Hello all. My OA article “Palliative Presentism & Its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces” has been published in the European Journal of International Law. It is about time, technology, humanitarian emergencies & international law. academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

How does the design of digital govt infrastructure impact decision-making & accountability? @jenraso.bsky.social & I argue that data-sharing arrangements underlying digital govt programs are dispersing responsibilities within decision-making, generating what we call 'bureaucratic disempowerment' 1/4

To the extent that Trump’s foreign policy has a coherent logic, that logic — the accompanying conception of state territory & national interest etc — is best understood through the historical & legal lens of consular internationalism rather than diplomatic relations www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Great hybrid-conversation at the Law & Society conference about our book (co-ed by Gavin Sullivan, @dimitrivdm.bsky.social & me) Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule, f’coming open access with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. 🙏to Gavin & to @mattcanfield.bsky.social for comments.

🔥🔥🔥 Excited to share this collection in @ejiltalk.bsky.social: International Law and Technology as a Critical Project: A Collective Reading. 👇 This piece draws the contours of a critical approach to IL and technology by introducing five wonderful review essays. t.co/bd0DOcbXKp

Thanks to the editors of @verfassungsblog.de for publishing this new short essay, somewhat bleak, but it did give me the privilege of linking to work by my better half. verfassungsblog.de/in-the-grave...

For anyone thinking about doing a PhD in Law, expressions of interest for Pitch-a-PhD at The University of Sydney Law School are now open for international applicants. Please share widely. Submission link: lnkd.in/gcibSc9g Scholarships info here: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Ernst Fraenkel’s work is worth revisiting but the “dual state” as a diagnosis of contemporary authoritarianism (A) is misguided insofar as it maintains the separability of a “zone of legality” from a “legal abyss”, absolving the former of responsibility for A’s rise www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...

In this OA article in the Leiden Journal of Int’l Law, I argue that the distinctive logic of consular internationalism can aid analysis of entanglements of imperial & commercial power & grappling with unofficial actors’ role in shaping international law www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies" is now available to read and features and incredible line-up of scholars. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 Out now! #DigitalEchoes: Season 2 – 'Listening to New Normativities' New episodes 📼 every second Monday on Völkerrechtsblog & Spotify! Read the introduction by @dogot.bsky.social, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social & Anna Sophia Tiedeke. voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...

Our edited collection on 'Geopolitical Change and the Antarctic Treaty System' will be out in January 2025. A big thanks to co-editors Shirley Scott and Jeff McGee and to the contributors for making this project possible. link.springer.com/book/9789819...

New publication alert ⚠️ We evaluated controls on food marketing in six different jurisdictions, producing recommendations for effective, transparent, and accountable regulation. Key takeaway: good regulatory design is just as important as regulatory tool choice. Full version: shorturl.at/ky4fp

Interested in competing ideas of "gender" in international criminal law? I'll be chatting next week on this with the brilliant Akila Radhakrishnan, Valerie Oosterveld, Lily Kather, Juliana Santos de Carvalho & Lena Holzer. Tune in on Monday 3 February at 10am, Cambridge time.

Check out @louravn.bsky.social's wonderful interview with @fleurjohns.bsky.social in Critical Humanities - it's OA and is of interest to anyone interested in critical data studies, humanitarianism and interdisciplinary legal perspectives to datafication @tgammeltoft.bsky.social #DALOSS #MOBILE

I’m so grateful to @louravn.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about some of the arguments in my @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book ‘#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order’ in the Critical Humanities journal 👇

The paper seeks to contribute to broader questions about global data/infrastructure governance. The final version of the paper will be published in a volume on governance by data edited by @fleurjohns.bsky.social @dimitrivdm.bsky.social and Gavin Sullivan.

I have a new article forthcoming in the European Journal of International Law (@ejiltalk.bsky.social): 'Palliative Presentism and its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces'. It is available via SSRN pending publication: ssrn.com/abstract=505... Below is an abstract:

Conversations with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social & Dr. Mohammad Amir Anwar led to this dialogue on the limits of digital dispossession as a lens onto exploitation & domination in the digital economy in the Backchannels blog of @4sweb.bsky.social of which Nanna gives a great preview. I echo her thanks.

As reports have come in about devastating flooding in Malaysia & Thailand, it’s time to step up ambition & engagement in regional disaster diplomacy, as I write today in The Interpreter published by @lowyinstitute.bsky.social www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

Save the date for the world's best-sized international law conference! The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University. The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’. Please re-post!

go.bsky.app/KE77aRL new starter pack for ECRs in international law, EU law, IHRL and legal theory! 🫡 I guess it might be useful for many (Disclaimer: I added people according to *my* sense of who an early career researcher is - of course, feel free to join if you consider yourself an ECR!)

After COVID foiled October plans, I am especially pleased to have made it to Edinburgh Law School to deliver the 2nd of their 2024 Dean's Lectures at Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College, on Wed 20 November 2024 17:00-18:30, on ‘International Legal Critique Now’ www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

I’m looking forward to giving the inaugural annual lecture of SCRIPT, the Scottish Research Centre for IP & Technology Law, at the University of Edinburgh: ‘On Tech Diplomacy & Dilemmas of human-nonhuman interface’ 25 Nov 2024, 17:30 - 20:00 www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

with the final round of UN plastics treaty negotiations in two weeks, we have published a preprint paper on the risks and limits of 'plastic credits' as a solution to this planetary crisis @melaniebergma18.bsky.social @emmaanne.bsky.social @lisalsong.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1411...

I have a new paper, forthcoming (open access) in the Leiden Journal of International Law, entitled 'On Consular Internationalism'. A preprint is now available at SSRN : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Thank you to Renske Vos & the entire LJIL team. Here's the abstract:

Wonderful to have a 'Conversation with Book' Symposium in the International Trade & Business Law Review focus on my book #Help: Digital Humanitarianism & the Remaking of International Order (OUP) 🙏 to Cynthia Farid, Morshed Mannan, Michael Anthony C. Dizon & the ITBLR team. tinyurl.com/ITBLR

Come work with me and @wombatscholar.bsky.social at USYD! We have a 2-year postdoc for an early career anthropologist or STS scholar to conduct research on the social, political, and epistemic aspects of medical research and public health. See bit.ly/3XVvhsd. Applications close October 22.

Listen the first episode of our Digital Echoes audio symposium! 🔉🎤🎧 Matilda Arvidsson, @fleurjohns.bsky.social, @dimitrivdm.bsky.social, Andrea Leiter & Delphine Dogot explore how they each came to engage with international law and technology. voelkerrechtsblog.org/1st-episode-...

I am looking forward to delivering the 9th Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture at the Peace Palace in The Hague on 25 April 2024 and grateful to the T.M.C. Asser Institute for the invitation. All those able to join in person will be very warmly welcomed. www.asser.nl/about-the-as...

The LPE Project is delighted to announce that we are teaming up with @peoplesparity.bsky.social to offer an open course/reading group (for EVERYONE not just law students/profs) on one of the most urgent political questions of our time: WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COURTS?! lpeproject.org/events/open-...

Brief comments on the Frankfurt School centenary onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My tribute to the late, great John Pocock (1924-2023): folgerpedia.folger.edu/J._G._A._Poc...

[Unbelievably excited to announce] A two-year postdoctoral appointment in LABOR HISTORY, 1500-Present. Brown University, Department of History Applications due 2/15/24

After a hiatus, the American Journal of International Law short video series 'AJIL Bookmarked' is back with a new release. This time, I bookmarked a 1926 AJIL article by Francis Deák on "Computation of Time in International Law". Take a look here: youtu.be/Z6pB-Bg26Bg?si…

some brilliant warwick PGRs are organising a conference in february. the topic is law v humanity (which seems very pertinent now) and it's open to LLM research students, PhDs and post-docs. so apply apply and encourage your students to apply apply

New to Bluesky — hello! — and reminded of my first experiences on the bird app, when it felt more like a conversation than a data onslaught.

In 2023, the AFLJ celebrates its 30th anniversary!🎉 We'll celebrate sharing some of our favourite publications. Today's is Maria Giannacopoulos': "White Law/Black Deaths: Nomocide and the Foundational Absence of Consent in Australian Law". #Openaccess here 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Call for nominations for the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law