Mattia Pinto
@mattia800.bsky.social
Lecturer York Law School & Centre for Applied Human Rights • Socio-legal studies • Penality • Human Rights • Discourse Analysis • All things politics • Writing Human Rights as Sources of Penality (forthcoming, OUP)
ORCID: 0000-0001-7537-3942
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Mattia Pinto
@mattia800.bsky.social
· Jan 30
Human rights as sources of penality - LSE Theses Online
etheses.lse.ac.uk
My PhD thesis, Human Rights as Sources of Penality, is now available online! It explores how human rights foster and justify penality. I'm revising it for a book with OUP, but the thesis offers a preview. Feedback welcome! etheses.lse.ac.uk/4474/ @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social @cahr-york.bsky.social
My chapter w/ @natasamav.bsky.social ‘Accountability for violations of civil and political rights: redress within and beyond the penal frame’ is published in the Research Handbook on Accountability for Human Rights Violations.
DM me if you'd like a copy!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
DM me if you'd like a copy!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
My chapter w/ @natasamav.bsky.social ‘Accountability for violations of civil and political rights: redress within and beyond the penal frame’ is published in the Research Handbook on Accountability for Human Rights Violations.
DM me if you'd like a copy!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
DM me if you'd like a copy!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
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📣Join us today for the first #YCLF 2025-26 Seminar, we'll discuss @drfassnidge.bsky.social's paper 'The Deliberative Stage of Criminalisation and Political Turn: Theories of Criminalisation'
📅 Today, 3-4:30 pm online & @sheffielduni.bsky.social
To attend, visit sites.google.com/view/yclf/
📅 Today, 3-4:30 pm online & @sheffielduni.bsky.social
To attend, visit sites.google.com/view/yclf/
YCLF
Welcome to the YCLF
sites.google.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📣Join us today for the first #YCLF 2025-26 Seminar, we'll discuss @drfassnidge.bsky.social's paper 'The Deliberative Stage of Criminalisation and Political Turn: Theories of Criminalisation'
📅 Today, 3-4:30 pm online & @sheffielduni.bsky.social
To attend, visit sites.google.com/view/yclf/
📅 Today, 3-4:30 pm online & @sheffielduni.bsky.social
To attend, visit sites.google.com/view/yclf/
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Very much looking forward to this, and to getting a chance to discuss with colleagues in the YCLF. Should be a blast!
For the first YCLF 2025-26 Seminar, we'll discuss @drfassnidge.bsky.social chapter: The Deliberative Stage of Criminalisation and "Political Turn" Theories of Criminalisation
📅 30 Oct, 3-4:30 pm online & @sheffielduni.bsky.social
To attend join our mailing list. Info on sites.google.com/view/yclf/
📅 30 Oct, 3-4:30 pm online & @sheffielduni.bsky.social
To attend join our mailing list. Info on sites.google.com/view/yclf/
YCLF
Welcome to the YCLF
sites.google.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Very much looking forward to this, and to getting a chance to discuss with colleagues in the YCLF. Should be a blast!
Join us for the first YCLF seminar of the year!
Also, follow our new page and visit our new website!
All info below 👇
Also, follow our new page and visit our new website!
All info below 👇
For the first YCLF 2025-26 Seminar, we'll discuss @drfassnidge.bsky.social chapter: The Deliberative Stage of Criminalisation and "Political Turn" Theories of Criminalisation
📅 30 Oct, 3-4:30 pm online & @sheffielduni.bsky.social
To attend join our mailing list. Info on sites.google.com/view/yclf/
📅 30 Oct, 3-4:30 pm online & @sheffielduni.bsky.social
To attend join our mailing list. Info on sites.google.com/view/yclf/
YCLF
Welcome to the YCLF
sites.google.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Join us for the first YCLF seminar of the year!
Also, follow our new page and visit our new website!
All info below 👇
Also, follow our new page and visit our new website!
All info below 👇
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In this article @ljil-leiden.bsky.social, @mattia800.bsky.social and I challenge the punishment-as-justice perspective that dominates atrocity redress and prevention, examining, with a focus on Gaza, how it can undermine prevention and fuel problematic retaliatory impulses.
bit.ly/48uKHJx
bit.ly/48uKHJx
September 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
In this article @ljil-leiden.bsky.social, @mattia800.bsky.social and I challenge the punishment-as-justice perspective that dominates atrocity redress and prevention, examining, with a focus on Gaza, how it can undermine prevention and fuel problematic retaliatory impulses.
bit.ly/48uKHJx
bit.ly/48uKHJx
In our article in @ljil-leiden.bsky.social @natasamav.bsky.social and I share our discomfort with equating justice to punishment in Palestine
Punishment is limited in terms of justice but also distorts responses, silences dissent and undermines the 'never again' promise
doi.org/10.1017/S092...
Punishment is limited in terms of justice but also distorts responses, silences dissent and undermines the 'never again' promise
doi.org/10.1017/S092...
September 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
In our article in @ljil-leiden.bsky.social @natasamav.bsky.social and I share our discomfort with equating justice to punishment in Palestine
Punishment is limited in terms of justice but also distorts responses, silences dissent and undermines the 'never again' promise
doi.org/10.1017/S092...
Punishment is limited in terms of justice but also distorts responses, silences dissent and undermines the 'never again' promise
doi.org/10.1017/S092...
Just published my review of Mirosław Michał Sadowski's "Intersections of Law and Memory: Influencing Perceptions of the Past" in the Modern Law Review!
Read the review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
More about this very rich book: www.routledge.com/Intersection...
Read the review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
More about this very rich book: www.routledge.com/Intersection...
September 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Just published my review of Mirosław Michał Sadowski's "Intersections of Law and Memory: Influencing Perceptions of the Past" in the Modern Law Review!
Read the review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
More about this very rich book: www.routledge.com/Intersection...
Read the review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
More about this very rich book: www.routledge.com/Intersection...
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The Element is *FREE* to access online for the next 2 weeks and pre-order print copies can be purchased in advance of print publication in June at a VERY reasonable price: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court
Cambridge Core - Public International Law - Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court
www.cambridge.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The Element is *FREE* to access online for the next 2 weeks and pre-order print copies can be purchased in advance of print publication in June at a VERY reasonable price: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
🚨Funded PhD alert!
@uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PGR studentship (stipend + fee waiver).
Apply by 31 May 2025.
Critical human rights & crim law; socio-legal theory & methods? Get in touch: I’d love to support strong applications!
Info: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
@uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PGR studentship (stipend + fee waiver).
Apply by 31 May 2025.
Critical human rights & crim law; socio-legal theory & methods? Get in touch: I’d love to support strong applications!
Info: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
May 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🚨Funded PhD alert!
@uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PGR studentship (stipend + fee waiver).
Apply by 31 May 2025.
Critical human rights & crim law; socio-legal theory & methods? Get in touch: I’d love to support strong applications!
Info: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
@uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PGR studentship (stipend + fee waiver).
Apply by 31 May 2025.
Critical human rights & crim law; socio-legal theory & methods? Get in touch: I’d love to support strong applications!
Info: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
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With my brilliant colleague, @mattia800.bsky.social, last week in Liverpool, at the @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference. The joy of sharing rigorous anticanceral scholarship and collectively building a critique of human rights penality 🤓
April 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
With my brilliant colleague, @mattia800.bsky.social, last week in Liverpool, at the @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference. The joy of sharing rigorous anticanceral scholarship and collectively building a critique of human rights penality 🤓
In Liverpool, for this year's @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference? Come to our panel on human rights and anti-carceral work! With me, @silvilunazul.bsky.social & Valeria Ruiz Perez.
Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
April 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
In Liverpool, for this year's @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference? Come to our panel on human rights and anti-carceral work! With me, @silvilunazul.bsky.social & Valeria Ruiz Perez.
Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
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Here it is ! So many years in the making. Paperback should be released in April.
November 19, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Here it is ! So many years in the making. Paperback should be released in April.
This is tomorrow!!! 👇 Let me know if you want to attend it
On 8th April, I'll be speaking at VERNAC TALKS by DIGNITY Vernacular Accountability Project. My talk, Restoring Harmony, explores how Nasa Indigenous justice in Colombia offers a restorative and collective model for human rights accountability.
DM me for the Zoom link.
@cahr-york.bsky.social
DM me for the Zoom link.
@cahr-york.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is tomorrow!!! 👇 Let me know if you want to attend it
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We'll be at the @SLSA_UK annual conference sharing our anti-carceral work!
⏰15:00-16:30
🗓️Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
🏢502 Hub - 1st Floor, LT2
Equality and Human Rights Law: Special Panel
Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
⏰15:00-16:30
🗓️Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
🏢502 Hub - 1st Floor, LT2
Equality and Human Rights Law: Special Panel
Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
April 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We'll be at the @SLSA_UK annual conference sharing our anti-carceral work!
⏰15:00-16:30
🗓️Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
🏢502 Hub - 1st Floor, LT2
Equality and Human Rights Law: Special Panel
Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
⏰15:00-16:30
🗓️Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
🏢502 Hub - 1st Floor, LT2
Equality and Human Rights Law: Special Panel
Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
On 8th April, I'll be speaking at VERNAC TALKS by DIGNITY Vernacular Accountability Project. My talk, Restoring Harmony, explores how Nasa Indigenous justice in Colombia offers a restorative and collective model for human rights accountability.
DM me for the Zoom link.
@cahr-york.bsky.social
DM me for the Zoom link.
@cahr-york.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
On 8th April, I'll be speaking at VERNAC TALKS by DIGNITY Vernacular Accountability Project. My talk, Restoring Harmony, explores how Nasa Indigenous justice in Colombia offers a restorative and collective model for human rights accountability.
DM me for the Zoom link.
@cahr-york.bsky.social
DM me for the Zoom link.
@cahr-york.bsky.social
Help me share this opportunity!
The Sam Pegram Scholarship covers tuition, accommodation, travel & visa costs, and a living stipend for 1 international student to pursue the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the University of York.
Please visit: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
The Sam Pegram Scholarship covers tuition, accommodation, travel & visa costs, and a living stipend for 1 international student to pursue the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the University of York.
Please visit: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
March 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Help me share this opportunity!
The Sam Pegram Scholarship covers tuition, accommodation, travel & visa costs, and a living stipend for 1 international student to pursue the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the University of York.
Please visit: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
The Sam Pegram Scholarship covers tuition, accommodation, travel & visa costs, and a living stipend for 1 international student to pursue the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the University of York.
Please visit: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
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An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated. nyti.ms/4hRzPq1
March 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated. nyti.ms/4hRzPq1
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The Sam Pegram scholarship covers tuition fees, accommodation, travel, visa costs, & provides a monthly living stipend for one international student pursuing the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice.
More info here 👉 buff.ly/ASkdkUN
#UoY #Scholarship #International #Law #HumanRights
More info here 👉 buff.ly/ASkdkUN
#UoY #Scholarship #International #Law #HumanRights
March 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Sam Pegram scholarship covers tuition fees, accommodation, travel, visa costs, & provides a monthly living stipend for one international student pursuing the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice.
More info here 👉 buff.ly/ASkdkUN
#UoY #Scholarship #International #Law #HumanRights
More info here 👉 buff.ly/ASkdkUN
#UoY #Scholarship #International #Law #HumanRights
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Inspired by calls to reimagine the space currently populated by international criminal law, Meg deGuzman's and my essay engages in feminist dreaming—that is, seeks to reimagine accountability as it could be, viewed through a feminist lens.
Now up @ssrn.bsky.social:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Now up @ssrn.bsky.social:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
March 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Inspired by calls to reimagine the space currently populated by international criminal law, Meg deGuzman's and my essay engages in feminist dreaming—that is, seeks to reimagine accountability as it could be, viewed through a feminist lens.
Now up @ssrn.bsky.social:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Now up @ssrn.bsky.social:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Appena uscito il mio primo articolo in italiano su La Legislazione Penale!
Critico l’uso del penale contro tratta e traffico di migranti, proponendo un cambio di paradigma: da un approccio penale a un confronto agonistico con le istituzioni statali
www.lalegislazionepenale.eu/antagonismo-...
Critico l’uso del penale contro tratta e traffico di migranti, proponendo un cambio di paradigma: da un approccio penale a un confronto agonistico con le istituzioni statali
www.lalegislazionepenale.eu/antagonismo-...
Antagonismo penale o agonismo politico? Reimmaginare le politiche contro il traffico e la tratta alla luce delle esperienze dei migranti – Mattia Pinto – La legislazione penale
www.lalegislazionepenale.eu
March 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Appena uscito il mio primo articolo in italiano su La Legislazione Penale!
Critico l’uso del penale contro tratta e traffico di migranti, proponendo un cambio di paradigma: da un approccio penale a un confronto agonistico con le istituzioni statali
www.lalegislazionepenale.eu/antagonismo-...
Critico l’uso del penale contro tratta e traffico di migranti, proponendo un cambio di paradigma: da un approccio penale a un confronto agonistico con le istituzioni statali
www.lalegislazionepenale.eu/antagonismo-...
Just published my review of Teresa Degenhardt's "War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’" in Punishment & Society!
Read the review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
More about this fascinating book: www.routledge.com/War-as-Prote...
Read the review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
More about this fascinating book: www.routledge.com/War-as-Prote...
March 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Just published my review of Teresa Degenhardt's "War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’" in Punishment & Society!
Read the review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
More about this fascinating book: www.routledge.com/War-as-Prote...
Read the review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
More about this fascinating book: www.routledge.com/War-as-Prote...
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My first book, Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project is forthcoming with CUP in August 2025. I'll be on sabbatical in the fall semester and available for as many book talks, guest lectures, panels as you can think of!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
Governing the Past
Cambridge Core - Humanitarian Law - Governing the Past
www.cambridge.org
January 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
My first book, Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project is forthcoming with CUP in August 2025. I'll be on sabbatical in the fall semester and available for as many book talks, guest lectures, panels as you can think of!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
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if you were ever dying to read about how ICL functions as a mode of accumulation and what the implications of that are for its abolition - then today is your lucky day!
(& if you're a normal person, then today is just monday)
(& if you're a normal person, then today is just monday)
AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies" is now available to read and features and incredible line-up of scholars. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
if you were ever dying to read about how ICL functions as a mode of accumulation and what the implications of that are for its abolition - then today is your lucky day!
(& if you're a normal person, then today is just monday)
(& if you're a normal person, then today is just monday)
Thrilled that my article 'Border Penality as Antagonistic Politics' has been selected as Editors' Choice in the latest issue of @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social "for its innovative analysis and approach to criminology"
Read it below 👇
@cahr-york.bsky.social @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social
Read it below 👇
@cahr-york.bsky.social @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social
#TheoreticalCrim is happy to announce that our first #EditorsChoice article is 'Border penality as antagonistic politics' by @mattia800.bsky.social, from Volume 29 Issue 1! Check out this exciting article in our Editors' Choice collection here: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...
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March 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Thrilled that my article 'Border Penality as Antagonistic Politics' has been selected as Editors' Choice in the latest issue of @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social "for its innovative analysis and approach to criminology"
Read it below 👇
@cahr-york.bsky.social @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social
Read it below 👇
@cahr-york.bsky.social @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social
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Equality and Human Rights Law: Special Panel
15:00 - 16:30 Tuesday, 15th April, 2025
at the @slsauk.bsky.social Annual Conference in April! @mattia800.bsky.social
Join us to discuss law, human rights, and (anti)carceral politics:
virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
15:00 - 16:30 Tuesday, 15th April, 2025
at the @slsauk.bsky.social Annual Conference in April! @mattia800.bsky.social
Join us to discuss law, human rights, and (anti)carceral politics:
virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
March 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Equality and Human Rights Law: Special Panel
15:00 - 16:30 Tuesday, 15th April, 2025
at the @slsauk.bsky.social Annual Conference in April! @mattia800.bsky.social
Join us to discuss law, human rights, and (anti)carceral politics:
virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
15:00 - 16:30 Tuesday, 15th April, 2025
at the @slsauk.bsky.social Annual Conference in April! @mattia800.bsky.social
Join us to discuss law, human rights, and (anti)carceral politics:
virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...