Tomáš Morochovič

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Dear friends, INDIGNITY is coming out tomorrow and I will be discussing it with the brilliant Hannah Dawson. If you know anyone who wants to celebrate with us, hear the discussion & maybe a bit of reading, feel free to spread the word - still some tickets left!

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House Judiciary Committee Republicans

why do the US House Judiciary Committee hearings sound like podcast titles for some loony alt-right website?

'Entering the Golden Age: Ending the Weaponization of the Justice Department'

'How Leftist Nonprofit Networks Exploit Federal Tax Dollars to Advance a Radical Agenda'

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However, for Caster Semenya, this court win will most likely be of little solace. It's no compensation for the fact that she has lost her whole career because of the DSD Regulations; as fans, we've missed out on some exceptional performances.

developments in the EU context suggest that states might need to take a lead in doing so. Perhaps by becoming more directly engaged in sports governance? Let's see.

While the judgment is disappointing from a non-discrimination perspective, it will serve as yet another argument for why the existing structure of sports governance might need a shake-up. The 'structural imbalance' which the ECtHR referred to needs to be remedied, and the GC judgment +recent/ongoing

the testosterone-lowering treatment; the arbitrary targeting of events by the DSD regulations in which Semenya was competitive; the 'outing' of DSD athletes through the application of the regulations. As a result, the Swiss court failed to carry out the 'in-depth judicial review' that was required.

and the GC highlights many examples where the Swiss court relies too heavily on the assessment of the CAS instead of carrying out its own examination (even on matters where the CAS itself expresses doubts about the proportionality of the DSD regulations!). This includes the potential inefficacy of

This is particularly an issue where arbitration concerns a dispute affecting the 'civil rights' of a party, as was the case in Semenya. In such situations, state courts are 'required to carry out a particularly rigorous examination' of an appeal. The Swiss Federal Tribunal failed to do so,

On the other hand, in finding a violation of Art. 6(1), the GC really puts pressure on the status quo of sports arbitration and the role exercised by Swiss courts in maintaining it. GC calls out the 'structural imbalance' of power between athletes and federations in which such arbitration occurs.

the GC mostly avoids a substantive discussion of the (thorny? politicised?) issue of discrimination of DSD athletes. This is very disappointing, especially as the Chamber judgment was an important counterweight to the growing body of sports rules that are ever more hostile to DSD & trans athletes.

This is almost inverse to the Chamber ruling, where the Court found a violation of Art. 8 (right to private life) in conjunction with Arts. 14 and 13 (non-discrimination and right to remedy) but did not examine Art. 6(1) separately. A finding of no jurisdiction re 8, 14 and 13 means that

Caster Semenya: South African double Olympic champion wins partial victory at European Court of Human Rights in her long legal battle over athletics' sex eligibility rules. Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya wins a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights in her long legal battle over athletics' sex eligibility rules.

Caster #Semenya wins her ECtHR case - but with a GC decision that is VERY different from the Chamber ruling. Court rules (very oddly, IMHO) that Switzerland has no jurisdiction in relation to Art. 8, 14 and 13 ECHR; finds violation of Art. 6(1). Lots of scrutiny of compulsory sport arbitration.

European Court of Human Rights The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg by the Council of Europe Member States in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. La Cour eur...

It's #Semenya day!

Today, the Grand Chamber of the #ECtHR will deliver its judgment in the case #Semenya v. Switzerland (live on YouTube at youtube.com/@EuropeanCou...).

Some thoughts before the tempest👇👇👇

#Sportslaw #DSD #Eligibility #ECtHR #CAS #SFT #Arbitration #HumanRights

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"Israeli soldiers opened fire on Tuesday morning near crowds of Palestinians walking toward a . food distribution site in southern Gaza, the Israeli military said."

"Dr. al-Farra said . most of the victims were children [aged 10-13] many with gunshot wounds to the head or chest."

Selma Dabbagh | In Gaza Nothing’s Impossible ‘Can you believe this has been going on for six hundred days?’ one of my fellow panellists asked the audience at...

‘What Israel has created in Gaza is an environment so toxic to human life that the unnaturally high level of deaths (at least 54,000 since October 2023) would continue even if the bombing were to stop immediately.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Funny! Jokes! Until they’re not.

A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign

More details 👇

#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw

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Israel’s Total Blockade of Gaza Has Created ‘Catastrophic’ Conditions, Doctors Say The effect of Israel’s total siege has become “catastrophic,” doctors say. Food, water and medicine shortages are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...

@endresdo.bsky.social, in her #PhDThesis in #InternationalLaw, analyses how #HumanRights are mobilised as tools for domination and resistance, using a Foucauldian understanding of power.

Read more 👉 shorturl.at/cPzZ0

With professors @sundhya.bsky.social &
@jannenijman.bsky.social.

#Foucault

Stellenausschreibung: leitenden wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitenden (Senior Researcher) (m/w/d) Das FAU Forschungszentrum Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN) besetzt ab dem 1.10.2025 oder früher die Stelle einer bzw. eines leitenden wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeitenden (Senior…

@fau.de Center for Human Rights invites applications for a senior researcher (postdoc with research and teaching experience) in #HumanRights
Deadline: 15 May 2025
www.humanrights.fau.de/2025/04/11/s...

The IOC faces hard choices in defending the autonomy of sport governance, its position on intersex and transgender athletes, or its attitude to illegal war atrocities in Ukraine and Gaza. Last week's UKSC decision underlines the reality of wholesale backsliding and the IOC may not be immune to this.

I recently wrote about the quasi-conclave of the IOC, having little idea that we would be talking about an actual papal conclave in short course. In the piece, I discuss how the election of Kirsty Coventry as new IOC President might shape the organisation's positioning in global governance.

This is an excellent example of "lawyer brain". The ruling may (or may not) make technical sense and I'm sure the court does not *want* to take away trans rights. But that is what this judgment will do, no matter that they performatively add this should not lead to trans discrimination.

3rd Episode: Territory

#DigitalEchoes episode 3. @voelkerrechtsblog.org

In discussion with Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Gail Lythgoe sets forth a powerful reorientation of our understanding of territory and questions its reconfiguration in the digital world.
voelkerrechtsblog.org/3rd-episode-...

We are back to 1967 when the IAAF first used cheek swabs for "sex determination." They later rejected swabs for being unscientific --chromosomes alone do not indicate sex--and an invasion of privacy. Now they've decided to revive this horrible practice and relive the worst parts of its history.

Said student‘s offence? She wrote an op-ed.
My dear US lawyer friends - what advice should I give to exchange students? This is deeply, deeply worrying.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

There are only a few days left to apply for the Latin American Society of International Law 2025 Biennial Conference, which will take place at Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Full details are available in the call for papers below ⬇️