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...
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyThe state shot &killed people in the uk for decades, colluded with citizens to kill & has frustrated justice in uk courts ever since. Sean Browns widow awaits her day in the Supreme Court. THAT has been a warning siren ringing for decades - the colonial attitude of us being lesser stops them hearing
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyMamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyJust empire doing empire things
- 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
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyAs Minister Peter Burke heads to the final #CSDDD trilogue negotiation, @irishtimes.com has published shocking revelations on the corporate campaign to lobby for EU deregulation, undermine democracy and weaken vital protections for people and the planet: www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
- 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/...
- Reposted by Marisa McVey‘Risk exiting the market’ what a way to package the complete collapse of higher education
- Reposted by Marisa McVeySheffield Hallam University complied with Beijing demand to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project on supply chains and forced labour being dropped. It was reinstated after threat of legal action but chilling effect remains www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- 🇪🇺 📣 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%
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyA day where law and justice feel far apart. But criminal law really struggles to function at 53 years of remove, when so many witnesses are dead. Injustice was assured when it took this long for the state to recognise its wrongdoing and start proceedings: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
- 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...
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyThe UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel: Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Absent a court judgment, findings of UN COIs are the most conclusive, thus we should read these findings thoroughly. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
- 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!
- Does the AI skeptic have nothing else to fall back on than an enumeration of mankind’s shortcomings? Are our worst qualities the best we can do? www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
- 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.
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyPeople from Northern Ireland listening to English flag discourse
- 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.
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyThe whole article is worth reading!
- Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
- 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 👇
- The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: A Business and Human Rights Perspective opiniojuris.org/2025/08/04/t...
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyA sit down protest by Palestinian solidarity groups has been blocking the road in front of City Hall for 2 hours now
- 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...
- Reposted by Marisa McVey"What we're seeing now is the most horrific stage of Israels starvation campaign... Israel has been using aid as a way to bait civilians & has been killing civilians who have been seeking aid..." Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Reposted by Marisa McVey"Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday." "She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid out on a slab of stone."
- 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...
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyHuman Rights and Legal Organizations Warn Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and Partners of Legal Liability for Complicity with Serious International Law Violations: ccrjustice.org/home/press-c... @ccrjustice.org
- 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.
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyNorthern Ireland has changed massively over the past 60 years in a lot of ways but certainly not in others
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyQueen's University Belfast no longer investing in Israeli companies "as of yesterday"
- Reposted by Marisa McVey"The UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and also consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations”, more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including former supreme court justices, have said."
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyMore than 350 lawyers and academics say Government not complying with international law obligations over Palestine crisis
- 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-...
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyUN's Tom Fletcher: "The situation is dire.. we have thousands of trucks ready to go.. we are demanding that the world back us in pushing Israel to let us in.. [5 trucks is] a drop in the ocean.. there are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them"
- 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.
- Great new blog on The Morrigan focusing on #wellness & #gender from Ciara Hackett, @marisamcv.bsky.social & @clarepatton.bsky.social Snake Oil Goes Digital: Corporate accountability, mis/disinformation and wellness dflw.ie/snake-oil-go...
- 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
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyfaced with a profoundly unjust decision against him, Mahmoud Khalil chooses to show incredible solidarity
- Reposted by Marisa McVey#Derry astrophysicist Dr. Matt Nicholl receives prestigious gong for pioneering black hole and supernova discoveries. Well done to the Oakgrove Integrated PS and Foyle College old boy.
- 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
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyEssential reading, by Bhandar and Toscano on Trump’s “real estate ontology”, the end of presumed relations btw sovereignty, territory, and property; and the place of Gaza in this naked imperium proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyTerrible backsliding from the EU Commission on the CSDDD.. shameful. deregulation packaged as simplification.
- 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...
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyThrilled! The Morrigan Blog - a feminist blog that looks at exploring the ways in which gender and sexuality articulate with questions of law and justice - is up and running! Thks @illanwall.bsky.social for the set up! #FeministLegalWork #Feminism #LegalFeminism Pls repost! dflw.ie/how-to-join/
- 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...
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyPalestinian victims of Israel’s bombing of Gaza have taken the first step in issuing a formal legal claim in a British court against BP plc and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline Company. Read more: www.bindmans.com/news-insight...
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyTrial by Fire - can international law written by the world’s colonial powers help free Palestine? lux-magazine.com/article/isra...
- Reposted by Marisa McVeyThe Norwegian oil company Equinor, which has partnered with Ithaca Energy to develop Rosebank oilfield in UK’s North Sea waters, is being sued over alleged business links to Israeli energy company flagged by UNHCHR for operating in illegal settlements in the OPT www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Reposted by Marisa McVeySally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
