Very well-timed piece from my colleague @andreimamolea.bsky.social 👇⚖️🌎

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Andrei Mamolea (@andreimamolea.bsky.social) shows that a Latin American bloc with a common agenda emerged in Geneva in the 1920s.

#LeagueofNations #LatinAmerica #internationallaw #smallstates #transatlantic

Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Third annual Conference on the Jewish Left, featuring Peter Beinart, Prof Marjorie Feld, Arielle Angel, Ian Lustick, Zol Zayn, Dove Kent, Liana Krupp, Fadi Quran, Prof Michael Zank, and 16 workshops led by scholars, faith leaders, and national orgs like the SPLC. Join us!

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Here’s the recording of my conversation yesterday with some super smart friends about the US intervention in Venezuela 🗃️ @shafrhistorians.bsky.social

Looking forward to speaking at this event at @remarquenyu.bsky.social on February 9 with the brilliant @orrosenboim.bsky.social

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I'm delighted to announce BU's Clark Legal History Series
@bostonu.bsky.social @bulaw.bsky.social

Weds 4:20 to 6:20:
Starting 1/21: @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social presenting his outstanding new book "The Radical Fund"

Then @sherifgirgis.bsky.social @beaubaumann.bsky.social & more:

Which blocs or international organizations can hope to counterbalance the United States today?

according it "the international importance and the maturity that the United States prefers us not to have."

I tell part of that story here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In 1921, a Venezuelan diplomat, Diógenes Escalante, considered the League of Nations as a place where Latin America could "counterbalance the all-absorbing influence of the United States" by removing the region "from Washington’s tutelage" and

Anyone interested in doing a funded PhD on Latin America and the League of Nations should apply for this position at the Graduate Institute:

I will go more deeply into the details of this and many other cases where the United States undermined international arbitration in my forthcoming book
Rogue State: The US and International Law, 1880-1945

The US has repeatedly violated international law in its relations with Venezuela and not just through the illegal use of force. In 1908, it helped engineer a coup so that it could relitigate an arbitral case that Venezuela had won. I briefly tell the story in this chapter:

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Application Deadline is Jan. 15, 2026

Anyone interested in doing a funded PhD on Latin America and the League of Nations should apply for this position at the Graduate Institute:

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Seats still available.

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'How is the earth written, by whom and to what ends? And how is it written through law? What distinguishes the planetary, the global & the international—and how might these distinctions matter legally?'

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The Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University
@bupardeeschool.bsky.social is inviting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Latin American Studies.

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The link is here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31333

The Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University
@bupardeeschool.bsky.social is inviting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Latin American Studies.

Please share.

Proofs!

Today at 4PM!

A reminder to folks in Boston: Professor Bradley Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social will be giving a book talk on The First Right next Monday Oct. 27 at 4pm at 121 Bay State Road, Boston University. Come join us!