Lena Holzer
@lenaholzer.bsky.social
Legal academic, feminist and queer theory, global inequalities, critical human rights and sports law, loves basketball, she/her, got lost in Cambridge🍉🏳️⚧️
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Why the insistence on using counterterrorism legislation to deal with pro- Palestine solidarities? That is the question I explore here, contending that the anti-Palestinian roots of global counterterrorism inform the biases of the domestic counterterrorism system academic.oup.com/lril/advance...
Counterterrorism and the Question of Palestine: contemporary delegitimisation, historical erasure and the redundancy of international humanitarian law
Abstract. The role that Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and Palestinian resistance to that occupation, have played in shaping counterterrorism regimes in
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August 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Why the insistence on using counterterrorism legislation to deal with pro- Palestine solidarities? That is the question I explore here, contending that the anti-Palestinian roots of global counterterrorism inform the biases of the domestic counterterrorism system academic.oup.com/lril/advance...
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We invite signatures from UK law people for our open letter on the aftermath of FWS.
*Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.
*Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.
A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign
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#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw
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#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw
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A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers
A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...
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May 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We invite signatures from UK law people for our open letter on the aftermath of FWS.
*Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.
*Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.
Join us for this webinar on The International Regulation of Women in Sports on 19 February!
A timely conversation hosted by @ajil.bsky.social. Please join us. @monicahakimi.bsky.social @lenaholzer.bsky.social
February 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Join us for this webinar on The International Regulation of Women in Sports on 19 February!
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A review of #PowerAndPossibilityBook by Bhumika Billa "While the grounded narrative makes the arguments digestible, the evocative language makes the book a meal demanding to be re-membered."
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Folúkẹ́ Adébísí, Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility, Bristol, Bristol University Press, 2023, 204 pp, hb £85.99, pb £26.99
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May 20, 2024 at 2:25 PM
A review of #PowerAndPossibilityBook by Bhumika Billa "While the grounded narrative makes the arguments digestible, the evocative language makes the book a meal demanding to be re-membered."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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📣Call for Papers
Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times: International Law, Critique, and Structural Change
Deadline: 02/02/24
Dates and Location: 03-07/09/24, Kochi, India
Details: bit.ly/3NlO3TW
Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times: International Law, Critique, and Structural Change
Deadline: 02/02/24
Dates and Location: 03-07/09/24, Kochi, India
Details: bit.ly/3NlO3TW
January 7, 2024 at 2:42 PM
📣Call for Papers
Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times: International Law, Critique, and Structural Change
Deadline: 02/02/24
Dates and Location: 03-07/09/24, Kochi, India
Details: bit.ly/3NlO3TW
Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times: International Law, Critique, and Structural Change
Deadline: 02/02/24
Dates and Location: 03-07/09/24, Kochi, India
Details: bit.ly/3NlO3TW
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A TWAILr sponsored panel discussion: Forms of Solidarity, International Law & the Question of Palestine on 29th November (2:00 PM in Gaza; 7:00 AM in New York; 5:30 p.m. in Colombo, 12 p.m. in London and 11 p.m. in Melbourne)
To register, please send an email to twailr.discussion@gmail.com.
To register, please send an email to twailr.discussion@gmail.com.
Panel Discussion: Forms of Solidarity, International Law & the Question of Palestine
This discussion panel brings together a group of legal scholars and activists to share their reflections, experiences, and strategies for responding to the question of Palestine and what global sol…
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November 24, 2023 at 12:00 PM
A TWAILr sponsored panel discussion: Forms of Solidarity, International Law & the Question of Palestine on 29th November (2:00 PM in Gaza; 7:00 AM in New York; 5:30 p.m. in Colombo, 12 p.m. in London and 11 p.m. in Melbourne)
To register, please send an email to twailr.discussion@gmail.com.
To register, please send an email to twailr.discussion@gmail.com.
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Borders are violences
"[Dr. Kiguru] is now in a position where she must re-apply for the visa not just for her daughter but for her husband as well, who is now forced to relocate to the UK in order for the family to remain together."
Please contribute if you can and share either way:
"[Dr. Kiguru] is now in a position where she must re-apply for the visa not just for her daughter but for her husband as well, who is now forced to relocate to the UK in order for the family to remain together."
Please contribute if you can and share either way:
Help reunite Dr Doseline Kiguru and her daughter, organized by Dima Barakat Chami
Dr Doseline Kiguru is a Kenyan permanent Lecturer in World Litera… Dima Barakat Chami needs your support for Help reunite Dr Doseline Kiguru and her daughter
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November 13, 2023 at 12:31 PM
Borders are violences
"[Dr. Kiguru] is now in a position where she must re-apply for the visa not just for her daughter but for her husband as well, who is now forced to relocate to the UK in order for the family to remain together."
Please contribute if you can and share either way:
"[Dr. Kiguru] is now in a position where she must re-apply for the visa not just for her daughter but for her husband as well, who is now forced to relocate to the UK in order for the family to remain together."
Please contribute if you can and share either way: