Rachel Schoner

We ask: who are these children and what do they petition about? We introduce novel data including topics (migration!), age & legal representation
& conduct interviews

1st paper from our larger project on the Committee on the Rights of the Child! Stay tuned for more...

(DM or email me for a PDF!)

Children’s participation in international organizations: Individual petitions in the United Nations Recent scholarship in international relations has shown that nonstate actors’ access to international institutions has expanded, including for victims of human rights abuse. Yet, although children ...

🚨New publication with @andreavilan.bsky.social in The Journal of Human Rights🚨
We explore individual petitions *by children* in the United Nations. We center children as active participants in global governance & find prior concerns over their agency were valid. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Everyone should buy and read this awesome book!
If you're interested in regional organization, IOs, international law, IR theory, governance in the Global South, human rights, self-determination, norms...
👇Just out in Cambridge 👇

New Regional Authorities by Katherine M. Beall
Explores how regional authority become a central, taken-for-granted feature of human rights and global governance.
📚 https://cup.org/45QT3ct

Check out the papers of the 18th PEIO (@the-peio.bsky.social, IE University) at www.peio.me. Please save the date for our next PEIO, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin, on January 7-9, 2027. Thanks to Dan Nielson et al. for hosting us! @rwellhausen.bsky.social, @natemjensen.bsky.social

I had the misfortune of meeting this guy on multiple occasions in New Orleans.
His demotion is long overdue. He should be fired alongside so many others.
ABOLISH ICE

Right! just making sure your claim wasn't that the lack of activist mindset was so universal and widespread.
but rather when it does occur, your explanation of lack of "real school"

Look though at women's sports, notably different because "professional athlete" is so much newer for women vs women.
They've gotten here through advocacy and activism, on and off the court. Especially women of color and queer women.
Women's basketball and soccer for example.

A++++++++

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

omg the original post, not as the printout version (for ease of reading)

Chocolate Chip Cookies With Olive Oil and Sea Salt Olive oil gives these cookies robust, sophisticated flavor (and makes them secretly vegan).

Recipe here
www.bonappetit.com/recipe/choco...

A mound of chocolate chunk cookies with pools of chocolate and flaky salt on top.

You should make these olive oil chocolate chunk cookies. They’re (accidentally) vegan and (intentionally) delicious!

We are at the point this week where IR scholars are mentioning things like "WWIII"

Ordered :)
Looking forward to reading it!

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

The EPA is no longer going to consider how many potential lives a pollution regulation would save -- just the costs to industry. This is directly counter to EPA's mission. And it will kill Americans.

Great (depressing) scoop from @maxinejoselow.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

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Reminds me of this map:
The children's rights treaty, all but one...

It’s Friday, and things are bad.
And the semester starts on Monday.

But, this chocolate babka king cake is fabulous. Made better by sharing with good friends.
These are good things.

It should have long scared us all shitless that agents of the state can kill citizens w/ near-total impunity. It should scare us even more that this power now extends to ICE & other federal officials in our cities.

If there was ever a time for mass mobilization to abolish ICE, it is now.

AOC: What we saw today was a horrific act of violence. What we have seen and are now seeing is that ICE has not just become an anti-immigrant force—it is becoming an anti-civilian, paramilitary organization. People are being taken off the streets for exercising their free speech rights.

Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

The Junior Law and Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for its spring seminar series on zoom! Submit by January 12 for full consideration.

To apply to present or to get on our email list to attend our seminars see 👇

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#psworkshop

Jan 6th has multiple significances.
Today, I am focusing on the start of Carnival season, which means king cakes!

The foreign policy of a personalist dictatorship. There are no constraints.

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

Left arm with needle in elbow covered by gauze. Hand holding foam, blood line coming out of arm

Left arm elbow wrapped with red tape. In front of black shirt with “American Red Cross” with “give blood,” festive winter decorations including snowflakes and snowman, red droops of blood, and two people with red arm bandages

One gift you can give *any* day of the year is blood. 🩸

ANOTHER

WORLD

IS

POSSIBLE

if we choose it into being

Godammit

Speaking as a professor during finals week: this is rude.

Expert Q&A on the U.S. Boat Strikes An expert Q & A on the Trump administration's lethal strikes against suspected drug trafficking boats on the high seas.

Q&A on the #law relevant to the killings of suspected drug smugglers in boats by the #USA. #humanRights #intLaw #crimLaw www.justsecurity.org/126156/exper...