Kalika Mehta

Can't wait for this to fly off the shelves for all the enthusiasts of 'Strategic Litigation and Corporate Complicity in Crimes under International Law: A TWAIL Analysis'. 😅

"What was striking, however, was that throughout the hearings—a space so steeped in feminist praxis, solidarity, and scholarship—the word ‘feminism’ was rarely uttered. Yet, its absence only underscored its presence" @MehtaKalika @AfgPpt ejiltalk.org/listening-in-t…

Last week, #ICC Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan delivered a keynote speech at the University of Münster on intersectionality at the #ICC: “International criminal justice must be more than accountability - it must recognise the humanity of victims & the complexity of harm."

Must-read for German international lawyers and for anyone considering attending ESIL this year at FU verfassungsblog.de/where-is-our-o…

Our special Issue on 'TWAIL and the International Law of Jurisdiction' is finally out! repository.nls.ac.in/nlsir/vol35/is… Please do read these excellent contributions where senior and junior scholars come together to think critically with Prof. B.S Chimni about the concept Jurisdiction in International Law @NLSIRev @Chimenekeitner

"These are cases where...multinational corporations...embroil themselves in violence for exponential profits...Despite...documentation of this instrumental role of corporations in historical and current conflicts, international criminal law fails to hold them accountable"

Late post: Reflections on TWAIL's ambivalence and contradictions. @TWAILReview twailr.com/terms-and-cond…

I’ve written an article for @ejiltalk exploring how the Hague Academy of International Law fostered radical anticolonial thinking in the interwar period through the often misunderstood lectures of Ahmed Reşid. academic.oup.com/ejil/advance-a…

What do existing approaches to international justice offer to victims of war and societies in conflict? And what possibilities do they provide for feminist social transformation? Book launch event 8 October @ECCHRBerlin with @medicamondiale and @MehtaKalika

@pilabuda Congratulations, Patryk!

Time to make it official - I've moved to Vienna as an assistant prof at Central European University. Huge thanks to everyone who helped along the way. Exciting plans for the future, incl a new project on international law between Eastern Europe and the Global South. More soon!

This Workshop explores the potential of an LPE angle to strategic litigation, focusing on rules that enable exploitation/harm/ecological degradation in the first place. If you have a Case that could fit, do reach out! A 10k Starting Grant will be awarded to further develop it.

@raghavi_vis @SOAS @mayursuresh Congratulations Raghavi!

Had the pleasure of moderating Prof. Chimni's keynote session at the conference organised by @kulamadayil @praggya_surana @tor_krever in Kochi. Thrilled to be spending a week w/ some of the most interesting critical scholars discussing 'Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times'.

Nature as an “ecological person” in European law - an attempt at judicial law-making German judge "invents" NATURE or an individual ecosystem such as a river or forest as an “ecological person” with its own rights. Based on Articles 2 and 3(1) in connection with Article 37 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the doctrine of human rights documents as “living instruments”, the Regional Court of Erfurt, siting as a single judge, finds a comprehensive right of ecological persons to have their existence, preservation and regeneration of their life cycles, structure, functions and development processes respected and protected. The Court argues that “the recognition of specific rights of ecological persons through the interpretation and application of existing Union law is necessary because of the importance and urgency of the ecological challenges – climate change, species extinction and global littering – and the threat of irreversible damage.” (LG Erfurt, Urteil vom 02.08.2024 - 8 O 1373/21; available in German here: openjur.de/u/2492578.html) In another case, the same court asked the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for a preliminary ruling, inter alia, on the question of whether it was compatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and, in particular ... the inherent rights of nature established by the Charter, that a claim for damages is ultimately reduced to "zero" due to the offsetting of advantages (Case C-276/20). It will be of interest to see whether the CJEU will follow the German judge and establish nature as an ecological person with its own rights.

Happy to see this out in the wild, with my ch on African regional efforts to combat transnational organised crime (*these efforts are works in progress!) ⁦@transcrim⁩ ⁦@ILPANetwork⁩ routledge.com/Corporate-Crim…

@bildungsburger "It's me. Hi, I'm the monster. It's me!" said the scribe.

While we often only get to see medieval queer people through the eyes of those who condemned them, this manuscript may offer a glimpse of how they talked to each other, and in what terms.

What do monsters, queer people and transmasc Jesus have in common? They all show up in a 9th-c. manuscript from St Gall! If you're interested in more details, take a look at my new (oa!) article in Early Medieval Europe (short 🧵below) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

This is one of the best investigations on corporate complicity in genocide in Gaza. Political rhetoric is not enough. Until there are economic sanctions against Isr. nothing is going to change. Corporations must stop literally fueling genocide and starvation.

I write about the complicated lives of women in the newly urbanised fringes of Delhi. This is part of my ongoing research in villages in Sonipat-Rai. thewire.in/gender/between… @thewire_in #Gender #Sonipat

The London Review of International Law invited critical scholars to contribute short reflections on international law and Gaza. The collection of 47 pieces is published here: doi.org/10.1093/lril/l…

It looks like years of inaction by the #InternationalCommunity in #Bangladesh has created an overwhelming sense of impunity although it seems finally that the #HasinaRegime has overestimated its position. There are always red lines. This, finally, is one. It is a useful reminder to the senior political, military and law enforcement officials that bear individual criminal responsibility that the @IntlCrimCourt is watching closely.