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Randle DeFalco

@randledefalco.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Law researching atrocity, international criminal law (ICL), transitional justice, and related areas Author: Invisible Atrocities (CUP, 2022)

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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 17/09/2026
We stand in solidarity with Prof. Erakat and join her and South Florida residents in calling on Palm Beach County officials to end its $1 billion in Israeli bonds investments—money that is used to murder Palestinians.
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Read this by my colleage Elizabeth Beavers! newsletter.widener.edu/api/v1/track...
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Trump designates protesters terrorists. How far will it go?
The White House thinks Palestine Action in the UK and other US left-wing orgs are a threat to the homeland. At least that is what they say.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
imagine doing this to yourself and thinking the joke's on somebody else
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Super important work by Rachel and her students. The myopic focus on the death penalty without addressing LWOP sentences as foundationally similar is a shame.
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Here's the text of the bill, so you can see how simple & bad it is: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... "Secretary of Labor may not finalize... or enforce the proposed standard titled 'Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings' ...or any substantially similar standard."
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Great summary from my wonderful colleague @elizabethrb.bsky.social reminding us how the post 9/11 “war” on terror set up the architecture of the Trump regime’s ongoing cruelty: internationalpolicy.org/publications...
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The War on Terror Built the Foundation for Trump’s Violence - CIP
Congress declined to meaningfully check the blatant illegalities of the War on Terror, instead handing Trump expansive powers.
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Just discovered my book, Invisible Atrocities, is available on paperback AND that it received a quite generous review from @uniofreading.bsky.social's Ben Willis in @globalr2p.bsky.social here: brill.com/view/journal... Now that it's $40, maybe consider it? www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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Invisible Atrocities | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
By deleting these posts, UNC administrators have also taken a stance on political and social issues. They have declared that they tolerate bigotry and that the voices of conservative activists matter more than those of the majority of North Carolinians. Cowards! www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
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UNC Athletics celebrated Pride month in social media post. Now, it’s deleted.
Pride month posts from both UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC Greensboro have been deleted.
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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 02/06/2026
NYPD Commissioner Tisch will command a force of 35,555 uniformed officers by the end of the year. That's a larger police force than under Mayor Adams. We all want safe communities. More police does not make us safer.
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NYPD set to hire 580 extra cops under Mayor Mamdani’s latest budget
The announcement was the latest sign of Commissioner Tisch’s power in the Mamdani administration.
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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
If you can get down to Delaney to support the strikers please do. My union has a bunch of folks there today and I’ll be heading back down there tomorrow.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 17/05/2026
The nonprofit Philadelphia Prison Society, which runs the program, needs $600,000 to keep it running next year.
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A bus program has taken families for decades to visit incarcerated loved ones could disappear without funding
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup... 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’
In remarks at a judicial conference, Roberts bemoaned what he characterized as the American public’s misconceptions about the Supreme Court.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/05/2026
thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"There will be no live student speakers at CUNY School of Law or at NYU's school-specific ceremonies after former students gave speeches that were fiercely critical of Israel" "Columbia officials said there will not be a student speaker at the university’s main commencement" Disgraceful. Pathetic.
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Justice Blackmun (dissent in Bailey): "The atrocities and inhuman conditions of prison life in America are almost unbelievable" I explore ongoing atrocities at US carceral sites through the lens of ICL in my article: American Carceral Atrocities in the Penn JIL papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver...
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trump warns 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran fails to meet his deadline An explicit, unequivocal public statement of genocidal intent…. As if aggression wasn’t bad enough
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I continue to believe that pregnant people should not be Incarcerated. (And really, should anyone be?)
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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Friends and colleagues at Leiden Uni are organizing a discussion on a lesser known and followed case, so do join and learn more. #Genocide #MassViolence www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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Uyghur genocide
This Symposium aims to raise awareness among students about the Uyghur genocide currently happening in the Xinjiang region, perpetuated by the Chinese government. We will discuss what are the events t...
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Andrew Cuomo is a bad man pulling on a dangerous thread because he wants to win a job he doesn’t actually want to do in a place he hates
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Delighted to announce my article, American Carceral Atrocities, is forthcoming in the Penn Journal of IL and is up on SSRN (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) The piece theorizes the sprawling US carceral system as a system of ongoing atrocity violence, perpetrated against detainees.
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-white-ci... Yes
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The White Civility Council
As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright i...
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Children’s literature professor fired by Texas university over ‘gender’ content “Texas A&M is a great university … that honors academic freedom and academic responsibility” Lmao
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
If Israel is willing to target and kill journalists in a hospital with double tap strikes over a camera (a fucking camera, like WTF), what is it doing when it believes there are actual Hamas figures? These war crimes will not stop until those responsible are held to account.
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
"As of February 2025, the only reasonable inference from the cumulative evidence is that Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide." - @itamann.bsky.social Eleven international law experts were asked: is there genocide in Gaza. Nine said yes. www.lto.de/recht/hinter...
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International Law Experts: Genocide in Gaza?
Does Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitute genocide? LTO asked eleven international law experts. After 22 months of war, a clear tendency is emerging.
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
www.lto.de/recht/hinter... Spoiler alert: a virtual unanimous “yes”, with the sole uncertainty being the mens rea of individual perps, and whether can be attributed to state of Israel as a whole.
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International Law Experts: Genocide in Gaza?
Does Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitute genocide? LTO asked eleven international law experts. After 22 months of war, a clear tendency is emerging.
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Suit Accuses N.Y.P.D. of Continued Aggression at Protests Over Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n... Courageous and important lawyering including by my wonderful colleague, Elena Cohen!
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Suit Accuses N.Y.P.D. of Continued Aggression at Protests Over Gaza
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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
In response to the formal request of Minister Riyad Mansour, State of Palestine's Permanent Observer to the UN, during the August 10 UN Security Council Meeting, for "an immediate international protection force to save the Palestinian people from certain death," DAWN issues the following statement:
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UN General Assembly: Deploy International Protection Force to Gaza
(Washington D.C., August 11, 2025) – In response to the formal request of Minister Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, during the August 10 Emergency UN ...
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
So ashamed and sad to hear about this from my alma mater 😣
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative at www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-... "a lot of the children have already passed the point of no return where [...] even refeeding could potentially cause death itself.” This is at minimum extermination as a CAH
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Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 30/07/2025
The UN has determined that the “worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.” Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.
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Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
#AbolishTheBarExam
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
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Opinion | The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion
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Evelyne Schmid @evelyneschmid.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Two political prisoners in Iran 🇮🇷, Behrouz Ehsani & Mehdi Hassani, were executed today. According to @amnesty.org, they were tried in a 5-minute trial. Stop executions, arbitrary detention, unfair trials and torture. Urgent action is needed. @un-spexperts.bsky.social
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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Very rare for the ICRC: "Every political hesitation" in failing to bring the "abhorrent" practice of extreme deprivation and indiscriminate attacks to an immediate and decisive end "will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war" States "must do more"
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I wrote a few things on starvation/famine and ICL nearly a decade ago. I figured it was not going to be relevant moving forward, yet he we r, witnessing at bare minimum a slow process of extermination (as a CAH) unfold in Gaza. It’s just so sad and pathetic.
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Margaret H. Zhang @marzhang.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This is a thorough explainer on the escalation between DOJ and the NJ federal courts.
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Melissa Stewart @melissastewart.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Looking for an amazing job in paradise? We're hiring a tenure-track Reference and Instructional Services Librarian @uhawaiilaw.bsky.social Our librarians are all amazing and you couldn't ask for a better place to live and work. Come join us! www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...
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Librarian III or Librarian IV, #0082296
I. Duties and Responsibilities: Librarian III or Librarian IV  The University of Hawai'i at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law seeks to hire a tenure-track Reference and Instructional Services...
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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A grave and shameful attack, in a very long line of attacks by the US, on the UnIted Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. She and her predecessors have always faced smears and hostility for their work on Palestine but this is a serious and disgraceful escalation.
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Amnesty International says Israel and aid system use starvation to commit Gaza genocide
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Rachel Lopez @rlopez.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We have officially launched the Participatory Law Fund at Temple Beasley School of Law! The fund is devoted to supporting the production of an emerging genre of legal scholarship called Participatory Law Scholarship (or PLS). More info about the application process @ law.temple.edu/academics/in...
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Participatory Law Fund - Temple Law
Participatory Law Fund Apply by June. 30, 2025 The Participatory Law Fund (PLF) is devoted to supporting the production of an emergent genre of legal…
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/privacy-dign... Great quick read by my colleague, the wonderful Elena Cohen!
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Privacy, Dignity, and Erotic Justice - Gender Policy Report
Privacy was never enough to ensure freedom for LGBTQ+ and other sexually- minoritized groups, such as sex workers. We need to move beyond privacy rights to achieve erotic justice in US law.
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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
The "plan" is a bunch of crimes against humanity stacked together
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/04/2025
“Studies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics of the term ‘concentration camp’ as they pertain to a place the government is actively sending people with no criminal history is highly associated with national stability,” said historian Kristen Boyd theonion.com/histori...
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Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling over the exact definition of a concentration camp was a sign of a healthy society. “Studies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics […]
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Kumar Rao @kumar.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Another clear demonstration of why dismantling the carceral system has always been key to fighting fascism and building a real democracy.
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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Worth re-reading the ICC’s 2019 authorization of a crimes against humanity investigation in the Bangladesh/Myanmar situation: www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...
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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Interested in dignity as a legal concept in teaching, advocacy, and scholarship? Come join us at Widener Law Delaware April 11. I’ll be moderating a panel on dignity and crim law w/ @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social, Terrell Woolfolk, Jocelyn Getgen-Kestenbaum & Dwayne Bensing of ACLU-DE
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