New Issue of EJIL (Vol. 36 (2025) No. 1) – Out Now The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 36 (2025) No. 1) is now out. As usual, the table of contents of the new issue is available at EJIL’s own website, where readers can ...

New Issue of EJIL (Vol. 36 (2025) No. 1) – Out Now | by Mary Guest

my review of lutz oette's brilliant monograph (scribbled down during a baby's naps last spring) is out: doi.org/10.1017/S002...

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

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

Ergün Cakal, Review of Ezgi Yildiz. Between Forbearance and Audacity: The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm against Torture In Between Forbearance and Audacity: The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm against Torture, Ezgi Yildiz advances a new generalizable framework to

What a joy to read this generous and thought-provoking review of my book by the fantastic @erguncakal.bsky.social in @ejiltalk! I’m deeply thankful for his close reading and meaningful reflections.

Read here (open access): academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

it is a gem of a book, one that will grow in stature as 'law and torture' folk come to it. and it's open access!

sometimes somehow the shortest and most inconsequential pieces take the longest time to surface. my review of @ezgiyildiz.bsky.social's brilliant book is soon out having lived a near death. here are the first two pages. the book itself is open access.

Come and do a fully funded PhD with me and brilliant colleagues @moniquehuy.bsky.social and @suecaton.bsky.social at MMU on Navigating the Mental Capacity Act to support Sexual Decision-Making for People with Learning Disabilities www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

thanks corina! just trying to make sense of all that is unsaid ...

Time and torture Despite the seeming indeterminacy, advocates and adjudicators have tried to pin time down as a proxy for structuring experiences and ascribing values. Ultimately, I found that time functions as a p…

does time matter for torture? i thought so so i wrote this socialandlegalstudies.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...

ha! sounds like an auto-ethnography in the works ...

PhD Summer School 2025 PhD Summer School 2025.

📢 iCourts/MOBILE Summer School 16-20 June 2025 📢
iCourts and MOBILE at University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law are once again teaming up to broaden the methodological horizons of PhD students in the early stages of their empirical PhD projects📈 Apply here by January 20th: jura.ku.dk/icourts/cale...

so i reviewed a book. here it is for anti-torture folk: brill.com/view/journal...

congratulations you rising star! this is amazing!

PhD scholarships at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

No less than six (!) PhD scholarships announced at our fantastic department. 2 are open calls for anyone (+1 open call for Danish MA’s) and 1 is reserved for Turkish Studies in our Mid East Section. Please spread the word!

employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

“thanks so much for the feedback”

🚨#ICC Prosecutor announces application for an arrest warrant for Senior General and Acting President of #Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing, Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services 🚨

Suspected responsibility for #CrimesAgainstHumanity for the deportation & persecution of #Rohingya from Aug - Dec 2017

Photograph of Emily Kidd White lecturing. Slide of the lecture title, “Images of Reach, Range and Recognition: Thinking about Emotions in the Study of Law”

My Robson Hall lecture has now been posted. It maps the ways that the philosophy of emotion can support critical appraisals of law.

Special thanks to @amarkhoday.bsky.social for the invitation and to everyone at the University of Manitoba for the warm reception.

youtu.be/-xpAJireM78?...

grieving is quite the fitting description, but equally very much matched by a blossoming in your case. good luck with your evaluation seminar tomorrow. hoping to see you! 💜

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever

new york review of books, september 19, 2024

this was simply the best hour (plus) of international law podcasting i've heard in quite a while.