The Legal Mobilization Platform (LMP) is hosted within the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University at its Hague Campus, and is supported by the Legal Mobilization Research Project. The Platform is a Dutch-based network with a global membership. The Platform supports both academic researchers and practitioners, actively encouraging a dialogue between them and serves as an innovative, co-creation incubator of ideas as well as facilitating support to its participating members, and especially to early-career researchers and practitioners.
The LMP itself does not take a position on any particular issue, although individuals and/or organizations involved in the Platform / Consortium, in particular societal partners, frequently do.
The Platform was formally launched in The Hague on 13 January 2023. However, long before that, several of its 330+ members from across the world had been writing about topics in BlISS on topics that are directly relevant to the Platform’s three main themes: racial justice, climate justice and socio-economic justice. The following articles are a selection of LMP Members’ contributions (from 2018).
2025
Paxton McCausland | 4 December 2025 | The Future of Transgender Liberation is International Law
Abubakar Muhammad Jibril | 2 December 2025 | Beyond Convictions: Rethinking gender justice through survivors’ lived experiences
Katerina Lefkidou | 27 November 2025 | Pursuing Justice for Survivors of CRSV in Ukraine: Gender and Intersectionality Considerations
Michelle Jarvis | 25 November 2025 | Effective Gender Justice as a Pathway to Peace
Irene van Staveren and Binyam Afewerk Dem | 30 October 2025 | Sanctions and boycotts are a proven way to increase pressure on the Israeli government to completely end the continuing genocide in Gaza after the ceasefire
2024
Isabel Awad and Jeff Handmaker | 19 November 2024 | One year on(going) – Teach In and vigil to mark one year of Israeli aggression in Palestine and Lebanon
Jeff Handmaker | 14 March 2024 | What can be done to address healthcare violations in Gaza?
Jeff Handmaker | 30 January 2024 | Verdict upheld against former president in Suriname (Part II)
Jeff Handmaker | 30 January 2024 | Monitoring an atrocity crimes trial in Suriname (Part I)
Dina Zbeidy | 25 January 2024 | When genocide is reduced to a war of emotions: Personal reflections on academic debates and the war in Palestine
2023
Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, et al |15 November 2023 | Jewish scholars refuse to be silent about Gaza
Jeff Handmaker | 12 October 2023 | The recent upsurge of violence in Israel and Palestine signifies a “prelude to genocide”. How could this happen?’
Ruard Ganzevoort | 5 October 2023 | Anti-discrimination legislation: findings from a parliamentary investigation and some recommendations
Jeff Handmaker | 28 March 2023 | Why and how the City of Amsterdam should be opposing Israel’s apartheid regime
Jeff Handmaker | 31 January 2023 | Mobilising for a Just World: Legal Mobilization for Whom?
Haris Zargar |17 January 2023 | Amid increasing disinformation and the silencing of speech, scholars must strive towards speaking truth
2022
Xander Creed | 5 August 2022 | All Bark, No Bite? The Case for Human Security in European Migration & Asylum Governance
Haris Zargar | 20 April 2022 | Addressing threats to scholars on the ground demands proactive measures from Academic institutions: Notes from fieldwork in Kashmir
Jeff Handmaker | 27 January 2022 | Palestinian Human Rights Defenders need protection: what can we do?
2021
Jeff Handmaker | 20 May 2021 | What can we do as Palestine burns?
Ana María Arbeláez Trujillo and Diego Hernández Morales | 12 May 2021 | #SOSColombia: A call for international solidarity against the brutal repression of protestors in Colombia
2020
Jeff Handmaker | 16 November 2020 | Are we in a crisis? Learning from Trump’s lawfare endgame
Fabio Andres Diaz Pabon and Ana María Arbeláez Trujillo | 6 July 2020 | COVID-19 | Remembering the ongoing assassination of human rights defenders in Colombia
Jeff Handmaker | 2 July 2020 | Misleading narratives distort antisemitism discourses
Bob Brown and Ana María Arbeláez Trujillo | 11 May 2020 | Revindicating the Black Power Movement
Haris Zargar | 6 April 2020 | COVID-19 | Europe’s far right whips out anti-migrant rhetoric to target refugees during coronavirus crisis
Haris Zargar |12 March 2020 | Love in a time of internet shutdown: heartache and hope in Kashmir
Jeff Handmaker | 13 January 2020 | Countering attempts to undermine the rule of law through lawfare in Suriname
2019
Meryl du Plessis | 16 December 2019 | Death and torture in the Life Esidimeni cases in South Africa: avenues for accountability
Dina Zbeidy | 25 November 2019 | More legal flexibility needed for Syrian refugees living in Jordan and elsewhere
Sanele Sibanda | 30 October 2019 | Land and property rights in South Africa: questions of justice
Ana María Arbeláez Trujillo | 3 October 2019 | Governance in the Colombian Amazon: Heavy-handed and lacking coherent policies
Jeff Handmaker | 16 September 2019 | Legal mobilization to end impunity for international crimes
Ana María Arbeláez Trujillo and Jeff Handmaker | 17 June 2019 | Confronting Apartheid Through Critical Discussion
Ana María Arbeláez Trujillo | 18 April 2019 | The Netherlands and Colombia: A Blurry Alliance
Jeff Handmaker | 4 March 2019 | Distorted anti-Semitism allegations in UK’s Labour Party are a cover for Israeli apartheid
Jeff Handmaker | 8 February 2019 | Learning from the crisis in international criminal justice
2018
Jeff Handmaker and Karin Arts | 29 November 2018 | Globalisation, international law and the elusive concept of “global justice”
Lotte Houwing and Jeff Handmaker | 12 September 2018 | Legal mobilisation in the court of public opinion
Cathi Albertyn | 21 August 2018 | Beyond the binary: negotiating cultural practices and women’s rights in South Africa
Nathanael Ali, Kinnari Bhatt, Jeff Handmaker and Sanne Taekema | 24 May 2018 | Human Rights Inside and Outside: Introducing the 2018 INFAR Conference
Jeff Handmaker | 16 March 2018 | Trump’s doublespeak—why academics should speak out
Jeff Handmaker | 26 January 2018 | Toward greater tolerance? Ethno-nationalist lawfare and resistance through legal mobilisation