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Dr Michelle Coleman

@michellecoleman.bsky.social
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Lecturer at Swansea University HRC School of Law. US qualified lawyer, former public defender. Mostly posting ICL, IHRL, human rights, fair trials, presumption of innocence. she/her

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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Here’s a new blog post I wrote about the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression in Ukraine and whether religious leaders (including ROC Patriarch Kirill) could be prosecuted. talkabout.iclrs.org/2025/08/21/t...
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The Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine: Implications for the Prosecution of Religious Leaders - Talk About: Law and Religion
Normally, religious leaders do not have such powers and so could not be prosecuted at the Special Tribunal. If, however, Kirill or another religious leader were proven to have such powers and have par...
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Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) @uon-hrlc.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Our third session of the day examined the legal complexities in issues of perpetration, chaired by Dr Javier S. Eskauriatza (@jseskau.bsky.social) with presentations from Dr Michelle Coleman (@michellecoleman.bsky.social), Mary Waterman & Rory Sugrue #UoN_ICL25 #IntlCrimJustice
Image of session three of the 2025 Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference, featuring four speakers (L:R Mary Waterman, Michelle Coleman, Rory Sugrue & Javier S. Eskauriatza). Session Three: Legal Complexities in Issues of Perpetration

Chair: Javier S. Eskauriatza, University of Nottingham

(Im)Proving Defences at the International Criminal Court - Michelle Coleman, Swansea University

Ongwen, The Adult Child Soldier: A Victim or A Villain? - Mary Waterman, Swansea University

Rethinking the Exclusion-Prosecution Nexus: How to Bridge the Accountability Gap for Vulnerable and Periphery Actors in Armed Conflicts Who Seek Refuge Abroad - Rory Sugrue, Tilburg University
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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Bombing Iran: has the UN charter failed?
The UN Security Council veto makes it virtually impossible to uphold its own charter when it comes to acts of aggression such as the bombing of Iran.
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
On my way to Liverpool todays for the @slsauk.bsky.social Annual Conference. Looking forward to connecting with colleagues and friends!
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Very much looking forward to participating in the Trent University Community Movements conference this weekend! www.trentu.ca/about/news-e...
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2025 Community Movements Conference: Forgotten Conflicts: Sudan and Yemen - About - Trent UniversityThe Campaign ForMomentousActionResearchLeadershipDebatePerformanceConnectionDiscoveryIdeasPlacesStew...
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🚨BOOK LAUNCH - The Criminal Justice Centre at QMUL is delighted to host the launch of @chloekennedy.bsky.social 's Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law with an amazing panel incl @markedsouza1.bsky.social 📍QMUL (hybrid) 🗓️ Wed 9 April at 6 pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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Book Launch - Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law
Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (CUP) by Chloë Kennedy
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Only 6 days left to apply!
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Looking for a PhD in #democracy #criminallaw #sentencing #ruleoflaw? Tom Hannant and I are advertising a fully funded PhD student to study incarceration's collateral consequences for democratic rights and participation. Deadline: 24 February 2025 www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Law: Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Democratic Participation and Prisoners (RS780) - Swansea UniversityMenu
We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This was a great project to participate in. So happy to see the fully open access book published!
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Benjamin Duerr @benjaminduerr.com · 01/02/2025
Nuremberg tribunal files to be digitised: 2.5 million documents from 1946 to 1949 to be made available by project DigiNMT.
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ATLAS Women @atlaswomen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We've joined Bluesky! Looking forward to contributing to this space!
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Matt Pollard @mpollard.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Opening for a Research Fellow in the customary international humanitarian law research team at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge! It's in the British Red Cross International Law & Policy team. The project is jointly managed by British Red Cross & @icrc.org. #IHL
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Research Fellow (International Law) in Cambridgeshire | British Red Cross
View details and apply for this Research Fellow (International Law) vacancy in Cambridgeshire. Job Title: Research Fellow (International Law) Job Location: Cambridge (Flexible) Salary: £3...
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Today my train from Cardiff to Swansea broke down five minutes outside of Cardiff. We sat on the train for about an hour and the conductor came through saying 'This train is a bit knackered!'
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a cartoon train is on the tracks with a yellow car
ALT: a cartoon train is on the tracks with a yellow car
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Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
☺️The deadline for abstracts for the #SLSA2025 annual conference @liverpooluni.bsky.social is 18 December - don't miss out. Lots of lovely streams and current topics and people to discuss your socio-legal research with. Early bird registration, also open. See: www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-202...
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Call for papers - Liverpool Law School - University of Liverpool
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Sebastian van Baalen @sebastianvanbaalen.se · 25/11/2024
🎓 The call is out for my favorite academic conference: the Conflict Research Society Annual Conference 2025. If you like your conferences inviting, informal, theoretically and empirically diverse, and full of relevant practitioners, CRS is for you! conflictresearchsociety.org/call-for-pap...
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Call for papers 2025 - CRS
Call for papers 2025 CRS
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Me all summer: "Yeah December is fine for that deadline." "I can definitely get that done by the end of the year." Me today, looking at my calendar: 😬 If you need me I'll be at my desk.
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Don't forget the SLSA 2025 call for papers is now open! Abstracts due by 18 December. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in Liverpool! www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-2025/
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SLSA 2025 - Liverpool Law School - University of Liverpool
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ESIL Early-Career Network Co-Ordinating Committee @esilearlycareer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The Call for Papers for the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference on "Reconstructing International Law", hosted by Freie Universität Berlin, is out! 🏗️ ⚖ 📅 Deadline: 31 January The ECR Committee wishes to expand the offer of ECR-tailored events. Share your feedback via this survey forms.gle/gmtv8idwhcWT...
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I got out of the habit of posting anything, anywhere. Looking forward to getting back in!
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
This is an interesting account of reconciliation efforts in Rwanda. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...
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‘He killed my sister. Now I see his remorse’: the extraordinary stories of survivors of the Rwandan genocide who forgave their attackers
Half a million died in 100 days: neighbours attacked neighbours, children saw their families slaughtered. But 30 years on, many of the victims and perpetrators have forged reconciliations – even becom...
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Andrea Maria Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
Nottingham's Human Rights Law Centre & NTU's Climate Justice Hub are excited to share the Call for Abstracts for our upcoming workshop on Climate Change and Migration, sponsored by SLSA, which will take place on June 19! 🗓️Deadline for submissions: 12 April 2024 📌Full details: bit.ly/3VnXJlC
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Climate Change and Migration: New Challenges, Legal Responses, and Policy Solutions - The University of Nottingham
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Katharine Fortin @katharinefortin.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
On 8th April, the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights is organising a workshop on peer review for early career scholars and anyone else wanting insights into the publishing process. You can sign up here: forms.uu.nl/universiteit...
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Jacob Katz Cogan @jkatzcogan.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
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Call for Papers: From Protection to Coercion: the Limits of Positive Obligations in Human Rights Law
A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "From Protection to Coercion: the Limits of Positive Obligations in Human Rights Law," to take place October 3-4, 2024, at Lund University. The call is here.      
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
One week left to apply for this **Fully funded PhD** at @Swansea_Law . Topic is vulnerability in international criminal law. Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions! bit.ly/SURES24 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGA888/s...
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Law: Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES): Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: Vulnerability in International Criminal Law (RS560) - Swansea UniversityMenu
We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
What a great opportunity!
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
Interested in a PhD in International Criminal Law? I’m advertising a **fully funded** position with Dr Sara Correia on vulnerability in ICL. Eligibility criteria and application details in the link. Get in touch if you have questions! Please share widely! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Marco Longobardo @marcolongobardo.bsky.social · 30/01/2024
❗️*please share* On 13 Feb come to Westminster Law School to discuss new book by Caleb Wheeler "Fairness and the Goals of International Criminal Trials" with Sara Dill, Miracle Uche and myself. Free in-person registration at tinyurl.com/2kmfhdrj
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Marco Longobardo @marcolongobardo.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Proud reviews editor again! At the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies we've published a review essay by Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social on Finding Fairness: Two Perspectives in International Criminal Law, reviewing Sophie Rigney's & Jonathan Hafetz's books on the topic
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
Today I finished a funding application. In celebration I closed my browser. RIP all my tabs.
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Caleb Wheeler is having a book launch for ‘Fairness and the Goals of International Criminal Trials’ at Westminster University on 13 Feb! I’m really looking forward to this. It’s a great book!
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Morten Boe @mortenboe.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Happy to share that my latest intervention, "Rethinking Universal Criminal Jurisdiction: Toward a Multidimensional Framework",  is now live on the Modern Criminal Law Review webpage. 📚Read the full intervention here: crimlrev.net/2024/01/08/r...
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Rethinking Universal Criminal Jurisdiction: Toward a Multidimensional Framework (Morten Boe) - Moder...
➡︎ PDF Rethinking Universal Criminal Jurisdiction: Toward a Multidimensional Framework Morten Boe* Universal criminal jurisdiction (UJ) has had an impressive, even turbulent, career during the las...
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
My book review for @jihls discussing two excellent books on fairness came out over the break. Fairness and Rights in International Criminal Procedure by Sophie Rigney @EdinburghUP & Punishing Atrocities Through a Fair Trial by Jonathan Hafetz @CambridgeUP brill.com/view/journal...
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
The ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology is inviting abstract submissions around the theme “When Renewal Repeats: The Dis/Continuities of International Law and Technology”. We are *very* excited about the @esil_sedi 2024 Annual Conference theme!
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
📢📢Full PhD Scholarships! ESRC WGSSS Empirical Studies in Law and Criminology Pathway is open. Pls contact me if you’re interested in applying for a PhD under my supervision - esp int’l criminal law, criminal law, evidence & procedure. More details in link: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Empirical Studies in Law and Criminology: Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sci...
We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.
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Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
The Durham Human Rights and Public Law Centre have organised a PGR workshop. It is aimed at PGRs who have a paper close to publication in the field of Public Law and Human Rights. Limited travel bursaries are available! See link below and please share!
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Call for nominations for the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law
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Human Rights Center @hrcberkeley.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
#JobOpening: Join our team as an #OpenSource Investigations Specialist! You'll help shape & oversee the research conducted in our student Investigations Lab and provide support to our professional investigations spanning law, journalism & human rights: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04119
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Jacob Katz Cogan @jkatzcogan.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Call for Papers: Human Rights Accountability of Non-Universally Recognised States and State-Like Entities dlvr.it/SywQqx
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MPIL Heidelberg @mpil.de · 29/11/2023
📣 Call for Papers! Join us at the Berlin Workshop on 'Comparative International Legal Policy: National Political Approaches towards International Legal Order' on June 5-6, 2024. Co-hosted w/ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Submission details available here: bit.ly/3RjVI7r.
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MPI Legal History and Legal Theory @mpilhlt.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Exciting Opportunity: The Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History 2024 is calling early-stage research students, especially PhD candidates, for an immersive exploration of legal history. Apply now! www.lhlt.mpg.de/3577611/summ...
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Fully funded PhD opportunity at Swansea Uni! There's a short deadline 29 November! If you're interested in a PhD in law on a topic related to - int'l criminal law, criminal law, evidence, human rights, please feel free to get in touch to discuss! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
The application window for our 2024-25 cohort of Rosenwald Postdoctoral Fellows at the Dickey Center at Dartmouth is open now. We welcome apps from scholars working on foreign policy, int'l security, or int'l history, broadly defined. Deadline: 29 December 2023. Details ⬇️
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Katharina Natter @knatter.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
👀 IMR is looking for a new #BookReview Editor! Are you keen on shaping how the newest research monographs are discussed in the leading journal on international #migration? 📌Apply by 26 November! cmsny.org/imr-seeking-...
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IMR is Seeking a Book Review Editor - The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS)
The International Migration Review is seeking a new Book Review Editor. Interested candidates can submit applications by November 26, 2023.
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Ali Struthers @dralistruthers.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Call for papers has been announced for the International Association for Human Rights Education Conference in London on 19 April 2024. Deadline for abstracts is 7 December. Keynotes from Sonia Livingstone & Farzana Shain. Further details here: humanrer.org/index.php/hu...
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Ruth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Call for Papers for 'Failed Again: The Fault-lines in Utopia' in Newcastle in September 2024. This workshop forms part of the AHRC Network on Utopia and Failure. Deadline for abstracts: 5th December 2023 failingbetter.sps.ed.ac.uk/workshops/se...
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Second Workshop in Newcastle (September 10-11, 2024) | School of Social and Political Science
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Very pleased to be hearing this panel from the Sentencing Academy at Cardiff Law! Jenni Ward, Gavin Dingwall and Gary Betts.
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Being killed should never be the outcome of a traffic stop. Leonard Cure was exonerated in 2020 after spending 16 years in jail. Yesterday, police shot and killed him during a traffic stop. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
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US man wrongfully imprisoned for 16 years shot and killed by police
Leonard Cure, 53, exonerated after being wrongly convicted of robbing a drug store in 2003, killed after traffic stop in Georgia
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Great idea! 1. Acquittals in international criminal law -- what do acquittals mean for acquittees, states, courts, and victims? 2. The portrayal of criminal law/evidence in popular music and its educational value.
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Dr Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Over the summer did an interview with Solon Solomon of Brunel Law for the BUL Emerging Voices Series which is now available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O_5...
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