Miriam Bak McKenna

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...

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...

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...

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

#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”
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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

📢 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...

Would also be keen 👍🏻😊

Danish Higher Ed about to meet the same fate as the Pontiac.. #kandidatreform

A dirty secret about Nordic social democracy, is that while it redistributed income, it never really touched the wealth distribution

I’ve made a starter pack for feminist philosophy adjacent people — please tell me who else to include! #philsky go.bsky.app/Fy5Z6kk

Hi Sigrid, I’d love to be added too 🙋🏼‍♀️🙏🏻

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).

👋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.

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!

Thanks mate / hope to also meet you in real life one of these days

Hej Marie, can I hop on too 😊🙏🏻

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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Hey Corinne, can I jump on as well :) Thanks!

You can find the article that covers some of our work in the area OA here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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/...