Thanks, too, to the many wonderful friends and colleagues that have engaged with it over the past few years, all of which are mentioned in the first footnote!

📢 New Publication Alert 📢

Delighted to share my publication in LJIL! This piece is relevant for anyone interested in how we conceptualise 'nature', 'peoples' and 'statehood' under international law, including the role of peoples' tribunals in the international legal domain. lnkd.in/gVR-Hbfz

📢 Want to work with me at SOAS Law School? There are 2 permanent positions (SL/L) and 4+ two-year full-time fixed term positions (Associate Lecturerships) including one in International Law!

Come check out these roles: 👇🏾 vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/123535

(Not advertised on jobsacuk)

Mass shootings of Gaza aid seekers continue as Israel kills 5, wounds 70 US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it will reopen two aid points today after distributing no food yesterday.

And the planned starvation continues, while the Western Press looks elsewhere www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Privatizing Aid: The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Affair Israel and its allies have introduced quite a number of legal and political configurations over the past 19 months that even the most creative Jessup moot court problem writers would not dare to imagi...

So much rage & fury put into this post (but then edited 🙃)
The outrageous privatized aid plan for Gaza is a violation of international law and another confirmation that Gaza is being treated as a domestic problem, manageable by extralegal solutions #StopTheBlockade

www.ejiltalk.org/privatizing-...

It's out and available open access!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pathology...

Glad to see this article now out. Part of a special issue on the history of international law, I write on, and against, the erasure of the Marxist tradition in the international legal history of decolonisation.

brill.com/view/journal...

Keynote speech by Prof Antony Anghie

Kudos to @jemtseva.bsky.social, @maxlesch.bsky.social and others at @eui-eu.bsky.social for organizing this fantastic interdisciplinary workshop on the present and future of int’l institutions & bringing together critical legal and IR scholars.

International Law's Local Encounters: Experiences and Imaginaries of (De-)Coloniality - ACIL Please join us in interrogating international law’s local encounters and (de)coloniality during a two day workshop on the 5th & 6th June 2025 at Amsterdam Law School. The workshop is generously sponso...

What do calls for decolonial futures mean when articulated through international law?

Limited places at our workshop, 5-6 June. @uvalawschool.bsky.social

Organised by @kanadbagchi.bsky.social, @dbose.bsky.social, @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social & @tim-lindgren.bsky.social
acil.uva.nl/content/even...

Australian Progressive Legal Studies is back with a call for papers on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarianism. If you want to help us understand WTF is going on, send us your abstract by the 11th of July.

We are-ahem-low budget, so we can only help with domestic travel.

we are very lucky to have so many great people (@monicahakimi.bsky.social, @justinauriburu.bsky.social @tim-lindgren.bsky.social @kanadbagchi.bsky.social @lawprofpuig.bsky.social & more) taking part in this event, so don's miss the chance, check the program & register here www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

On Tariffs and the Ends of International Economic Law For decades, the rules of international trade helped cement U.S. firms at the top of global value chains. Should Trump's unapologetic embrace of tariffs be understood as part of a broader loss of…

I wrote a short piece on tariffs, sabotage and the end/s of international economic law for the good people of the @lpeblog.bsky.social. I almost had a nervous breakdown writing this, so you might as well read it lpeproject.org/blog/on-tari...

Looks great! Looking forward to reading this

The Gentle Decolonial Civilizer of Nations Book review of Umut Özsu's Completing Humanity

I reviewed Umut Özsu's 'Completing Humanity' and (ever so slightly) questioned decolonial thought and intellectual history from a Marxist perspective. You can read it here:
www.academia.edu/127552054/Th...

In Madrid and interested in Transatlantic issues? 🌎 🌍
Join us on 6 May 2025, for a public debate between policy, academia and civil society at the Fundación Bertelsmann:

www.fundacionbertelsmann.org/actualidad/e...

Dear friends, dear colleagues, after receiving multiple inquiries about the venue of our pre-conference workshop, we are sharing the information about our decision to proceed with the organization of our event. We are also extending the deadline to submit your abstracts to April 27 🚨

Congratulations!

10 more days to submit your abstracts 🚨💃

Pleased to present my research on climate litigation in the African human rights system at this symposium today! Registration link: shorturl.at/H2m9E

Beyond Compliance: Rethinking the Effectiveness of Regional Human Rights Regimes - ACIL Dr Dilek Kurban has recently been awarded an ERC starting grant for the new research project; Beyond Compliance: Rethinking the Effectiveness of Regional Human Rights Regimes. The project seeks answers to the following research question: What are the historical, institutional, and legal-jurisprudential conditions for the effectiveness of human rights regimes in non-democratic contexts? Join us for her lecture on 7 April to hear more about the project.

This afternoon 📣: a programme about the effectiveness of regional human rights regimes, led by Dilek Kurban. If you can't make it in person, feel free to join online @acil-uva.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3Ym0X9P

Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.

To everyone’s huge surprise, the IDF’s factual claims regarding the incident turned out not to be reflective of reality www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

A wonderful and, as always, engaging guest lecture on the law of the sea by @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social for our PIL course at Amsterdam University College 👏🏼 @uva.nl @acil-uva.bsky.social @kanadbagchi.bsky.social

📢 Call for Papers 📢

The ESIL IG on International Law and Technology is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for our @esil-sedi.bsky.social pre-conference workshop

The theme is *Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to Reconstructing International Law - A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide*

Call for applications: International Law Commission assistants roster

Secretariat launches call for qualified individuals to be included in roster of potential research assistants for Special Rapporteurs, Study/Working Group Chairs

Deadline: 15 April

🔗 legal.un.org/docs/?path=....

Critical Research and Institutional Redesign: For an Ecological Approach to Human-AI Government Decision-Making Critical Research and Institutional Redesign: For an Ecological Approach to Human-AI Government Decision-Making

Looking forward to 15 April and discussing my current project with the estimable ensemble Jake Goldenfein, Hélène Frichot and Chris Speed, in Melbourne’s home of critical research - Critical Research Association Melbourne. Come along if you’re in town!

Vakta tungan. Inte ett råd man normalt ger i en demokrati.

wonderful!

Very exciting, there is a new learned society in legal studies, the Legal Humanities Association. It's based in the UK but very explicitly international in focus. It aims to foster a community dedicated to cultural understandings of law. legalhumanities.com

Check out our CfP for our first ESIL pre-conference workshop! As we are the youngest IG, we would be grateful for your support and interest in our events, so please consider submitting your 🔥 abstracts (and share the call 🤭)

CfP for our ESIL pre-conference workshop is out! The workshop marks the official launch of our IG and will explore Critical Methodologies for Reconstructing IL. We would absolutely love to see you there!

Applications due April 20. Stay tuned for more information about our keynote...