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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The full programme for the Public Law Conference is out & registration is open. Cape Town 1-4 July 2026 Join our discussions on the future of constitutional democracies. @uctlaw.bsky.social @dansmywholename.bsky.social @natasamav.bsky.social @gerhardkempicl.bsky.social @mattia800.bsky.social

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Do human rights moderate punishment (a shield 🛡️) or expand it (a sword ⚔️)? My new chapter argues they do both as a form of "penal governance". Out now in the Research Handbook on Penal Policy! 📖 Book: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res... 📬 DM me for the accepted version!

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Research Handbook on Penal Policy

‘The Research Handbook on Penal Policy brings together an impressive group of contributors, providing readers with a remarkably rich and wide-ranging set of reflections. The result is an unusually val...

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Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum @yclf.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

If you are interested in criminal justice, children's rights, and/or feminist abolitionism, you cannot miss this presentation on 18th Feb at @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social and online! More info 👇

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Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum @yclf.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Our 5th seminar is coming 🔜 🗣️ Federico La Vattiata: ‘Comparative Approaches to Normative Causation and the Limits of the But-For Test: Between Objective Attribution and Proximate Causation’. 🗓️ Wed 25 Feb, 15-16:30 📍Online & @universityofleeds.bsky.social ®️To join us: sites.google.com/view/yclf/

Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Another great YCLF seminar coming soon! All info below 👇

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Just before Christmas, my article with @natasamav.bsky.social was assigned an issue in @ljil-leiden.bsky.social Want to read it? The article is open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

In our article in @ljil-leiden.bsky.social @natasamav.bsky.social and I share our discomfort with equating justice to punishment in Palestine Punishment is limited in terms of justice but also distorts responses, silences dissent and undermines the 'never again' promise doi.org/10.1017/S092...

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Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum @yclf.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Join the next YCLF seminar! 🗣️ @silvilunazul.bsky.social presents: ‘Anticarceral feminisms, penal violence against women, and the limits of human rights’. 🗓️ Wed 3 Dec, 15:00-16:30 📍Online (via Zoom) ®️To join us: sites.google.com/view/yclf/

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Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum @yclf.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Our new website is live! 🚀 👉 sites.google.com/view/yclf/ Big things are on the way: stay tuned 👀 #YCLF #ComingSoon

Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

My chapter w/ @natasamav.bsky.social ‘Accountability for violations of civil and political rights: redress within and beyond the penal frame’ is published in the Research Handbook on Accountability for Human Rights Violations. DM me if you'd like a copy! www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

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Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum @yclf.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

📣Join us today for the first #YCLF 2025-26 Seminar, we'll discuss @drfassnidge.bsky.social's paper 'The Deliberative Stage of Criminalisation and Political Turn: Theories of Criminalisation' 📅 Today, 3-4:30 pm online & @sheffielduni.bsky.social To attend, visit sites.google.com/view/yclf/

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JP Fassnidge @drfassnidge.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Very much looking forward to this, and to getting a chance to discuss with colleagues in the YCLF. Should be a blast!

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Join us for the first YCLF seminar of the year! Also, follow our new page and visit our new website! All info below 👇

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Natasa Mavronicola @natasamav.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

In this article @ljil-leiden.bsky.social, @mattia800.bsky.social and I challenge the punishment-as-justice perspective that dominates atrocity redress and prevention, examining, with a focus on Gaza, how it can undermine prevention and fuel problematic retaliatory impulses. bit.ly/48uKHJx

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Just published my review of Mirosław Michał Sadowski's "Intersections of Law and Memory: Influencing Perceptions of the Past" in the Modern Law Review! Read the review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... More about this very rich book: www.routledge.com/Intersection...

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International Law & Politics CRN @intllawpoliticscrn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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...

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Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court

Cambridge Core - Public International Law - Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🚨Funded PhD alert! @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PGR studentship (stipend + fee waiver). Apply by 31 May 2025. Critical human rights & crim law; socio-legal theory & methods? Get in touch: I’d love to support strong applications! Info: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...

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Silvana Tapia Tapia @silvilunazul.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

With my brilliant colleague, @mattia800.bsky.social, last week in Liverpool, at the @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference. The joy of sharing rigorous anticanceral scholarship and collectively building a critique of human rights penality 🤓

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

In Liverpool, for this year's @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference? Come to our panel on human rights and anti-carceral work! With me, @silvilunazul.bsky.social & Valeria Ruiz Perez. Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...

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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Here it is ! So many years in the making. Paperback should be released in April.

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is tomorrow!!! 👇 Let me know if you want to attend it

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Silvana Tapia Tapia @silvilunazul.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We'll be at the @SLSA_UK annual conference sharing our anti-carceral work! ⏰15:00-16:30 🗓️Tuesday, 15 April, 2025 🏢502 Hub - 1st Floor, LT2 Equality and Human Rights Law: Special Panel Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

On 8th April, I'll be speaking at VERNAC TALKS by DIGNITY Vernacular Accountability Project. My talk, Restoring Harmony, explores how Nasa Indigenous justice in Colombia offers a restorative and collective model for human rights accountability. DM me for the Zoom link. @cahr-york.bsky.social

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Help me share this opportunity! The Sam Pegram Scholarship covers tuition, accommodation, travel & visa costs, and a living stipend for 1 international student to pursue the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the University of York. Please visit: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/03/2025

An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated. nyti.ms/4hRzPq1

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York Law School, University of York @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The Sam Pegram scholarship covers tuition fees, accommodation, travel, visa costs, & provides a monthly living stipend for one international student pursuing the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice. More info here 👉 buff.ly/ASkdkUN #UoY #Scholarship #International #Law #HumanRights

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Rachel Lopez @rlopez.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Inspired by calls to reimagine the space currently populated by international criminal law, Meg deGuzman's and my essay engages in feminist dreaming—that is, seeks to reimagine accountability as it could be, viewed through a feminist lens. Now up @ssrn.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Feminist Dreams of Justice

<p><span>Inspired by calls to reclaim and reimagine some or all of the space that is currently populated by international criminal law (ICL), this essay engages

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Appena uscito il mio primo articolo in italiano su La Legislazione Penale! Critico l’uso del penale contro tratta e traffico di migranti, proponendo un cambio di paradigma: da un approccio penale a un confronto agonistico con le istituzioni statali www.lalegislazionepenale.eu/antagonismo-...

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Antagonismo penale o agonismo politico? Reimmaginare le politiche contro il traffico e la tratta alla luce delle esperienze dei migranti – Mattia Pinto – La legislazione penale

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Just published my review of Teresa Degenhardt's "War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’" in Punishment & Society! Read the review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... More about this fascinating book: www.routledge.com/War-as-Prote...

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Maja Davidović @majadav.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

My first book, Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project is forthcoming with CUP in August 2025. I'll be on sabbatical in the fall semester and available for as many book talks, guest lectures, panels as you can think of! www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

if you were ever dying to read about how ICL functions as a mode of accumulation and what the implications of that are for its abolition - then today is your lucky day! (& if you're a normal person, then today is just monday)

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Thrilled that my article 'Border Penality as Antagonistic Politics' has been selected as Editors' Choice in the latest issue of @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social "for its innovative analysis and approach to criminology" Read it below 👇 @cahr-york.bsky.social @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social

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Silvana Tapia Tapia @silvilunazul.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Equality and Human Rights Law: Special Panel 15:00 - 16:30 Tuesday, 15th April, 2025 at the @slsauk.bsky.social Annual Conference in April! @mattia800.bsky.social Join us to discuss law, human rights, and (anti)carceral politics: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...

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Anastasiya Kotova @anastasiyakotova.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I’m watching *that* video of Zelenskyy, Trump, and Vance, and while thinking how nauseating this all is, how the two men in control of the world’s largest nuclear arsenal are just nasty, pathetic bullies, I’m also thinking that no bills were presented and no display of gratitude was requested…

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Allegation-picking is an endemic practice of the European Court of Human Rights--I have found over 1,600 instances so far. In this post, I explain what allegation-picking is and why it demands more attention from the Court and Court-watchers alike. strasbourgobservers.com/2025/02/25/a...

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Allegation-Picking and the European Court of Human Rights: A Pervasive Court Practice Hiding in Plain Sight? - Strasbourg Observers

By Alan Greene It is now almost cliché to suggest that the European Court of Human Rights ‘missed an opportunity’ when handing down a judgment. Often, these laments highlight that the Court decided th...

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Theoretical Criminology @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read @mattia800.bsky.social's article, 'Border penality as antagonistic politics,' available now in print and #openaccess online as part of #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Border penality as antagonistic politics - Mattia Pinto, 2025

This article examines the socio-political implications of using criminal law to address migration issues in Italy. It delves into the polarised political debate...

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My article 'Border Penality as Antagonistic Politics' has just been assigned to the new issue of Theoretical Criminology: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... In the🧵 below you can read the piece's main arguments. Let me know what you think! @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social @cahr-york.bsky.social

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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This is extremely damning and, while mainly directed against the previous govt re arms sales to Saudi Arabia and Israel, the partial ban introduced by current govt in September exempts parts for the F-35 jet programme, with bizarre claim it can’t conclude bombing of Gaza breached international law

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Engaging with the FCO since 2023 has been near impossible. By mid 2024, when I stopped, there was still handwringing about what the ICJ January order meant, when we were long past this. The obfuscation is unforgivable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit the UK Foreign Office | Mark Smith

Ministers and senior officials protected arms deals facilitating death and horror in Gaza and Yemen. I urge my former colleagues to resist them, says one-time Foreign Office policy adviser Mark Smith

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Mattia Pinto @mattia800.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My PhD thesis, Human Rights as Sources of Penality, is now available online! It explores how human rights foster and justify penality. I'm revising it for a book with OUP, but the thesis offers a preview. Feedback welcome! etheses.lse.ac.uk/4474/ @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social @cahr-york.bsky.social

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Human rights as sources of penality - LSE Theses Online

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Corina Heri @cohelongo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Very much recommended reading

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Human rights as sources of penality - LSE Theses Online

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York Law School, University of York @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

YLS Seminar Series Introduces: Dr Lea Raible, from the University of Glasgow on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Relation to Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Open to all UoY students and staff to attend, please email law-pgr-admin@york.ac.uk for more information on the event and to register your interest.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/01/2025

The chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission resigned last week. In our latest issue, Matt Foot writes about the failures of a review board ‘led by people who have no record of “scepticism towards the official version of events”.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Matt Foot · Short Cuts: Failures at the CCRC

The Justice Committee recommended in 2015 that the Criminal Cases Review Commission should be ‘less cautious’ in...

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Di Volpe @divolpe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

What an extraordinary example of the empty government rhetoric of anti trafficking approaches to migration. Osama Njeem Elamsry, under ICC arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and head of several detention centres in Libya, was released by Italy due to 'technical errors'. tinyurl.com/4eb8ta53

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Almasri, il «torturatore» libico accusato di crimini di guerra, è già libero: perché l’Italia lo ha scarcerato

Il generale libico Almasri è stato rilasciato subito. A causa di procedure tecniche non eseguite correttamente. Il capo della polizia giudiziaria è già a Tripoli. Su di lui accuse pesanti della Cpi e ...

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