Mattia Pinto

Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court Cambridge Core - Public International Law - Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court

The Element is *FREE* to access online for the next 2 weeks and pre-order print copies can be purchased in advance of print publication in June at a VERY reasonable price: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

🚨Funded PhD alert!

@uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PGR studentship (stipend + fee waiver).

Apply by 31 May 2025.

Critical human rights & crim law; socio-legal theory & methods? Get in touch: I’d love to support strong applications!

Info: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...

With my brilliant colleague, @mattia800.bsky.social, last week in Liverpool, at the @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference. The joy of sharing rigorous anticanceral scholarship and collectively building a critique of human rights penality 🤓

In Liverpool, for this year's @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference? Come to our panel on human rights and anti-carceral work! With me, @silvilunazul.bsky.social & Valeria Ruiz Perez.

Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...

Here it is ! So many years in the making. Paperback should be released in April.

Oh 🥺 I'm glad you read my review. Thanks for writing such a fascinating and rich book! L'ho divorato!!!

This is tomorrow!!! 👇 Let me know if you want to attend it

We'll be at the @SLSA_UK annual conference sharing our anti-carceral work!

⏰15:00-16:30
🗓️Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
🏢502 Hub - 1st Floor, LT2

Equality and Human Rights Law: Special Panel

Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...

On 8th April, I'll be speaking at VERNAC TALKS by DIGNITY Vernacular Accountability Project. My talk, Restoring Harmony, explores how Nasa Indigenous justice in Colombia offers a restorative and collective model for human rights accountability.

DM me for the Zoom link.

@cahr-york.bsky.social

Help me share this opportunity!

The Sam Pegram Scholarship covers tuition, accommodation, travel & visa costs, and a living stipend for 1 international student to pursue the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the University of York.

Please visit: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...

An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated. nyti.ms/4hRzPq1

The Sam Pegram scholarship covers tuition fees, accommodation, travel, visa costs, & provides a monthly living stipend for one international student pursuing the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice.

More info here 👉 buff.ly/ASkdkUN

#UoY #Scholarship #International #Law #HumanRights

Inspired by calls to reimagine the space currently populated by international criminal law, Meg deGuzman's and my essay engages in feminist dreaming—that is, seeks to reimagine accountability as it could be, viewed through a feminist lens.

Now up @ssrn.bsky.social:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Appena uscito il mio primo articolo in italiano su La Legislazione Penale!

Critico l’uso del penale contro tratta e traffico di migranti, proponendo un cambio di paradigma: da un approccio penale a un confronto agonistico con le istituzioni statali

www.lalegislazionepenale.eu/antagonismo-...

Just published my review of Teresa Degenhardt's "War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’" in Punishment & Society!

Read the review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

More about this fascinating book: www.routledge.com/War-as-Prote...

Governing the Past Cambridge Core - Humanitarian Law - Governing the Past

My first book, Governing the Past: 'Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project is forthcoming with CUP in August 2025. I'll be on sabbatical in the fall semester and available for as many book talks, guest lectures, panels as you can think of!

www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

if you were ever dying to read about how ICL functions as a mode of accumulation and what the implications of that are for its abolition - then today is your lucky day!

(& if you're a normal person, then today is just monday)

Thrilled that my article 'Border Penality as Antagonistic Politics' has been selected as Editors' Choice in the latest issue of @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social "for its innovative analysis and approach to criminology"

Read it below 👇

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Equality and Human Rights Law: Special Panel
15:00 - 16:30 Tuesday, 15th April, 2025

at the @slsauk.bsky.social Annual Conference in April! @mattia800.bsky.social

Join us to discuss law, human rights, and (anti)carceral politics:
virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...

I’m watching *that* video of Zelenskyy, Trump, and Vance, and while thinking how nauseating this all is, how the two men in control of the world’s largest nuclear arsenal are just nasty, pathetic bullies, I’m also thinking that no bills were presented and no display of gratitude was requested…

Allegation-Picking and the European Court of Human Rights: A Pervasive Court Practice Hiding in Plain Sight? - Strasbourg Observers By Alan Greene It is now almost cliché to suggest that the European Court of Human Rights ‘missed an opportunity’ when handing down a judgment. Often, these laments highlight that the Court decided th...

Allegation-picking is an endemic practice of the European Court of Human Rights--I have found over 1,600 instances so far. In this post, I explain what allegation-picking is and why it demands more attention from the Court and Court-watchers alike. strasbourgobservers.com/2025/02/25/a...

Border penality as antagonistic politics - Mattia Pinto, 2025 This article examines the socio-political implications of using criminal law to address migration issues in Italy. It delves into the polarised political debate...

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Read @mattia800.bsky.social's article, 'Border penality as antagonistic politics,' available now in print and #openaccess online as part of #TheoreticalCrim's first issue of 2025: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

My article 'Border Penality as Antagonistic Politics' has just been assigned to the new issue of Theoretical Criminology: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In the🧵 below you can read the piece's main arguments. Let me know what you think!

@uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social @cahr-york.bsky.social

This is extremely damning and, while mainly directed against the previous govt re arms sales to Saudi Arabia and Israel, the partial ban introduced by current govt in September exempts parts for the F-35 jet programme, with bizarre claim it can’t conclude bombing of Gaza breached international law

I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit the UK Foreign Office | Mark Smith Ministers and senior officials protected arms deals facilitating death and horror in Gaza and Yemen. I urge my former colleagues to resist them, says one-time Foreign Office policy adviser Mark Smith

Engaging with the FCO since 2023 has been near impossible. By mid 2024, when I stopped, there was still handwringing about what the ICJ January order meant, when we were long past this. The obfuscation is unforgivable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks, Pascual! I hope you are doing well 😊

Thanks! Let me know what you make of it, if you read any part of it 😊

My PhD thesis, Human Rights as Sources of Penality, is now available online! It explores how human rights foster and justify penality. I'm revising it for a book with OUP, but the thesis offers a preview. Feedback welcome! etheses.lse.ac.uk/4474/ @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social @cahr-york.bsky.social

Very much recommended reading