Law hive mind: has anyone heard of a uni/training program forcing students to allow admin to follow their private social media to “screen for professionalism”? This smells illegal

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Attacked by Santa this year

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Who are the Palestine Action hunger strikers and what are the health risks?

The horror fanatic in me wishes I knew vampire studies was a career possibility before I chose to be a legal academic www.routledge.com/Balkan-Vampi...

A bit late to the game here but One Battle After Another is a masterpiece

Not loving the fact that I had to scan my face at passport control (they didn’t even ask for passports) - enjoy my data guys, I’m sure there won’t be malicious use of this at all

Appalling.

For the first time in my adult life, I am not bringing my laptop home for the holidays #personalgrowth

My latest with Dr Sabina Garahan on @opiniojuris.bsky.social here: opiniojuris.org/2025/12/12/s...

Judges and prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are trying to live and work under the same U.S. financial and travel restrictions brought against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Osama bin Laden.

Proud to say I am the UK’s newest licensed driver 🫡

Starmer urges Europe to tackle far right by becoming the far right. Smart. A ridiculously bad move. For ostensible human rights lawyer this seems to demonstrate significant misreading of HR law. What difference other than few headline cases will it make? www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

While focus is often solely on asylum, and small boat crossings in particular, it's important to remember that Labour's hostililty against all migrants is harming not only individuals, but the whole country, with an estimated loss of £10.8billion, and zero actual benefits. www.ft.com/content/2b60...

The new ICC 2026-2029 Strategic Plan is now available and looks markedly different than ones we've seen in the past. Some notable additions include the emphasis on fair and expeditious trials, with detailed benchmarks for how long certain procedures should take.

Can we pls go back to the timeline where SNL actually had to write its own content instead of simply acting out real life m.youtube.com/watch?v=WWG5...

My unsolicited advice today to young women considering a career in academia is to RUN

📢 On behalf of the ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology, I'm delighted to announce that today marks the launch of our new @opiniojuris.bsky.social symposium:📢 *Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law – A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide*

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Peak idiocy www.forbes.com/sites/virgin...

To spell this out— even in a world where this manufactured armed conflict is real, even if the drugs were a military objective, *even if* the 11 non-combatants were acceptable collateral damage, they were never engaged in “hostile acts.” Not before they were hit. And not when they called for help.

The OTP's new Policy on Cyber-Enabled Crimes Under the Rome Statute is now available online: www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

Sad news to see coming out of Essex uni today and my former home at the law school - thinking of friends & colleagues www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1/5: In partnership with @instituteici.bsky.social we are thrilled to finally share the Open-Source Practitioner’s Guide to the Murad Code, a resource designed to strengthen the digital investigations of systematic + conflict-related sexual violence (SCRSV): www.muradcode.com/open-source-...

An interesting call for abstracts for anyone working on AI: www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI...

Yesterday, loyalist bands, the far-right and Israeli flag wavers stood shoulder to shoulder in Belfast City Centre in a demonstration of extremism in the North. Discriminatory policing didn't start at Palestine solidarity, PSNI 'policing' of far-right is non-existent by design. [4/n]

Sexual misconduct allegations deserve to be investigated in an impartial and thorough way, but this must be transparent and efficient to respect the rights of everyone involved. This is really getting embarrassing for everyone at this point and seriously undermines the work of the court.

Important @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social article by Sondos Asem on the current investigation at the #ICC. Extensive quotes from @ezejim.bsky.social and @sevslv.bsky.social. www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-lim...

“It’s insane to have them rip our family apart.” Federal agents are arresting the foreign spouses of Americans during interviews at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices. The couples and their lawyers said they had followed the required steps to secure permanent residency.

One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent, survey finds

The amount of emails not addressed to me by name that i receive from students is making me want to develop “email etiquette” as a new module. Lecture 1: how to eliminate “hiya” from your vocabulary

The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.

A French ICC judge placed under US sanctions for his work on the ongoing Gaza genocide case describes how sanctions have impacted his life: no Amazon, PayPal, Visa or Mastercard; severely restricted banking; hotel bookings canceled—"like being sent back to the 1990s." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

A great initiative led by students at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social law in support of Women’s Aid NI: fixr.co/event/steps-...

This is one of the clearest examples of a disordered counterpublic capturing an institution I've seen. It's nice to have your work proven on a regular basis, but also very bad. demos.co.uk/research/ver...

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since Oct. 7 Post-mortems & testimonies suggest many died from torture, medical neglect & food deprivation. According to leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens were civilians. www.972mag.com/98-palestini... @mekomit.bsky.social

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman against the European Commission for its (undisclosed) use of generative AI in public documents www.iccl.ie/news/europea...

I feel guilty enough leaving my cat when I go away but he really seems keen to make that much worse

Guess who might officially have a book coming out in the foreseeable future…👀

How ironic would it be if it's emails that sink him in the end?

Looking forward to speaking at University of Reading tomorrow as part of their international law speakers series. The link to join online is here: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Judges at the ICC do not want a repeat of the Netanyahu situation. All requests for arrest warrants are to be sealed unless a chamber authorizes them to be made public.

Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight

How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling

Incredible- Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day."

This week, the UK Government announced major new measures to strengthen protections against online sexual harm — extending justice for victims & tackling the most violent & degrading forms of content online. 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdfk8yhj TLDR 👇 #DRAGON #onlineharms #onlinesafety #onlineabuse