Sonya Cotton
@sonyacotton.bsky.social
Academic creature, (Doctor in law of in) thinking about community, apartheid and the social worlds made possible through international law.
Post-doc at @DCU - ERC project CAREIntLaw and PhD in @property-injustice.bsky.social
Post-doc at @DCU - ERC project CAREIntLaw and PhD in @property-injustice.bsky.social
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“Land is not just property to be bought or sold.” [...] “It is where people build roots, express their culture, establish communities and a sense of belonging.”
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing presenting his latest report
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing presenting his latest report
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
UN expert calls for people-centred approach to land that limits private property and expropriations
NEW YORK - Access to affordable, well-located and serviced land is at the heart of realising the right to adequate housing, a UN expert said today.“The global housing crisis cannot be addressed withou...
www.ohchr.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“Land is not just property to be bought or sold.” [...] “It is where people build roots, express their culture, establish communities and a sense of belonging.”
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing presenting his latest report
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing presenting his latest report
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
So excited for this event!
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
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
September 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
So excited for this event!
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Please sign! "No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Faculty and staff in European higher education and research call on our academic leaders to end bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions"
uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION – Uppsala Declaration
uppsaladeclaration.se
September 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Please sign! "No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Faculty and staff in European higher education and research call on our academic leaders to end bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions"
uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...
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Our first project PhD has officially graduated! Congratulations @sonyacotton.bsky.social for her research on the meaning of 'community' in international law, and its effects on legal standing + spatial justice in post-apartheid southern Africa! @amandabyer.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Our first project PhD has officially graduated! Congratulations @sonyacotton.bsky.social for her research on the meaning of 'community' in international law, and its effects on legal standing + spatial justice in post-apartheid southern Africa! @amandabyer.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social
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📣 New journal article by @amandabyer.bsky.social just published!
'Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law', LEAD - Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21/2 (2025)
Open Access: lead-journal.org/content/a210...
'Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law', LEAD - Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21/2 (2025)
Open Access: lead-journal.org/content/a210...
lead-journal.org
August 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
📣 New journal article by @amandabyer.bsky.social just published!
'Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law', LEAD - Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21/2 (2025)
Open Access: lead-journal.org/content/a210...
'Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law', LEAD - Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21/2 (2025)
Open Access: lead-journal.org/content/a210...
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Dr. Patrick Toussaint considers the evolving approaches to the climate crisis, from loss and damage to reparations and draws on personal links to climate vulnerable regions in Africa and the diaspora to highlight what's at stake in the fight for climate justice elajucd.com/2025/05/05/f...
Blog Post: From Blue Zone to Courtroom: Some Reflections on Loss and Damage, Liability, and the Case for Climate Reparations
Patrick Toussaint Loss and damage from climate change is no longer a future scenario but the lived reality for millions around the world. And yet, despite over three decades of multilateral negotia…
elajucd.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Dr. Patrick Toussaint considers the evolving approaches to the climate crisis, from loss and damage to reparations and draws on personal links to climate vulnerable regions in Africa and the diaspora to highlight what's at stake in the fight for climate justice elajucd.com/2025/05/05/f...
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Sinn Féin having more to say about the Norman invasion than they do about the British cultural invasion of transphobia into this country that’s happening right now rather than 1000 years ago is such a fucking own goal
May 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Sinn Féin having more to say about the Norman invasion than they do about the British cultural invasion of transphobia into this country that’s happening right now rather than 1000 years ago is such a fucking own goal
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Worthwhile read for cis people to understand what trans people have to go through in Ireland, if they want to access healthcare through the National Gender Service (derogatory).
Transgender people have been asked about pornography and their sex lives when accessing healthcare from the National Gender Service.
They said this experience was traumatic and upsetting.
Experts said questions like these are “completely inappropriate”.
jrnl.ie/6690859
They said this experience was traumatic and upsetting.
Experts said questions like these are “completely inappropriate”.
jrnl.ie/6690859
‘It left me traumatised’: The barriers to accessing transgender healthcare in Ireland
The HSE has admitted that transgender healthcare is ‘limited’ and is ‘not meeting people’s full range of needs’.
jrnl.ie
April 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Worthwhile read for cis people to understand what trans people have to go through in Ireland, if they want to access healthcare through the National Gender Service (derogatory).
It was wonderful to have the Property[in]Justice gals (including @sineadmercier.bsky.social and @amandabyer.bsky.social) together again. Thank you so much @owenmcintyre.bsky.social for this brilliant conference, very impressed that you even managed to make the weather amazing for the event.
Thanks to @owenmcintyre.bsky.social and @ucc.ie Law for hosting another superb conference on Law and the Environment this year. We were delighted with the opportunity to present a project panel + discuss @property-injustice.bsky.social research with the other delegates. Go raibh maith agaibh go leir
May 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It was wonderful to have the Property[in]Justice gals (including @sineadmercier.bsky.social and @amandabyer.bsky.social) together again. Thank you so much @owenmcintyre.bsky.social for this brilliant conference, very impressed that you even managed to make the weather amazing for the event.
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Who owns culture?
At #SydneyWritersFest, our own Sherine Al Shallah and
UNSW law professor Lucas Lixinski @heritagelaw.bsky.social will unpack the ethical & legal dilemmas of cultural objects.
Mark your calendar now for this free Curiosity Lecture
📅 22 May⏰ 2pm www.swf.org.au/program/seas...
At #SydneyWritersFest, our own Sherine Al Shallah and
UNSW law professor Lucas Lixinski @heritagelaw.bsky.social will unpack the ethical & legal dilemmas of cultural objects.
Mark your calendar now for this free Curiosity Lecture
📅 22 May⏰ 2pm www.swf.org.au/program/seas...
Sherine Al Shallah and Lucas Lixinski on Cultural Objects
www.swf.org.au
April 3, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Who owns culture?
At #SydneyWritersFest, our own Sherine Al Shallah and
UNSW law professor Lucas Lixinski @heritagelaw.bsky.social will unpack the ethical & legal dilemmas of cultural objects.
Mark your calendar now for this free Curiosity Lecture
📅 22 May⏰ 2pm www.swf.org.au/program/seas...
At #SydneyWritersFest, our own Sherine Al Shallah and
UNSW law professor Lucas Lixinski @heritagelaw.bsky.social will unpack the ethical & legal dilemmas of cultural objects.
Mark your calendar now for this free Curiosity Lecture
📅 22 May⏰ 2pm www.swf.org.au/program/seas...
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Building care-full futures requires ways of living that break the norms - "we need to practice these ways of being... not wait for them to appear at the end of the road"🌱Check out a chapter with the amazing @claradf.bsky.social 🐌 in Post-Growth Future(s) ipe.hr/wp-content/u...
April 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Building care-full futures requires ways of living that break the norms - "we need to practice these ways of being... not wait for them to appear at the end of the road"🌱Check out a chapter with the amazing @claradf.bsky.social 🐌 in Post-Growth Future(s) ipe.hr/wp-content/u...
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
Genuinely couldn't have predicted that these words would ever manifest inside me, but I sincerely think the GDPR is the most important piece of legislation to emerge from Europe and is doing the most at holding things together. Unexpected (and admittedly dry) addition to the anti-Fascism canon.
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Genuinely couldn't have predicted that these words would ever manifest inside me, but I sincerely think the GDPR is the most important piece of legislation to emerge from Europe and is doing the most at holding things together. Unexpected (and admittedly dry) addition to the anti-Fascism canon.
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"Climate change is a gender issue" writes @cjnicoson.bsky.social. Read more at elajucd.com/2025/03/01/b...
Blog Post: Gender Shaping Climate Change – Courts, Data, and Harm
Christie Nicoson There is a notable gender imbalance in climate decision-making, with only around 20% of countries sending women to the United Nations climate negotiations,[1] and court decisions h…
elajucd.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
"Climate change is a gender issue" writes @cjnicoson.bsky.social. Read more at elajucd.com/2025/03/01/b...
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This Thursday (10th April) at 6pm in Dublin! Asylum Under Pressure with
Professor Sean Rehaag (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), Professor Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst Migration Working Group), Hilkka Becker (Int Protection Appeals Ireland) and me! www.eventbrite.com/e/asylum-und...
Professor Sean Rehaag (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), Professor Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst Migration Working Group), Hilkka Becker (Int Protection Appeals Ireland) and me! www.eventbrite.com/e/asylum-und...
Asylum Under Pressure: Public Lecture and Panel Discussion
Sean Rehaag (York University) w/ Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst) Hilkka C. Becker (Int Protection Appeals Tribunal) & Cathryn Costello (UCD)
www.eventbrite.com
April 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This Thursday (10th April) at 6pm in Dublin! Asylum Under Pressure with
Professor Sean Rehaag (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), Professor Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst Migration Working Group), Hilkka Becker (Int Protection Appeals Ireland) and me! www.eventbrite.com/e/asylum-und...
Professor Sean Rehaag (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), Professor Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst Migration Working Group), Hilkka Becker (Int Protection Appeals Ireland) and me! www.eventbrite.com/e/asylum-und...
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In 2023, and despite lack of government opposition, a Bill to protect Ireland's environment and meet climate goals lapsed with the dissolution of the Dáil. Jamie McLoughlin explores this innovative and potentially transformative Bill in more detail: elajucd.com/2025/03/15/a...
An analysis of the Climate Action and Biodiversity (Mandates of Certain Organisations) Bill 2023
Jamie McLoughlin Introduction It has by now been well established that Ireland – like the rest of the world – is facing grave climate and biodiversity crises. Indeed, the Dáil declared a climate an…
elajucd.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In 2023, and despite lack of government opposition, a Bill to protect Ireland's environment and meet climate goals lapsed with the dissolution of the Dáil. Jamie McLoughlin explores this innovative and potentially transformative Bill in more detail: elajucd.com/2025/03/15/a...
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"The proposed mining application in the Sperrin mountains not only has serious implications for human and animal health across our island, but also for the natural and cultural heritage of one of our island’s most precious landscapes." Read EJNI @ejni.bsky.social report at: ejni.net/wp-content/u...
ejni.net
April 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"The proposed mining application in the Sperrin mountains not only has serious implications for human and animal health across our island, but also for the natural and cultural heritage of one of our island’s most precious landscapes." Read EJNI @ejni.bsky.social report at: ejni.net/wp-content/u...
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EJNI @ejni.bsky.social have published this helpful report on the gold mine application for the Sperrin Mountains (NI) & transboundary consultation with the south: ejni.net/wp-content/u...
@antaisce.bsky.social
@foeireland.bsky.social
@birdwatchireland.bsky.social
@peatlandconserve.bsky.social
@antaisce.bsky.social
@foeireland.bsky.social
@birdwatchireland.bsky.social
@peatlandconserve.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
EJNI @ejni.bsky.social have published this helpful report on the gold mine application for the Sperrin Mountains (NI) & transboundary consultation with the south: ejni.net/wp-content/u...
@antaisce.bsky.social
@foeireland.bsky.social
@birdwatchireland.bsky.social
@peatlandconserve.bsky.social
@antaisce.bsky.social
@foeireland.bsky.social
@birdwatchireland.bsky.social
@peatlandconserve.bsky.social
Well done to the incredible Dr Ng'etich for defending his Viva! I am so proud of you and so honoured to have been your colleague for the last four years.
Huge congrats to Dr. Raphael Ng'etich who successfully defended his Viva at @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social: "The Impact of Carbon Credit Schemes in Conservancies in Northern Kenya on the Governance of Unregistered Community Land". Thanks to Robert Kibugi, Joseph McMahon and @profccostello.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Well done to the incredible Dr Ng'etich for defending his Viva! I am so proud of you and so honoured to have been your colleague for the last four years.
There is no dignity watching universities, companies, grifters, countries scrambling to "embrace AI". Reminds me of other infamous geopolitical races to carve up continents. This famously does not end well.
April 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
There is no dignity watching universities, companies, grifters, countries scrambling to "embrace AI". Reminds me of other infamous geopolitical races to carve up continents. This famously does not end well.
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Ending my social media hiatus cus we need bodies at this thing tomorrow
April 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Ending my social media hiatus cus we need bodies at this thing tomorrow
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The 2023 biodiversity COP (COP15) received little media attention compared to climate COP27, and generated little public attention compared to Taylor Swift
Genuinely weird how little interest there is in maintaining life on Earth
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Genuinely weird how little interest there is in maintaining life on Earth
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
March 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The 2023 biodiversity COP (COP15) received little media attention compared to climate COP27, and generated little public attention compared to Taylor Swift
Genuinely weird how little interest there is in maintaining life on Earth
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Genuinely weird how little interest there is in maintaining life on Earth
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
How
Scientific American
“Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits”
Morgan Stanley analysts
"We now expect a 3°C world”
tinyurl.com/rz698wsz
“Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits”
Morgan Stanley analysts
"We now expect a 3°C world”
tinyurl.com/rz698wsz
Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Warming
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits
tinyurl.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
How
Just as it's evil to privitise water (hi #Nestlé), Big Tech finds ways to monetise our most mammalian impulses to be in community with each other. I'm in the process of disengaging with #Meta (incl #Whatsapp). Hope to see you on the other side. It's greener and less complicit in war crimes
March 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM