Mattia Pinto
@mattia800.bsky.social
Lecturer York Law School & Centre for Applied Human Rights • Socio-legal studies • Penality • Human Rights • Discourse Analysis • All things politics • Writing Human Rights as Sources of Penality (forthcoming, OUP)
ORCID: 0000-0001-7537-3942
ORCID: 0000-0001-7537-3942
My chapter w/ @natasamav.bsky.social ‘Accountability for violations of civil and political rights: redress within and beyond the penal frame’ is published in the Research Handbook on Accountability for Human Rights Violations.
DM me if you'd like a copy!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
DM me if you'd like a copy!
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November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
My chapter w/ @natasamav.bsky.social ‘Accountability for violations of civil and political rights: redress within and beyond the penal frame’ is published in the Research Handbook on Accountability for Human Rights Violations.
DM me if you'd like a copy!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
DM me if you'd like a copy!
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
In our article in @ljil-leiden.bsky.social @natasamav.bsky.social and I share our discomfort with equating justice to punishment in Palestine
Punishment is limited in terms of justice but also distorts responses, silences dissent and undermines the 'never again' promise
doi.org/10.1017/S092...
Punishment is limited in terms of justice but also distorts responses, silences dissent and undermines the 'never again' promise
doi.org/10.1017/S092...
September 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
In our article in @ljil-leiden.bsky.social @natasamav.bsky.social and I share our discomfort with equating justice to punishment in Palestine
Punishment is limited in terms of justice but also distorts responses, silences dissent and undermines the 'never again' promise
doi.org/10.1017/S092...
Punishment is limited in terms of justice but also distorts responses, silences dissent and undermines the 'never again' promise
doi.org/10.1017/S092...
Just published my review of Mirosław Michał Sadowski's "Intersections of Law and Memory: Influencing Perceptions of the Past" in the Modern Law Review!
Read the review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
More about this very rich book: www.routledge.com/Intersection...
Read the review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
More about this very rich book: www.routledge.com/Intersection...
September 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Just published my review of Mirosław Michał Sadowski's "Intersections of Law and Memory: Influencing Perceptions of the Past" in the Modern Law Review!
Read the review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
More about this very rich book: www.routledge.com/Intersection...
Read the review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
More about this very rich book: www.routledge.com/Intersection...
🚨Funded PhD alert!
@uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PGR studentship (stipend + fee waiver).
Apply by 31 May 2025.
Critical human rights & crim law; socio-legal theory & methods? Get in touch: I’d love to support strong applications!
Info: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
@uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PGR studentship (stipend + fee waiver).
Apply by 31 May 2025.
Critical human rights & crim law; socio-legal theory & methods? Get in touch: I’d love to support strong applications!
Info: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
May 21, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🚨Funded PhD alert!
@uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PGR studentship (stipend + fee waiver).
Apply by 31 May 2025.
Critical human rights & crim law; socio-legal theory & methods? Get in touch: I’d love to support strong applications!
Info: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
@uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PGR studentship (stipend + fee waiver).
Apply by 31 May 2025.
Critical human rights & crim law; socio-legal theory & methods? Get in touch: I’d love to support strong applications!
Info: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
In Liverpool, for this year's @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference? Come to our panel on human rights and anti-carceral work! With me, @silvilunazul.bsky.social & Valeria Ruiz Perez.
Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
April 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
In Liverpool, for this year's @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference? Come to our panel on human rights and anti-carceral work! With me, @silvilunazul.bsky.social & Valeria Ruiz Perez.
Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
Full programme: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
On 8th April, I'll be speaking at VERNAC TALKS by DIGNITY Vernacular Accountability Project. My talk, Restoring Harmony, explores how Nasa Indigenous justice in Colombia offers a restorative and collective model for human rights accountability.
DM me for the Zoom link.
@cahr-york.bsky.social
DM me for the Zoom link.
@cahr-york.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
On 8th April, I'll be speaking at VERNAC TALKS by DIGNITY Vernacular Accountability Project. My talk, Restoring Harmony, explores how Nasa Indigenous justice in Colombia offers a restorative and collective model for human rights accountability.
DM me for the Zoom link.
@cahr-york.bsky.social
DM me for the Zoom link.
@cahr-york.bsky.social
Help me share this opportunity!
The Sam Pegram Scholarship covers tuition, accommodation, travel & visa costs, and a living stipend for 1 international student to pursue the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the University of York.
Please visit: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
The Sam Pegram Scholarship covers tuition, accommodation, travel & visa costs, and a living stipend for 1 international student to pursue the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the University of York.
Please visit: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
March 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Help me share this opportunity!
The Sam Pegram Scholarship covers tuition, accommodation, travel & visa costs, and a living stipend for 1 international student to pursue the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the University of York.
Please visit: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
The Sam Pegram Scholarship covers tuition, accommodation, travel & visa costs, and a living stipend for 1 international student to pursue the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the University of York.
Please visit: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...
Just published my review of Teresa Degenhardt's "War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’" in Punishment & Society!
Read the review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
More about this fascinating book: www.routledge.com/War-as-Prote...
Read the review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
More about this fascinating book: www.routledge.com/War-as-Prote...
March 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Just published my review of Teresa Degenhardt's "War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’" in Punishment & Society!
Read the review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
More about this fascinating book: www.routledge.com/War-as-Prote...
Read the review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
More about this fascinating book: www.routledge.com/War-as-Prote...
Together with colleagues at the universities of York, Leeds, and Sheffield, I am pleased to share the CfA for the Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum (YCLF) Spring 2025 Research Seminar Series.
Do send us your abstract or share the CfAt with your networks!
More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1kuC2...
Do send us your abstract or share the CfAt with your networks!
More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1kuC2...
December 17, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Together with colleagues at the universities of York, Leeds, and Sheffield, I am pleased to share the CfA for the Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum (YCLF) Spring 2025 Research Seminar Series.
Do send us your abstract or share the CfAt with your networks!
More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1kuC2...
Do send us your abstract or share the CfAt with your networks!
More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1kuC2...
On the new EHRLR issue, I comment on the recent ECtHR case MA v France on the criminalisation of the purchase of sexual acts.
Read my "Do Sex Workers Have a Right To Have Rights? Let the State Decide and Criminalise, Says the European Court of Human Rights" here: uk.westlaw.com/Document/I78...
Read my "Do Sex Workers Have a Right To Have Rights? Let the State Decide and Criminalise, Says the European Court of Human Rights" here: uk.westlaw.com/Document/I78...
December 9, 2024 at 11:03 AM
On the new EHRLR issue, I comment on the recent ECtHR case MA v France on the criminalisation of the purchase of sexual acts.
Read my "Do Sex Workers Have a Right To Have Rights? Let the State Decide and Criminalise, Says the European Court of Human Rights" here: uk.westlaw.com/Document/I78...
Read my "Do Sex Workers Have a Right To Have Rights? Let the State Decide and Criminalise, Says the European Court of Human Rights" here: uk.westlaw.com/Document/I78...
W/ my colleague Pier, I wrote a piece on the Italian Cons Court judgment in the #Regeni case
We analyse the significance of the decision but also critique the emphasis on criminal accountability which risks diluting the right to truth & accountability in its broader sense
brill.com/view/journal...
We analyse the significance of the decision but also critique the emphasis on criminal accountability which risks diluting the right to truth & accountability in its broader sense
brill.com/view/journal...
November 28, 2024 at 9:28 AM
W/ my colleague Pier, I wrote a piece on the Italian Cons Court judgment in the #Regeni case
We analyse the significance of the decision but also critique the emphasis on criminal accountability which risks diluting the right to truth & accountability in its broader sense
brill.com/view/journal...
We analyse the significance of the decision but also critique the emphasis on criminal accountability which risks diluting the right to truth & accountability in its broader sense
brill.com/view/journal...
My review of Leading Works in Criminal Law by @chloejskennedy.bsky.social & Lindsay Farmer is out with Social & Legal Studies.
You can read the review here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
& buy the (fascinating) book here: www.routledge.com/Leading-Work...
You can read the review here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
& buy the (fascinating) book here: www.routledge.com/Leading-Work...
April 26, 2024 at 10:15 AM
My review of Leading Works in Criminal Law by @chloejskennedy.bsky.social & Lindsay Farmer is out with Social & Legal Studies.
You can read the review here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
& buy the (fascinating) book here: www.routledge.com/Leading-Work...
You can read the review here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
& buy the (fascinating) book here: www.routledge.com/Leading-Work...
I wish to thank the reviewers and editors for their exceptional peer-reviewing process. Their insights greatly enhanced the quality of the article. My gratitude also extends to those who attended my presentations at the 2023 LSA Annual Conference, offering valuable comments and questions. 8/8
April 4, 2024 at 11:57 AM
I wish to thank the reviewers and editors for their exceptional peer-reviewing process. Their insights greatly enhanced the quality of the article. My gratitude also extends to those who attended my presentations at the 2023 LSA Annual Conference, offering valuable comments and questions. 8/8
I argue that shifting from penal antagonism to political agonism is the first step towards abolishing bordered penality and Europe’s securitised border regime. While not definitive, agonism could help decouple migration from penality and eliminate a central source of violence for migrants. 7/8
April 4, 2024 at 11:56 AM
I argue that shifting from penal antagonism to political agonism is the first step towards abolishing bordered penality and Europe’s securitised border regime. While not definitive, agonism could help decouple migration from penality and eliminate a central source of violence for migrants. 7/8
Building upon the work of Chantal Mouffe, I advocate for ‘political agonism’ over ‘penal antagonism’ in dealing with migration: a recognition of the value of the political struggle between adversaries over opposing ways of dealing with complex issues of values and power. 6/8
April 4, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Building upon the work of Chantal Mouffe, I advocate for ‘political agonism’ over ‘penal antagonism’ in dealing with migration: a recognition of the value of the political struggle between adversaries over opposing ways of dealing with complex issues of values and power. 6/8
I show that in a climate of repressive and punitive immigration policies, resorting to criminal law to protect migrant rights may unintentionally increase—rather than reduce—migrants’ suffering. 5/8
April 4, 2024 at 11:54 AM
I show that in a climate of repressive and punitive immigration policies, resorting to criminal law to protect migrant rights may unintentionally increase—rather than reduce—migrants’ suffering. 5/8
It also challenges any attempt to protect migrants and address border violence through domestic and international criminal means. I view this approach, e.g. supported by @itamann.bsky.social in scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcont..., as a form of ‘progressive punitivism’ (cf. Hadar Aviram). 4/8
April 4, 2024 at 11:53 AM
It also challenges any attempt to protect migrants and address border violence through domestic and international criminal means. I view this approach, e.g. supported by @itamann.bsky.social in scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcont..., as a form of ‘progressive punitivism’ (cf. Hadar Aviram). 4/8
The article criticises the ‘conservative’ and ethno-nationalistic use of criminal law to exclude and disenfranchise migrants, a practice promoted by consecutive Italian governments over the past two decades, including the current one. 3/8
April 4, 2024 at 11:51 AM
The article criticises the ‘conservative’ and ethno-nationalistic use of criminal law to exclude and disenfranchise migrants, a practice promoted by consecutive Italian governments over the past two decades, including the current one. 3/8
It’s my first article about Italy, focusing on a topic I’m very passionate about—migration—and a legal tool, criminal law, which I firmly believe shouldn’t be used to address complex socio-political issues. It’s an article I’ve longed to write and only recently found the time to do so. 2/8
April 4, 2024 at 11:50 AM
It’s my first article about Italy, focusing on a topic I’m very passionate about—migration—and a legal tool, criminal law, which I firmly believe shouldn’t be used to address complex socio-political issues. It’s an article I’ve longed to write and only recently found the time to do so. 2/8
My new article ‘Border Penality as Antagonistic Politics’ has been published in Theoretical Criminology as FirstView & OpenAccess!!!
You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
1/8
You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
1/8
April 4, 2024 at 11:49 AM
My new article ‘Border Penality as Antagonistic Politics’ has been published in Theoretical Criminology as FirstView & OpenAccess!!!
You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
1/8
You can read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
1/8
I have a chapter entitled "Rights-driven global penality" in the newly published volume “Criminal Justice in the Prism of Human Rights” (Maklu).
Read it here (open access) & let me know what you think: www.youngpenalists.com/criminal-jus...
Read it here (open access) & let me know what you think: www.youngpenalists.com/criminal-jus...
December 21, 2023 at 3:58 PM
I have a chapter entitled "Rights-driven global penality" in the newly published volume “Criminal Justice in the Prism of Human Rights” (Maklu).
Read it here (open access) & let me know what you think: www.youngpenalists.com/criminal-jus...
Read it here (open access) & let me know what you think: www.youngpenalists.com/criminal-jus...
I guess I'll be criminalised for being a penal abolitionist... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
What a country and what a government 😭
What a country and what a government 😭
November 4, 2023 at 11:03 PM
I guess I'll be criminalised for being a penal abolitionist... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
What a country and what a government 😭
What a country and what a government 😭