The ICJ said that UNWRA was indispensable because no other well functioning humanitarian systems were in place. But what if the alternatives, like the GHF, were well functioning? Would the problem disappear for the Court? I discuss these and other questions in the post below 👇

Who is this person?

I’m presenting my new paper at Sciences Po on Nov 26 - stop by if you are in Paris! And if you are not, invite me to present it at your institution so I can use my travel budget before teaching term starts 😆

I am here again with my books. Any good website suggestions where I could order academic books in one batch which is not Amazon?

I’m probably late to the party but omg there are bookmarks here now!!!

Reading about the EUI Chair in international law 😆

Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure. Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation. www.podbean.com/media/share/...

julia in her intersectionality era

If nobody reacts, I will have to resort and write a post on LinkedIn

Friends, I am ordering (academic) books today. Hit me up with your your favorite ones (it can be old classics and new books on the market) 🙏

I was at an event recently and we did an ice breaking exercise where we had to discuss “unconventional” questions in a set of different groups. I got the question “what do you think your reputation is” and I was never able to find an answer to it up until now. So weird

Happy Zohran day to yallllll 🥳

The EUI PalestineWG successfully raised €30,000 to get Dr Wail Badah and his family out of Gaza. The fundraiser now aims for a new target of €55,000 to support 10 Gaza-based scholars too. We have five days left! Please donate and circulate if you can: chuffed.org/project/supp... #Gaza#Education

Our goal has been reached 😭 Dr. Badah and his family now have a real chance to relocate to France! We have also increased the goal to 55k to help 4 Gazan students to secure places in French universities, which require 8.5K EUR per student for the first year.

New article, no paywall tks to @scripts-berlin.eu Seabed #mining may well cheapen #EV *production* in Europe/US, but who will buy all these cars? This is the question "loaded with dynamite" that a close reading of Rosa Luxemburg's economic writings suggests. academic.oup.com/lril/advance...

When someone says I have to work more on and unpack my analysis

I don't know why I am reading this but it's 🤯 (in a good sense) www.ejil.org/pdfs/16/2/29...

Why does Carte Vitale look like it was made with Paint on Windows 98?

Our Palestine working group has been mobilizing to get Dr. Wail Badah and his family out of Gaza. We need to raise €30,000 to get them accepted to France's PAUSE programme. We are super close to the goal! Lille University will hire him as a visiting researcher chuffed.org/project/supp...

My first academic conference was exactly 8 years ago 🥲 I was an IHL person back then 😆

I can't believe that LinkedIn became the space for me for my "professional takes" 🥲

I want to be this type of influencer when brands send me their vintage or second hand pieces so I can promote them by dressing up for my lectures 🥲

"News reports citing satellite imagery suggested that mass atrocities have already been carried out, showing bodies piled up following large-scale executions and house-to-house clearances in El Fasher by RSF fighters." news.un.org/en/story/202... #KeepEyesOnSudan #Darfur

The world was finally a flawless, wonderful, utopian place for a day when I woke up after my full anesthesia

Ruandas Staatschef Paul Kagame nutzt seit Jahrzehnten Kriege mit der DR Kongo, um deren natürliche Ressourcen zu plündern – mit Hilfe der EU. Denn diese unterhält ein Rohstoffabkommen mit Ruanda, obwohl ein Großteil der exportierten Mineralien Raubgut ist.

“We write, we scream, we plead; but it seems our words fall into a void. There are no aid planes, no humanitarian airlifts, no real international movement and no ground efforts to break the siege." War crimes alert as food runs out in el-Fasher, Darfur: www.bbc.com/news/article... #KeepEyesonSudan

El Fasher - the last city in W- #Darfur still held by #Sudan 's Army - has been surrounded & attacked by the RSF for 549 days. c.250,000 people are 'shoehorned' into a "shrinking urban enclave": by artillery & drone attacks + a complete lack of humanitarian #aid www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The ESIL Early-Career Network is launching the 2025–2026 Early Career Mentoring Programme! Supporting early-career scholars through two tracks: 🎓Starting-out & Building-on 🗓️ Express interest by 27 Oct 2025 → lnkd.in/dCdT7Dys 📩 Questions? [email protected] #ESILCommunity #ESILEarlyCareerNetwork

I was watching ICJ public hearings yesterday and I stumbled across the YouTube channel of the Court and for whatever reason, they chose this picture as a thumbnail for almost every video

Not that I hope this website is alive and anyone will reply, but what do we think about the one battle after another?

Die GKN-Besetzung bei Florenz hat mit ihrer Vision einer demokratischen und ökologischen Konversion einer stillgelegten Autofabrik weit über Italien hinaus Arbeiter und Linke inspiriert. Jetzt haben die Beschäftigten einen wichtigen Etappensieg errungen.

Why recognize the State of Palestine? Isn't it pointless? Mere symbolism? Isn't the two-state solution an illusion? Or even a trap? Whatever your view, take a minute to read this speech by Palestine's Deputy Ambassador to the UN from June 30. digitallibrary.un.org/record/40861...

From genocide denial to …? 🤔

My postdoc year in a nutshell: I was invited to a bday party where at some point of the evening, we could join the jam and put songs in a queue. I put lovestoned which lasts more than 7 minutes. I was never invited to parties after that.

This has always puzzled me - we are so obsessed with legal determinations that we allow a possibility that a genocide is committed by some elusive phantom

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.

#ESIL2025 should we proceed with calling @bashakito.bsky.social a "fruit" person or a "clinical nurse" person?

I love how senior scholars are like oh yes send me your draft, I would love to read it and give feedback, and then they never reply 🥲

And it’s a wrap on #ESIL2025 ! This year, with my colleagues of the ESIL IG on Int’l Law and Technology, we have had the privilege of welcoming Francesca Albanese, UN SR on the oPt, and Eyal Weizman, Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture, as keynote speakers for our annual workshop. 1/

The @cailesil.bsky.social workshop is starting. Looking forward to discussions about international law, the genocide in Gaza, and responsibility. Thanks to @jemtseva.bsky.social @tim-lindgren.bsky.social @kanadbagchi.bsky.social for organizing & facilitating!

Tomorrow I will have the great privilege of moderating the 2nd panel of our IG workshop on “Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to Reconstructing International Law: A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide”.

Ok I’m about to loose all my institutional library accounts and my new university is a business school so they don’t have many law-related subscriptions. Any tips on how I can deal with this existential problem?

it’s this thursday-friday at the eui: 50 speakers on ‘law & revolution: prefiguration or abolition?’ we’re very excited!!

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...

Friends, I need your help: has the ICJ even claimed (in the reparations case, maybe?) that an international organization bears rights and duties because of the public functions it performs?

I am 5 years into academia, and I have never co-authored an article. I am starting to doubt whether it says something about my personality 🤔

“Justice in this case is not only about punishment; it is about restoring faith in the rule of law for victims like me, and for the Gambian people. I am glad that Mr. Correa received a fair trial.” Former Jungler sentenced to over 67 years for torture: trialinternational.org/latest-post/... #Gambia