Miriam Bak McKenna
miriambakmck.bsky.social
Miriam Bak McKenna
@miriambakmck.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ Roskilde Uni | Law, political economy and gender | International law & empire | law and aesthetics | critical in every sense of the word

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If you’re not smack bang in the middle of the dinner time rush tomorrow, catch me, Matilda Arvidsson and Serena Natile as we present our work on reworking the public/ private divide in International Law warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
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Feminist Legal Studies is led by an editorial collective of feminist legal scholars working across a range of topics. Our team reviews, curates, organises, and manages the work of the journal. go.bsky.app/4p2orzx

You can read more about our publishing ethos here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 24, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu & ex Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

Reasonable grounds to believe each bear criminal responsibility as co-perpetrators for the war crime of starvation, & crimes against humanity incl murder/persecution.
www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejectin...
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November 21, 2024 at 12:53 PM
My 2 cents (for whatever it’s worth as someone with 4 kids) is that late capitalism has made having kids a particularly raw deal and no amount of cursory social policies/ incentives is going to change that - it’s a bandaid solution to a more fundamental economic/ social problem
Increasingly fascinated by what's behind collapsing fertility rates.

Easy to assume that insane cost of living, extortionate nursery fees & awful paternal leave are at root in London www.standard.co.uk/news/health/...

But then why is the rate in Copenhagen (1.34) just as bad as in London (1.35)?
November 21, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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#Mødrehjælpen har modtaget 19.000 ansøgninger til julehjælp=14 % flere end samme tid sidste år (rekordår med 24.000 ansøgninger) Direktør @ninnathomsen.bsky.social
”Mange lønninger er reguleret efter inflationskrisen, men de offentlige ydelser er ikke fulgt”
avisendanmark.dk/danmark/en-f...
November 21, 2024 at 7:22 AM
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📢 Call for Papers 📢

Join us for an engaging two-day workshop on 5th & 6th June 2025 at the University of Amsterdam to explore local contestations about the 'future' in international law. 📚✨

(Limited) travel funding available

decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/news...
Call for Papers: International Law's Local Encounters: Experiences and Imaginaries of (de-)Coloniality - Decolonial Futures
For a two day workshop to take place on the 5th & 6th June 2025, organised by the seed funding project Global Conversations, Local Inspirations: Locating Decoloniality in International Legal Practice
decolonialfutures.uva.nl
November 20, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Danish Higher Ed about to meet the same fate as the Pontiac.. #kandidatreform
November 20, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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A dirty secret about Nordic social democracy, is that while it redistributed income, it never really touched the wealth distribution
No doubt about who is winning in the current Danish Economy.

This is the growth in wealth for the 100 richest Danes the last 11 years.
November 20, 2024 at 7:38 AM
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I’ve made a starter pack for feminist philosophy adjacent people — please tell me who else to include! #philsky go.bsky.app/Fy5Z6kk
November 16, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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I started putting together a starter pack on Marx, Marxism, Critical Theory, and more. Please share if you find it useful and respond to this post if you feel like you should be added to the list (or removed for that matter).
November 10, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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👋Hello Bluesky! I work at Murdoch University School of law & Criminology. I teach and research in the area of refugee law, mental health of asylum seekers and human rights. I hope to build understanding of the impacts of laws and policies on the lives of some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
November 16, 2024 at 6:21 AM
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Mary Anne Kenny is now here! @maryannekenny.bsky.social Mary Anne teaches and researches in the area of refugee law, mental health of asylum seekers and human rights. Welcome!
November 16, 2024 at 7:06 AM
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Now I made it! The starter pack you've been looking for: Critical legal scholars, broadly understood - Marxist, LPE, postcolonial, TWAIL, feminist, queer approaches, etc., to law. I'll keep adding names, so feel free to tell me if you (or others) should be there (or shouldn't).

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November 13, 2024 at 7:32 PM
If you’re not smack bang in the middle of the dinner time rush tomorrow, catch me, Matilda Arvidsson and Serena Natile as we present our work on reworking the public/ private divide in International Law warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
November 17, 2024 at 6:55 PM