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Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social · 12d

Woke up to this. A city I love, making a great choice!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Mamdani: "Yes, aunties."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Mamdani: "Yes, aunties."

Daniele Saracino @dansaracino.bsky.social · 22d

A few flashlights from my latest open access publication with @judithkohlenberger.bsky.social and @bernd-parusel.bsky.social in the European Journal of Migration and Law: (1/4)

brill.com/view/journal...

Ben Tonra @bentonra.bsky.social · 24d

Tremendous event 26 November between @northeasternu.bsky.social and @ucddublin.bsky.social - where can we see positive international collaboration even during an era of fragmentation and polarisation? Join us. Contact @bentonra.bsky.social for event registration and feel free to share widely.

Ben Tonra @bentonra.bsky.social · 25d

Not good enough. This needs investigation and consequences.

Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 26d

Catherine Connolly files formal complaint to Electoral Commission over AI deepfake videos on FB — says the "malicious" videos are an attempt to "undermine democracy".
Meanwhile, both main regulators say it's not their job to find out who made the videos.

www.independent.ie/business/tec...

Catherine Connolly files complaint to Electoral Commission over viral AI deepfake videos on Facebook that generated 160,000 views

A series of Al deepfake videos of RTÉ news bulletins criticising presidential candidate Catherine Connolly amassed over 160,000 views and hundreds of genuine comments on Facebook over several days bef...

www.independent.ie

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 27d

Joint policy brief on the trafficking of migrant women workers in poorly regulated sectors, by the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in people (Siobhan Mullally) and UNWomen - www.linkedin.com/posts/siobh%...

Addressing the trafficking of women migrant workers in poorly regulated sectors | Siobhán Mullally

Our new joint Policy brief, just published with UN Women, addressing trafficking of women migrant workers in sectors such as agriculture, fisheries, domestic work, hospitality and garment production. ...

www.linkedin.com

Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social · 29d

Never hear about events in my home town Tralee til after the event! Take note #speirgorm Will turn up! Looks great Tedx Tralee!

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · Oct 15

Doing my first ever TEDx talk in tralee as part of Tralee TEDx festival - nerves (maybe! 😬) but also looking forward to it - it’s a family affair as the sisters company, quest and thrive, are running wellness zone part. Tickets if you’re around below #speirgorm www.tedxtralee.com?fbclid=IwdGR...

Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social · Oct 17

Thanks @svaroschi.bsky.social and @mariafarrell.bsky.social I have now read this blistering piece with relish. Highly recommended!

Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · Oct 17

There are drinking games and then there's re-reading "The Prodigal Techbro" every time @mariafarrell.bsky.social is mentioned.
(I am fun at parties, I swear)

conversationalist.org/2020/03/05/the-prodigal-techbro/

The Prodigal Techbro

Prodigal tech bro stories skip straight from the past, when they were part of something that—surprise!—turned out to be bad, to the present, where they are now a moral authority on how to do good…

conversationalist.org

Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social · Oct 17

Looking forward to reading - migration controls - always a weak spot for human rights - now in full autocratic mode ..

Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · Oct 14

My new paper on "How Speech-Based Immigration Restrictions Threaten Academic Freedom" (forthcoming in Lee Bollinger & Geoffrey Stone, eds., Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump, Oxford Univ. Press): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How Speech-Based Immigration Restrictions Threaten Academic Freedom

<div> Since he returned to office in January 2025, President Donald Trump’s administration has engaged in a systematic effort to deport non-citizen university

papers.ssrn.com

EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · Oct 17

How Not to Trade with Occupying Powers: Western Sahara and the Amendment to the EU-Moroccan Association Agreements | by Andrea Maria Pelliconi and Sebastian von Massow

How Not to Trade with Occupying Powers: Western Sahara and the Amendment to the EU-Moroccan Association Agreements

On October 3 2025, the EU and Morocco concluded an amendment (‘the amendment’) to the EU-Mediterranean Agreement (‘the association agreement’). With the approval of the Council it is already being app...

www.ejiltalk.org

Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · Oct 17

There are drinking games and then there's re-reading "The Prodigal Techbro" every time @mariafarrell.bsky.social is mentioned.
(I am fun at parties, I swear)

conversationalist.org/2020/03/05/the-prodigal-techbro/

The Prodigal Techbro

Prodigal tech bro stories skip straight from the past, when they were part of something that—surprise!—turned out to be bad, to the present, where they are now a moral authority on how to do good…

conversationalist.org

Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · Oct 15

Doing my first ever TEDx talk in tralee as part of Tralee TEDx festival - nerves (maybe! 😬) but also looking forward to it - it’s a family affair as the sisters company, quest and thrive, are running wellness zone part. Tickets if you’re around below #speirgorm www.tedxtralee.com?fbclid=IwdGR...

Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · Oct 14

My new paper on "How Speech-Based Immigration Restrictions Threaten Academic Freedom" (forthcoming in Lee Bollinger & Geoffrey Stone, eds., Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump, Oxford Univ. Press): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How Speech-Based Immigration Restrictions Threaten Academic Freedom

<div> Since he returned to office in January 2025, President Donald Trump’s administration has engaged in a systematic effort to deport non-citizen university

papers.ssrn.com

Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social · Oct 10

Huge congrats! It sounds wonderful. CC

Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social · Oct 7

Thanks @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social for this public service - international labour law at the ICJ!

Holly Cullen @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · Oct 7

I'm no @drnajimagi.bsky.social (I'm more of an ILO nerd), but I watched yesterday's oral hearings in the advisory opinion proceedings on the right to strike under ILO Convention No 87 at the ICJ and provided some highlights in the thread below.

Holly Cullen @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · Oct 6

Happening now: live broadcast of oral submissions on the advisory opinion request from the ILO on the right to strike under ILO Convention No 87 on Freedom of Association.

Holly Cullen @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · Oct 7

I'm no @drnajimagi.bsky.social (I'm more of an ILO nerd), but I watched yesterday's oral hearings in the advisory opinion proceedings on the right to strike under ILO Convention No 87 at the ICJ and provided some highlights in the thread below.

Holly Cullen @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · Oct 6

Happening now: live broadcast of oral submissions on the advisory opinion request from the ILO on the right to strike under ILO Convention No 87 on Freedom of Association.

THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the advisory proceedings on the Right to Strike – International Labour Office; International Trade Union Confederation; In...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion concerning the Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87 on 6 October 2025.

webtv.un.org

Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · Oct 6

The Wolfson Report treats #NorthernIreland and the international legal commitments of the UK Government - which are very clearly spelled out in the #1998Agreement - as mere political agreements.
Once again it is a Treaty & requires #ECHR rights - not UK versions of them
1/3

Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · Oct 6

Ehm...

1) Because it is an integral part of the UK - not an overseas territority etcs., - & UK wide law applies to it

2) Direct Rule is always a possibility

3) Nice to the Conversative & Unionist Party looking for yet another sea border, as that is so popular.

See caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Catherine Briddick @catbriddick.bsky.social · Oct 2

My book, out now! On migration law's treatment of women, gender-based violence, and the legal challenges that migrant women have brought to the rules that determine their status. I have links if you want to review a copy or read a free chapter....

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social · Oct 2

I despair of UK asylum developments - from bad to worse in terms of wrongheaded performative cruelty

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Oct 2

Labour continues to show complete disregard for either basic humanity or reality.
While family reunion routes are already fairly limited, you couldn't create a bigger gift to smuggling gangs than cancelling them. These policies will increase number of people forced to use irregular routes. #r4today

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Oct 1

There is no such thing, as Starmer well knows, as a "golden ticket of resettlement and family reunion" for people who have been granted refugee status. This is meaningless guff aimed to play to populist fantasies that refugees get provided with everything. 1/

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Oct 2

Labour continues to show complete disregard for either basic humanity or reality.
While family reunion routes are already fairly limited, you couldn't create a bigger gift to smuggling gangs than cancelling them. These policies will increase number of people forced to use irregular routes. #r4today

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Oct 1

There is no such thing, as Starmer well knows, as a "golden ticket of resettlement and family reunion" for people who have been granted refugee status. This is meaningless guff aimed to play to populist fantasies that refugees get provided with everything. 1/

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Oct 2

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · Sep 28

We're hosting our final project event on 29 Sept.

Land, Property and Spatial [In]Justice: Towards a Legal Geography of International Law

W/ project team & stellar guest speakers who influenced us
@amandabyer.bsky.social @sonyacotton.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social @elaj-ucd.bsky.social

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Sep 23

Companies are marketing “alternatives” to immigration detention such as ankle monitors, GPS-enabled watches, and biometric reporting apps. But research by Petra Molnar, Daniel Ghezelbash, Carolina Gottardo, and Antonella Napolitano finds that tech doesn’t dismantle detention—it expands it.

Technology is Turning Immigration Detention into an Invisible Leash | TechPolicy.Press

Rights-based and community-centered alternatives to detention are possible, write Petra Molnar, Daniel Ghezelbash, Carolina Gottardo, and Antonella Napolitano.

www.techpolicy.press

Ahmed Ellaboudy @aellaboudy.bsky.social · Sep 23

The programme is here! TriCON New Voices in Constitutional Law Workshop features 6 brilliant ECRs tackling diverse research inquiries, with expert feedback from leading constitutional law academics - plus a keynote session by Prof. Leah Trueblood. @tricondublin.bsky.social

Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · Sep 17

"the European Commission presented today its proposal to the Council to suspend certain trade-related provisions of the Association Agreement between the EU and Israel ... as well as its proposals for sanctions on Hamas, extremist ministers and violent settlers"

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Sean Rehaag @handle.invalid · Sep 16

A busy week...

My @refugeelab.ca released our report about tech and alternatives to immigration detention, co-authored by @danghez.bsky.social & @petramolnar.com, and co-published with @kaldorcentre.bsky.social and @idcoalition.bsky.social:

www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/...

Cover image for a report entitled "From Surveillance to Empowerment: Advancing the Responsible Use of Technology in Alternatives to Detention" Accessible text via link

Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · Sep 16

From myself & @colinmurray.bsky.social on the European Convention on Human Rights & very briefly (bc it is clear) why it is not plausible to claim that it is possible to leave & not breach the 1998 Good Friday/Belfast Agreement.

CAJ @cajni.bsky.social · Sep 16

A new report by @colinmurray.bsky.social and @aoifemod.bsky.social explains claims the UK could leave the ECHR without breaching the Good Friday Agreement are “not credible.”

caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The front cover of CAJ's newest publication titled "The Belfast/ Good Friday Agreement 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights: Explainer". The cover includes this title as well as a partially covered image of 'The Treaty Series' agreement for the Belfast Agreement.

British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) @biicl.bsky.social · Sep 13

📢 Marking 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights (#ECHR) and 35 years of the #VeniceCommission
ECHR and Venice Commission: Guarding Human Rights and the Rule of Law, and Facilitating Constitutional Resilience
📌 BIICL, London | 🗓 6–7 Nov 2025
📌 Programme now available
buff.ly/hK00usl

Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · Sep 13

Bastani talks to @leaypi.bsky.social

Are We Living Through The End of An Empire? | Lea Ypi meets Aaron Bastani

YouTube video by Novara Media

www.youtube.com

The BEYOND project @non-signatory.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our new edited volume, Non-signatory States in International Refugee Law, has just been published 📌
The open access book explores the intricate relationship between the international refugee regime and states that are not signatories to the 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol.

Read the full book:

Non-signatory States in International Refugee Law

"Non-signatory States in International Refugee Law" published on 09 Sep 2025 by Brill | Nijhoff.

brill.com

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