Heidi Matthews
@heidi__matthews
Assist Prof of law @OsgoodeNews | @Harvard_Law doc | law, war, sex | pod hmodpod.com | Newfie | twin mommy | opinions my own
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https://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/faculty-and-staff/matthews-heidi/ 24-11-2009 21:40:46
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The ICJ was clear: states cannot help to uphold the illegal occupation of the #WestBank. So, how is it possible that all Big Six banks in 🇨🇦 hold millions in 🇮🇱 defence stock (esp. Scotiabank)? They are at risk of complicity in war crimes. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic… #cdnpoli
This is exactly what the International Court of Justice found in July—that Israel has *already* annexed large parts of the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of the prohibition of the acquisition of territory by force. What we see now is an intensification of that process.
The @AMPL/AMPD v @McGillu TAT decision will be a great teachable moment: both established law students and newbies can try your hand at this case comment!
I had a shock in my anthropology class today. A student appeared on Zoom--right at the end of class. I was a bit irritated by the tardiness, when I realized - He was zooming in from a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. At 4 am. In a shelter of metal sheets, draped in fabric.
‘Saving Liberalism from Itself’. My review of ‘Liberalism against Itself’ by Samuel Moyn 🔭 has just been published in an incredible issue of Radical Philosophy. Radical Philosophy radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/sav…
Another day on the @AMPL/AMPD McGill Faculty of Law | Faculté de droit picket: another brilliant Teach-in around the TAT’s clairvoyant decision ordering the Dean and the Uni’s admin to restrain from interfering with Union business through decanal email channels.
Osgoode Hall Law School (Osgoode Hall Law School of York University) in Toronto is currently advertising three academic positions (one Chair in Corporate Governance and two assistant and/or associate professors in Indigenous Law, Property Law and/or Health Law). osgoode.yorku.ca/academic-emplo…
Teaching term is approaching & maybe its time to recommend the Critical Legal Pocketbook to your freshfaced new law students? Fairly cheap paperback& pay what you can ebook-its a really helpful text to help them see through the politics of their law degree criticallegalthinking.com/2021/11/08/the…