The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been making headlines for months. But what does it reveal about the deeper shifts underway in the global energy economy? Justina Uriburu is joined by Jorge Vinuales and Sergio Puig to explore the present and future of energy and international law’s role in it.

Expansive post on our book by @himself.bsky.social whose work with @abenewman.bsky.social has been so illuminating. Interestingly, some of his points about Musk's geopolitical vulnerabilities we pick up on in a piece for @foreignpolicy.com coming later today. open.substack.com/pub/programm...

War in Iran is turbocharging the case for the global energy transition • Policymakers increasingly see shift to renewables as crucial for energy security • Chinese firms manufacture ~70% of worldwide clean-tech supplies, making them well-placed to benefit from trend www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I am deeply honoured to have received the John Jackson Prize from the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL) for my article ‘Dollar Dominance, De-Dollarization, and International Law’. www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

'[T]he task facing a mature society is to adapt its methods of financing universities to sustaining the purposes for which such institutions exist – rather than, as at present, the other way round'. @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Final version up! “The Post-Legitimacy Court,” with Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A thought for those redesigning universities: 'Any question about the future economics of AI begins with identifying what becomes scarce.' Education is a sector 'where the value of the service is likely to be increasingly linked to the human providing them'. aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-...

I'm delighted to be serving on the Program Committee for the ASIL Abroad Meeting on 'International Legal Order at a Crossroads'. Buenos Aires is a great location and a reminder that legal debates should not be confined to their usual centres. Join us! asil.org/asil-abroad/

Andrew Chubb’s EJIL article asks whether international law helps drive confrontation. His study of China’s South China Sea policy shows that UNCLOS has not only structured legal argument but has also helped contribute to interstate maritime conflicts.

Fordham Law Prof. Harlan Cohen (@harlangcohen.bsky.social) appeared on the Michigan Journal of International Law podcast's first episode, discussing how shifts in global power lead to shifts in the international order—potentially reopening interpretative fights over the meaning of security & more.

'For scholars to give up the vocation they’ve spent around 10 years training for, often at the expense of acquiring any other work experience, is a sign that something is truly rotten in the state of UK academia.' www.telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/c...

Today, a spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements 🎉

De-Dollarization Mainstreaming Today, in the NYT, we read that: 'There is a desperate desire in the world to escape the clutches of the dollar-denominated system'. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...

@bentarnoff.com and I went long on the Muskism-Fordism comparison, drawing on the Regulation School to ask what social settlement is being offered alongside the Big Tech regime of accumulation and whether they aren‘t perversely harmed by the absence of counterparty. lpeproject.org/blog/muskism...

Watching Budapest fall in 2026 is for national conservatives what watching Budapest fall in 1956 was for reform communists.

Interested in why the (eroding) centrality of the dollar matters for UK trade and investment policy? Then read this briefing paper I co-wrote with economists Jun Du, Sambit Bhattacharyya, and Alejandro Fiorito.

Outright strategic defeat

'When Iran slammed shut the [Strait of Hormuz], it didn’t just disrupt shipping lanes. It placed maximum stress on the architecture of dollar dominance at its most physical chokepoint.' fortune.com/2026/03/24/i...

“With the US destroying its own credibility, the opportunity is Beijing’s for the taking.” Discuss.

The Second Circuit has reversed the $16.1bn YPF judgment against Argentina. That judgment amounted to 45% of Argentina's national budget. A rare piece of good news for Argentina in New York litigation; a rare piece of bad news for speculative litigation finance. www.reuters.com/world/us-app...

Over the past months, I have been making the same point across different forums: the dollar remains dominant, but de-dollarising infrastructure is no longer hypothetical. This point becomes more widely accepted everyday, as illustrated by this piece @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/77f8...

We’re proud to share that we've been ranked 15th in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 🌍 We're also ranked 5th in the UK and 1st in Scotland, this recognition reflects the strength of our teaching, research and community. Read the full story: https://edin.ac/47SuYTs

You could not script a better opening example for a lecture on global law and sanctions.

We have a packed and excellent new issue of EJIL. Out this week! @ejiltalk.bsky.social www.ejiltalk.org/in-this-issu...

Excellent thread on the critique of LLMs and its sociology.

Happy to agree with Bradshaw after some time. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Quoted in this excellent article by Heather Stewart in The Guardian on dollar dominance and the slow drift towards a more multipolar currency order.

Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/

To be fair he did say international law was over.

The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

Finally saw 'The Secret Agent' – beautiful, hilarious, smart, moving. 2025 was the best film year in over a decade.

Last Tuesday, I joined an excellent panel of economists to discuss a pressing question: are we moving towards de-dollarisation, and, if so, what will this mean for trade? Great discussions at the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP)'s annual UK Trade Policy Forum in London.

The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...

Once, Latin Americans imagined international social rights far more ambitiously than today. My new piece, published in ICON (Open Access), builds on Nehal Bhuta's erudite history of social rights to recover that forgotten Latin American horizon. academic.oup.com/icon/advance...

In light of some of the news this past week about U.S. coercion of Minneapolis and Venezuela, I am posting an unpublished talk I gave @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social that draws on the work of @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social @harlangcohen.bsky.social. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In a political moment when the left sounds like the right with slightly better manners, Pedro Sánchez suggests trying something unfashionable: policy. 'Western nations must choose between becoming closed and impoverished societies, or open and prosperous ones.' www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

International Law and Diplomacy in a Changing World Join Dr Francisco J. Quintana in conversation with Mario Oyarzábal on international law, diplomacy, and law-making in a changing global order. 🗓 Fri 6 Feb 2026 | ⏰ 13:00–14:00 | 📍 Old College Find out more and register: https://edin.ac/49Ufy2x

Saw No Other Choice, by Park Chan-wook. Made me think a lot about the tension between having a vocation and having a job in the present context. Hard not to connect that to academia (and Marina's post below) right now.

Looking forward to hosting a conversation with Mario Oyarzábal on how the day-to-day work of international law continues even as the international order appears to be fracturing. Join us, in person, at Edinburgh Law School, next Friday February 6: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

'Fighting for a seat at a table that is on fire': great post by Marina on early career academia.

'If Europe wants to retain its independence, it needs to commit to action. The anti-coercion instrument, for all its faults, is the best option that Europe has.' @himself.bsky.social for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

The EU really does not understand the state of the world.

The U.S. cannot afford not to care: a massive dump of U.S. Treasuries would seriously harm the dollar. Of course, it’s very likely that Europe would be similarly harmed. A slower, progressive diversification away from U.S. assets should be underway, though - and harm the U.S. in the medium term.

I spoke with BBC Mundo about the Drago Doctrine: a Latin American pushback against using force to collect public debts. Latin America's early history of decolonisation helped make it a champion of non-intervention, a key principle that now looks increasingly fragile. www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...

Regarding United States Action in Venezuela

"[...] "planetary" has emerged as conceptual alternative to the "global", which had itself emerged as an alternative to the "international". Yet these semantic shifts remains superficial if they do not grapple with the deeper conceptual question: How is the earth written, by whom, and to what ends?"

This is the best explanation I've seen about the role of Guyana's oil in what just happened in Venezuela—something @fjquintana.com also alluded to on here yesterday. I still think that only gets you about 40-60% of the way to invasion without Rubio or Miller manipulating Trump for their own ends.