@ampelliconi.bsky.social
Lecturer in Human Rights Law & Global Justice at the University of Southampton, researching on demographic engineering & int'L | ICON-S IG on Climate Change & Migration | Ass. Young International Criminal Lawyers | ๐ฑplant-based, mostly pasta & coffee
Congratulations to the Greens for winning the May election
02.03.2026 09:12 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0And this is how European leaders lost any little credibility they had left after Gaza. Weโre beyond double standards, weโre acquiescing to clear violations because we canโt upset โourโ bully. (So why should a small country bordering with Russia/China/India/you name it do otherwise?)
02.03.2026 09:04 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The man is a bad politician attempting to use his legal background to sound plausible...
01.03.2026 22:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
International lawyers: US-Israel strikes on Iran are illegal
European government officials: are the strikes illegal? WhO cAN sAy? Certainly not us.
The media: Iran takes illegal escalating action across the Middle East
(Keir Starmer)
01.03.2026 22:51 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Every single IHRL / int'l class someone ask me "so how do we make them comply", "so how do we enforce this"
01.03.2026 12:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0bsky.app/profile/ampe...
01.03.2026 10:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0They're not going anywhere, they're overseeing AI-driven drones attacking children in school from within a US military basis ๐
01.03.2026 10:26 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1The Onion isn't doing satire anymore, just stating facts
28.02.2026 09:29 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Trumpโs new โBoard of Peaceโ met for the first time in Washington last week with billions pledged for a Gaza 'reconstruction plan.' Analysts say the Board's plans reframe Gazaโs reconstruction as an investment project.
Alessandra Pellegrini reports: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...
What I term AI confirmation bias
28.02.2026 07:53 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Well they did criminalize environmental (and then other) protests and compared them to terrorism, criticizing corporate misbehavior seems to be "extreme" for the government
28.02.2026 07:48 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ or ๐ญ
25.02.2026 22:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0And AI-powered unsolicited racial profiling
25.02.2026 22:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Divisional Court grants Home Secretaryโs app for permission to appeal and suspends its quashing of proscription of Palestine Action pending determination of the appeal.
Claimantโs app for permission to cross-appeal refused.
The proscription Order remains in force.
www.judiciary.uk/judgments/hu...
Share the sentiment although I think in practice it would be extremely difficult for them for many reasons, they can't even leave their houses unaccompanied... They have no documents and probably nearly no access to information information :(
23.02.2026 08:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0There are two legal questions here. One question here is if AI companies have a duty to report dangerous behaviors. Another question is if it's legitimate that they monitor everyone's individual chats or that violates privacy
22.02.2026 08:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Bread typically doesn't contain eggs, I don't know why it's such a common misconception
21.02.2026 20:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
"A UN Human Rights Office report released today raises concerns over ethnic cleansing by Israeli authorities in both Gaza and the West Bank"
"It details the deaths of at least 463 Palestinians, including 157 children, from starvation in the Gaza strip."
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
RSF siege of El Fasher in Sudan has โhallmarks of genocideโ, UN mission finds
19.02.2026 18:03 โ ๐ 41 ๐ 32 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 4
A devastating report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan, finding that the 18-month starvation siege & subsequent atrocities during the fall of El-Fasher genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
3% is *very high*
18.02.2026 09:08 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
My piece for Verfassungsblog on the High Court judgment regarding the proscription of Palestine Action.
verfassungsblog.de/palestine-ac...
Forcing displacement and unlivable conditions are means of genocide when there's special intent. These actions also come with killings. Can we talk about genocide against Palestinians in general yet?
18.02.2026 09:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Ramped-up raids, violent settler attacks and bulldozed homes - Israel escalates its assault on the occupied West Bank.
18.02.2026 08:30 โ ๐ 105 ๐ 106 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 6
France, Germany and other European countries have demanded the resignation of Francesca Albanese for calling Israel "the common enemy of humanity".
The problem is... she never said that. The video was manipulated by AI and taken at face value by governments.
@euronews.com fact checks
Yes. I never gave so much thought about strong domestic institutions, separation of powers, and democratic participation before - I almost fear I'll turn into a constitutionalist ๐ฎ
17.02.2026 23:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
"annotators who frequently use LLMs for writing tasks excel at detecting AI-generated text... โexpertโ annotators misclassifies only 1 of 300 articles, significantly outperforming most commercial and open-source detectors"
aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
Law reviews are mainly student-led journals within universities in the US; academics can submit a paper at once through a portal and this will be received and reviewed by a bunch of law review journals, and hopefully one will publish it. Only in US, not a global system
16.02.2026 22:32 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0