Marco Duranti
marcoduranti.bsky.social
Marco Duranti
@marcoduranti.bsky.social
Historian of human rights and contemporary Europe at the University of Sydney. https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/marco-duranti.html
Chris Hilliard and I have just published on a pivotal case before the European Court of Human Rights that led to the end of caning in British state schools. New forms of legal mobilisation and political backlash foreshadowed future controversies over the ECHR.
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The European Court of Human Rights, pressure-group politics, and the abolition of corporal punishment in British state schools, 1977–1986
This article examines the abolition of corporal punishment in British state schools as a case study in the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) on campaigning for law reform and...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Reposted by Marco Duranti
Not sure why Germany is hearing what I think but

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Samuel Moyn über Donald Trump
Donald Trump kann viel Schaden anrichten, vieles davon wird kein Bruch mit der amerikanischen Geschichte sein, meint der Jurist und Historiker Samuel Moyn.
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January 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Reposted by Marco Duranti
So great to coauthor this chapter on the Vietnam war and international law with @kevinjonheller.bsky.social - more to come! opiniojuris.org/2025/01/28/m...
Moyn & Heller, “The Vietnam War and International Law”
The inimitable Sam Moyn and I have a chapter on the Vietnam War and international law in the Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 3, Endings and Aftermaths, which was just published by Camb…
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January 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM