Two small announcements:
One, I was locked out of my personal email account for a while, but I'm back in! If you tried to contact me there, I'll get back to you this week.
Two, I'm very pregnant, and it sure is an odd time for that. Excited for mat leave soon, at least.
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There is evil and then there is this
One of the big media failures of the past decade is the ongoing search for the deeper side of Trump. There isn't one. His ideology, such as it is, is personalist, transactional, and zero-sum. That's as vain, vulgar, and wrong as you can get. He likes gold shit and applause. There's nothing beneath.
"You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.
This whole document reads like AI and is farcical. "We want to maintain the United States’ unrivaled 'soft power'" followed by "The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over." So which is it?
"We reject the disastrous “climate change” and “Net
Zero” ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries." - one of the many absolute nonsense statements in the US' 2025 National Security Strategy. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.
🌍 Workshop: Responding to Eco-Anxiety and Climate Trauma
The emotional impact of the climate crisis is increasingly felt in human rights research and education. Explore eco-anxiety and coping strategies.
📅 16 October | 🕐 12:00–17:00 |📍 Radboud University
More info: www.asser.nl/nnhrr/news/r...
water is wet
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
From Ambition to Action? The Sustainable Development Goals Ten Years On #ILW25
With: Perpétua Chéry, @freyadw.bsky.social, Giovanna E. Gismondi, John H. Knox, and Vanessa Racehorse.
Register for ILW25 here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/ilw-2025-reg...
Happy to be representing @abilaofficial.bsky.social at ASIL-Abroad in Singapore! Thank you to the @asilorg.bsky.social for an excellent first day.
The next episode of International Law Chats is live! Alison, Chiara, and Milena interviewed Rez Gardi (R-SEAT, University of Auckland) about the global refugee crisis and the importance of refugee-led representation in international affairs. Listen here:
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Unbelievable: ICE arrests workers on the front line fighting the Bear Gulch Fire in Washington's Olympic Mountains. Thank ICE when you breathe in that smoke this week. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social @conradswanson.bsky.social @isabellabreda.bsky.social
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Request from the Int Commission of Jurists for Pres Iwasawa to investigate Sebutinde's statement & to remove her form the #SAf v #Israel case. #ICJ #intLaw www.icj.org/icj-communic...
Gavin Newsom is anti-trans and I will never, ever vote for him.
I've never bought from them, but Free People always has fun flowy things!
The next episode of our podcast, International Law Chats, is live!
Alison MacDonald and Chiara Giorgetti interviewed a Panel of Experts about the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion ‘Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change.’ Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/2yBV...
Is sea level around the US accelerating? If you actually do the analysis, instead of just repeating talking points from decades ago, the answer is yes.
tamino.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/s...
One of my final days in Germany, on a Mosel river cruise! We move (cat included) to South Korea in just a few days ☺️🇰🇷
One of the best things I get to do at my job is help choose Emerging Voices - aka, fascinating young scholars - and provide them with the funding to travel to and stay in New York City. Read about this year's brilliant speakers below!
ALEX DE WAAL: So, let me say that I've been working on this field of famine, food crisis and humanitarian action for more than 40 years, and there is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.
Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.
Counterpoint:
ANNOUNCING: #ILW25 Opening Plenary speaker - Elinor Hammarskjöld!
Elinor Hammarskjöld is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs. ABILA President Michael Scharf will interview Ms. Hammarskjöld on October 23, 2025. Get tickets here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/ilw-2025-reg...
The next episode of our podcast, International Law Chats, is live!
Chiara Giorgetti and Milena Sterio interviewed our Chair, @leilasadat1.bsky.social, about her longstanding efforts to establish a treaty on Crimes Against Humanity. Listen on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/1bcl...
Tickets for International Law Weekend 2025 are now live! Early bird prices are available until September 23, 2025. Register here: www.ila-americanbranch.org/ilw-2025-reg...
