Hmmm.. an inability to keep sex pests out...

📑 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮
𝖱𝖺𝖼𝗁𝖾𝗅 𝖩. 𝖲𝖼𝗁𝗈𝗇𝖾𝗋 (𝖳𝗎𝗅𝖺𝗇𝖾 𝖴𝗇𝗂𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗌𝗂𝗍𝗒)

Read this interesting chapter on analyzing individual petitions in the UN human rights system in our book, Innovations in Human Rights: doi.org/10.4337/9781....

Sign posted in grass at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business. Freeman Futurist Series: Private Equity in the Age of AI. Featuring four men

It’s comforting to know that as many things change, some things remain the same.
We still have manels.

I am physically sick.

I already called my three congressional reps this morning, urging them to de-escalate, take back war powers, impeach Trump, and prevent this genocide.

Piles of golden brown chocolate chip cookies with flaky salt on a wire rack

Miso chocolate chip cookies to help with the post spring break Monday blues

Awesome! Looking forward to reading it now :)

Wish I was teaching "soccer & politics" class this semester...

This is where I grew up. Impossible to count how many times I was on ODU's campus.

Gun violence has touched everyone in this country. No one is safe. Yet, these preventable horrific acts remain.
We needed gun reform long ago, but let's not that that stop us today or tomorrow.

Abstract 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 are protected by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and are considered ideal victims, they face significant barriers to justice. In 2011, children gained direct access to submit petitions to the Committee on the Rights of the Child. Who are these children, and what do they petition about? We introduce novel data on children’s petitions, including country targets, topics, ages, legal representation, and decisions. We find that migration is a dominant topic of petitions and that young children are unlikely to be the authors of petitions. In contrast to scholarship for other treaty bodies, we also find that children are overwhelmingly accompanied by lawyers and family members in the Committee on the Rights of the Child. This article centers children themselves as active participants in international governance and provides meaningful insights into both academic and policy debates over children’s agency and nonstate access to international institutions.

Interested in access to justice, children's rights, or IR? Check out @andreavilan.bsky.social & @rjschoner.bsky.social's fantastic new work in the Journal of Human Rights "Children’s participation in international organizations: Individual petitions in the United Nations."🔥🔥
doi.org/10.1080/1475...

At Tulane, we admit students every other year. We have admitted students for our 2026 incoming cohort!

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly?

BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing!

K: You don't think it's hyperbolic?

B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

Sports sprinkled into my international law class today:

Opening with FIFA peace prize awarded to DJT.
and talking about Iran: women's soccer players in Australia seeking asylum.

For my future soccer & politics class....

Pathos plant in a blue pot on a inside window ledge with large bright green leaves, extended to adjacent window ledge.

A little moment of zen

My new office plant is *thriving*

Oof....

Thanks! Happy for you ❤

🫠

About to teach the use of force today, in international law course...
Naturally, thinking why didn't I get a PhD in 18th century English literature instead?

One of the great joys of life has been seeing Flavor Flav over the years...
from watching Flavor of Love as a teen to see him become the ultimate champion of women's sports.

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 ...

Assistant Professor @rjschoner.bsky.social has published her article "Children’s participation in international organizations: Individual petitions in the United Nations" with @andreavilan.bsky.social in the Journal of Human Rights. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Are we going to war?”

Senate Majority Leader:

“I don’t know the answer to that.”

The Article I Crisis, wearing a suit and tie.

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"