Jess Peake

I am excited to co-chair International Law Weekend again this year! Stay tuned for the call for proposals. #ILW2026

Check out my new co-authored piece on @justsecurity.org

In it, we discuss how crises can be catalysts for change in international law.

Join us for @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend in NYC this weekend to explore this theme in more detail.

#ILW2025

I assume this is on the basis of your interventions on the AALS list serve the past couple of days, which have been 🔥💯🔥💯

Thank you for your service 🙏🏻

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Check out this excellent thread from @eliothiggins.bsky.social on what misinformation is, the dangers it poses and how empowered citizens and critical thinking are vital to democracy.

This is cruel. Children will die because they can’t get the treatment they need.

This SCOTUS doesn’t care about the American people.

🚨 Call for papers!

Please consider submitting a proposal for our Emerging Voices Panel at @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend 2025. This is a great opportunity to present before a prominent international law audience + get feedback from experienced scholars.

Deadline = July 6

The UN Fact-Finding Mission on #Iran is doing incredible work to document #crimesagainsthumanity and #humanrights violations committed by the Islamic Republic. The Iran Digital Archive Coalition is proud to assist by providing #digitalevidence.

The Coalition that Preserved Content from Iran’s Protests Woman, Life, Freedom victims and survivors are calling for help. We must amplify their voices and demand justice.

2/ First up: Safeguarding Evidence from Nushin Sarkarati (Atlantic Council Strategic Litigation Project), @jesspeake.bsky.social (UCLA Lab) and Kelly Liu (Mnemomic) who outline our collab as the Iran Digital Archive Coalition + the special series www.justsecurity.org/114163/coali...

Being involved with the creation of the #Iran Digital Archive Coalition and working with these incredible partners has been a career highlight. Each of us cares deeply about #accountability for #humanrights violations and #crimesagainsthumanity in Iran

The Coalition that Preserved Content from Iran’s Protests Woman, Life, Freedom victims and survivors are calling for help. We must amplify their voices and demand justice.

Check out my new @justsecurity.org piece, w my brilliant collaborator/friends Nushin Sarkarati (@slpjustice.bsky.social) + Kelly Liu. We describe creating the #Iran Digital Archive Coalition + why it is important to collect #digitalevidence for #accountability

www.justsecurity.org/114163/coali...

If this can be done to a U.S. Senator, in full view of the press, no one in this country can feel safe.

Love this, Bec . Congrats again!!

Please read or watch OCHA head Tom Fletcher’s remarkable and damning UNSC briefing.

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

This @motherjones.com piece captures the horror + fear of ICE agents disappearing a woman without a warrant, while hiding their faces. Cowards.

And then the Worcester Police steps in to help ICE + arrests a distraught 16 year old whose mother has just been taken.

It’s disgusting.

A true scandal. One of the biggest free speech violations of our lifetimes and yet the people who screamed about free speech on campus for the past decade were either responsible for the violation (Trump, GOP) or ran cover for it and enabled it (Bari Weiss, Fox, etc).

I am glad I am now registered to vote and have more protections as a citizen to be able to speak out against the many injustices occurring daily. I’m glad to be here and won’t stop fighting for a better tomorrow for all. 4/4

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There is so much hostility towards migrants, cruel policies that separate families, disappearances from our streets, and deportations and/or imprisonment without due process. 3/4

That is the promise of America - that anyone can come here, be welcomed, and make a life for themselves.

Unfortunately, that isn’t the moment we are in now. 2/4

Short 🧵

Today I became an American citizen after almost 16 years of living in the United States 🇺🇸

The woman who delivered the oath ceremony to the 40 of us who were being sworn in as citizens this morning thanked us for coming here and wanting to make it our home. 1/4

Moving and inspirational stories from past Aurora Humanitarian Awardees who are doing life changing work to support communities in Burundi, Congo, Iraq and Afghanistan

@safiyanoble.bsky.social talks of the “fantasy of AI” + the harm being wrought to by LLMs, + @aspainbradley.bsky.social emphasizes that education is a political project + we need to ensure access for all on a panel on The Future of Human Rights at the Aurora Human Rights and Humanitarian Forum

An interesting conversation to kick off the Aurora Human Rights and Humanitarian Forum, cohosted by the Promise Institute for Human Rights

I’m excited to be co-chairing the @abilaofficial.bsky.social International Law Weekend this Fall with this excellent committee of colleagues and friends!

Amazing, Bec! Congratulations. Your students are lucky to have you as a teacher.

Congratulations @leilasadat1.bsky.social, recipient of the @asilorg.bsky.social Goler T. Butcher medal for her incredible work pushing for a #CrimesAgainstHumanity treaty 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

Delighted to be @asilorg.bsky.social Annual Meeting to see my friend and former colleague, E Tendayi Achiume, deliver the Grotius Lecture on the history of racialization, racism, and how international law is a site of contestation.
#ASILAM

Shoutout to all the amazing partners in this coalition: @slpjustice.bsky.social @ihrdc.bsky.social @hrcberkeley.bsky.social, Mnemonic and Azadi Archive

Disappearances, Deaths, and Denials - Berkeley Human Rights Center

A new report from my @law.ucla.edu Digital Investigations Lab details the Disappearances, Deaths, and Denials of 12 kids during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests+information suppression by the state.

humanrights.berkeley.edu/publications...