Marisa McVey
Academic at QUB School of Law • human rights • corporate accountability for human rights • (She/her)✨Views/hot takes unfortunately all my own✨
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyThis ought to be a huge national news story. But the quiet dismantling of a key sector barely registers outside HE. Maybe someone will care when the local economies that Unis sustain start to go bust too. Important story from @patrickjack.bsky.social & @timeshighered.bsky.social
- Ninety UK universities to have posted accounts so far cut 13,300 jobs last year, spending £303 million on severance pay - sector-wide total clearly going to be well in excess of predicted 10,000. Great reporting by @patrickjack.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...
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- Reposted by Marisa McVeyMamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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- Reposted by Marisa McVeyLetting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide
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- My article comparing the EU and UK’s approach to implementing the UNGPs, post-Brexit is out now in the Modern Law Review. Against a backdrop of escalating corporate influence over human rights, I contrast the EU’s (contested) preventative regulation with the UK’s reliance on a minimalist framework.
- I also look to the unique position of Northern Ireland and the future of business and human rights regulation under the Windsor Framework. You can read the article here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- 🇪🇺 📣 Is everyone bored of Brexit yet? 📣 🇪🇺 📖 If not, I have a forthcoming article in the Modern Law Review on the divergent approaches to implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights post-Brexit.
- While the broader effects of the withdrawal of the UK from the EU have been extensively scrutinised, little attention has been paid to how each jurisdiction has comparatively sought to prevent and mitigate corporate human rights abuses.
- I compare the EU's focus on due diligence with the more passive approach taken by the UK (so far). The paper also explores the (often overlooked) role of Northern Ireland and the implications of the Windsor Framework for business and human rights.
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- Reposted by Marisa McVeyAfter submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
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- Reposted by Marisa McVey“In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity. In Chile, precious aquifers are in danger of depletion. In South Africa, where blackouts have long been routine, data centers are further taxing the national grid.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyConor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk
- ‘The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era.’ In his final piece for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, Conor Gearty writes on the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the HRA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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- Reposted by Marisa McVey"Sinn Féin and the DUP have stalled the nutrients action programme over fears of a farmer backlash." The *only* thing they'll unite on: ensuring the largest lake ecosystem in Ireland or Britain, Lough Neagh, continues to die of pollution. What a f**king disgrace. share.google/cazBTwCid9qR...
- It's ok to be a Luddite!
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyITV have this headline 100% correct. It was an attempted lynching in broad daylight at a preannounced white supremacist mobilisation. Despite being MLA for the area, the Justice Minister doesn’t engage with victims of white supremacist terror in her own constituency. [1/n]
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyFor context: Policy Exchange is among the least transparent think tanks in the UK regarding its funding sources. Co-founder and first chairman Michael Gove wrote a pamphlet in 2000 comparing the Good Friday Agreement to the appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s.
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- Reposted by Marisa McVeyPerhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
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- Reposted by Marisa McVeyAl Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime
- Reposted by Marisa McVey“The leaked Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of the unit’s sensitive data may now be sitting in the company’s datacentres in the Netherlands and Ireland.” A deadly serious allegation that requires urgent investigation. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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- Yet another blog on the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on climate change - with a slight twist! Below, myself and Annalisa Savaresi share reflections specifically on the implications for human rights-based corporate responsibility 👇
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- Reposted by Marisa McVey“Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. The death of one child is not an accident, but the death of many is a crime the world has allowed.” www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...
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- Reposted by Marisa McVey‘Given the size of Palestine Action and the breadth of support so far expressed for it, proscribing it could lead to a significant proportion of civil society being criminalised, including MPs, journalists and NGOs.’ New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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- Reposted by Marisa McVeyDrs Ciara Hackett and @marisamcv.bsky.social introduced the second day of our Business and Human Rights workshops, taking us through the context in Northern Ireland and sharing the Northern Ireland Business and Human Rights Index.
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- Reposted by Marisa McVeyQueen's University Belfast no longer investing in Israeli companies "as of yesterday"
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- Reposted by Marisa McVeyAs Gaza faces mass starvation, I wrote about Israel’s new militarised aid plan (to be run by a ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ headed by a former US sniper) and the call for a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy to break the siege. www.abc.net.au/religion/as-...
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- We got the Egg Team - @clarepatton.bsky.social (Leeds), Ciara Hackett @qublaw.bsky.social and me - back together to write about wellness quackery in the digital age! Massive thanks to @aoifemod.bsky.social and all at DFLW and the Morrigan Blog for a brilliant space to write and think.
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyagain and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression
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- Reposted by Marisa McVeyVideo of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
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- This makes for brutal reading and its an indicator of things to come for the entire sector. Solidarity with Cardiff colleagues
- Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
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- Reposted by Marisa McVeyHappy to see our article on #digitallegacy #postmortemprivacy empirical insights from key stakeholders (e.g. lawyers) just published in Script-Ed. Many thanks to editors, reviewers and my amazing co-authors @lilianedwards.bsky.social @marisamcv.bsky.social journals.ed.ac.uk/script-ed/ar...
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