Lea Raible
@swissbiscuit.bsky.social
teach and research human rights, territory, climate change at the university of glasgow
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One thing that we don't talk about often enough is how difficult it is to write academically during a genocide, in the midst of rising fascism while surrounded by the wilful destruction of knowledge cultivation through the financial incineration of universties & the imposition of the e-word juggler.
August 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
One thing that we don't talk about often enough is how difficult it is to write academically during a genocide, in the midst of rising fascism while surrounded by the wilful destruction of knowledge cultivation through the financial incineration of universties & the imposition of the e-word juggler.
My university moved from ‚we want to help you learn how to use these tools‘ to a default ban of using generative AI for course work and assessments. This is a good thing.
August 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My university moved from ‚we want to help you learn how to use these tools‘ to a default ban of using generative AI for course work and assessments. This is a good thing.
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
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Rare to see Montevideo Convention in the news. But if only polities with exactly defined borders qualify for statehood that puts Israeli statehood into doubt, as well as many other places with border disputes.
If the 2-state solution is real - it requires 2 states - not one and a half. 1/3
If the 2-state solution is real - it requires 2 states - not one and a half. 1/3
July 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Rare to see Montevideo Convention in the news. But if only polities with exactly defined borders qualify for statehood that puts Israeli statehood into doubt, as well as many other places with border disputes.
If the 2-state solution is real - it requires 2 states - not one and a half. 1/3
If the 2-state solution is real - it requires 2 states - not one and a half. 1/3
Thread.
Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.
July 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Thread.
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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
docs.google.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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BBC Verify dug into Israel's widespread demolitions in #Gaza. Main legal points:
✖️It isn't plausible that every case is covered by imperative military necessity. Destruction of property in occupied territory without imperative mil necessity is a war crime.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
✖️It isn't plausible that every case is covered by imperative military necessity. Destruction of property in occupied territory without imperative mil necessity is a war crime.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
July 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
BBC Verify dug into Israel's widespread demolitions in #Gaza. Main legal points:
✖️It isn't plausible that every case is covered by imperative military necessity. Destruction of property in occupied territory without imperative mil necessity is a war crime.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
✖️It isn't plausible that every case is covered by imperative military necessity. Destruction of property in occupied territory without imperative mil necessity is a war crime.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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The ECtHR's 2024 climate cases were decidedly dogmatic concerning extraterritorial jurisdiction. Lea Raible analyzes this - and its interplay with positive obligations - in the first article of our upcoming special issue on the climate rulings, co-edited by Armando Rocha & @cohelongo.bsky.social.
April 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The ECtHR's 2024 climate cases were decidedly dogmatic concerning extraterritorial jurisdiction. Lea Raible analyzes this - and its interplay with positive obligations - in the first article of our upcoming special issue on the climate rulings, co-edited by Armando Rocha & @cohelongo.bsky.social.
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Very interesting opening panel of Day 2 at the “Parity of esteem as a constitutional principle in Northern Ireland and beyond” conference in QUB. Very interesting contributions from @colinmurray.bsky.social and @swissbiscuit.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Very interesting opening panel of Day 2 at the “Parity of esteem as a constitutional principle in Northern Ireland and beyond” conference in QUB. Very interesting contributions from @colinmurray.bsky.social and @swissbiscuit.bsky.social
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Climate change and ageing water infrastructure turn drought in Sicily and Sardinia into disasters - new @wwattribution.bsky.social study www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
Climate change key driver of extreme drought in water scarce Sicily and Sardinia – World Weather Attribution
www.worldweatherattribution.org
September 5, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Climate change and ageing water infrastructure turn drought in Sicily and Sardinia into disasters - new @wwattribution.bsky.social study www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
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Post by @dkagiaros.bsky.social and @ingathiemann.bsky.social on European Court of Human Rights judgment on French law criminalising purchase of sex - inc criticism of decision to examine only under Art 8, not 2 and 3, and limitation to 'procedural review'
strasbourgobservers.com/2024/09/03/m...
strasbourgobservers.com/2024/09/03/m...
M.A. and others v. France: The ‘End Demand’ model of Regulating Sex Work goes to Strasbourg - Strasbourg Observers
by Dr Dimitrios Kagiaros and Dr Inga Thiemann In M.A. and others v. France, the Court’s fifth section was called to decide on a particularly controversial issue: whether France’s 2016 law, which crimi...
strasbourgobservers.com
September 4, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Post by @dkagiaros.bsky.social and @ingathiemann.bsky.social on European Court of Human Rights judgment on French law criminalising purchase of sex - inc criticism of decision to examine only under Art 8, not 2 and 3, and limitation to 'procedural review'
strasbourgobservers.com/2024/09/03/m...
strasbourgobservers.com/2024/09/03/m...
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AI is demonstrably making research more difficult and undermining education. Meanwhile, we get endless breathless stories about how great & 'transformational' it is for learners & teachers (all while it destroys the planet & further enriches billionaire sociopaths). Pure gaslighting.
And more degradation of research infrastructure.
Add Google Scholar to the list that includes Jisc Historic Books, the Hisco database, the Leme database
Not to mention the hacks of the British Library and Camb Uni Books.
Add Google Scholar to the list that includes Jisc Historic Books, the Hisco database, the Leme database
Not to mention the hacks of the British Library and Camb Uni Books.
It's gotten very bad, very quickly.
A search for 'moral economy' on googlescholar doesn't even have the foundational article by E.P. Thompson, cited by 6000+ publications, on the first page of results.
A search for 'moral economy' on googlescholar doesn't even have the foundational article by E.P. Thompson, cited by 6000+ publications, on the first page of results.
September 2, 2024 at 8:55 AM
AI is demonstrably making research more difficult and undermining education. Meanwhile, we get endless breathless stories about how great & 'transformational' it is for learners & teachers (all while it destroys the planet & further enriches billionaire sociopaths). Pure gaslighting.
Bluesky. Glasgow version.
September 2, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Bluesky. Glasgow version.
Bosko Tripkovic and Alain Zysset edited a special issue of the HRLR. I wrote something on the allocation of human rights obligations in the ECHR. It's relevant for questions about non-state actors and extraterritoriality, and available open access here: academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...
December 5, 2023 at 3:41 PM
Bosko Tripkovic and Alain Zysset edited a special issue of the HRLR. I wrote something on the allocation of human rights obligations in the ECHR. It's relevant for questions about non-state actors and extraterritoriality, and available open access here: academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...
1) How to rethink human rights law so it maybe addresses climate harms and injustice a bit better than it does now and 2) Persephone as a proto-feminist
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
Here's mine:
- Whether we can have statehood without inhabitable land.
- The legal-philosophical symbolism in Wagner's Ring.
Here's mine:
- Whether we can have statehood without inhabitable land.
- The legal-philosophical symbolism in Wagner's Ring.
October 22, 2023 at 7:44 PM
1) How to rethink human rights law so it maybe addresses climate harms and injustice a bit better than it does now and 2) Persephone as a proto-feminist