🔥⚖️🌐final countdown to a historic moment for #ClimateJustice: in a few minutes, InterAmerican Court of Human Rights will deliver landmark authoritative judicial opinion on States' climate obligations
#AOLetsGo #OpiniónConsultiva
🧵key elements of context & analysis in thread👇
The UK officially withdrew from the #ECT yesterday, but fossil fuel companies could still sue the gov for 20 years under its "sunset clause." New legal advice shows a way out with an inter se agreement to block future #ISDS claims.
tjm.org.uk/uk-can-act-t...
@globaljusticenow.bsky.social
Investment Treaty Forum “Geopolitics and International Investment Law”
25 April
Panel 2. Coercion, Sanctions and ISDS
Dr Claudia Annacker, Annacker International Disputes
Dr Oliver Hailes LSE @ohailes.bsky.social
Joaquin Terceño, Eversheds Sutherland
Shreyas Jayasimha, Aarna Law
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Thanks Anna. V cool to see the work being done re natural resources among Australian international lawyers.
Warm welcome to join a new reading group on "Making and Unmaking Natural Resources" convened by Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social and myself. 10am AEDT Tuesdays fortnightly from 11 March 2025, via Zoom (with winter break), email for link and readings! lawecologypolitics.com/making-and-u...
Pleased to join senior scholars and practitioners @biicl.bsky.social. My intervention revisits the treaty rules on coercion and jus cogens, in light of developments re peoples' rights over natural resources (ICJ, CJEU), with an eye to a Ukraine-US minerals deal and related issues for arbitration.
Join us on Wednesday 5-6:30pm @lselaw.bsky.social for a panel w/ King Okpabi—leader of the Ogale community from the Niger Delta—about the ongoing #Shell trial
w/ Zoe Johannes (Leigh Day), @markdummett.bsky.social (Amnesty International) & Zainab Rahim (RAID)
Register: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
OK, let me start over. Check the America First Investment Policy released this week. What stood out? I found the prose muddled and riddled with rhetoric, making it difficult to parse policy implementation. But let me do a better service and go through it. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
"Consumption of coal is now on track to rise to a new peak of 8.77bn tonnes by the end of the year – and could remain at near-record levels until 2027."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I have a new long article out in International & Comparative Law Quarterly on ‘Control Mechanisms in Multilateral Investment Tribunals: Navigating Procedural Multilateralism and Substantive Bilateralism’ (open access) doi.org/10.1017/S002... Short 🧵based on the asbtract /1
The African Court of Human & Peoples’ Rights Ligue Ivorienne des Droits de L’Homme and Others v. Cote D’Ivoire judgment is huge for its developments on corporate accountability for human rights violations. Read our thoughts in the American Journal of Intl Law:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
3/ 🛢️ ⛽️ Judge Cleveland (🇺🇸) questioned the participants regarding States’ legal obligations under international law with regard to fossil fuels production under their jurisdiction.
NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
Interested in global political economy of the energy transition?
Brilliant conversation between @brettchristophers.bsky.social and Adam Tooze, moderated by
@katearonoff.bsky.social in NY
Our @thepolycrisis.bsky.social Dispatch buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
Youtube: youtube.com/watch?app=de...
18/🔥🇸🇱SierraLeone joins 🇦🇱Albania & 🇨🇲Cameroon in urging 🇺🇳Court to affirm that States enjoy margin of appreciation in regulating, in the public interest, private actors within its jurisdiction & shld not be subject to spurious claims by foreign investors. #ISDS
📌 #AOLetsGo: Ongoing today: #ClimateJustice hearings at⚖️🇺🇳 International Court of Justice - a historical moment
🧵live thread below with summaries of key arguments, context & relevant links ⬇️
🎙️Hear from Pacific Islands Student Fighting Climate Change's Vishal Prasad setting the stage.
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I am delighted to announce that LSE Law School is again offering the opportunity to our graduates and current LLM and PhD students to undertake a judicial fellowship at the International Court of Justice in 2025/2026. Application deadline is 15 January 2025 www.lse.ac.uk/law/news/202...
I am very much looking forward to discussing my research at the LSE’s PIL Hub Seminar this Thursday.
If you are around and keen to attend, drop by or message me!
The cover of Orford's book again
The cover of "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism" by Quinn Slobodian
2/12 Next up is another review article by @ohailes.bsky.social (LSE), "Putting to Work the Uncanny: Historical Argument in International Economic Law", which also includes a discussion on Orford & "Globalists" by @zeithistoriker.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
