How do you make crypto fraud understandable for everyone?
Dr Andrea Leiter @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social has been awarded an Amsterdam University Fund grant for her project 'Cryptologist: Making Blockchain Legible', researching the emerging field of crypto forensics. 👏
@uvalawschool.bsky.social
🎤 Listen now to #DigitalEchoes Season 2 / Episode 4! @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social speaks with Laura Lotti — a researcher, analyst, and writer with 10 years of experience investigating digital assets, networked organizations and regenerative technocultures.
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In this OA article in the Leiden Journal of Int’l Law, I argue that the distinctive logic of consular internationalism can aid analysis of entanglements of imperial & commercial power & grappling with unofficial actors’ role in shaping international law www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.
International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.
Hey folks, the excellent international law and politics Collaborative Research Network is now on Bluesky if you want to follow: @intllawpoliticscrn.bsky.social
Cornell Ph.D. student Momodou Taal sued the Trump administration to challenge its broad executive orders targeting pro-Palestinian students, fearing that he "was going to be a target eventually." Then he was ordered to turn himself in to ICE for possible deportation.
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
What are the historical, institutional & legal-jurisprudential conditions for the effectiveness of human rights regimes in non-democratic contexts?
Hear more about this @erc.europa.eu research project led by Dr Dilek Kurban, 7 April, 15:30cet. @uvalawschool.bsky.social
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During a workshop on 30-31 January, we critically examined #digitalsovereignty through a #feminist lens.
Our collective writing exercise resulted in a blog post just published on Critical Legal Thinking. It is available via the link below!
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Dr Machiko Kanetake has been appointed as the new academic director and chair of the executive board of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, starting 1 July 2025. Her leadership, together with the managing director Kasper Vrolijk, will be instrumental in shaping the future of the Institute.
🔗 bit.ly/43ydJp1
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Finally getting published- our episode is scheduled for 5 May - Laura on 27 April
I’m really glad we did this. All the little pieces.
All about the new and old song on ‘law & code’ - great conversations delivered every other Monday- stay tuned!
Thanks to all the nice, really very nice people involved in this and the generous support of @acil-uva.bsky.social 💙
The irony of Columbia being the first target after being at the vanguard against its own students and faculty exercising their right of free speech.
Shafik’s unnecessary and preemptive appeasement totally backfiring
Tweet von Maximilian Krah: Masseneinwanderung ist tödlich
#Mannheim
Täter ist ein Deutscher ohne Migrationshintergrund, vorbestraft wegen rechter Hetze.
Vorname: Andreas
Aufgehalten und für die Verhaftung des Täters gesorgt hat ein Taxifahrer aus Pakistan.
Vorname: Afzal
Reaktion der AfD:
“We’re witnessing a global backlash against women’s progress […]. Trumpism and rightwing populism isn’t a revolt against the ‘elites’; it’s a reaction to men being de-centred and a backlash against feminism.”
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📢Vacancies: Two postdoc positions and a PhD researcher.
Working with Dilek Kurban @uvalawschool.bsky.social on her project, ‘Beyond Compliance: Rethinking the Effectiveness of Regional Human Rights Regimes’.
Apply before 9 March.
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They’re really trying to destroy everything with no plan what comes next.
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Neoliberalism’s foundation isn’t pure rationality but unspoken desires, power, and domination. Our essay of the week examines how the Market thrives on chaos and destruction while masquerading as a virtuous necessity.
By @medinamora.bsky.social in @parapraxismag.bsky.social
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Screenshot with text: "When pressure mounted and Berlin’s mayor, Kai Wegner, intervened, the president of Freie University caved in. President Ziegler cancelled the in-person event and justified this decision with the “present polarization and unpredictable security situation.” Upholding academic freedom only in words, not deeds, he offered the organizers could hold an online event. Where is our outcry? Some of you have expressed regret about the violation of academic freedom that this incident entails. I thank you for that. Yet, I also have some questions. Why do you feel the need for public caveats, or for critique of the title and concept of the event with Francesca Albanese and Eyal Weizman “Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy. Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide” organized by four colleagues – not from international law but from FU’s faculty of philosophy? You “would have preferred a conception of the event which would not have anticipated the outcome of a debate in the title.” I understand that you might have done things differently; but is a statement so urgently needed to defend academic freedom really the right place for quarrels with colleagues about the design of an academic event?"
"The mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967 is to “investigate Israel’s violations of the principles and bases of international law, international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967”. This has been the case since the position was created in 1993. Francesca Albanese, in her work, has come to the conclusion that Israel commits genocide against the Palestinians. As international lawyers, we should welcome her to explain her findings. We should listen to her. Then we can ask questions and have a conversation. But we should not try to achieve some “fair balance” by inviting also “the other side.” Do we really want to turn our university debates into yet another mediocre talk show format?"
"I would like to invite you to watch the conversation with Albanese that the LMU’s Decolonial Practices Group was not allowed to hold at LMU and therefore livestreamed and recorded from another venue. Throughout the conversation, she reminded listeners of Germans’ and Europeans’ responsibility for the Holocaust and other genocides. This responsibility is what motivates and drives her work. She also reminded her audience of the fact that extermination of Jewish life in Germany was not limited to concentration camps and that Jews, even after the war, continued to face severe discrimination and antisemitism in Germany, but also other parts of Europe and the United States (I highly recommend The Brutalist on that latter point). She clearly denounces all violence against civilians. Seldom have I listened to an international lawyer talking with such intelligence and wit, with such ability to explain complex matters in an accessible way, with nuanced judgment, introspection, a willingness to learn and listen, fearlessness and dedication to justice – not just for Palestinians but for all who are victims of oppression."
Must-read for anyone considering attending ESIL this year at FU Berlin👇
"International Law is being dismantled before our eyes, [...] Let us put aside, for a moment, the unfinished writings and applications and make sure that Francesca Albanese is allowed to speak in Germany!"
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“Francesca Albanese is our colleague. The holder of a mandate by the Human Rights Council. […] Never before has UN Special Rapporteur Albanese been disinvited from a university.”
Where is our outcry? @isafei.bsky.social
Universities under pressure: German civil society organizations and @wiko-berlin.bsky.social speak up against political pressure, cancellations and (self-)censorship.
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Can we build a better world than the one we have? What does the critique of neoliberalism tell us about where we might go next? @gregggonsalves.bsky.social and I have thoughts, just out in @daedalus.bsky.social: www.amacad.org/daedalus/soc...
🔥🔥🔥 Excited to share this collection in @ejiltalk.bsky.social: International Law and Technology as a Critical Project: A Collective Reading.
👇 This piece draws the contours of a critical approach to IL and technology by introducing five wonderful review essays.
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BOOK OUT NOW: Artists, Activists, and Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future
Inte Gloerich in conversation with E. Bordeleau, R.Catlow, A. Launay, Y. Khalili, P. Rafferty, and S. Troncoso tinyurl.com/ajnmh4f
