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Law Prof @drexelkline & Fellow in Law, Ethics, and Public Policy @PrincetonSPIA . Tweets on human rights, community lawyering, and the carceral state.

Philadelphia, PA
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It's with great apprehension (tbh) that I share Terrell Carter's and my latest, If the Subaltern Could Speak, the second in a series which develops the theory and practice of Participatory Law Scholarship. Now forthcoming @MinnesotaLawRev & posted @SSRN
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The power of love on so many levels #BlackLivesMattter #phillyprotest
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#BlackLivesMattter #phillyprotest
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Lots of great commentary on this, but one thing I haven't seen noted is that South Africa is following the same procedural posture as Ukraine against Russia, requesting provisional measures under the Genocide Convention which the ICJ ordered last March. A 🧵 for IL newbies
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PRESS RELEASE: #SouthAfrica institutes proceedings against #Israel and asks the #ICJ to indicate provisional measures
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My family is trying to get my nephew to call my dad “Papa Doc” (he’s the town doctor) and the human rights lawyer in me is dying inside but I don’t have the heart to tell them.
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Today feels like a big day. After months of work, we're rolling out our latest project on "participatory law scholarship," which is legal scholarship co-authored with those with no formal legal training, but expertise in law's injustice through lived experience. A thread🧵
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Excuse me while I disqualify myself from ever working at the ICC, but I hope that you will read and consider my latest: Black Guilt, White Guilt at the ICC forthcoming in Race and National Security @OxUniPress Now posted @SSRN : A 🧵 on its key points:
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It has been hard to let go of this one, but I just bit the bullet and submitted my latest article, "Participatory Law Scholarship," via @scholasticaLR . Updated version now up @ssrn too! I think that you'll either love it or hate it, but hope you'll at least give it a chance!
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Love is your partner gently placing a breakfast sandwich next to you when you are in a zoom meeting because they know you won't have a chance to eat breakfast otherwise. 🥰 🥰 🥰
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Overjoyed that @ColumLRev was in the love camp & will be publishing Participatory Law Scholarship in their next volume! PLS is scholarship written in collaboration w/ those who have no formal legal training, but expertise in law’s injustice. Now up @SSRN :
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It has been hard to let go of this one, but I just bit the bullet and submitted my latest article, "Participatory Law Scholarship," via @scholasticaLR . Updated version now up @ssrn too! I think that you'll either love it or hate it, but hope you'll at least give it a chance!
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Feeling all the feels as I share the news that I will be joining ⁦ @TempleLaw ⁩ this fall! I’m so excited to join this dynamic and generous faculty though I will sorely miss my dear colleagues ⁦ @DrexelKlineLaw ⁩.
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Temple Law Welcomes Six New Faculty Members  - Temple Law

Temple University Beasley School of Law will welcome six new faculty members this fall, bringing added strength and diversity to its already exceptional roster of…

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It is with great anticipation, and quite honestly a little bit of trepidation, that I share "Unentitled, The Power of Designation in the Legal Academy," a forthcoming essay in @RutgersLRev that a well-meaning mentor advised me not to write. 🧵 Now @SSRN
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Learning the hard way that my very existence in the legal academy is confusing/unsettling for some, which is a place of rigid binaries (clinical/podium, advocacy/scholarship, practice/theory). But I've always inhabited the borderlands and honestly that's my strength.
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My co-authors (Rell Carter & Ghani Songster) and I are so happy to share that Redeeming Justice, has found a home @NwULRev . In our article, we argue that all humans have a right to redemption, which is embedded in the 8th Amendment through the latent concept of human dignity. 1/
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Received word yesterday that it's Twitterable news: Giddy to share that I'll be a Fellow in Law @PrincetonSPIA this year. Grateful for this much needed time to think & write! The icing on the cake is having the privilege to benefit from the wisdom of the great @KimLaneLaw !
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Sharing some joy from my first day of teaching criminal law! There was some magic happening! Taking inspiration from Alice Ristroph's fantastic article, "The Curriculum of the Carceral State," here's how we are doing crim law a bit different @DrexelKlineLaw A brief thread 🧵
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The hierarchy in the legal academy is so ingrained in some people’s minds that they don’t even realize how ridiculous they sound to those of us who don’t believe in it.
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I don’t normally hang degrees or other awards in my office but this beaut might just warrant an exception!
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I make jokes about exclusive legal positivism, so an explainer about what it is and why it's ridiculous. 😜 A thread /1
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I make jokes about inclusive legal positivism, so an explainer about what it is and why it's ridiculous Thread /1
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Also just received this in my inbox...and as someone who has never even won a raffle before...well you can imagine... 💃
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@ProfMAGeorge Someone fell asleep studying for law school finals!
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Here the US will most certainly veto enforcement of any provision against Israel... #ReformTheSecurityCouncil That doesn't mean this case is not important, but I think that we need to be honest about the real flaws in the intl legal order that limit its effects. /End
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How does it feel to be asked to co-author a textbook that you love with people you have long admired? Pretty darn good! Over the moon excited to be joining Martha Davis, Risa Kaufman, & @KalbJ21 in the 3rd ed of Human Rights Advocacy in the United States published by West! 💃🏻👩🏻‍⚖️
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If I have any advice to give junior academics, it’s this: Don’t waste your time trying to win the approval of those who others deem important. Instead focus your attention on those who give you energy and inspiration freely. They are the ones that make your career fulfilling!
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As an accidental law prof, being called a scholar sometimes felt unfitting, so you can imagine what being named as an Inaugural Dean’s Research Fellow ⁦ @DrexelKline ⁩ alongside my superstar colleagues ⁦ @dsc250 ⁩ & @tabathaabuelhaj means to me. 🥰
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Professors Tabatha Abu El-Haj, David S. Cohen and Rachel E. López Are Kline Law’s Inaugural Dean’s...
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@unruly_curry Can you put them in touch with me? I have a ton of great shots to share with them and the press wants the video but I want their permission first!
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What a beautiful day for making history! Congratulations to Arianna Freeman on her investiture to the 3rd Circuit today-the first woman of color in that role! Not a dry eye in the place!
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After two painful weeks of writing nearly every minute of my spare time, I now have a document with 8,000 words that loosely resembles the form of a law review article. That's not nothing.
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Looking for inspiration: Can you share a law review article that you actually enjoyed reading? Not in a utilitarian way but rather in “I can’t put this down” sorta way. Maybe I am asking for too much from legal scholarship.
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And just like that... I'm official. And for the first-time ever, someone else wrote my bio for me. That's a milestone too, right? 🤓
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This is the hardest piece I’ve ever written, so it’s uniquely fulfilling to know that it’s officially out in the world. I can’t express my gratitude enough to the editors of @ColumLRev for all the time, energy, and joy they put into this project. Thank you!
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Columbia Law Review
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In “Participatory Law Scholarship,” Rachel López ( @Rachel_E_Lopez ) reflects on writing with coauthors whose expertise on the law comes from lived experience. Columbia Law School welcomed Professor López, two of her coauthors, and guest speaker Amy Kapczynski earlier this month!
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Hot off the press! We just filed a momentous complaint against US’s use of life w/out parole sentences. Don’t know what to say except that the mission of the Right to Redemption Committee is being realized. Being a part of this has been life-changing.
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US civil rights groups file complaint against ‘death by incarceration’ to UN

The filing urges UN special rapporteurs to declare life sentences, including without parole, a violation of incarcerated people’s rights

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Since I missed the awards ceremony because I was at a conference, I decided to take today to celebrate winning my university's award for civic engagement. When I first learned about the award, I immediately thought of all the other people who should have won it alongside me. 1/
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Even when the law review submission process is going well, it still feels bad. I worry about the message it sends to our law students. The whole "trading up" expedite process seems totally demoralizing, re-enforcing hierarchy in the legal academy and gamesmanship. It bothers me.
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I am only four years late in printing out my wedding photos but at least it made for a nice walk down memory lane when times were simpler.
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It's been harder than I imagined to teach crim law again without even a week's break btw spring and summer terms. So winning this Teaching Award gave me a needed jolt of energy & affirmation that my critical approach to curriculum design, described in the 🧵below, is resonating.
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Sharing some joy from my first day of teaching criminal law! There was some magic happening! Taking inspiration from Alice Ristroph's fantastic article, "The Curriculum of the Carceral State," here's how we are doing crim law a bit different @DrexelKlineLaw A brief thread 🧵
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For anyone who has ever wondered "Is International Criminal Law Feminist?" @Megdeguzmanprof & I have a chapter just for you, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook on Women and International Law. Our draft is also now up @SSRN : A brief🧵
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Like the Gambia, South Africa is not claiming that Israel committed genocide in its territory, but rather that as a party to the Genocide Convention, it has the power to file this petition at the ICJ because of its community interest in preventing genocide (simply put) 3/
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Just realized that in the last couple of weeks, I read & commented 3 books & 4 papers, chaired two panels, presented on two others, moved across two continents, and had probably the most important interview of my life. Will someone, anybody, please clap? 👏👏👏 It's been a time.
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Please feel free to hate *like* this post but somehow I stumbled onto this being my home “office” for the next two days. It feels unjust but if you knew the year I’ve had… well, maybe the universe is just making amends.
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Just found out that my sister, a nurse at a hospital in South Dakota, got vaccinated last night. My dad who has continued to see patients some with COVID despite being at risk will be among the first in New Mexico. And can confirm crying from relief is definitely a thing. 😭
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Still pinching myself in disbelief that @VirginiaLawRev hosted an entire symposium focused on Participatory Law Scholarship... honestly, never even dreamed that it would be possible... Thank you @UVALaw for reminding me of that wonderful day and amplifying this panel!
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LISTEN: The @virginialawrev annual symposium, which focused on participatory law scholarship, kicked off with a panel featuring @rachel_e_lopez of @drexelkline , Gerald Torres of @yalelawsch and @yale , Kempis "Ghani" Songster of @redemption_proj and Bertrall Ross of #UVALaw .
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As a kid and then college student, I always hated that my birthday was at this time of year, because it meant I was too busy studying for finals to celebrate. But today both marks my birthday and the last day of the semester, and boy have I earned this celebration.
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A VERY prominent law professor in my field advised me that my focus on transitional justice in Guatemala was too narrow, saying “I mean, isn’t it the size of Connecticut?” Spoiler alert: It’s not and I am now writing a book on the subject.
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I received some really good professional news today, but I am feeling a bit of whip lash between professional highs and personal/global lows. It’s hard to be joyous when you know others are hurting so much.
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And then there were three; all free. #RedeemingJustice
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This is goosebumps material, but it happened today. My co-author will likely be released tomorrow at the same time that Ghani and I are receiving the LSA Article Prize for our joint article, Redeeming Justice.
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Just have to put this out into the world. You know what would make winning this award really special: If Governor Tom Wolf signed our co-author Terrell Carter's commutation, which is already on his desk, in time for him to be free by the date of the award ceremony on July 15th!
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Nearly in tears reading a letter of rec from a most generous colleague...I'm not crying...you...okay, yes I'm crying 😭 It's been a tough week and this. "She is, without doubt, one of the most capable, committed, diligent and thoughtful scholars I know, as well as a person of...
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Definitely going into next year’s slides on UN mechanisms in my human rights law course!
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C'est facile de ne pas confondre
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As some of you know, I am teaching crim law for the first time this semester and next week we’ll cover sexual assault. I am hoping that others might be willing to share any resources about how to teach this topic in a trauma informed way.
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Really feeling the joy of this transition as I have been invited to attend not one, but two international law events this week, and then another one next week @TempleLaw . My inner international law geek is giddy with excitement, but I'm trying to play it cool!
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Rachel López practices in the areas of criminal law, public international law, international human rights law, international criminal law, and post-conflict & transitional justice. We are delighted to welcome Prof. @Rachel_E_Lopez to Temple Law!
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I’m confused. Is this semester a sprint or a marathon? Feels like both.
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Just like with Ukraine's petition, the enforcement of ICJ decisions, both preliminary decisions and those on the merits, rests with the Security Council. I write more about that problem here on p.7: Spoil alert: Russia has veto power, but here... 5/
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Sometimes it is easy to feel like your work doesn't matter... like it's just a tiny drop in an ocean, but today I got an email letting me know that a project I worked on in 2016 could positively impact 15,000 Philadelphians and I'm on cloud 9. Just keep plugging along folks!
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And I’m officially an aunt 😭😭😭
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My sister just went into labor! It will be the first of the next generation in the Lopez family. I'm going to be an auntie y'all!!
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A few exchanges w/ very senior scholars have left me so saddened about the state of academia. How you can reach retirement, & in one case, the height of the profession, but still be concerned w/ bean counting top placements & citations? Someone shake me if I ever end up there.
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Yesterday, for the 1st time, I participated in an academic workshop in Spanish. It felt like such a triumph. This almost feels too personal to share but I thought some might be wondering why someone with my last name would be so thrilled to be told her Spanish is good.
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Simón Gómez Guaimara 🇺🇦🇵🇸
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So nice to know that @Rachel_E_Lopez speaks Spanish greatly! It'd be lovely to have you speaking to a Venezuelan audience at some point. 🙌
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Celebrating casebook launch day! The 3rd Edition of "Human Rights Advocacy in the United States" @WestAcademic is now out! Ours is the only law school casebook focused on human rights advocacy in the US. Order your copy here: A🧵about the updates:
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This is also the same procedural posture used by the Gambia against Myanmar in their petition for provisional measures under the Genocide Convention in 2019. It was able to do so as under obligations erga omnes partes, which has significance for this case too.
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At oral argument on Election Day, Justice Alito asked “Do you think that there are any human beings who are not capable of redemption?” My co-authors and I tackle this critical question in our article, Redeeming Justice, now up @SSRN . Feedback welcome!
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And the infinite charm of a warm Heidelberg day
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Rell and James have been recommended by the PA Board of Pardons for commutation! Next stop the Governor!
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A colleague I hardly know reached out this morning to say he will be quoting my work at a conference Vienna today. It took him a few minutes, but my day is suddenly much better than it started. 🥰 🥰 🥰 And now I want to make this my regular practice going forward.
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Look what came in the mail! There’s nothing like being able to hold a print in your hands. So grateful to everyone who put their faith in this project but especially to my two co-authors and the editors ⁦ @NwULRev ⁩. Get your digital copy here:
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Wonder if I might get a little help from Twitter for a current project: Can you share any examples of legal scholars whose scholarship was implicitly informed by their life experiences, though they don't explicitly acknowledge it in their writing?
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I just said no to an opportunity that would have meant cutting my summer vacation short. This is progress, people. Please 👏
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Got a major office upgrade today and wow the timing couldn’t have been better 🍁🍂
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My co-author of Redeeming Justice @NwULRev Terrell Carter just got all five votes from the PA Board of Pardons at his Merit Review Hearing. This is the first step in the road to a commutation of his LWOP sentence. I'm not crying, my whole clinic is 😭😭😭
@AmistadLaw
Amistad Law Project
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Terrell Carter is a role model to many people inside and outside the walls. He is a poet, a public intellectual and a leader in the lifers group Right 2 Redemption. Recently he co-authored an article in @NorthwesternLaw Review with @Rachel_E_Lopez
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Just submitted Redeeming Justice via Scholastica and feeling mighty fine about it! Of my research to date, this feels like the most meaningful and significant, mostly because I know what it means to my co-authors. Our revised version is now up @SSRN
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Happy pre-birthday Sundae with @awesomestacy
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Here comes this tragically familiar feeling again, knowing that there is nothing I can say to make it better, but also knowing that I can’t be silent.
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In contrast to earlier case law,, the ICJ agreed that the Gambia had standing as a state party to the treaty, opening the door for this case. Again for IL newbies, this is not criminal liability for state liability... but here's the snag... 4/
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This is such a big week for PLS! In addition to our event at @YaleLawSch organized by @LPE_Project , this week is also the first ever symposium on PLS organized by @VirginiaLawRev ! A brief 🧵about all of the incredible speakers! You can register here:
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I am so lucky to have a professional life full of incredible mentors who have really helped build my confidence, but I've now experienced a few who have done subtle things to punch me down. It's unsettling and I never know how to respond. Have others dealt with this/have advice?
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So many things have happened in my professional life that I never expected, but this is one I never even imagined. I really wish that I could send this link to my grandma. I can almost hear her say, "hijita, I am so proud," as she did when we last spoke.
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What an incredible day for redemption! Wish I could be there but there is no better feeling than seeing the eyes of my co-authors together again but this time free. #NeverGiveUp
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It’s no wonder why students have such trouble calling us Professor. It’s a societal problem not a student problem. #Unentitled
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Am giving the keynote at my school’s Convocation and feeling like I might lose my breakfast from the nerves… but then looked at my phone 🥰🥰🥰
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Today 23 UN human rights experts issued a statement condemning systemic racism in policing in the US, specifically highlighting the human rights abuses directed at BLM protesters documented by the Stern Community Lawyering Clinic @DrexelKline & @aclupa .
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Must admit that I teared up a bit voting today. The best way I can describe it is that it felt heavy.
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I should be tweeting up a storm to amplify my co-authors' and my unwavering belief in the right to redemption but this decision is so gut-wrenching...why are we so unforgiving...so committed to eternal damnation for kids? I just can't. Signing off for the day.
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Today at 10am at the AALS Annual Meeting, I'm presenting my latest on "participatory law scholarship," which is legal scholarship co-authored with those with no formal legal training, but expertise in law's injustice through lived experience. I hope you will join! #AALS2023
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Guess it’s time to change my description for the late breaking @asilorg AM panel on Ukraine and Art. 2(4) of the UN Charter for third time this week. Fractures in the Foundation: Is waging aggressive war still prohibited by international law? to WTF: this sh!t is bananas
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Honored to be counsel for the UN Special Rapporteur on Racism @dalitwomenrock & EMLER, the UN expert body created in the wake of George Floyd's murder, for their Amicus brief in Commonwealth of PA v. Derek Lee, now before @SupremeCtofPA . Here's the brief:
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I often wonder/worry about scholarly impact. Is it really worth all the time and energy invested? But this. What more could a scholar hope for than giving hope to someone else? #RedeemingJustice
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2 years
Water views, your best dog, and a light beach read 🏖💘
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4 years
I'm official! Looking forward to starting this next chapter and working with so many incredible thinkers and doers!
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy serves as the hub of the Harvard Kennedy School’s research, teaching, and training in the human rights domain.

www.hks.harvard.edu
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Even though quite candidly, some of the most exciting scholarship being done right now is by professors who currently teach in clinics. @orangebegum @sameer_ashar @Erika_K_Wilson @shanahanlawprof @EtienneT_Esq @jenniferleekoh @ProfLlezlie @LeighGoodmark
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Every time my current self feels the excitement of being asked to present at a conference, I wish my future self would remind me of the absolute dread of having to present at that conference.
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It feels so strange to share good news during this dark time, but this genuinely made my week a little lighter. I just learned that I will spend the next year as a fellow @CarrCenter working on my book project. Having @kathryn_sikkink as my faculty supervisor is a dream come true
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2 years
My spouse comes back from a trip tonight so I’m frantically removing all evidence of how slovenly I lived while he was away to prove that I can live an adult life without him, though clearly I can’t.
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3 years
New profile pic?
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When we wrote our 1st article, it was the heart of the pandemic. Rell was incarcerated, only allowed out of his cell for 15 min/a day when he would send his words out bit by bit via the DOC message portal. Hard to believe that next Tues. we'll be presenting together @YaleLawSch !
@LPEblog
LPE Blog
@LPEblog
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On Tuesday, March 26th (at YLS and online), Terrell “Rell” Carter,  @Rachel_E_Lopez , and Kempis “Ghani” Songster will be giving a lunch talk on Participatory Law Scholarship: Reimagining Legal Academia.
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Feeling all the feelings as I pack for a trip to Chicago for my first *in-person* presentation of Redeeming Justice with my co-author Ghani Songster @NorthwesternLaw organized by the great editors @NwULRev ! Check out Redeeming Justice here:
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3 years
I remember thinking when some of the women I respect most in the legal academy like Tendayi Achiume @MonicaHakimi @oonahathaway @becingber @Claussen_K & Saira Mohamed were co-chairs of @asilorg AM: Wow that would be so cool, but they would never ask me...well, they did & I said..
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Wes Rist
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By the way, just in case you missed it, @asilorg Pres Catherine Amirfar, @DebevoisePlimpton , announced that our 2022 #ASILAM co-chairs are @Rachel_E_Lopez , @Kish_Parella , & @Pwpearsall . Looking forward to what they come up w/ for our first in-person meeting since 2019 🤞🤞!
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I'm taking a hiatus from clinical teaching to devote more time to writing and will be teaching crim law for the 1st time next spring. Would be so grateful if folks, esp. those taking a non-traditional approach to the course, would be willing to share syllabi, exercises, and tips!
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I used to think that innovation in scholarship meant raising an idea that no one had thought of before. Now almost a decade in, I think that it’s putting into words what many are thinking but haven’t yet said or bringing the work of others forward in a way that didn’t foresee.
@juliettemm
🏳️‍🌈 Dr Juliette McIntyre 💚🩷
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2 years
Oh good. Just discovered someone defended their thesis on EXACTLY THE SAME PHD TOPIC AS ME this week. I feel geniunely sick.
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While feeling apprehensive about my 1st day back in the classroom, I'm also pumped about the gut renovation of my human rights course inspired by innovations from @sandysivak @YannisKalpouzos @silviasteiningr @EricTars & @CSchwobelPatel . Sharing some of new approaches in this 🧵
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2 years
I am not usually a “send thoughts and prayers” type of person but the next five days are going to be very scary back home and I got this picture of my uncle’s house last night, so send whatever works.
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Meteorologists explain the upcoming potentially 'historic' fire danger #NMFire
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Kindness is important.
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