Terrific to see my book available online — and soon in print! Many thanks to series editors Nadia Lambek, @riclements.bsky.social, @leslava.bsky.social, and Markus Gunneflo! And congrats on the new series!

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...

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...

*BIG ANNOUNCEMENT* 1/7

Today is publication day for the first ever CUP Element in International Law & Society.

Our first author is Karen Engle (UT Austin Law School)
@karengle.bsky.social
and 'Towards an #Abolitionist Human Rights Court: Rethinking Responses to Gendered and Racialized Violence'.

Share far and wide! @lawandsociety.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social @ecchr.bsky.social @hls.harvard.edu #ECHR #humanrights #abolitionism

Encouraging human rights advocates and judges to take seriously prison and police abolition in Europe and elsewhere, the Element calls for the ECtHR to pave the way for an abolitionist-oriented turn among human rights courts.

It also contends that the 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.

It focuses on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), arguing that the Court's reliance on punishment and policing threatens to undo earlier European approaches to criminal law and human rights that resonate with abolitionist thought.

Here's a preview: Contemporary international human rights law increasingly obligates states to heighten their criminalization of certain human rights violations, including gendered, racialized, and homophobic violence. This Element uses prison and police abolitionist thought to challenge this trend

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...

📢 After much planning, we are delighted to announce that our new short-form Elements *book series* with @cambridgeup.bsky.social is now official! 🎉

If you are interested in publishing a 20k-30k piece on 'International Law & Society', check us out: www.cambridge.org/core/publica...