@melissastewart
Assistant Professor of Law University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law Public International Law | Human Rights | Statelessness | Int’l Environmental Law https://law.hawaii.edu/people/melissa-stewart/
New #CalledToTheBar: submarine cables, the invisible infrastructure carrying ~99% of global data.
Colonial origins, UNCLOS, grey zone sabotage, and why relevant LOAC is alarmingly undercooked.
With @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social, @taradavenport.bsky.social & Dita Liliansa.
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United States Onurt of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 26-5050 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-02471-ACR Filed On: March 6, 2026 Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al., Appellees V. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, et al., Appellants BEFORE: Walker, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, the opposition thereto, the reply, the amicus briefs, and the Rule 28(i) letters, it is ORDERED that the motion for a stay be denied.
BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, keeps in place a lower court order blocking DHS Sec. Noem’s effort to end Haiti temporary protected status designation.
Judges Pan and Garcia deny DOJ’s request to stay the district court order. Judge Walker would have granted it.
Haiti TPS is safe for now.
OpenAI is practicing law without a license, according to an insurer's lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court that alleges ChatGPT provided faulty legal advice to a woman seeking disability benefits that led to a breached settlement and a flurry of frivolous court filings.
Last week, ICE announced the 38th death in its detention system since January 2025. Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes, 48, was being held at Adelanto after being arrested in Echo Park, LA. His family says he was denied medical care despite repeated requests. 🧵
Anthropic v. Hegseth
Pretextual Designation and Unlawful Punishment
Important ground-setting analysis of the legal arguments Anthropic has at its disposal to win in court.
By distinguished legal experts Harold Hongju Koh and Bruce Swartz @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social
The reason she SHOULD have been fired.
Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.
Trying to find a new nanny and filling gaps with scattered babysitters with a baby that has selective stranger danger like….
The Diameter Of The Bomb The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God.
amichai.
Excellent explainer with analysis from @janinadill.bsky.social, @oonahathaway.bsky.social, @adhaque.bsky.social, Ben Saul, and Marko Milanovic:
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It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.
Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.
Speaker Johnson Says U.S. 'Not at War' With Iran By Sabrina Siddiqui HOUSTO Speaker of the House Mike Johnson ANDREW HARNIK/GETTY IMAGES House Speaker Mike Johnson denied the U.S. was engaged in a war with Iran, echoing Republican lawmakers who have sought to downplay the scale of the conflict. "We're not at war right now. We're four days into a very specific, clear mission and operation," Johnson told
War is peace. 2 + 2 = 5. Don’t believe your lying eyes.
The Human Cost of Mass Detention: ICE Reports 9th Custodial Death of 2026, 39th of Trump II Administration. Full table of all 39 deaths under Trump included in post.
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Second! So lucky to have such a great team at @uhawaiilaw.bsky.social
It was SO great to get to chat with @unlawfulentries.bsky.social in person and hear more about her forthcoming book. Cannot wait for the next opportunity.
Oh my god…
Excellent Thread by @stevevladeck.bsky.social. Not “hyper-technical.” It goes to the heart of why this Court has forfeited the trust of the parts of the profession who know and care about how litigation is supposed to work.
You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.
And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.
This is like 250,000 people and the air space in many of these countries is closed.
Iran human rights group HRANA:
"The total number of reported civilian deaths stands at 742, including 176 children under 18, with 624 reported deaths currently . under review"
"Reported civilian injuries since 28 February 2026 stand at 971, including 115 children"
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Have you read a law review article recently that you thought was particularly great and deserving of a wider readership?
If so, leave a link to it in the replies, together with a quick take on what made it great.
(If not, no need to say so.)
This is pretty hilarious. Retaliation *against* your attack really can't be the imminent threat that justifies your attack. I think the concept of linear time pretty much settles this question without the need for additional argument.
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
We started a war with no clear goal, no exit strategy, no legitimate casus belli, no domestic legal authorization, no allies, and seemingly no real plan at all — and now, having done all that and unable to take it back, we're starting to worry if things could spin out of control.
Citing reporting by @propublica.org and others, nearly 4,000 doctors, nurses and health professionals sent a letter to DHS Sec Kristi Noem calling for the immediate release of all children currently in immigration detention. Full letter: tinyurl.com/yz2amueb 1/
🌍 New AJIL Unbound Symposium
Global Health at a Crossroads – Part II is now live from the American Journal of International Law.
Read Part II 👇
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I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents
BREAKING
The Federal Circuit immediately issues the mandates in the tariffs litigation, rejecting the Trump admin's request for further delay. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is a super interesting paper that deserves a great home. ⬇️
Honestly might prefer if stuff I was working on felt less salient, as commentators debate the role that oil plays in Trump’s actions in Iran.
Law review editors, this paper is still looking for a home, and I will certainly update it to include this week’s events!