An important and wide-ranging interview with Nahed Samour on international law and Palestine, among other things on the role of law and narrative, on the relation between positivism and critique, and on transnational resistance: academic.oup.com/lril/advance...
I am happy that this finally out now—and we are now very close to the publication of the full special issue. Stay tuned!
a timely and important symposium at @voelkerrechtsblog.org :
‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’
voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...
What boggles my mind even more than this is the fact that this is what they think about, what they care about, what they take action against…
“Both B’Tselem and PHR said Israel’s western allies were enabling the genocidal campaign, and shared responsibility for suffering in Gaza. “It couldn’t happen without the support of the western world,” Novak said. “Any leader that is not doing whatever they can to stop it is part of this horror.””
@jtheilen.bsky.social und ich haben für @verfassungsblog.de das Ramstein-Urteil analysiert.
Trotz der sehr hohen Hürden, die das Gericht für staatliche Schutzpflichten aufstellt, wird klar: Bei Waffenlieferungen an Israel muss eine solche Pflicht greifen.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency earlier this month. There's a LOT to be said about its content, but for now, I am sharing my first impressions in case you are interested 😎
Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv
They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already
How do we make sense of what's happening in Germany?
"...there is active suppression of speech, but that the reason may not be law, but obedience or something beyond “law”."
Stacy Douglas engages in a significant discussion here: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/08/i...
From economy of occupation to economy of genocide
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
Nervous Conditions
"Trump is little more than a symptom of the forces that over decades have produced this gradual decline, though he may also prove to be the final nail in the coffin."
www.bostonreview.net/articles/asl...
"It fosters meaningful discussion about the origin, accumulation, and distribution of extreme wealth and the harms it causes."
Drawing a line under extreme wealth
"the very idea of an extreme wealth line focuses public and political thinking and narratives around the question of how much is too much."
www.openglobalrights.org/the-human-ri...
These are just lies. Iran didn’t actually leave the negotiating table. Israel simply bombed Iran and now the US has joined. And the UK just declared that it supports these bombings.
It’s difficult to stress how dangerous this all is, and how reckless Starmer is
Nurbanu examines two competing frames of human rights in European human rights law and thought that underpin the conflicting claims on externalised migration control before the ECtHR.
@jtheilen.bsky.social
Following contributions by @cohelongo.bsky.social, @drqv.bsky.social, and @vanditak.bsky.social, the 4th piece in our special issue on Framing Europe in Human Rights, authored by Nurbanu Hayır, has just been published. Available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The article’s abstract, available at the link in the post
Another paper from our special issue on Frames of European human rights is out: “Seriously ill migrants in European human rights: Framing global inequalities” by @vanditak.bsky.social — absolute must-read on humanitarianism, responsibility & structural inequality
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If I were teaching a course on authoritarianism, I would ask students for an essay comparing Harvard with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. So different, on the one hand, and comparable, on the other.
"For the last thirty years there has been almost no new scholarship on the Peasants’ War. After reunification the subject was simply too difficult, because the former East and the former West had diametrically opposed interpretations of it."
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Join us for the conference "Utopian Imagination and Dystopian Practices: Future in the Past / Past in the Future"
June 6-7, 2025 @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI
"We need the energy in all forms, renewable, non-renewable, whatever."
futurism.com/google-ceo-c...
CCRD Konuşmaları Ali Yalçın Göymen'le Mayıs 20 Salı günü devam ediyor. Berlin'deyseniz bekleriz.
@goymenyalcin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @irgac-rls.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social
I fell asleep reading #Arboreality by R. Campbell, a collection of stories about ecological collapse. In the morning, instead of news on degrowth, I find myself scrolling through headline after headline about expanding military collaborations and massive tech investments. Which one is the fiction?
