Jess Peake
@jesspeake.bsky.social
Director, International & Comparative Law Prog, UCLA School of Law. Interests = digital investigations/evidence, human rights, IHL, PIL, tech.
Check out my new co-authored piece on @justsecurity.org
In it, we discuss how crises can be catalysts for change in international law.
Join us for @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend in NYC this weekend to explore this theme in more detail.
#ILW2025
In it, we discuss how crises can be catalysts for change in international law.
Join us for @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend in NYC this weekend to explore this theme in more detail.
#ILW2025
"Progress in international law often emerges not in spite of crisis, but because of it."
William Aceves, Amity Boye, and @jesspeake.bsky.social ask: How can today's crises become opportunities for innovation?
www.justsecurity.org/122915/crisi...
William Aceves, Amity Boye, and @jesspeake.bsky.social ask: How can today's crises become opportunities for innovation?
www.justsecurity.org/122915/crisi...
Crisis as Catalyst: Past, Present, and Future of International Law
To see crisis as catalyst is to reject fatalism and to believe that law can be both a shield and a compass in turbulent times.
www.justsecurity.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Check out my new co-authored piece on @justsecurity.org
In it, we discuss how crises can be catalysts for change in international law.
Join us for @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend in NYC this weekend to explore this theme in more detail.
#ILW2025
In it, we discuss how crises can be catalysts for change in international law.
Join us for @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend in NYC this weekend to explore this theme in more detail.
#ILW2025
Reposted by Jess Peake
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Check out this excellent thread from @eliothiggins.bsky.social on what misinformation is, the dangers it poses and how empowered citizens and critical thinking are vital to democracy.
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
www.cato.org/policy-analy...
The Misleading Panic over Misinformation
People can’t agree on how to define misinformation and its related terms, making regulation nearly impossible. Instead, free expression serves as a better tool for discovering truth.
www.cato.org
June 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Check out this excellent thread from @eliothiggins.bsky.social on what misinformation is, the dangers it poses and how empowered citizens and critical thinking are vital to democracy.
This is cruel. Children will die because they can’t get the treatment they need.
This SCOTUS doesn’t care about the American people.
This SCOTUS doesn’t care about the American people.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors in a huge setback for transgender rights.
Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors, big loss for transgender rights
The Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a stunning setback to transgender rights.
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June 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This is cruel. Children will die because they can’t get the treatment they need.
This SCOTUS doesn’t care about the American people.
This SCOTUS doesn’t care about the American people.
🚨 Call for papers!
Please consider submitting a proposal for our Emerging Voices Panel at @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend 2025. This is a great opportunity to present before a prominent international law audience + get feedback from experienced scholars.
Deadline = July 6
Please consider submitting a proposal for our Emerging Voices Panel at @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend 2025. This is a great opportunity to present before a prominent international law audience + get feedback from experienced scholars.
Deadline = July 6
Emerging Voices 2025 Panel
The ILW Organizing Committee invites the submission of abstracts relating to the theme of “Crisis as Catalyst in International Law.” Accepted applicants will be invited to present their papers at the Emerging Voices Panel. www.ila-americanbranch.org/emerging-voi...
The ILW Organizing Committee invites the submission of abstracts relating to the theme of “Crisis as Catalyst in International Law.” Accepted applicants will be invited to present their papers at the Emerging Voices Panel. www.ila-americanbranch.org/emerging-voi...
June 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🚨 Call for papers!
Please consider submitting a proposal for our Emerging Voices Panel at @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend 2025. This is a great opportunity to present before a prominent international law audience + get feedback from experienced scholars.
Deadline = July 6
Please consider submitting a proposal for our Emerging Voices Panel at @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend 2025. This is a great opportunity to present before a prominent international law audience + get feedback from experienced scholars.
Deadline = July 6
The UN Fact-Finding Mission on #Iran is doing incredible work to document #crimesagainsthumanity and #humanrights violations committed by the Islamic Republic. The Iran Digital Archive Coalition is proud to assist by providing #digitalevidence.
3/ Second up: A Roadmap for Justice in Iran, outlining the work of the UN Fact-Finding Mission, with which we've been sharing open source data and analysis w/ an eye towards the pursuit of legal accountability www.justsecurity.org/113838/roadm...
An Update from the UN’s Fact-Finding Mission
Leaders of the U.N. Independent Fact-Finding Mission in Iran provide a path for accountability, reparations, and international support.
www.justsecurity.org
June 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The UN Fact-Finding Mission on #Iran is doing incredible work to document #crimesagainsthumanity and #humanrights violations committed by the Islamic Republic. The Iran Digital Archive Coalition is proud to assist by providing #digitalevidence.
Reposted by Jess Peake
2/ First up: Safeguarding Evidence from Nushin Sarkarati (Atlantic Council Strategic Litigation Project), @jesspeake.bsky.social (UCLA Lab) and Kelly Liu (Mnemomic) who outline our collab as the Iran Digital Archive Coalition + the special series www.justsecurity.org/114163/coali...
The Coalition that Preserved Content from Iran’s Protests
Woman, Life, Freedom victims and survivors are calling for help. We must amplify their voices and demand justice.
www.justsecurity.org
June 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
2/ First up: Safeguarding Evidence from Nushin Sarkarati (Atlantic Council Strategic Litigation Project), @jesspeake.bsky.social (UCLA Lab) and Kelly Liu (Mnemomic) who outline our collab as the Iran Digital Archive Coalition + the special series www.justsecurity.org/114163/coali...
Being involved with the creation of the #Iran Digital Archive Coalition and working with these incredible partners has been a career highlight. Each of us cares deeply about #accountability for #humanrights violations and #crimesagainsthumanity in Iran
1/ Out today! The first two pieces in a special series @justsecurity.org on our collaborative investigations into gender persecution + attacks on Woman Life Freedom protestors in Iran. www.justsecurity.org/tag/series-o...
Series on Gender and Protests in Iran
www.justsecurity.org
June 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Being involved with the creation of the #Iran Digital Archive Coalition and working with these incredible partners has been a career highlight. Each of us cares deeply about #accountability for #humanrights violations and #crimesagainsthumanity in Iran
Check out my new @justsecurity.org piece, w my brilliant collaborator/friends Nushin Sarkarati (@slpjustice.bsky.social) + Kelly Liu. We describe creating the #Iran Digital Archive Coalition + why it is important to collect #digitalevidence for #accountability
www.justsecurity.org/114163/coali...
www.justsecurity.org/114163/coali...
The Coalition that Preserved Content from Iran’s Protests
Woman, Life, Freedom victims and survivors are calling for help. We must amplify their voices and demand justice.
www.justsecurity.org
June 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Check out my new @justsecurity.org piece, w my brilliant collaborator/friends Nushin Sarkarati (@slpjustice.bsky.social) + Kelly Liu. We describe creating the #Iran Digital Archive Coalition + why it is important to collect #digitalevidence for #accountability
www.justsecurity.org/114163/coali...
www.justsecurity.org/114163/coali...
Reposted by Jess Peake
If this can be done to a U.S. Senator, in full view of the press, no one in this country can feel safe.
Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser:
“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”
“I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If this can be done to a U.S. Senator, in full view of the press, no one in this country can feel safe.
Reposted by Jess Peake
Please read or watch OCHA head Tom Fletcher’s remarkable and damning UNSC briefing.
May 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Please read or watch OCHA head Tom Fletcher’s remarkable and damning UNSC briefing.
Reposted by Jess Peake
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
This @motherjones.com piece captures the horror + fear of ICE agents disappearing a woman without a warrant, while hiding their faces. Cowards.
And then the Worcester Police steps in to help ICE + arrests a distraught 16 year old whose mother has just been taken.
It’s disgusting.
And then the Worcester Police steps in to help ICE + arrests a distraught 16 year old whose mother has just been taken.
It’s disgusting.
@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This @motherjones.com piece captures the horror + fear of ICE agents disappearing a woman without a warrant, while hiding their faces. Cowards.
And then the Worcester Police steps in to help ICE + arrests a distraught 16 year old whose mother has just been taken.
It’s disgusting.
And then the Worcester Police steps in to help ICE + arrests a distraught 16 year old whose mother has just been taken.
It’s disgusting.
Reposted by Jess Peake
A true scandal. One of the biggest free speech violations of our lifetimes and yet the people who screamed about free speech on campus for the past decade were either responsible for the violation (Trump, GOP) or ran cover for it and enabled it (Bari Weiss, Fox, etc).
BREAKING: Federal judge in Vermont orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be released from detention "immediately" and on her own recognizance with no travel restrictions.
More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
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May 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A true scandal. One of the biggest free speech violations of our lifetimes and yet the people who screamed about free speech on campus for the past decade were either responsible for the violation (Trump, GOP) or ran cover for it and enabled it (Bari Weiss, Fox, etc).
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Today I became an American citizen after almost 16 years of living in the United States 🇺🇸
The woman who delivered the oath ceremony to the 40 of us who were being sworn in as citizens this morning thanked us for coming here and wanting to make it our home. 1/4
Today I became an American citizen after almost 16 years of living in the United States 🇺🇸
The woman who delivered the oath ceremony to the 40 of us who were being sworn in as citizens this morning thanked us for coming here and wanting to make it our home. 1/4
May 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Today I became an American citizen after almost 16 years of living in the United States 🇺🇸
The woman who delivered the oath ceremony to the 40 of us who were being sworn in as citizens this morning thanked us for coming here and wanting to make it our home. 1/4
Today I became an American citizen after almost 16 years of living in the United States 🇺🇸
The woman who delivered the oath ceremony to the 40 of us who were being sworn in as citizens this morning thanked us for coming here and wanting to make it our home. 1/4
Moving and inspirational stories from past Aurora Humanitarian Awardees who are doing life changing work to support communities in Burundi, Congo, Iraq and Afghanistan
May 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Moving and inspirational stories from past Aurora Humanitarian Awardees who are doing life changing work to support communities in Burundi, Congo, Iraq and Afghanistan
@safiyanoble.bsky.social talks of the “fantasy of AI” + the harm being wrought to by LLMs, + @aspainbradley.bsky.social emphasizes that education is a political project + we need to ensure access for all on a panel on The Future of Human Rights at the Aurora Human Rights and Humanitarian Forum
May 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
@safiyanoble.bsky.social talks of the “fantasy of AI” + the harm being wrought to by LLMs, + @aspainbradley.bsky.social emphasizes that education is a political project + we need to ensure access for all on a panel on The Future of Human Rights at the Aurora Human Rights and Humanitarian Forum
An interesting conversation to kick off the Aurora Human Rights and Humanitarian Forum, cohosted by the Promise Institute for Human Rights
May 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
An interesting conversation to kick off the Aurora Human Rights and Humanitarian Forum, cohosted by the Promise Institute for Human Rights
I’m excited to be co-chairing the @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend this Fall with this excellent committee of colleagues and friends!
Announcing: the International Law Weekend 2025 Organizing Committee! Including @jesspeake.bsky.social, @chris4short.bsky.social, @corrarino.bsky.social, @ewickeri.bsky.social, @freyadw.bsky.social and @leilasadat1.bsky.social
www.ila-americanbranch.org/announcing-i...
www.ila-americanbranch.org/announcing-i...
April 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I’m excited to be co-chairing the @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend this Fall with this excellent committee of colleagues and friends!
Congratulations @leilasadat1.bsky.social, recipient of the @asilorg.bsky.social Goler T. Butcher medal for her incredible work pushing for a #CrimesAgainstHumanity treaty 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
April 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Congratulations @leilasadat1.bsky.social, recipient of the @asilorg.bsky.social Goler T. Butcher medal for her incredible work pushing for a #CrimesAgainstHumanity treaty 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
Delighted to be @asilorg.bsky.social Annual Meeting to see my friend and former colleague, E Tendayi Achiume, deliver the Grotius Lecture on the history of racialization, racism, and how international law is a site of contestation.
#ASILAM
#ASILAM
April 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Delighted to be @asilorg.bsky.social Annual Meeting to see my friend and former colleague, E Tendayi Achiume, deliver the Grotius Lecture on the history of racialization, racism, and how international law is a site of contestation.
#ASILAM
#ASILAM
Today, the @UN_HRC voted to extend the mandate of #IranFFMI to investigate crimes committed by the Islamic Republic.
#IranDigitalArchiveCoalition is dedicated to preserving digital evidence of these atrocities to ensure that they are recognized+addressed.
humanrights.berkeley.edu/press-releas...
#IranDigitalArchiveCoalition is dedicated to preserving digital evidence of these atrocities to ensure that they are recognized+addressed.
humanrights.berkeley.edu/press-releas...
Open source information plays crucial role in identifying international crimes carried out by Islamic Republic of Iran - Berkeley Human Rights Center
humanrights.berkeley.edu
April 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Today, the @UN_HRC voted to extend the mandate of #IranFFMI to investigate crimes committed by the Islamic Republic.
#IranDigitalArchiveCoalition is dedicated to preserving digital evidence of these atrocities to ensure that they are recognized+addressed.
humanrights.berkeley.edu/press-releas...
#IranDigitalArchiveCoalition is dedicated to preserving digital evidence of these atrocities to ensure that they are recognized+addressed.
humanrights.berkeley.edu/press-releas...
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We're hiring! Bellingcat is looking for an Open Source Investigator and Trainer to join our Human Rights and Conflict Monitoring team. Read about the role and apply here: www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-i...
Bellingcat is Hiring: Open Source Investigator and Trainer (Conflict) - bellingcat
Bellingcat is hiring an open source investigator and trainer (conflict). Find out more about the role and apply within.
www.bellingcat.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We're hiring! Bellingcat is looking for an Open Source Investigator and Trainer to join our Human Rights and Conflict Monitoring team. Read about the role and apply here: www.bellingcat.com/bellingcat-i...
I’m honored to be co-chairing the @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend this year with two wonderful colleagues.
ILW is a fantastic conference and I’m excited to help shape it under our theme of Crisis as Catalyst in International Law.
ILW is a fantastic conference and I’m excited to help shape it under our theme of Crisis as Catalyst in International Law.
Announcing: ILW 2025 Co-Chairs!
The International Law Weekend 2025 Co-Chairs are William Aceves (@californiawestern.bsky.social), Amity Boye (ABILA), and Jess Peake (@jesspeake.bsky.social / @law.ucla.edu). Read more about our Co-Chairs here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/announcing-i...
The International Law Weekend 2025 Co-Chairs are William Aceves (@californiawestern.bsky.social), Amity Boye (ABILA), and Jess Peake (@jesspeake.bsky.social / @law.ucla.edu). Read more about our Co-Chairs here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/announcing-i...
March 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I’m honored to be co-chairing the @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend this year with two wonderful colleagues.
ILW is a fantastic conference and I’m excited to help shape it under our theme of Crisis as Catalyst in International Law.
ILW is a fantastic conference and I’m excited to help shape it under our theme of Crisis as Catalyst in International Law.
Today’s the day! If you’re in #Taipei for #RightsCon please consider joining us for these two sessions this afternoon.
@rightscon.org
@rightscon.org
I just landed in #Taipei and excited for @rightscon.org
next week! If you're in town, let me know! And please join me as I co-host two #opensource workshops on Tuesday with @alexakoenig.bsky.social and others.
#RightsCon2025 #opensource #OSINT #digitalinvestigations #digitalevidence
next week! If you're in town, let me know! And please join me as I co-host two #opensource workshops on Tuesday with @alexakoenig.bsky.social and others.
#RightsCon2025 #opensource #OSINT #digitalinvestigations #digitalevidence
February 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today’s the day! If you’re in #Taipei for #RightsCon please consider joining us for these two sessions this afternoon.
@rightscon.org
@rightscon.org