Nina Reiners

The new EU Civil Society Strategy identifies pro bono lawyers as partners. NINA REINERS and ELIAS THOMSEN highlight that the strategy falls short when it comes to accountability constraints for big law firms. verfassungsblog.de/pro-bono-law...

Die Bundesregierung bezeichnet den Krieg gegen den Iran weiterhin nicht als völkerrechtswidrig. Zahlreiche Wissenschaftler:innen aus dem Völkerrecht und den internationalen Beziehungen fordern eine Rückkehr der dt. Außenpolitik zur UN-Charta und zum Grundgesetz: verfassungsblog.de/stellungnahm...

✨ TODAY IS THE DAY! ✨ Get your print copy here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

📢 New article 🌟 👤 Hallvard Hodne Sandven (ISV) 👉 Feasibility: Superfluous or Moralized 📗 Published in Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/736744

Claude Code is wild. All I did was to connect Claude to GitHub, upload the WhoGov dataset & give it the prompt: "Can you come up with your own research question based on the data, do an analysis and write a paper (10 pages). Remember to add citations." It came up with an entire paper + code. 1/4

✨New article out in International Studies Review✨ NGOs are facing backlash, shrinking civic space & increased competition. Here I examine how NGOs can respond by adding new legal entities; or changing funding models. doi.org/10.1093/isr/...

I wanted to see how many friends the President of Peace has made during his first and second term, so I made a map of countries he has threatened both economically and militarily, banned citizens from, and bombed. Some things are up for discussion, so a bit on methodology below.

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - From the bottom up? Frontline crisis management and informal policy change in international organisations - https://cup.org/4qKq5nw - @nkortendiek.bsky.social #FirstView

Can big law firms help defend democracy? Join @statsvitenskap.bsky.social Prof. @NinaReiners.bsky.social to explore how the ERC-funded PROBONO project examines the role of private law firms in protecting human rights & the rule of law. 🗓️ Tue, 11/4 🕑2:30📍Kerwin 301 👉 american-spa.swoogo.com/ProBrono

Come to Bologna in May 2026 for Workshop on *Obstructionism in International Organizations* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Submit by Dec 15👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please spread the word 🙏

„Krieg ist ein großes Geschäft, Wiederaufbau ist auch ein großes Geschäft.“ Mit Berlin direkt @zdfde.bsky.social habe ich über die Wiederaufbaupläne für Gaza gesprochen. www.zdf.de/play/magazin...

Call for Papers 📣 Next June, BEYOND will host a forward-looking conference in Oslo on the lasting significance and evolving challenges of refugee protection under international law. We invite scholars, practitioners and advocates to submit their proposals by December 15. For more information:

NEW ISSUE - Ethics & International Affairs - Volume 39 - Issue 2 - https://cup.org/4pNRSCI Includes a Roundtable: Global Governance in Hard Times cc @carnegiecouncil.org

Author copies for Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today! If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

I talked to @afp.com about Germany being under increasing pressure for its Israel policy. German responsibility "could be seen as the responsibility towards international law, the international rules-based order, the promise that genocide must never happen again." www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Something I have been working on is starting to feel real, the proofs of Constitutional Change under Autocracy have arrived. I could not be more excited! Publication is expected in early 2026.

Justice and Memory after Dictatorship: a book forum from New Perspectives pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfil...

🌟Officially out now: "The Politics of Beginning. The Origin of Private Authority in the Process of Translation" with @uofmpress.bsky.social OPEN ACCESS www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... Here comes a thread

🪃We have a new article out in @millennjournal.bsky.social: “Imperial Boomerangs: Transnational and Transtemporal Dimensions of Contemporary Conflict Configurations“ I am very happy, because this has been a proper team effort! @laurakotzur.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

“Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. This finding is based on investigations and extensive evidence,” writes Navi Pillay, the head of a U.N. commission. “It has been corroborated by multiple sources.”

Excited to be launching our festival "Sensing the Climate" in Bologna. We have a great line up of artists, musicians, films & talks held in public gardens at Le Serre di Giardini Margherita! #climate #nature #art Join us Oct 1-6th, & ck out the program here: serramadre.art/agenda/

I am honored to have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant towards my project "Governing elites since the dawn of modern democracy" (GETGOV). It allows me to continue to advance this research agenda; the goal is to build a database on governing elites from 1789 and up to today + much more. #ERCStG

✨Congratulations @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & John for turning an #ISA2024 roundtable into an E&IA roundtable✨ Read my essay and all other contributions #OpenAccess - cup.org/4ms4D3N Join us for the launch in two weeks (info below): 📅 Monday, 15 September, 18-19.30 (Oslo)

#OpenAccess from Ethics & International Affairs - Hard(er) Times for Human Rights Advocacy in Global Governance: Ideological Capture and Illiberal Interests - https://cup.org/4ms4D3N - @ninareiners.bsky.social #FirstView #HumanRights

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#OpenAccess from Ethics & International Affairs - The Institutional Dynamics of Global Governance in Hard Times: Innovation or Decline? - https://cup.org/3JvyR7r - @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & John Karlsrud #FirstView

Follow the Bergen Exchanges here - vimeo.com/event/531010...

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Coming soon: our introduction to the politics of human rights 🥳📚 Preorder available here: www.cambridge.org/highereducat... @sabinecarey.bsky.social

Absolutely mind-blown! 🤯 What an honour to receive this prize. Enormous thanks to the prize committee, everyone who helped sharpen the argument & my incredible interlocutors in Crimea for whom the struggle for human rights continues.

🔥🏟️ New article out: I am very happy that @felixanderl.bsky.social and my paper ”Dangerous arenas: why activists struggle for change in technocratic institutions“ has just been published in @jird-jour.bsky.social and that it’s open access! link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧶👇🏼 1/

Authoritarian regimes use regional organizations to suppress dissent and bolster their power as @debremaria.bsky.social shows in her new book "The Dictators' Club". As autocrats coordinate across borders, democratic actors must do the same, she writes. www.democracywithoutborders.org/37302/

On 9 July, the US imposed sanctions on special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Below I provide a brief context of this unprecedented attack against this body of experts.

ICJ Opinion: Unanimous. States have obligation under human rights law to protect the climate and environment.

66/ 🎆 What a clear ruling today! What a victory for #ClimateJustice! On fossil fuels, right to a healthy environment, historic responsibility, compensation, duties of States withdrawing from Paris: the Court's affirmation of legal principles will enable a new era of accountability.

States are obliged to regulate private actors in the context of climate chage

"it is difficult to see how these (IHRL) obligations can be fulfilled without, at the same time, ensuring the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment" "under international law, the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is essential for the enjoyment of human rights"