Randle DeFalco
@randledefalco.bsky.social
Assistant Law Prof researching atrocity
Author: Invisible Atrocities (CUP, 2022)
Author: Invisible Atrocities (CUP, 2022)
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Andrew Cuomo is a bad man pulling on a dangerous thread because he wants to win a job he doesn’t actually want to do in a place he hates
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Andrew Cuomo is a bad man pulling on a dangerous thread because he wants to win a job he doesn’t actually want to do in a place he hates
Delighted to announce my article, American Carceral Atrocities, is forthcoming in the Penn Journal of IL and is up on SSRN (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)
The piece theorizes the sprawling US carceral system as a system of ongoing atrocity violence, perpetrated against detainees.
The piece theorizes the sprawling US carceral system as a system of ongoing atrocity violence, perpetrated against detainees.
www.pennlawjil.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Delighted to announce my article, American Carceral Atrocities, is forthcoming in the Penn Journal of IL and is up on SSRN (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)
The piece theorizes the sprawling US carceral system as a system of ongoing atrocity violence, perpetrated against detainees.
The piece theorizes the sprawling US carceral system as a system of ongoing atrocity violence, perpetrated against detainees.
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"training" is the consistent liberal canard. nope people, this is THEIR JOB. they are doing what they are hired to do.
October 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"training" is the consistent liberal canard. nope people, this is THEIR JOB. they are doing what they are hired to do.
Children’s literature professor fired by Texas university over ‘gender’ content
“Texas A&M is a great university … that honors academic freedom and academic responsibility”
Lmao
“Texas A&M is a great university … that honors academic freedom and academic responsibility”
Lmao
September 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Children’s literature professor fired by Texas university over ‘gender’ content
“Texas A&M is a great university … that honors academic freedom and academic responsibility”
Lmao
“Texas A&M is a great university … that honors academic freedom and academic responsibility”
Lmao
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say
September 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say
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If Israel is willing to target and kill journalists in a hospital with double tap strikes over a camera (a fucking camera, like WTF), what is it doing when it believes there are actual Hamas figures?
These war crimes will not stop until those responsible are held to account.
These war crimes will not stop until those responsible are held to account.
Israel says the double bombing of a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people, including five journalists, was trying to take out a camera. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Initial inquiry says Hamas camera was target of Israeli strike that killed journalists
An initial Israeli military inquiry has concluded that troops struck what they believed to be a Hamas camera position in Monday's attack on a Gaza hospital that killed five journalists, but a further probe was ordered into how that decision was made.
www.reuters.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
If Israel is willing to target and kill journalists in a hospital with double tap strikes over a camera (a fucking camera, like WTF), what is it doing when it believes there are actual Hamas figures?
These war crimes will not stop until those responsible are held to account.
These war crimes will not stop until those responsible are held to account.
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"As of February 2025, the only reasonable inference from the cumulative evidence is that Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide." - @itamann.bsky.social
Eleven international law experts were asked: is there genocide in Gaza. Nine said yes. www.lto.de/recht/hinter...
Eleven international law experts were asked: is there genocide in Gaza. Nine said yes. www.lto.de/recht/hinter...
International Law Experts: Genocide in Gaza?
Does Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitute genocide? LTO asked eleven international law experts. After 22 months of war, a clear tendency is emerging.
www.lto.de
August 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"As of February 2025, the only reasonable inference from the cumulative evidence is that Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide." - @itamann.bsky.social
Eleven international law experts were asked: is there genocide in Gaza. Nine said yes. www.lto.de/recht/hinter...
Eleven international law experts were asked: is there genocide in Gaza. Nine said yes. www.lto.de/recht/hinter...
www.lto.de/recht/hinter...
Spoiler alert: a virtual unanimous “yes”, with the sole uncertainty being the mens rea of individual perps, and whether can be attributed to state of Israel as a whole.
Spoiler alert: a virtual unanimous “yes”, with the sole uncertainty being the mens rea of individual perps, and whether can be attributed to state of Israel as a whole.
International Law Experts: Genocide in Gaza?
Does Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitute genocide? LTO asked eleven international law experts. After 22 months of war, a clear tendency is emerging.
www.lto.de
August 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
www.lto.de/recht/hinter...
Spoiler alert: a virtual unanimous “yes”, with the sole uncertainty being the mens rea of individual perps, and whether can be attributed to state of Israel as a whole.
Spoiler alert: a virtual unanimous “yes”, with the sole uncertainty being the mens rea of individual perps, and whether can be attributed to state of Israel as a whole.
Suit Accuses N.Y.P.D. of Continued Aggression at Protests Over Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n...
Courageous and important lawyering including by my wonderful colleague, Elena Cohen!
Courageous and important lawyering including by my wonderful colleague, Elena Cohen!
Suit Accuses N.Y.P.D. of Continued Aggression at Protests Over Gaza
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Suit Accuses N.Y.P.D. of Continued Aggression at Protests Over Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/n...
Courageous and important lawyering including by my wonderful colleague, Elena Cohen!
Courageous and important lawyering including by my wonderful colleague, Elena Cohen!
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In response to the formal request of Minister Riyad Mansour, State of Palestine's Permanent Observer to the UN, during the August 10 UN Security Council Meeting, for "an immediate international protection force to save the Palestinian people from certain death," DAWN issues the following statement:
UN General Assembly: Deploy International Protection Force to Gaza
(Washington D.C., August 11, 2025) – In response to the formal request of Minister Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, during the August 10 Emergency UN ...
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August 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In response to the formal request of Minister Riyad Mansour, State of Palestine's Permanent Observer to the UN, during the August 10 UN Security Council Meeting, for "an immediate international protection force to save the Palestinian people from certain death," DAWN issues the following statement:
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So ashamed and sad to hear about this from my alma mater 😣
This is what authoritarianism looks like. share.inquirer.com/K5v2JX
Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office
Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office.
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August 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
So ashamed and sad to hear about this from my alma mater 😣
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative at www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
"a lot of the children have already passed the point of no return where [...] even refeeding could potentially cause death itself.” This is at minimum extermination as a CAH
"a lot of the children have already passed the point of no return where [...] even refeeding could potentially cause death itself.” This is at minimum extermination as a CAH
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
www.justsecurity.org
August 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative at www.justsecurity.org/117962/mass-...
"a lot of the children have already passed the point of no return where [...] even refeeding could potentially cause death itself.” This is at minimum extermination as a CAH
"a lot of the children have already passed the point of no return where [...] even refeeding could potentially cause death itself.” This is at minimum extermination as a CAH
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The UN has determined that the “worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.”
Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.
Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
www.justsecurity.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The UN has determined that the “worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.”
Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.
Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.
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July 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
Opinion | The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion
www.nytimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The Death of Gaza in Slow Motion www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...
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Two political prisoners in Iran 🇮🇷, Behrouz Ehsani & Mehdi Hassani, were executed today. According to @amnesty.org, they were tried in a 5-minute trial. Stop executions, arbitrary detention, unfair trials and torture. Urgent action is needed. @un-spexperts.bsky.social
With SR Iran and SR EJEs, I call on Iran to halt the execution of Behrouz Ehsani & Mehdi Hassani, whose death sentences were upheld by the Supreme Court, following trials reportedly marred by torture and forced confessions.
@UN_SPExperts are in contact with Iranian authorities on this matter.
@UN_SPExperts are in contact with Iranian authorities on this matter.
July 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Two political prisoners in Iran 🇮🇷, Behrouz Ehsani & Mehdi Hassani, were executed today. According to @amnesty.org, they were tried in a 5-minute trial. Stop executions, arbitrary detention, unfair trials and torture. Urgent action is needed. @un-spexperts.bsky.social
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Very rare for the ICRC:
"Every political hesitation" in failing to bring the "abhorrent" practice of extreme deprivation and indiscriminate attacks to an immediate and decisive end "will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war"
States "must do more"
"Every political hesitation" in failing to bring the "abhorrent" practice of extreme deprivation and indiscriminate attacks to an immediate and decisive end "will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war"
States "must do more"
July 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Very rare for the ICRC:
"Every political hesitation" in failing to bring the "abhorrent" practice of extreme deprivation and indiscriminate attacks to an immediate and decisive end "will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war"
States "must do more"
"Every political hesitation" in failing to bring the "abhorrent" practice of extreme deprivation and indiscriminate attacks to an immediate and decisive end "will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war"
States "must do more"
I wrote a few things on starvation/famine and ICL nearly a decade ago. I figured it was not going to be relevant moving forward, yet he we r, witnessing at bare minimum a slow process of extermination (as a CAH) unfold in Gaza. It’s just so sad and pathetic.
July 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I wrote a few things on starvation/famine and ICL nearly a decade ago. I figured it was not going to be relevant moving forward, yet he we r, witnessing at bare minimum a slow process of extermination (as a CAH) unfold in Gaza. It’s just so sad and pathetic.
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This is a thorough explainer on the escalation between DOJ and the NJ federal courts.
BREAKING: After federal judges blocked Alina Habba from continuing as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, AG Pam Bondi fired the First Assistant who was set to replace her — a direct defiance of DOJ protocol.
From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Bondi Fires First Replacement After Judges Reject Habba Appointment
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
July 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This is a thorough explainer on the escalation between DOJ and the NJ federal courts.
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Looking for an amazing job in paradise? We're hiring a tenure-track Reference and Instructional Services Librarian @uhawaiilaw.bsky.social
Our librarians are all amazing and you couldn't ask for a better place to live and work. Come join us!
www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...
Our librarians are all amazing and you couldn't ask for a better place to live and work. Come join us!
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Librarian III or Librarian IV, #0082296
I. Duties and Responsibilities: Librarian III or Librarian IV The University of Hawai'i at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law seeks to hire a tenure-track Reference and Instructional Services...
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July 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Looking for an amazing job in paradise? We're hiring a tenure-track Reference and Instructional Services Librarian @uhawaiilaw.bsky.social
Our librarians are all amazing and you couldn't ask for a better place to live and work. Come join us!
www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...
Our librarians are all amazing and you couldn't ask for a better place to live and work. Come join us!
www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...
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A grave and shameful attack, in a very long line of attacks by the US, on the UnIted Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
She and her predecessors have always faced smears and hostility for their work on Palestine but this is a serious and disgraceful escalation.
She and her predecessors have always faced smears and hostility for their work on Palestine but this is a serious and disgraceful escalation.
Trump administration says it is targeting Albanese for encouraging ICC war crime prosecution against Israel’s Netanyahu.
US sanctions UN expert Albanese over Israel criticism
Trump administration says it is targeting Albanese for encouraging ICC war crime prosecution against Israel’s Netanyahu.
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July 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A grave and shameful attack, in a very long line of attacks by the US, on the UnIted Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
She and her predecessors have always faced smears and hostility for their work on Palestine but this is a serious and disgraceful escalation.
She and her predecessors have always faced smears and hostility for their work on Palestine but this is a serious and disgraceful escalation.
Amnesty International says Israel and aid system use starvation to commit Gaza genocide
July 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Amnesty International says Israel and aid system use starvation to commit Gaza genocide
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We have officially launched the Participatory Law Fund at Temple Beasley School of Law! The fund is devoted to supporting the production of an emerging genre of legal scholarship called Participatory Law Scholarship (or PLS).
More info about the application process @
law.temple.edu/academics/in...
More info about the application process @
law.temple.edu/academics/in...
Participatory Law Fund - Temple Law
Participatory Law Fund Apply by June. 30, 2025 The Participatory Law Fund (PLF) is devoted to supporting the production of an emergent genre of legal…
law.temple.edu
May 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We have officially launched the Participatory Law Fund at Temple Beasley School of Law! The fund is devoted to supporting the production of an emerging genre of legal scholarship called Participatory Law Scholarship (or PLS).
More info about the application process @
law.temple.edu/academics/in...
More info about the application process @
law.temple.edu/academics/in...
genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/privacy-dign...
Great quick read by my colleague, the wonderful Elena Cohen!
Great quick read by my colleague, the wonderful Elena Cohen!
Privacy, Dignity, and Erotic Justice - Gender Policy Report
Privacy was never enough to ensure freedom for LGBTQ+ and other sexually- minoritized groups, such as sex workers. We need to move beyond privacy rights to achieve erotic justice in US law.
genderpolicyreport.umn.edu
May 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/privacy-dign...
Great quick read by my colleague, the wonderful Elena Cohen!
Great quick read by my colleague, the wonderful Elena Cohen!