Reposted by Nina ReinersVerfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 21/08/2026The new EU Civil Society Strategy identifies pro bono lawyers as partners. NINA REINERS and ELIAS THOMSEN highlight that the strategy falls short when it comes to accountability constraints for big law firms. verfassungsblog.de/pro-bono-law... 065
Reposted by Nina ReinersVerfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 17/03/2026Die Bundesregierung bezeichnet den Krieg gegen den Iran weiterhin nicht als völkerrechtswidrig. Zahlreiche Wissenschaftler:innen aus dem Völkerrecht und den internationalen Beziehungen fordern eine Rückkehr der dt. Außenpolitik zur UN-Charta und zum Grundgesetz: verfassungsblog.de/stellungnahm... 510451
Reposted by Nina ReinersDr. Kelebogile Zvobgo (she/her) @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social · 16/02/2026✨ TODAY IS THE DAY! ✨ Get your print copy here: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 0203
Reposted by Nina ReinersDepartment of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 09/02/2026📢 New article 🌟 👤 Hallvard Hodne Sandven (ISV) 👉 Feasibility: Superfluous or Moralized 📗 Published in Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/736744doi.orgFeasibility: Superfluous or Moralized* | Ethics: Vol 136, No 1Recent analytical political theory has sought to develop a conceptual analysis of feasibility for the purpose of specifying the “ought implies can” principle. Two central premises of this debate are (... 051
Reposted by Nina Reiners𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Claude Code is wild. All I did was to connect Claude to GitHub, upload the WhoGov dataset & give it the prompt: "Can you come up with your own research question based on the data, do an analysis and write a paper (10 pages). Remember to add citations." It came up with an entire paper + code. 1/4 2355
Reposted by Nina Reinersninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 19/01/2026✨New article out in International Studies Review✨ NGOs are facing backlash, shrinking civic space & increased competition. Here I examine how NGOs can respond by adding new legal entities; or changing funding models. doi.org/10.1093/isr/... 1218
Reposted by Nina Reiners𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I wanted to see how many friends the President of Peace has made during his first and second term, so I made a map of countries he has threatened both economically and militarily, banned citizens from, and bombed. Some things are up for discussion, so a bit on methodology below. 47231
Nina Reiners @ninareiners.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Like for you and Geneva, not the budget cuts ☹️ 020
Reposted by Nina ReinersCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 03/11/2025#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - From the bottom up? Frontline crisis management and informal policy change in international organisations - cup.org/4qKq5nw - @nkortendiek.bsky.social #FirstView 187
Reposted by Nina ReinersAmerican University School of Public Affairs @au-spa.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Can big law firms help defend democracy? Join @statsvitenskap.bsky.social Prof. @NinaReiners.bsky.social to explore how the ERC-funded PROBONO project examines the role of private law firms in protecting human rights & the rule of law. 🗓️ Tue, 11/4 🕑2:30📍Kerwin 301 👉 american-spa.swoogo.com/ProBrono 041
Reposted by Nina Reinersninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Come to Bologna in May 2026 for Workshop on *Obstructionism in International Organizations* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Submit by Dec 15👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please spread the word 🙏docs.google.comCall for Papers Obstructionism in International OrganizationsDate: May 20-22 2026 Location: SAIS Europe, Bologna, Italy Hosts: Nina Hall (Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Europe) & Inken von Borzyskowski (University of Oxford) Aim: This workshop will bring toge... 12415
Reposted by Nina ReinersMariam Salehi @mariamsalehi.bsky.social · 20/10/2025„Krieg ist ein großes Geschäft, Wiederaufbau ist auch ein großes Geschäft.“ Mit Berlin direkt @zdfde.bsky.social habe ich über die Wiederaufbaupläne für Gaza gesprochen. www.zdf.de/play/magazin...zdf.deBerlin direkt vom 19. Oktober 2025Berlin direkt mit den Themen: 1.) Koalition streitet über Wehrdienst, 2.) Interview mit Minister Pistorius, 3.) Junge in der Union gegen Rentenpaket, 4.) Deutsche Hilfen für Gaza? 0104
Reposted by Nina ReinersThe BEYOND project @non-signatory.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Call for Papers 📣 Next June, BEYOND will host a forward-looking conference in Oslo on the lasting significance and evolving challenges of refugee protection under international law. We invite scholars, practitioners and advocates to submit their proposals by December 15. For more information:jus.uio.noCall for Papers: The Refugee Convention at 75: Perspectives Within and Beyond - Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law (IKRS)As the BEYOND project concludes in 2026—coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Refugee Convention—we are pleased to invite scholars, practitioners, and advocates to a forward-looking conference i... 023
Reposted by Nina ReinersCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 30/09/2025NEW ISSUE - Ethics & International Affairs - Volume 39 - Issue 2 - cup.org/4pNRSCI Includes a Roundtable: Global Governance in Hard Times cc @carnegiecouncil.org 033
Reposted by Nina ReinersAlex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Author copies for Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today! If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet. 45565
Reposted by Nina ReinersMariam Salehi @mariamsalehi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025I talked to @afp.com about Germany being under increasing pressure for its Israel policy. German responsibility "could be seen as the responsibility towards international law, the international rules-based order, the promise that genocide must never happen again." www.france24.com/en/live-news...france24.comPressure grows on Germany over rigid support for IsraelPressure is building on Germany to join steps to sanction Israel over the Gaza war, sparking heated debate in a country that has long been at pains to atone for the Holocaust. 194
Reposted by Nina ReinersAnna Fruhstorfer @annakfruhstorfer.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Something I have been working on is starting to feel real, the proofs of Constitutional Change under Autocracy have arrived. I could not be more excited! Publication is expected in early 2026. 3183
Reposted by Nina ReinersNed Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: a book forum from New Perspectives pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfil...pure.rug.nl 021
Reposted by Nina ReinersAlejandro Esguerra @aesguerra.bsky.social · 21/09/2025🌟Officially out now: "The Politics of Beginning. The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation" with @uofmpress.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... Here comes a thread 153
Reposted by Nina ReinersMariam Salehi @mariamsalehi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025🪃We have a new article out in @millennjournal.bsky.social: “Imperial Boomerangs: Transnational and Transtemporal Dimensions of Contemporary Conflict Configurations“ I am very happy, because this has been a proper team effort! @laurakotzur.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 0187
Reposted by Nina ReinersNew York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 16/09/2025“Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. This finding is based on investigations and extensive evidence,” writes Navi Pillay, the head of a U.N. commission. “It has been corroborated by multiple sources.”nyti.msOpinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing GenocideThe chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded that Israel is guilty of the “crime of crimes” in Gaza. 12412
Reposted by Nina Reinersninahall.bsky.social @ninahall.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Excited to be launching our festival "Sensing the Climate" in Bologna. We have a great line up of artists, musicians, films & talks held in public gardens at Le Serre di Giardini Margherita! #climate #nature #art Join us Oct 1-6th, & ck out the program here: serramadre.art/agenda/ 081
Reposted by Nina ReinersThomas Sommerer @tsommerer.bsky.social · 04/09/2025How do international organizations change as the consequence of autocratization? A new article in @coco-journal.bsky.social with @debremaria.bsky.social explores how regime transformations affect IO membership composition. Are non-democracies taking over? ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 13812
Reposted by Nina Reiners𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV). It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more. #ERCStGsv.uio.noJacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites - Department of Political ScienceJacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d... 3418317
Nina Reiners @ninareiners.bsky.social · 01/09/2025✨Congratulations @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & John for turning an #ISA2024 roundtable into an E&IA roundtable✨ Read my essay and all other contributions #OpenAccess - cup.org/4ms4D3N Join us for the launch in two weeks (info below): 📅 Monday, 15 September, 18-19.30 (Oslo)cup.orgHard(er) Times for Human Rights Advocacy in Global Governance: Ideological Capture and Illiberal Interests | Ethics & International Affairs | Cambridge CoreHard(er) Times for Human Rights Advocacy in Global Governance: Ideological Capture and Illiberal Interests 042
Reposted by Nina ReinersCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 22/08/2025#OpenAccess from Ethics & International Affairs - Hard(er) Times for Human Rights Advocacy in Global Governance: Ideological Capture and Illiberal Interests - cup.org/4ms4D3N - @ninareiners.bsky.social #FirstView #HumanRights 053
Reposted by Nina ReinersCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 22/08/2025#OpenAccess from Ethics & International Affairs - The Institutional Dynamics of Global Governance in Hard Times: Innovation or Decline? - cup.org/3JvyR7r - @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & John Karlsrud #FirstView 011
Reposted by Nina ReinersChr. Michelsen Institute @cmi.no · 18/08/2025Follow the Bergen Exchanges here - vimeo.com/event/531010...vimeo.comBeEx2025 – Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation 18-22 AugustJoin scholars, activists, legal professionals, and artists from around the world at the 2025 Bergen Exchanges, a five-day international conference exploring the… 033
Reposted by Nina ReinersAnita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...theguardian.comAnas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on GazaIsrael admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital 201598759
Reposted by Nina ReinersAnita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Coming soon: our introduction to the politics of human rights 🥳📚 Preorder available here: www.cambridge.org/highereducat... @sabinecarey.bsky.social 25813
Reposted by Nina ReinersAlvina Hoffmann @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Absolutely mind-blown! 🤯 What an honour to receive this prize. Enormous thanks to the prize committee, everyone who helped sharpen the argument & my incredible interlocutors in Crimea for whom the struggle for human rights continues. 9325
Reposted by Nina ReinersMariam Salehi @mariamsalehi.bsky.social · 31/07/2025🔥🏟️ New article out: I am very happy that @felixanderl.bsky.social and my paper ”Dangerous arenas: why activists struggle for change in technocratic institutions“ has just been published in @jird-jour.bsky.social and that it’s open access! link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧶👇🏼 1/link.springer.comDangerous arenas: why activists struggle for change in technocratic institutions - Journal of International Relations and DevelopmentEmancipatory activism is often channelled into institutions. While this can be interpreted as a success, it may also demobilize activism. The growing literature on the co-optation of emancipatory stru... 1228
Reposted by Nina ReinersDemocracy Without Borders @democracywithoutborders.org · 15/07/2025Authoritarian regimes use regional organizations to suppress dissent and bolster their power as @debremaria.bsky.social shows in her new book "The Dictators' Club". As autocrats coordinate across borders, democratic actors must do the same, she writes. www.democracywithoutborders.org/37302/democracywithoutborders.orgDictators’ clubs: how regional blocs support authoritarianismAuthoritarian regimes use regional organizations to suppress opposition, resist pressure, and stay in power, new book shows. 064
Reposted by Nina ReinersAlvina Hoffmann @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social · 25/07/2025On 9 July, the US imposed sanctions on special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Below I provide a brief context of this unprecedented attack against this body of experts. 03011
Reposted by Nina ReinersRachel Schoner @rjschoner.bsky.social · 23/07/2025ICJ Opinion: Unanimous. States have obligation under human rights law to protect the climate and environment. 0128
Reposted by Nina Reiners🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 23/07/202566/ 🎆 What a clear ruling today! What a victory for #ClimateJustice! On fossil fuels, right to a healthy environment, historic responsibility, compensation, duties of States withdrawing from Paris: the Court's affirmation of legal principles will enable a new era of accountability. 43512
Reposted by Nina ReinersDr Juliette McIntyre 🩷💚 🏳️🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 23/07/2025States are obliged to regulate private actors in the context of climate chage 1189
Reposted by Nina ReinersKyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 23/07/2025"it is difficult to see how these (IHRL) obligations can be fulfilled without, at the same time, ensuring the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment" "under international law, the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is essential for the enjoyment of human rights" 294