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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter

@marthe.bsky.social
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Academic lawyer, philosopher | Postdoc at Max Planck Institute CSL, working on criminal law, personhood, human rights, technology facilitated violence, image-based sexual abuse | DPhil (Oxf), LL.M, MA (Leiden)

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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Intersection brings together early career legal scholars exploring equality in — and voices in — law. Sign up to our mailing list here intersection-discussion-group.sharedacademia.org Interested in presenting? Contact me (Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter)
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
when judges act "in the child's best interests," does that flexibility protect children — or enable deeper surveillance, moralised intervention & the erosion of fair trial rights?
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Her argument: this discretion is a double-edged sword. Judges take on a hybrid role — mentor, disciplinarian, moral guide — drawing on religious, psychological & cultural frameworks alongside (or instead of) formal legal reasoning.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Drawing on a year+ of fieldwork in Lebanon's juvenile courts — interviews with judges & court staff, courtroom observation, analysis of court documents — Lama examines how judges exercise discretion in child protection & delinquency cases.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It is a paper that will be of particular interest to children's rights scholars, comparative legal academics, those studying how multiple factors (religion, morality, psychology) shape judicial reasoning, and anyone working on juvenile justice and socio-legal method.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Delighted to announce the next meeting of The Intersection Discussion Group! The brilliant Lama Karamé will present her work on childhood & judicial discretion in Lebanon's juvenile courts. Online only, all are welcome. 🗓️ 11 June, 3pm CEST More info and sign up here: law.mpg.de/event/judgin...
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Judging Childhood: Law, Morality, and Discipline in Lebanon’s Juvenile Courts - Max Planck Law
The paper highlights the distinct role of juvenile judges in Lebanon, where the legal framework grants broad discretionary authority.
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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Last night, israeli occupation forces raided Al Kamandjati Center located in Qalandiya Refugee Camp, destroying all musical instruments inside the center. This will be met, yet again, with silence from our classical music industry www.instagram.com/p/DUBUWwSiCxl/
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‎Al Kamandjati - الكمنجاتي‎ on Instagram‎: "⁨ قامت قوات الاحتلال ليلة أمس باقتحام مركز الكمنجاتي الكائن في مخيم قلنديا لللاجئين والذي يعود ملكيته لجمعية مركز البرامج النسوية في المخيم. حيث قامت قوات ا...
427 likes, 15 comments - alkamandjati on January 27, 2026‎: "⁨ قامت قوات الاحتلال ليلة أمس باقتحام مركز الكمنجاتي الكائن في مخيم قلنديا لللاجئين والذي يعود ملكيته لجمعية مركز البرامج النسوية في المخيم...
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The volume is available here: brill.com/display/titl...
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The book launch will happen at Leiden University on 12 February: fd24.formdesk.com/universiteit...
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Identifying the nature of the protective aim/wrongfulness is particularly important for technology-facilitated violence like image-based sexual abuse, which serves as a case study in this chapter.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
These are two sides of the same coin, and the exploration presented in this chapter is the beginning of marrying continental and Anglo-Saxon legal theory in a way that I have found particularly exciting to explore and which I hope to do more of in the future.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Legal goods approach this from the perspective of what is protected, whilst wrongfulness focuses on the nature of the infringement itself.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
My chapter explores fair labelling as a window into the protective aims of criminal law. A central claim is the relationship between 'legal goods' and 'wrongfulness' in justifying criminalisation. I argue that both concepts serve the same purpose.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Thrilled to see "The Boundaries of Criminalisation: Rethinking Public Goods and Legal Interests in Domestic and Transnational Criminal Law" published Many thanks to editors Jannemieke Ouwerkerk, Konstantinos Zoumpoulakis, Jeroen ten Voorde, and Jacob Öberg for bringing the volume together.
Chapter 11: What's in a Name? Fair Labelling, Legal Goods, and the Criminalisation of Image-based sexual abuse. Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter
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Hadassa Noorda @hadassanoorda.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Preorder now | contributions include chapters by @vmantouvalou.bsky.social, @nunazekic.bsky.social, @joeatkinson.bsky.social, @marthe.bsky.social Co-edited by Jeevan Hariharan (@laws.ucl.ac.uk) and me (@uvalawschool.bsky.social) @hartpublishing.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/digitally...
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Digitally Monitored
This book explores the rights of individuals subjected to digital surveillance and monitoring through a range of legal and theoretical perspectives.As digitisat…
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Another reporter fired JUST FOR ACCURATELY REPORTING WHAT CHARLIE KIRK SAID. They want that guy elevated to sainthood not because of what he did but DESPITE it. This shit is as fixed as wrestling.
My only direct reference to Kirk was one post— his own words on record.

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"Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person's slot"
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My commentary received thoughtful engagement across platforms, support, and virtually no public backlash.
And yet, the Post accused my measured Bluesky posts of being "unacceptable", "gross misconduct" and of endangering the physical safety of colleagues - charges without evidence, which I reject completely as false.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I never thought I'd do a midnight search for UK contract law on a whim, but here we are, down the rabbit hole.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I am delighted to be returning to Leiden University on 11 September to present my paper 'What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberalism' at the Centre for Political Philosophy. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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CPP Colloquium
The Centre of Political Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter, postdoc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department o...
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
By defining liberty as the enactment of personhood, liberalism can be reoriented toward a relational account. On this view, liberty is not about flourishing through non-interference, but about flourishing through caring relationships.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Instead, I suggest we think of freedom not as an end in itself, but as a means to enact our personhood. We need freedom whether we are defined as isolated individuals or as interconnected selves—the difference lies in what that freedom looks like.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I argue that this atomistic definition of persons overlooks the fact that humans are inherently relational. While liberalism has long been tied to atomistic personhood, recognising atomism's limitations does not mean the end of political liberalism.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Liberal political theory’s traditional focus on atomistic personhood—seeing individuals as self-contained beings whose status stems from intellectual abilities—has shaped our legal systems but does not reflect human nature and increasingly struggles to capture online harms.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I am delighted to be returning to Leiden University on 11 September to present my paper 'What is freedom for? A relational approach to liberalism' at the Centre for Political Philosophy. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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CPP Colloquium
The Centre of Political Philosophy is pleased to announce a lecture by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter, postdoc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department o...
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Likewise!! I look forward to your next visit 😊
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This is how I've set up Text-to-Speech, using Kokoro Install kokoro in terminal: pip install kokoro>=0.9.2 soundfile python-docx then create a .py file with the script, the code I have used is now available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem... this creates a .wav file based on the .docx.
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text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro
text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro - gist:5e73a7a375c0409f47c5cb3d380d4910
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
then install an audiobook app for listening to longer files, as they enable bookmarking, note taking, and +10 and -10 second skips and rewinds, and enjoy listening let me know if any of this needs more explanation and/or if it works for what you are wanting!
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In the terminal, install pip install pydub and brew install ffmpeg Then run script to convert .wav into .mp3, available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem...
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.wav to .mp3
.wav to .mp3. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Once the audio file creation is complete you end up with a .wav file that you could convert to mp3, which is more compact. you could also do it in one go with the above script, but as it makes further requirements on what is installed I have separated them.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
once you have the script set up as wanted, you can run it through the terminal. If you use software such as Visual Studio Code, the only thing you need to do is to make sure that the .docx file is in the same directory as the script, or else adjust the path in the configuration section of the script
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
you can change voices and languages in the configuration section, here are some samples of voices huggingface.co/hexgrad/Koko... The code above defaults to US English, for British English use language code 'b'
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
This is how I've set up Text-to-Speech, using Kokoro Install kokoro in terminal: pip install kokoro>=0.9.2 soundfile python-docx then create a .py file with the script, the code I have used is now available here: gist.github.com/SharedAcadem... this creates a .wav file based on the .docx.
gist.github.com
text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro
text to speech (tts) .docx script for python using kokoro - gist:5e73a7a375c0409f47c5cb3d380d4910
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Sure! Not sure how familiar these terms are so please forgive any redundant over-explanation I use Visual Studio Code for convenience, but the combination of a plain text file saved as .py for the code and running it in the terminal works too.
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Went down a text-to-speech rabbit hole because my current version of Microsoft Word cannot read text out loud in a mechanical voice, and the AI app readers have a limit, and now I have a python script running in terminal creating an audiobook-for-the-purposes-of-proofreading-with-tired-eyes
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I have a post on Criminal Justice Theory Blog (@theoryjustice.bsky.social) about personhood theory and understanding wrongs of non-contact offences, here: image-based sexual abuse. Many thanks to @markedsouza1.bsky.social and Liat Levanon! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i...
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Image-based sexual abuse and personhood: A relational approach to wrongfulness
by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter In this post, I argue that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and that this infringement is more fully captured when …
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
3 more days to submit your abstract for this great conference on Thicker Notions of Human Rights #Accountabilities which will take place in Brussels 19-21 November! The final conference of our great project on future proofing #humanrights 🤩 futureproofinghumanrights.org/news/closing...
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Closing Conference - Call for Abstracts - Future Proofing Human Rights
The Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities Conference revisits the questions of what qualifies as a human rights violation, who holds human rights duties and how to actually deliver human ri...
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Isreal murdered 6 brothers delivering food to starving Gazans. The youngest was 10 years old.
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Fascist fucks. And even if they did have a criminal record, this is still fascist fuckery.
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Prof Clare McGlynn @claremcglynn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🚨New Publication on *Creating* Sexually Explicit Deepfakes & Criminal Law. Pleased to share my latest research with Ruya Tuna Toparlak on why term 'sexual digital forgeries' is preferred, distinct harms of creation & analysis of law reforms around the world onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ann Olivarius @annolivarius.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A third police officer is arrested in Rotherham for raping a 14-year old girl. When we say male sexual violence is "systemic", this is what we mean: It's when a child victim of rape is either ignored by the police or raped by the police. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Third ex-police officer arrested in Rotherham child sexual exploitation inquiry
Former officer with South Yorkshire force arrested on suspicion of raping teenage girl in 2004
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Ann Olivarius @annolivarius.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Here's a radical thought: Assume that girls' feelings reflect facts. Assume that girls can read their environment and are adept at risk assessment. Assume that girls' are ... right. Take them seriously. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Girls in England feel less safe at school than they did pre-Covid, survey finds
Study finds larger drop-off among girls aged 13-14 who feel safe than among boys, compared with age group in 2019
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Justine McCarthy: Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Justine McCarthy: Strip-search of protesters is a scandal of unadulterated hypocrisy
Oonagh Peters says she was led to a cell by a woman garda, told to remove her jeans, pull down her knickers and lift up her bra
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A forensic doctor who examined the bodies of some of the 15 paramedics and Palestinian rescue workers shot dead by Israeli forces and buried in a mass grave in southern Gaza has said there is evidence of execution-style killing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says
Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"Samira Moyheddin recently wrote, '...Don’t stay in jobs where your knowledge is a liability.' [We are compelled] to say out loud, all the time, that if the university has become a place where our knowledge—of genocide, Palestine, racism, fascism—is a liability, then we must change the university."
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Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism
We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
thank you!
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I have a post on Criminal Justice Theory Blog (@theoryjustice.bsky.social) about personhood theory and understanding wrongs of non-contact offences, here: image-based sexual abuse. Many thanks to @markedsouza1.bsky.social and Liat Levanon! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i...
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Image-based sexual abuse and personhood: A relational approach to wrongfulness
by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter In this post, I argue that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and that this infringement is more fully captured when …
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“My biggest advice to the trans youth out there is seek out your community, because we're out here. You have a community of people who love you, who are rallying around you, who support you … You are not alone. We will fight with you and we will fight for you.” Solidarity. Today and every day. 🏳️‍⚧️
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We're In the Fight of Our Lives: What's at Stake This Transgender Day of Visibility
Teen Vogue spoke with advocate Angelica Christina about how trans people are feeling this TDOV.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
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‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation
A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.
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Criminal Justice Theory Blog @theoryjustice.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
And here it is: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/28/i... Comments and reflections most welcome! Thanks to @marthe.bsky.social!
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Image-based sexual abuse and personhood: A relational approach to wrongfulness
by Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter In this post, I argue that the wrongfulness of image-based sexual abuse lies in its infringement of personhood, and that this infringement is more fully captured when …
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The Asian Feminist @theasianfeminist.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Proposal to automatically give babies mother’s surname ignites row in Italy Politician says idea would be ‘compensation for centuries-old injustice’ of children being assigned father’s name. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Proposal to automatically give babies mother’s surname ignites row in Italy
Politician says idea would be ‘compensation for centuries-old injustice’ of children being assigned father’s name
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Next week I will be publishing a postdoc vacancy on children’s rights & digital investigations to work @crisresearch.bsky.social in Brussels on a new EU Research Project on digital investigations of child sexual abuse. Keep an eye out for it here, linkedin and VUB jobsite! #criminology #crimsky
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