” does it also extend to the Court doing all of this, not usually explaining what it’s doing or why, and nevertheless accusing lower courts who fail to read the justices’ minds of “defying” the Court?

I have a very hard time believing that anyone can genuinely make it through even three of those sentences with a coherent defense of what the Supreme Court has done over the past seven months—let alone all five of them. I’d love to see such an argument, if it exists, but I haven’t been—and won’t be—holding my breath.

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 14d

📚 New Citizenship Literature 🌍

🪪 Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration – Lior Erez
🌐 Protecting Nationals Abroad and the Reconceptualization of Sovereignty – Ioanna Pervou
🌏 Citizenship by Choice, Not Necessity – Nils Witte & Floris Peters

And many more 📖 tinyurl.com/5n7pr623

Citizenship literature Archives - Globalcit

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 BOO! 👻 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 14d

And we are too busy burning the planet with AI, ripping each other apart and killing each other to do anything about it.

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 BOO! 👻 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 14d

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 18d

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Carlos Chévere Lugo @carloschevere.bsky.social · 18d

It is my pleasure to announce my most recent publication, “Peremptory Norms and the Right to Self-Determination: The Case of Puerto Rico,” co-authored with my 🇵🇷 colleague, Associate Professor Sigrid Vendrell-Polanco.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 18d

If you are teaching a class, unit, or workshop about immigration, I have a tremendous amount of multimedia resources, explanatory posts, digestible data, graphics, photographs and more over at austinkocher.substack.com. You might find something useful!

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 27d

Dystopian International Law | by Marko Milanovic

Dystopian International Law

There is now a whole genre of scholarship in which international lawyers ruminate on the disastrous state of the world – Philippa Webb and Lydia Kim recently did a good survey of it here on the blog. ...

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