Israel is killing medics and children today.

They do this every single day.

Declaring that no quarter will be given is straightforwardly prohibited under international humanitarian law.

When done to threaten an adversary, the declaration itself amounts to a war crime.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

"Epistemic disobedience is…necessary because there is no way out of the coloniality of power from within Western categories of thought. Epistemic disobedience takes us to a different place...to spatial sites of struggles & building rather than to a new temporality within the same space." W. Mignolo

At the Twilight of the “Liberal” International Legal Order

The “liberal international legal order” is over. The age of universalist pretence is fading.
Onur Uraz and Aytekin Kaan Kurtul contend that international law survives regardless, but not as a universally shared project. It persists as a fragmented order shaped by multipolarity.

Conference announcement graphic with the title “Invisible in Risk: DRR & hyper-marginalised communities” under the heading “#DRRLive Presents”. The image shows faint silhouettes of diverse people standing together, including a person using a wheelchair on the left. The text states “Online / In Person” and “Save the date – 07 October 2026”. The background is light with a subtle grid pattern.

🚨 Save the date: 07 Oct 2026 🚨

Looking beyond the marginalised groups recognised in most frameworks, this one day conference will focus on communities who are hyper-marginalised & often pushed to the edges of #DRR due to social stigma and/or exclusion.

Speakers and details soon.

#InclusiveDRR

War in Middle East 'deliberate assault on international law', says President Connolly The UAE’s defence ministry said it had intercepted 16 missiles on Sunday, while a 17th fell into the sea

Take note, @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social:

Irish President Catherine Connolly says events in the Middle East are “deliberate assaults on international law” and must be called out “without euphemism and without equivocation”. www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-4...

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 they’re 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 cohesive—because 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 “Western civilization,” 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 significant—though not final—victory 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!!

Legal academics call on Central Bank to block sale of Israeli bonds 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. 

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. 

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

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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🎉 Registration is now open for the 2025 LSAANZ Conference: Rights, Relationality, Resilience, Reciprocity — taking place 3–5 December 2025 at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha I University of Canterbury, in Ōtautahi Christchurch! www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/academ...

👉 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.
👉 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. 🧵 #IntLaw

A Defining Moment for Climate Justice: What to Watch For in the ICJ Climate Ruling - Center for International Environmental Law ICJ’s climate ruling could make climate justice a legal mandate—holding polluters accountable and catalyzing global action.

⚖️2 days to go before the world’s top court delivers a climate verdict that could change everything.
What’s at stake? Who’s responsible? What comes next?

Read our blog here 👉 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.

Israel orders Greta Thunberg be shown October 7 video while in detention The Swedish activist was detained with 11 others while sailing to Gaza in an attempt to break Israel’s naval blockade of the territory.

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 Israel’s 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 ICJ’s 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 Criú 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...

“‘Never Again is now’ as JVP activists have chanted throughout this genocide. We must ask ourselves: Who is grievable, who’s ungrievable? Who’s countable, who is uncountable — and who is accountable? Palestinians are not begging the world for charity. We’re calling for meaningful solidarity…"