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Tara Van Ho

@taravanho.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, St. Mary’s University (TX). Fmrly Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor, University of Essex. Mostly posting: human rights, business & human rights / #BizHumanRights, international economic law & transitional justice. And Taylor Swift.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Ian Tucker @tuckerian.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
@taravanho.bsky.social of St Mary School of Law, Texas says the obligation to conduct due diligence on Palantir "stems from international law" and applies regardless of whether funds have signed up to any alliance. Membership, "is not a substitute for doing their own human rights due diligence." 6/9
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Asymmetrical Haircuts @asymmetricalh.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
TB 🔙 After the LaFarge decision this week, we suggest another episode we did into corporate responsibility: Investor State Dispute Settlements. To find out more — listen to our throwback this week where @taravanho.bsky.social gave us a quick primer. www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...
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Episode 54 – ISDS 101 with Tara van Ho
Janet and Stephanie sit down with Dr Tara van Ho to get a crash course in Investor State Dispute Settlements and the controversy around them
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Not the only issue, but the plaintiff in this case appears to have relied on some fake judgments due to use of AI 🙄
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Does anyone know who is prepping the case to challenge the SAVE Act when passed? Having checked that it would cost me $57 to get an Ohio birth certificate while in Texas -- and knowing that I've not always been able to afford an extra $57 to exercise my right to vote -- I'd happily be a plaintiff.
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Monica Iyer @monicavisalam.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Such an honor to be in the inaugural class of business and human rights scholars in residence at St. Mary’s School of law in lovely San Antonio! Huge thanks to @taravanho.bsky.social and @jenatmartin.bsky.social for putting together this wonderful program
Three women on a bridge overlooking the San Antonio riverwalk
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I don't understand why the Democrats aren't just walking out en masse to protest his lies.
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Why does Mike Johnson look like he wants to cry?
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This State of the Union is going to be stupidly long because the GOP feels the need to clap for Dear Leader after every sentence.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Message of Savannah Guthrie to her mother Nancy’s abductor: “It’s never too late to do the right thing.” If you know anything about where Nancy Guthrie might be please contact 1-890-CALL-FBI
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
When Vichy liberal fucks say ICE just needs more training, *this guy* is literally the person that would be doing that training. Along with Israeli soldiers with the latest new tips and tricks for enforcing genocidal apartheid.
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Holly Cullen @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
As always, I ♥️ Laura Tingle.
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
During the season in which we celebrate Jesus's family -- who in his earliest days, fled oppression and became refugees in Egypt -- I'd encourage the Anglican Church to regularly remind Reform UK that their policies are antithetical to Christian beliefs.
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I'm teaching International Laws of Armed Conflict this Spring. I had a very straight-forward & easy agenda, particularly since it's my first time teaching this as a stand-alone course & I'm doing it in Texas. But now ... the last week... Any experienced US based LOAC teachers willing to talk?
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Good morning.
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The brilliant Erika George addressing DEI & racism in the U.S. in Assembly Hall. #BizHumanRights #UNForumBHR
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Tell me again that we can't remove confederate statues because their part of our history.... Also, every corporate donor to this project should be on boycott lists. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna238754
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Demolition of the White House's East Wing facade starts for Trump's ballroom project
President Donald Trump insisted in July that the $250 million project, which he said he and private donors would finance, “won’t interfere with the current building.”
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Heartbroken to hear about the passing of Catarina de Albuquerque. She was an incredible advocate & scholar. The world is a sadder place.
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Favourites so far (in order of status after 1 listen through): 1. Ruin the Friendship 2. Cancelled 3. Fate of Ophelia 🧡 #TS12
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The idea that Pete Hegseth has the competence to lecture that room of military brass on warrior ethos would be laughable if it were an SNL skit. As it is reality... it's not funny.
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Every time I think about Trump speaking to 800 military brass, I'm reminded of when Saddam Hussein brought the Baath party together just to performatively arrest & kill people for "trason" -- based on a hoax he made up himself.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 26/09/2025
“It represents the most significant legal step yet by the Trump administration to harry, punish and humiliate a former official the president identified as an enemy, at the expense of procedural safeguards intended to shield the Justice Department from political interference and personal vendettas.”
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Should this man be in any law enforcement position? Now ask this: do you believe this man will face any consequences for this violent assault on an unarmed, emotionally distressed woman? We can call in complaints to the DHS misconduct hotline: 1-800-323-8603 www.oig.dhs.gov/hotline
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Hotline | Office of Inspector General
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 26/09/2025
I was having a similar thought yesterday as I was reviewing the Supreme Court's racial profiling shadow docket order, which--like so many of the Court's orders, as @sifill.bsky.social has pointed out--just substitutes their own nonsense for all the diligent, real fact-finding the trial court did
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/09/2025
Thinking today about the white woman I represented who was charged with something she didn't do. The cop testilied, and she freaked out saying that it was impossible for a cop to not tell the truth because that was illegal. When I told her that it happened all the time,
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Horrific ideas for $1000, Alex. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Tony Blair in discussions to run transitional Gaza authority
The former prime minister has been in high-level planning talks over the territory's future, the BBC understands.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/09/2025
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project * Middle East crisis – live updates Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal. Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said. Continue reading...
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adepsis @adepsis.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Pew Research looks the same:
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
An update from Chicago's local CBS station: SNIPERS! ICE has snipers targeting protestors. WHAT THE HELL? bsky.app/profile/cweb...
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON This is in suburban Chicago. That woman is a congressional candidate. @katmabu.bsky.social And those weapons? COME ON. WHAT THE F*CK
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Both the best & the funniest thing the Nobel Peace Prize committee could do is give the award to Stephen Colbert & Jimmy Kimmel as defenders of free speech under attack. It *should* go to Gazan journalists, or perhaps soemone from the UAE doing negotiations, but also: Colbert & Kimmel, please.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Fascists are never satisfied by just a little taste of fascism
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We are no longer in the era of First Amendment Lochner-ism. We are in the era of First Amendment Coronado-ism -- where we see the hyperexpansive First Amendment protections that allegedly defined an era come to a screeching halt the minute they stand in the way of conservative policy priorities.
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First Amendment Coronado-ism
We are right now living through one of the most significant rollbacks in First Amendment law since the 1950s. To name a few examples: Univer...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere
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Celine Tan @celinetan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Then it gives the authors of said paper more space & airtime to continue to defend their problematic position & allowed the rehashing of problematic & unethical arguments in the face of an ongoing genocide. This is as a colleague & friend observes is an eg of epistemic injustice. Shame on LJIL 3/3
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Celine Tan @celinetan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
This is a truly terrible response to an already flawed paper & even more flawed editorial process, a microcosm of what is problematic about western academia. The reliance on fomalities is an exercise in what Tania Li termed 'rendering technical', the technocratic depoliticisation of events 1/3
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
"Hey, we realize we fucked up. We want to make it better so we're going to givethe autbors an additional 9 pages to reflect on the criticisms, and then we'll publish *one* article criticising the piece. That sounds like an amazing & valid plan, no?" x.com/LJIL_Leiden/...
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Wait until the GOP realizes how our deployed military vote... man, are they in for a surprise about mail-in ballots!
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Since we're no longer deferring to agency expertise, is someone taking a case challenging to Covid vaccine limitations?
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
T swift just announced her engagement and I have to adult. Life is unfair.
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
One of the ongoing impacts of Covid is that the generation of students I'm teaching are still afraid of failure & mistakes in a way I wasn't & don't think my peers were. Next week, I'd like to share advice on making mistakes & stories of people learning from mistakes or failure and moving forward.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"
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Owen From Ohio @owenfromohio.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
www.rawstory.com/trump-267389...
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Putin 'exploited' Trump's aim for a Nobel Peace Prize for 'strategic gains': WSJ editorial
The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board slammed last week's Trump-Putin summit in a new op-ed published on Sunday. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Anc...
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Micah 6:8 says nothing about "standing on the side of Israel." It does tell us to do justice & walk *humbly* w/ God. Worst thing a Christian (or anyone) can do is convince themselves that what *they want* is what God wants. Don't blame him for your choices. www.middleeasteye.net/news/icj-vic...
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ICJ vice-president: 'The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel'
Judge Julia Sebutinde says signs of the end times 'are being shown in the Middle East'
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Am I the only one who assumes "Ruin the Friendship" is *not* about Blake Lively? 1) TS tends not to make song titles so explicitly about real people (Smallest Man notwithstanding), 2) She's changed lyrics to protect another woman & has lyrics about not pitting successful women against each other.
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
This is excellent, high-level stuff, bringing expert analysis (and a bit of academic infighting) to a general audience. Check out MEE's Expert Witness series on YouTube if you haven't already.
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Guy at the coffre shop has been a practicing lawyer for 15 years. Saw my textbooks and asked "are you in law school?" I told him I teach at St Mary's law school. He looked so shocked & all I can say is: thank you L'Oreal for covering my gray hairs so well!
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Tara Van Ho @taravanho.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
After yesterday, I can never settle for someone who loves me less than Travis & Taylor love each other. @newheightsofficial.bsky.social
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