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
Mattia Pinto
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Another great YCLF seminar coming soon!
All info below 👇
Just before Christmas, my article with @natasamav.bsky.social was assigned an issue in @ljil-leiden.bsky.social
Want to read it? The article is open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Do human rights moderate punishment (a shield 🛡️) or expand it (a sword ⚔️)? My new chapter argues they do both as a form of "penal governance".
Out now in the Research Handbook on Penal Policy!
📖 Book: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res...
📬 DM me for the accepted version!
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...
The full programme for the Public Law Conference is out & registration is open.
Cape Town 1-4 July 2026
Join our discussions on the future of constitutional democracies.
@uctlaw.bsky.social @dansmywholename.bsky.social @natasamav.bsky.social @gerhardkempicl.bsky.social @mattia800.bsky.social
New blog post out in @opiniojuris.bsky.social w/ @natasamav.bsky.social !
We contributed to a great symposium on Prosecuting "Heads of State", discussing "Punishing the powerful" and the allure and limits of the penal accountability paradigm ⚖️
Read here: opiniojuris.org/2026/03/27/s...
If you are interested in criminal justice, children's rights, and/or feminist abolitionism, you cannot miss this presentation on 18th Feb at @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social and online!
More info 👇
Join the next YCLF seminar!
🗣️ @silvilunazul.bsky.social presents: ‘Anticarceral feminisms, penal violence against women, and the limits of human rights’.
🗓️ Wed 3 Dec, 15:00-16:30 📍Online (via Zoom)
®️To join us: sites.google.com/view/yclf/
Our 5th seminar is coming 🔜
🗣️ Federico La Vattiata: ‘Comparative Approaches to Normative Causation and the Limits of the But-For Test: Between Objective Attribution and Proximate Causation’.
🗓️ Wed 25 Feb, 15-16:30
📍Online & @universityofleeds.bsky.social
®️To join us: sites.google.com/view/yclf/
Our new website is live! 🚀
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Big things are on the way: stay tuned 👀
#YCLF #ComingSoon
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‘The Research Handbook on Penal Policy brings together an impressive group of contributors, providing readers with a remarkably rich and wide-ranging set of reflections. The result is an unusually val...
[Natasa Mavronicola is a Professor of Human Rights Law at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham; co-editor of Coercive Human Rights: Positive Duties to Mobilise the Criminal Law under the…
Our next YCLF seminar is coming 🔜!
🗣️ Marina Sáenz (EUI): ‘Juvenile Sexual Violence Against Women and the Conceptual Limits of Criminal Liability’.
🗓️ Wed 18 Feb, 15:00-16:30
📍Hybrid: @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social & Zoom
®️To join us: sites.google.com/view/yclf/
Our next YCLF seminar is coming 🔜!
🗣️ Marina Sáenz (EUI): ‘Juvenile Sexual Violence Against Women and the Conceptual Limits of Criminal Liability’.
🗓️ Wed 18 Feb, 15:00-16:30
📍Hybrid: @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social & Zoom
®️To join us: sites.google.com/view/yclf/
