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Sumi Madhok @sumimadhok.bsky.social · 7d

Prof Conor Gearty on the UK Supreme Court’s legal tactics for erasing the Human Rights Act.

“The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era”.

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Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · 20d

Working, especially teaching, when you’re grieving is unbearably difficult. Couldn’t have understood it until this week: how hard it is to battle and suppress a sob whilst teaching adverse possession

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Fionnuala NÍ Aoláin KC (Hons) @niaolainf.bsky.social · 25d

“He was a very good friend, a fine scholar and a principled activist. He will be deeply missed.”

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Statement by President Michael D. Higgins on the death of Conor Gearty | President of Ireland

Welcome to the website of the President of Ireland.

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · 25d

One of my favourite photos of Conor during his visit to Doha earlier this year . He was always able to be so informative whilst making everyone laugh. I’m going to miss you so much, mentor and friend. May you rest blessed and in peace.

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Virginia Mantouvalou @vmantouvalou.bsky.social · 25d

We will miss you greatly, our brilliant, charismatic friend.

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I met Conor Gearty more than 20 years ago, when I was a PhD student at LSE and have been fortunate to work with him in one way or the other all these years. A hugely intelligent critical thinker… | Vi...

I met Conor Gearty more than 20 years ago, when I was a PhD student at LSE and have been fortunate to work with him in one way or the other all these years. A hugely intelligent critical thinker, gene...

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 26d

This was Conor Gearty only a week or so ago at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on ECHR withdrawal and the Palestine Action ban.

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · Sep 3

🎧: The Prospect Podcast is back from summer break! On today’s episode, Conor Gearty explains what’s at stake if Britain leaves the ECHR, and reacts to the Palestine Action ban.

Are we losing our civil liberties?

Conor Gearty explains what’s at stake if Britain leaves the ECHR, and reacts to the Palestine Action ban

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · 26d

Huge, huge loss

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · 26d

I don’t have any words. I’m just devastated

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · 29d

Had a great time talking to Linda Mulchay of Oxford Centre for Sociolegal Studies about Law, Arab Drama and Translation
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Looking at Law and Legal Phenomena through the Lens of Arab Cinema and Drama - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Fatima Ahdash (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) about looking at law through the lens of Arab cinema and drama.

frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you!!

Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · 29d

Had a great time talking to Linda Mulchay of Oxford Centre for Sociolegal Studies about Law, Arab Drama and Translation
frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/looking-at-l...

Looking at Law and Legal Phenomena through the Lens of Arab Cinema and Drama - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Fatima Ahdash (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) about looking at law through the lens of Arab cinema and drama.

frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · 29d

Scary day in Doha 🫠

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Metropolitan Police have released updated figures for yesterday's protest by people holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

857 people were arrested "for showing support for Palestine Action" and 33 for other offences, including 17 for assaults on police officers

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 6

Israeli arms manufacturer closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action

Exclusive: Elbit Systems UK site in Bristol was subject of protest days before direct action group was proscribed An Israeli arms manufacturer’s facility in Bristol which was repeatedly targeted by Palestine Action appears to have closed unexpectedly. The Elbit Systems UK site in the Aztec West business park was the subject of dozens of protests by Palestine Action, including on 1 July, days before the direct action group was banned under the Terrorism Act. Continue reading...

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · Aug 31

In this piece entitled “The Unbearable Arabness of Being: Anti-Arab Racisms in the Human Rights Sector,” Fatima Ahdash reflects on the orientalism and racism underpinning Western human rights organisations, arguing that a complete overhaul of the sector is urgently necessary. Read (for free) here:

The Unbearable Arabness of Being: Anti-Arab Racisms in the Human Rights Sector - Feminist Legal Studies

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · Aug 31

I start by talking a lot about how I did not want to become a Libyan Penelope- a female relative of a Libyan dissident activist, silent and mourning, and how human rights activism proved the worst route out, forcing on me even more silence and mourning

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · Aug 31

A short reflection on my decade of working in the human rights sector and the daily anti-Arab racisms i had to navigate, kindly published by Feminist Legal Studies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Unbearable Arabness of Being: Anti-Arab Racisms in the Human Rights Sector - Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Legal Studies -

link.springer.com

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · Aug 31

More solidarity from Irish artists. Incredible people

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Aug 30

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, will be boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza.

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan is boarding a flotilla to break the siege on Gaza.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, has announced that she will be boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza. Dublin writer and activist Dolan—t…

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Aug 30

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, will be boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza.

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan is boarding a flotilla to break the siege on Gaza.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, has announced that she will be boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza. Dublin writer and activist Dolan—t…

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · Aug 30

I seriously don’t believe that criminalisation is good or that we can achieve liberation through law, much less criminal law. But just imagine the expressive significance of something like this? Would it mitigate the draconianness of counter-terrorism laws? Hmmm

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · Aug 30

Imagine if international criminal law was taken seriously by domestic legal systems? Imagine if there was a separate crime: supporting a genocide? Or supporting a war crime?

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · Aug 29

This government is so disgusting

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Aug 27

A few of us have been working to set up a research network of legal scholars innovating in the teaching of race, colonialism & empire. We have received provisional approval as a new Collaborative Research Network (CRN) of the Law and Society Association (LSA)!

www.lawandsociety.org/crn-58critic...

CRN 58 Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire - Law and Society Association

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · Aug 26

Yes! And the difference between people who see these as ‘research topic opportunities’ and the ones actually living them is as stark as ever

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Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social · Aug 24

A lot of the people doing the heavy lifting in terms of Palestine solidarity are Irish artists. A lot of the lawyers involved in defending Palestinian solidarity are Irish lawyers. Needs further ethnographic study, beyond the obvious reasons re this level of artistic and lawyerly solidarity.

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