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 ❤
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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.
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!)
🚨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"
Look though at women's sports, notably different because "professional athlete" is so much newer for women vs women.
They've gotten here through advocacy and activism, on and off the court. Especially women of color and queer women.
Women's basketball and soccer for example.
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Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
omg the original post, not as the printout version (for ease of reading)
A mound of chocolate chunk cookies with pools of chocolate and flaky salt on top.
You should make these olive oil chocolate chunk cookies. They’re (accidentally) vegan and (intentionally) delicious!
We are at the point this week where IR scholars are mentioning things like "WWIII"
Ordered :)
Looking forward to reading it!
