Programme now available for the T.M.C. Asser Instituut conference on 'Imagining Solidarity' convened by my colleagues Dr Misha Plagis and Eva Kassoti. Info & registration: asser.nl/education-even…

Excellent opportunity to learn about the #AfricanHumanRightsSystem from leading voices on the topic! Including former African Court, African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, and ACERWC members! register here: zoom.us/webinar/regist… AGA-APSA Platform Open Society Justice Initiative The ACtHPR Monitor CentreForHumanRights AfricanLII

.Dr Misha Plagis focuses on the rules and jurisprudence related to the jurisdiction and admissibility of cases before the #ACtHPR in this recently published #MPEiPro entry: opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/l… The ACtHPR Monitor Max Planck Law

Interesting development but nothing regarding its withdrawal from Article 34(6) of the Ouagadougou Protocol. I might have missed a crucial point.

Call for help: I am looking for peer-reviewers from Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nepal, Ukraine, Zambia for Bonavero Institute of Human Rights's project on civil liability for HR violations. Please shout out if you know scholars or (ideally) practitioners with relevant expertise!

Deadline approaching at high speed (7 Feb)! We have 3 grants available and particularly welcome applications from students whose projects have a strong empirical approach, who are from the Global South and whose projects center on non-European institutions. Pls spread the word!

Who wants to win USD 1000! You can, if you published in IHL during 2021...

I'm glad to be selecting candidates to be nominated by law schools in the developing world for the International Court of Justice CIJ_ICJ Judicial Fellowship. Trust Fund now operational, univ nominees are eligible. 🚨 Deadline 13 Feb. Please circulate widely for unis to apply!

After 4 amazing months off with my mini human, I'm back to work as an Assistant Professor at the Grotius Centre! Excited to join the Leiden Law School team and getting back to my research on the African Court! I guess Academic Mom, PhD territory here I come!

Hoping this French drone operator's testimony will finally get the visibility it deserves thanks to European Forum on Armed Drones efadrones.org/testimony-of-a… Our legal clinic (@LeonardMieusset Aure Yehiel PINEL Claire Magali Drevet) transcribed, translated the interview & briefly commented on it 1/2

#Invitation to all #doctoral candidates🎓📚Students who have completed, or will complete, their doctoral studies in #law at an African #University in 2021 are encouraged to submit their doctoral #theses for consideration for the #ChristofHeynsMemorialThesisAward

Yesss! Someone give Cris van Eijk a phd position already! I mean, most people basically think he already has one anyway (yeah his work is that good and don’t even get me started on the popularity of his blogposts…)

Not the first, and sadly not the last - too many voices being excluded with no accountability. Shameful and unacceptable. When those of us based in Europe invite speakers from other parts of the world (which we should actively do!) we need to do better at supporting their travel

I had the worst FOMO today not having been able to make it #LSA2022 in person. Missed this amazing group of people, but was thankful to still be able to present my paper with Salome Addo Ravn 🎉

#fromtheissue: In their JHIL 4/21 article ‘From Context to Content of Human Rights’, Dr Misha Plagis and Lena Riemer (Freie Universität) dive into the drafting history of the African Charter on Human & Peoples’ Rights. Learn more about the enigma of Art 7 at brill.com/view/journals/… #openaccess

honoured to have received this award together with Nicole De Silva !

Very much looking forward to working on behavioural approaches to compliance with @danielcpeat over the next 4 years!

Kicking us off today, Dr O Baillet (chair), Sarah Joseph, @mplagis, Jorge Contesse, & Pr. P Lemmens examine the evolution and transformation of procedural rights, investigating the ECHR CEDH, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, African Court and United Nations practice relating to substantive rights. Max Planck Law

On #AfricaWomensDay, I'm thinking of tike mwambipile (TAWLA) & Equality Now's case at African Court, which aimed to protect Tanzanian pregnant schoolgirls' & mothers' right to education. Dr Misha Plagis & I detail their advocacy in our #openaccess article: doi.org/10.1111/lasr.1…

Former T.M.C. Asser Instituut colleague Dr Misha Plagis Grotius Centre speaking on freedom of expression at the well-attended local gathering swiftly organised following the cancellation of the national demonstration in Utrecht. The new protest will take place in The Hague on 25 November. WOinActie