This a great piece. If you are interested in the South China Sea/West Philippines Sea, read it.

Thanks for your advice and mentoring during my Blue Security Fellowship!

Lastly, I thank the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for supporting my research on this important legal topic for maritime security in the Indo-Pacific.

I also thank the anonymous reviewers, @djag2.bsky.social and the participants to the 2024 Blue Security workshop in Manila for their constructive feedback on previous drafts.

Many thanks to @becstrating.bsky.social, @drtlee-brown.bsky.social, and @kateclaytn.bsky.social (who has since moved on to a new role) and the rest of the wonderful team at @latrobeuni.bsky.social Asia for their support throughout my Blue Security Fellowship.

Proudly sharing my latest for Blue Security: A Maritime Affairs Series.

At its simplest, my argument is that in the law of the sea, history is here to stay, and international lawyers better watch out how it's being deployed in particularly harmful and violent ways.

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

And thanks for the invitation and for this action photo!

Marine Environmental Security: Perspectives from International Law and the Blue Economy YouTube video by Blue Security

Marine Environmental Security: Perspectives from International Law and the Blue Economy | Sarah Lothian, Jacqueline Espenilla, Asmiati A Malik and @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social on their Blue Security research & developments in marine environment protection & Blue Economy www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4FF...

Is there a version without a paywall?

I wish you a long and healthy life to stand trial for your crimes here 🇳🇱

May you be so healthy that no judge worth their election to the International Criminal Court, taking one look at you, would hear from you a phony plea of physical unfitness or frailty to face trial.

Speaking here on marine plastics. Registration link below:

Why the Philippines made a dramatic turnaround on the question of archipelagos in the law of the sea And strangely enough, it means China and the Philippines have traded positions.

Great piece from @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social on the South China Sea and what law applies within archipelagic waters.

www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

Yesterday, I became well and truly Dr Dela Cruz at the University of Melbourne.

A most memorable ending to #ThisPhDLife

Blue Security Fellow @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social writes in @lowyinstitute.bsky.social on stalled int plastic treaty negotiations in South Korea. The ambitions of Philippine & Aust plastic law & policy shouldn't be held back by deadlocked treaty negotiations.
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Sharing my latest piece as a Fellow at the La Trobe Asia @bluesecprogram.bsky.social, on marine plastic pollution and what the recent failure to agree a global plastic treaty means for Australia, the Philippines, and the Indo-Pacific 👇

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China's condemnation of the enactment of the Philippine Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act and the Philippine Maritime Zones Act signals a shift in positions on the concept of archipelagos for both China and the Philippines - see @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social in @lowyinstitute.bsky.social The Interpreter

Putin and Netanyahu sitting in a tree, hiding from the ICC

New @lowyinstitute.bsky.social piece by @bluesecprogram.bsky.social 2024 Fellow @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social:
Strangely, its now China which uses concept of archipelagos albeit contrary to int law to assert territorial & maritime claims - not unlike how PH had done in the past before advent of UNCLOS.

In my first op-ed for @bluesecprogram.bsky.social, I comment on the newly enacted archipelagic sea lanes and maritime zones legislation of the Philippines.

Now up on The Interpreter @lowyinstitute.bsky.social 👇🏽

25 weeks ago I founded #CalledToTheBar: international law over drinks with @drnajimagi.bsky.social, @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social, @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social, and @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social. And we now have 937 followers and 32,592 plays across our 4 major platforms. Wow.
soundcloud.com/calledtothebar

go.bsky.app/SNvMPk3

Thanks for tagging me @duellpiening.bsky.social and adding me @reecelewis.bsky.social!

It would be nice to think that this war of annihilation could end with a multilateral treaty for the prohibition of hunger as a method of warfare but

Inspired/encouraged to do a law of the sea starter pack (probably not comprehensive so feel free to suggest additions!) go.bsky.app/9tsqVmb

archipelagos, the law of the sea, and state-making in the Philippines to such an engaged audience. They had some really interesting and challenging questions for me.

I also just learned that Germans show appreciation by knocking on the table instead of applauding(?)

Yesterday, I took the four-hour bus journey to Bonn to give one of this year's Rhineland Lectures in International Law - my first-ever public lecture after the PhD.

Many thanks to the kind invitation from the Institute for Public International Law at the University of Bonn to share my work on

man, a series of editorial rejections have really put me down several notches after the high of getting a phd without amendments. win some, lose some.

on the bright side, i am getting better at bouncing back from mean reviews. spite fuels my will to redraft.

ready for my next little win, please.