Northern Ireland families are awaiting justice for crimes committed during the 1969 to 1998 conflict, @dooleydooley.bsky.social and @suchitauppal.bsky.social write. A legislative battle is brewing in the U.K. Parliament over efforts aimed at accountability. www.justsecurity.org/123679/legal...

Brilliant series. So good to hear from others who write so well.

Hundreds reportedly killed at Sudanese hospital as evidence of RSF atrocities mounts #ElFasher #Sudan #warcrimes www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Deadly attacks. New displacement. Deepening hunger.   We need the violence in Sudan to stop, urgent humanitarian access, perpetrators held to account.   I'm allocating $20M to provide urgent life-saving food, health, and protection. I will brief Security Council this morning.

"The Court found that Israel has a duty not to impede and to facilitate the humanitarian relief work of UNRWA and other organizations". This is beyond any reasonable disagreement. It is the law. Period. The Bottom Line of the ICJ’s UNRWA Advisory Opinion: www.ejiltalk.org/the-bottom-l... #Gaza

Thank you to the lovely Asymmetrical Haircuts team for letting me hyperfixate at them!!

📘 The Nuremberg Academy proudly contributes to “Nuremberg Principles and Ukraine: The Contemporary Challenges to Peace, Security and Justice” (@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social, Bloomsbury Oct 2025). Feat. work by Prof. Dr Safferling @safferli.bsky.social, Dr Dittrich & K. Menon. 👉 bit.ly/4nFpgds

Today thinking about the families of the hostages held in Gaza, the fragile hope of the return, the fears of loss, and the grief that accompanies great loss.

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Part of our mission to make scholarship available has to include making sure those works can technically be accessed into the future. So, we're excited to announce a new partnership with @jisc.bsky.social and Libnova for long term preservation of our digital archives www.abdn.ac.uk/news/24712/

In this post @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social & I trace how the Starmer Government's repeatedly misconstrues its obligations under the Genocide Convention in #Gaza, hiding behind a Court judgement that is years away with a position that we call "legally illiterate" and "morally indefensible".

“The attack included thousands of killings, which were perpetrated consistently throughout the charged period.” #ICC releases charge sheet detailing 3 counts of crimes against humanity against former Philippines President Duterte over his “war on drugs”: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Long overdue, and perhaps worth being mindful of Crawford's words from 1990(!), still be on point today: "For a Palestinian State to be properly described as "nasciturus", what is needed is statesmanship on all sides, and respect for the rights of the peoples and states of the region."

Hundreds of humanitarians killed this year. This is more than a statistical spike – it is normalization of violence against our community. As we open discussions during #UNGA, I urge leaders to stop this era of impunity. Each attack is an attack on all of us. Enough.

New post: "Nathalie Tocci on Courage, Strategy, and the Freedom of the Page” Tocci, European thought leader & Guardian columnist, has spent her career moving between policymaking & ideas 💡 Her lesson: policy and writing sharpen each other 🧵 
🔗 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

By targeting Hamas leadership on Qatari soil, Israel has not only escalated the conflict but also shaken confidence in Doha’s role as a mediator.

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

'Clarity is risk.' catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

“Gaza’s famine is man-made. And those who are making it happen are doing their best to conceal their crime. The Israeli government is reading from the same playbook as many architects of calamity from the past 100 years.” - must read, by Alex de Waal 👇 observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

I fleshed out a few of my thoughts about the comms from the ICJ to remove Judge Sebutinde and @verfassungsblog.de were kind enough to publish them: verfassungsblog.de/from-one-icj...

My Substack on writing, Respect the Marble is back! 🎉 I’ll be launching several new things this autumn, outlined here: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/a-new-seas... A quick preview 👇 🧵

Earlier this week, we sent an urgent letter to Israeli authorities expressing grave concerns regarding the plan to expand the hostilities in Gaza, as reflected in statements by the Minister of Defense. The list of signatories reflects a broad consensus among local international law academics.

ChatGPT has taught a guy with suicidal tendencies how to end his life. I hope his relatives will sue OpenAI out of existence.

📍Gaza | It is unacceptable for a health facility like Nasser Medical Complex to be damaged in a strike and for medical personnel, journalists, patients & first responders to be killed and injured. Medical facilities, civilians, journalists & first responders must be protected.

Those who report without fear or favor are targeted consistently in Gaza. No war like this, no end in sight. www.instagram.com/p/DN020Hj0hQ...

With news that Israel is calling up 60,000 reservists for its ongoing war on Gaza, states with dual nationals should be unequivocal: war crimes & crimes against humanity will not be tolerated and anyone who commits them will be investigated and prosecuted. justiceinconflict.org/2025/08/11/t...

It is scandalous that 🇪🇺 has still not invoked the blocking statute. 6 ICC judges, 3 ICC prosecutors, & 1 UN special rapporteur have now been targeted with this lawlessness. 3 abandoned by the 🇪🇺 of which they are citizens (ICC judges Guillou 🇫🇷 & Hohler 🇸🇮; UN SR Albanese 🇮🇹)

The White House has sanctioned Canadian national & #ICC Judge Kimberly Prost, among others. Will FM @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social protest this move? These are not normal times. Appeasing Trump is not worth abandoning our principles & commitment to the rule of law. www.icc-cpi.int/news/icc-str...

Continuing our series of #BackToSchool resources: @forrt.bsky.social have many excellent resources on teaching and mentoring students in Open Research practices, including easy to incorporate materials, assessments, and lessons. Check some of them out here: forrt.org/adopting/

"To generate knowledge in the context of hunger is to think through pain. To teach students who have not eaten and still tell them their voices matter. To insist, against all odds, that Gaza still thinks, still questions, still creates." "That, in itself, is an act of resistance."

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right): -Anas al-Sharif (correspondent) -Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator) -Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist) -Mohammed Noufal (camera operator) -Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

In the midst of terror & atrocities, they reported. While being threatened by Israel, they reported. As dozens of their colleagues were killed, they reported. Until their last breaths, they reported. Their targeted killing while reporting must be investigated as a war crime.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Bottom line obv but having trouble with ‘recognition purely a symbol’ framing. Maybe so in the sense that states ‘artificial persons’. But recognition of one by another is precursor to relations - including lawmaking via treaties - between each other as recognised equals.

"French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza." stunning. apnews.com/article/fran...

Since the start of the Gaza war, leading Israeli legal scholars have written numerous letters raising concerns over grave international law violations. We are publishing these letters for the first time in a collected English edition, with a summary by Kai Ambos. verfassungsblog.de/internationa...

Do not look away.

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

There are so many elements of IHL and ICL that aren't paid enough attention, and this is unquestionably one of them. Taking children so that they don't remember who their parents are, severing a formative relationship at a critical moment, is unspeakably cruel. May they be returned.

Our symposium on the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic has been published in the Journal of International Criminal Justice. Jérôme de Hemptinne, Patryk Labuda, Foreword. A Decade of Hybrid Justice in the Central African Republic: academic.oup.com/jicj/advance...

New: my very long post @opiniojuris.bsky.social explaining why the "last window of opportunity" test for self-defence, used by both the #US and #Israel to justify attacking #Iran, is not the law -- and shouldn't be. opiniojuris.org/2025/06/24/t...

The ICRC Rafah field hospital’s mass casualty procedure has been activated *twenty* times in *less than a month* as starving civilians are repeatedly gunned down while seeking desperately needed assistance. Criminality upon criminality. An abomination

"The people are dying, they are being torn apart, to get food for their children." Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in Gaza, killing at least 59 people, according to medics: www.reuters.com/world/middle... #Gaza

##InternationalDayForCounteringHateSpeech 📢We’re pleased to share our report on #hatespeech in the context of #InternationalCriminalLaw, exploring key legal insights & challenges. With @drrachelh.bsky.social, we’re committed to pushing this conversation forward. ➡️Read more: bit.ly/4kM3VxG

Remarkable post by @adhaque.bsky.social: The Fall and Rise of German Arms Exports to Israel: Questions for the International Court of Justice at www.justsecurity.org/114479/germa...

Written faster than mere mortals can read it, setting out exactly why this sort of act cannot be justified in international law.