Screenshot of pdf invite. Friday 13 March at 10am GMT on Teams. DM me for link.
Looking forward to this conversation with the ever insightful Scott Williams around how we can use play and poetry to unearth and move beyond the underlying premises, metaphors and myths within international law and governance on climate and disaster risk. Join us!
Amazing public service. The journalist has an MSc in International Human Rights Law from Oxford. It shows.
The U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran are illegal.
Iran's attacks in Gulf States are illegal.
The U.K. defending Gulf States is legal, but allowing the U.S. to use its bases is illegal.
In short, everyone is violating international law and should stop.
My latest @justsecurity.org
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that theyโre the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesiveโbecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about โWestern civilization,โ while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significantโthough not finalโvictory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
"This is a space in which to lodge critiques from multiple trajectories, for renderings of humans and other beings ill matched to prevailing orthodoxies; to identify and aspire to new possibilities of repair and transformation; to reject state legibilities or to refashion them"
Yes, please!
Hurrah!! Super exciting and super well deserved!!
A group of legal academics from across Ireland have called on the Governor of the Central Bank to immediately prohibit the marketing and sale of Israeli state bonds in or from Ireland, and to refuse to re-approve the bond prospectus on the renewal date of 2 September.ย
As leaving the #ECHR is back (again) on the agenda here is myself @colinmurray.bsky.social & Ben Warwick on why for #NorthernIreland this is nigh on impossible & why renegotiating the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is not to be done lightly
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๐ Registration is now open for the 2025 LSAANZ Conference: Rights, Relationality, Resilience, Reciprocity โ taking place 3โ5 December 2025 at Te Whare Wฤnanga o Waitaha I University of Canterbury, in ลtautahi Christchurch! www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/academ...
๐ If governments fail to abate the use of fossil fuels, approve fossil fuel projects or invest public money in fossil fuels, they could be in breach of international law.
๐ There is a potential route to reparations for states enduring the worst of the climate crisis.
Gives examples of fossil fuel licenses or permits as a possible internationally wrongful act holy shit
Once a State is established the disappearance of one of its constituent elements does not necessarily entail the loss of its Statehood - you can be a State without a territory!!!
I think the other one was common but differentiated responsibilities. Also, thanks for a brilliant thread!
Ahead of today's ICJ #ClimateChange #AdvisoryOpinion, I've seen a lot of "but it won't be binding."
This is, like a lot of things, technically true and also beyond the point. ๐งต #IntLaw
โ๏ธ2 days to go before the worldโs top court delivers a climate verdict that could change everything.
Whatโs at stake? Whoโs responsible? What comes next?
Read our blog here ๐ bit.ly/3UlX8Pz for the 6 issues to watch in the #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ.
By: @joiec.bsky.social & @duycks.bsky.social
Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.
If arrested 200 kms from Gaza, then this was on the high seas and the arrest was unlawful under both the law of the sea and international humanitarian law. The forced 're-education' is also clearly unlawful.
www.smh.com.au/world/middle...
Pointing to the coloniality of current social relations invites an understanding that logics of colonial violence were dispatched but never recalled. These logics include the idea that survival of the colonial state requires the annihilation of the other... wherever they are.
Dr Henrietta Zeffert will speak at the Gaza Tribunal in Sarajevo this week.The aim of the Tribunal is to awaken civil society to its responsibility and opportunity to stop Israelโs genocide in Gaza. The hearings are being broadcast live on YouTube - click the link below to tune in:
gazatribunal.com
Group of people smiling and showing off the Queer Judgments Book.
So lucky to be able to meet with some fabulous contributors to Queer Judgments and launch our book at the Law & Society Association conference in Chicago. You can download the book on a pay what you feel basis here: counterpress.org.uk
#LSA2025
@queerjudgments.bsky.social
@lawandsociety.bsky.social
In this article, Kathryn Allinson of the University of Bristol Law School discusses the international legal implications of supporting Israel in light of the ICJโs provisional measures and advisory opinion.
legalresearch.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/05/the-...
When we discuss the genocide in Gaza, we must choose our words carefully.
My letter in today's edition of the @irishtimes.com
Two women holding up a blue shirt with a Trail Criu logo in front of a Cork City Community Radio sign
It was so lovely to join Fahmeda Naheed at #Cork City Community Radio yesterday for a chat about Trail Criรบ Munster, inclusion in #trailrunning, and the joy of sharing adventures in the #outdoors. If you'd like to give it a listen, the recording is available here: www.mixcloud.com/corkradio/le...
โโNever Again is nowโ as JVP activists have chanted throughout this genocide. We must ask ourselves: Who is grievable, whoโs ungrievable? Whoโs countable, who is uncountable โ and who is accountable? Palestinians are not begging the world for charity. Weโre calling for meaningful solidarityโฆ"
We invite signatures from UK law people for our open letter on the aftermath of FWS.
*Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.
My first time joining @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & @aoifemod.bsky.social's Utopias Reading Group today ๐ Discussing @gautambhatia88.bsky.social's brilliant 'The Sentence' and thinking through questions of forgotten histories, law, and anarchy in the global order (& many other things). Such a treat!
Yay! the School of Law at University College Cork is now on Bluesky ๐ @lawucc.bsky.social
3 Criticizing a government that carries out war crimes is not hate. Itโs obligation.
If your politics canโt confront genocide, then your politics are trash:
No more money.
No more bombs.
No more fake neutrality.
You are either against genocide. Or you are part of it.
Now pick a side.
terfs obsession with toilets and what people have in their pants is weird and perverted, frankly. this kind of shit was inevitable.
