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Marie Aronsson-Storrier @marieas.bsky.social · 17d

"This is a space in which to lodge critiques from multiple trajectories, for renderings of humans and other beings ill matched to prevailing orthodoxies; to identify and aspire to new possibilities of repair and transformation; to reject state legibilities or to refashion them"

Yes, please!

JC Gaillard @jcgaillard.bsky.social · 19d

Check out the maiden issue of Wicked Stars - a zine to trouble disaster studies! Available from: www.radixonline.org/wickedstars. Pieces by @kschmutina.bsky.social, @ajfaas.bsky.social, @aditisharan15.bsky.social, @ricardosefes.bsky.social, and many more.

Marie Aronsson-Storrier @marieas.bsky.social · 26d

Hurrah!! Super exciting and super well deserved!!

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Irish Legal News @irishlegal.com · Aug 29

A group of legal academics from across Ireland have called on the Governor of the Central Bank to immediately prohibit the marketing and sale of Israeli state bonds in or from Ireland, and to refuse to re-approve the bond prospectus on the renewal date of 2 September.

Legal academics call on Central Bank to block sale of Israeli bonds

A group of legal academics from across Ireland have called on the Governor of the Central Bank to immediately prohibit the marketing and sale of Israeli state bonds in or from Ireland, and to refuse to re-approve the bond prospectus on the renewal date of 2 September.

www.irishlegal.com

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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · Aug 28

As leaving the #ECHR is back (again) on the agenda here is myself @colinmurray.bsky.social & Ben Warwick on why for #NorthernIreland this is nigh on impossible & why renegotiating the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is not to be done lightly

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The Implications of the Good Friday Agreement for UK Human-Rights Reform

Speculation is rife as to the impact of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement upon the Conservative Government’s plans to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998. In the f

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Elizabeth Macpherson @prof-mac.bsky.social · Jul 10

🎉 Registration is now open for the 2025 LSAANZ Conference: Rights, Relationality, Resilience, Reciprocity — taking place 3–5 December 2025 at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha I University of Canterbury, in Ōtautahi Christchurch! www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/academ...

2025 LSAANZ Conference | University of Canterbury

This conference will explore how understandings of rights and responsibilities are evolving in response to legal and social change; and how we can reimagine our socio-legal relationships in ways that ...

www.canterbury.ac.nz

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ClientEarth @clientearth.bsky.social · Jul 23

👉 If governments fail to abate the use of fossil fuels, approve fossil fuel projects or invest public money in fossil fuels, they could be in breach of international law.
👉 There is a potential route to reparations for states enduring the worst of the climate crisis.

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Dr Juliette McIntyre ☯︎🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · Jul 23

Gives examples of fossil fuel licenses or permits as a possible internationally wrongful act holy shit

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Dr Juliette McIntyre ☯︎🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · Jul 23

Once a State is established the disappearance of one of its constituent elements does not necessarily entail the loss of its Statehood - you can be a State without a territory!!!

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Marie Aronsson-Storrier @marieas.bsky.social · Jul 23

I think the other one was common but differentiated responsibilities. Also, thanks for a brilliant thread!

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · Jul 23

Ahead of today's ICJ #ClimateChange #AdvisoryOpinion, I've seen a lot of "but it won't be binding."

This is, like a lot of things, technically true and also beyond the point. 🧵 #IntLaw

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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · Jul 21

⚖️2 days to go before the world’s top court delivers a climate verdict that could change everything.
What’s at stake? Who’s responsible? What comes next?

Read our blog here 👉 bit.ly/3UlX8Pz for the 6 issues to watch in the #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ.

By: @joiec.bsky.social & @duycks.bsky.social

A Defining Moment for Climate Justice: What to Watch For in the ICJ Climate Ruling - Center for International Environmental Law

ICJ’s climate ruling could make climate justice a legal mandate—holding polluters accountable and catalyzing global action.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Jul 21

Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · Jun 10

If arrested 200 kms from Gaza, then this was on the high seas and the arrest was unlawful under both the law of the sea and international humanitarian law. The forced 're-education' is also clearly unlawful.

www.smh.com.au/world/middle...

Israel orders Greta Thunberg be shown October 7 video while in detention

The Swedish activist was detained with 11 others while sailing to Gaza in an attempt to break Israel’s naval blockade of the territory.

www.smh.com.au

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Jun 9

Pointing to the coloniality of current social relations invites an understanding that logics of colonial violence were dispatched but never recalled. These logics include the idea that survival of the colonial state requires the annihilation of the other... wherever they are.

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School of Law, UCC @lawucc.bsky.social · May 28

Dr Henrietta Zeffert will speak at the Gaza Tribunal in Sarajevo this week.The aim of the Tribunal is to awaken civil society to its responsibility and opportunity to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The hearings are being broadcast live on YouTube - click the link below to tune in:
gazatribunal.com

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · May 22

So lucky to be able to meet with some fabulous contributors to Queer Judgments and launch our book at the Law & Society Association conference in Chicago. You can download the book on a pay what you feel basis here: counterpress.org.uk

#LSA2025
@queerjudgments.bsky.social
@lawandsociety.bsky.social

Group of people smiling and showing off the Queer Judgments Book.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · May 20

In this article, Kathryn Allinson of the University of Bristol Law School discusses the international legal implications of supporting Israel in light of the ICJ’s provisional measures and advisory opinion.

legalresearch.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/05/the-...

The international legal implications of supporting Israel, in light of the ICJ’s provisional measures and advisory opinion – University of Bristol Law School Blog

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Andrew Forde @drandrewforde.bsky.social · May 16

When we discuss the genocide in Gaza, we must choose our words carefully.

My letter in today's edition of the @irishtimes.com

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Marie Aronsson-Storrier @marieas.bsky.social · May 11

It was so lovely to join Fahmeda Naheed at #Cork City Community Radio yesterday for a chat about Trail Criú Munster, inclusion in #trailrunning, and the joy of sharing adventures in the #outdoors. If you'd like to give it a listen, the recording is available here: www.mixcloud.com/corkradio/le...

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · May 7

“‘Never Again is now’ as JVP activists have chanted throughout this genocide. We must ask ourselves: Who is grievable, who’s ungrievable? Who’s countable, who is uncountable — and who is accountable? Palestinians are not begging the world for charity. We’re calling for meaningful solidarity…"

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · May 7

We invite signatures from UK law people for our open letter on the aftermath of FWS.

*Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.

Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · May 7

A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign

More details 👇

#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw

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A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers

A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

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Marie Aronsson-Storrier @marieas.bsky.social · May 7

My first time joining @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & @aoifemod.bsky.social's Utopias Reading Group today 📚 Discussing @gautambhatia88.bsky.social's brilliant 'The Sentence' and thinking through questions of forgotten histories, law, and anarchy in the global order (& many other things). Such a treat!

Ruth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social · Feb 28

Coming up in May, @aoifemod.bsky.social and I will introduce Series 4 of the Utopias Reading Group. Dates for diaries: 7th, 14th & 21st May. Get in touch if you want to be added to the mailing list.

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Nessa Lynch @neasanil.bsky.social · May 7

Yay! the School of Law at University College Cork is now on Bluesky 💚 @lawucc.bsky.social

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · May 6

3 Criticizing a government that carries out war crimes is not hate. It’s obligation.
If your politics can’t confront genocide, then your politics are trash:

No more money.
No more bombs.
No more fake neutrality.

You are either against genocide. Or you are part of it.

Now pick a side.

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Dr Juliette McIntyre ☯︎🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · May 1

terfs obsession with toilets and what people have in their pants is weird and perverted, frankly. this kind of shit was inevitable.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · May 1

meanwhile, in the UK:

Natal woman banned from the ladies toilet at work because they think im trans
I'm devastated, ashamed & humiliated. I refuse to defend myself by providing "additional evidence to prove natal sex", I think trans women are also women and I will not punch down on trans women out of principle. Im tall and a little masc looking. Girlfriend is a trans woman. Fuck this shit government and terfs. I will not comply, I will not use the gender neutral/disabled. They can sack me, then talk to my lawyer. They will end up paying my mortgage off in damages. I'm venting, not asking for advice.

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