Matiangai Sirleaf

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Scholar. Writer. Teacher. Advocate. Order Race & National Security (OUP 2023)

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Matiangai Sirleaf@matiangai· May 8

Reparations are overdue. International law needs to move beyond legal recognition of the wrongfulness of chattel enslavement and the trade in enslaved people, toward repair and remedy. The UN's recent resolution represents a step toward global racial justice. www.justsecurity.org/138316/beyon...

Matiangai Sirleaf@matiangai· Apr 1

Thanks so much for having me! I really enjoyed engaging with your faculty on this project and am grateful for the constructive feedback. Special thanks to Monica for facilitating the visit. Also loved the welcome sign!

Sign with image and welcome to Matiangai Sirleaf Georgia State College of Law's Distinguished Speakers Series

Matiangai Sirleaf@matiangai· Feb 25

This is not a drill! Part I of Global Health at a Crossroads Symposiumis out in the American Journal of International Law Unbound. My intro. to the symposium is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/service... Check out all the insightful contributions below! #globalhealth #internationallaw

First page on introduction to Symposia on Global Health at a Crossroads

Matiangai Sirleaf@matiangai· Aug 27

Excerpts from my recent interview with @laconverse.bsky.social. The full article is available in English www.laconverse.com/en/tag/inves... and French www.laconverse.com.

Screenshot of article available through link

Matiangai Sirleaf@matiangai· Apr 1

Register for Maryland's Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission hybrid public hearing on April 4th and 5th: mdlynchingmemorial.networkforgood.com/events/79416... Expert witnesses will give tesimony on how MD can address its legacy of racial terror and potentially prevent harm in the present.

The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission will hold a public hearing in Maryland on April 4th and 5th, 2025, as part of its ongoing effort to bring awareness to Maryland's history of racial violence and to foster reconciliation in the present.

HEARING DETAILS

When: Friday, April 4, 2025 and Saturday, April 5, 2025

Time (in person and streaming): 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Where: Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, 830 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21202

Reparations as Justice: Economic, Legal, and Social Pathways to Repair. Photographs from right to left: moderator Comissioner Dr. Nicholas Creary. Panelists: Dr. William Darity, Prof. Joel Edward Goza, Dreisen Heath, Prof. Marcus Anthony Hunter, Prof. Matiangai Sirleaf

Matiangai Sirleaf@matiangai· Mar 3

Hope for realizing a healthier world and transformation in global public health: social movements, young minds, innovation from the Global South, capacity for learning, and compromise. ICYMI @roojinhabibi.org @fifarahman.bsky.social @clarewenham.bsky.social Dr. Andraghetti & I 👇🏿 youtu.be/pS80uVTSEmU

Flyer announcing Towards Transformation in Global Public Health Panel on Feb. 27th with pictures and titles of the four panelists and moderator: from right to left Roberta Andraghetti, Technical Officer World Health Organization, Roojin Habibi, Assistant Professor, Univ. of Ottawa, Fifa Rahman, Principal Consultant, Mathari, Clare Wenham, Associate Professor, London School of Economics & Political Science, Matiangai Sirleaf, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Picture in MD Carey Law stairwell in front of symbols of justice from right to left: Connor Lemma, EiC Maryland Journal of International Law (MJIL), Professor Habibi, Professor Sirleaf, Professor Wenham, Halla McDermon, Symposium Editor, MJIL, Dr. Rahman

Panelist seated at table from right to left: Professor Habibi, Dr. Rahman, Professor Wenham, Professor Sirleaf

Matiangai Sirleaf@matiangai· Dec 10

ICYMI @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and I in convo on global health's past, present and potential futures is available here youtu.be/7JjUTi0q9OM?... We discuss how zones of sacrifice, power, privilege, racism, coloniality, the foreign gaze, White supremacy & saviorism shape global health then and now.

Image of the globe as a virus with the bottom two-thirds of people in the Global South falling off or barely hanging on, while the top third of people in the Global North stand on gold waiting in line to get vaccinated. Image of Matiangai Sirleaf, her institutional affiliation and title of talk White Health as Global Health.

Image of Matiangai Sirleaf and Seye Abimbola

Matiangai Sirleaf@matiangai· Nov 13

Allow me to reintroduce myself, my name is Matiangai Sirleaf (Ma-tee-ahn-gay Sir-leaf). I am the Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the UMD School of Law. I hold a secondary appointment as a professor in the Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health at the UMD School of Medicine. Views are mine 👇🏿