- Organisatons: ASEAN - Organisations: Commonwealth of Independent States - Bulk personal data acquisition If you would be interested in writing one of these entries for the encyclopaedia, please do get in touch. Entries should be 2,000 words long, with a deadline of 30th September.

- Defining terrorism: North and Central America - Terrorist organisations: UN sanctions regime - Police powers: comparative pre-charge detention - Emergency Powers Paradigm - The war response - The role of rights in counter-terrorism: right to life

line-up of contributors that includes @leejarvis.bsky.social @jamesfitz2.bsky.social @davidwellsct.bsky.social @rvanark.bsky.social @broderickmcdonald.bsky.social @conorgearty.bsky.social @muniramustaffa.bsky.social and many others. We have nine entries left to commission, on the following topics:

**Call for contributors to the Elgar Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law** @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social, @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social and I are compiling a new Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law, to be published by Edward Elgar. So far we have commissioned over 100 entries with a fantastic

It is difficult to stay positive and find meaning or silver lining most days. Running helps and I want to do something more with it. Any and all support much appreciated ❤️ acties.kwf.nl/fundraisers/...

Lots of strength needed indeedto be this despicably selfish

Fabulous as ever / Прекрасно написано както винаги

Ще се радвам да се абонирате, да четете и да пишете с отзиви и въпроси, но най-вече ще се радвам този поглед да е полезен във време, в което новините ни объркват и отчайват повече, отколкото ни информират и ни носят разбиране. Единствено това би имало смисъл за мен. 3/3

Преди около два месеца започнах бюлетина/рубриката „Гласовете на Америка” в @toest.bg Текстовете вътре са и ще бъдат най-различни: понякога смешни, понякога лични, понякога новинарски, понякога дълги, понякога къси… Но винаги опит да разберем ребуса на Америка. 2/

„Кацнах на летище „Кенеди“ в Ню Йорк в два часа през нощта, ненавършила двайсет години. Десетилетие по-късно съм част от тъканта на Америка, тя е част от моята. Ежедневно се опитвам да разбера как точно се живее с това, какво означава. Особено в настоящето.” www.toest.bg/glasovete-na...

This x 10000s “I have a hard time watching journalists high-five each other over books on [the White House] covering up for Biden,” wrote the political scientist and scholar Norman Ornstein. It’s “a diversion from their own deep culpability in Trump’s election”.

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Yup funny how isn't it....

We can't be sure all people in THAT group chat knew where Yemen is, either.

This closes a week tomorrow.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

What is a big loss for @tmcasser.bsky.social is a big win for EU institutions

It was offensive but unserious the first few weeks. Now that the US admin is aligning with Russia, the analogies in the Canada/Ukraine threats sound much more ominous

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

1/ 🌍 Can the AI Act & EU copyright law truly work together? Or are we creating more challenges than solutions? 🤖📝 🔍 In our latest TL;DR podcast, @jpquintais.bsky.social explains the delicate balance between #AI & #TDM. 🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/ff471e14 📺 youtu.be/RxLu-OPShGA #GenerativeAI #Copyright

Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve:

It's impressive yet unbearably upsetting to watch Zelenskyy hold himself up under extreme pressure against vile bullying and deliberate belittling. All in front of the world's media as he had to translate these exchanges internally before replying clearly in a second language, and staying calm.

Groningen sluit zich aan bij de landelijjke estafettestaking - dinsdag 18 maart! ukrant.nl/rug-sluit-zi...

She is correct and she's a brave woman who has protested repeatedly since 2022. The fact that, at this point, we can recognize antiwar protesters by name and face points to how marginal their position in russian society is. They don't speak for the average citizen and they can't stop the war.

"The world is looking at the body of truth that is dying and bleeding before our eyes. I beg you, if you can’t stop the bleeding, at least don’t turn away from the sight of blood. "I am Ukrainian, and I am scared." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The University of Glasgow School of Law is recruiting for a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Administrative Law: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

[Silence.]

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

*stares in teaching basic reading comprehension, copy-editing & also having done a lot of OCR scanning*

“If cartels are terrorist organisations, that paves the way for other arguments in the political realm for taking US military action.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Unbelievable and infuriating: the obscure Home Alone 2 character calling Zelenskyy a 'Dictator without Elections' while ostensibly negotiating with 'Russia' ruled by a bloody autocrat who got his unlawful 5th term having massacred the constitution and after having his main opponents killed.

Second World Approaches to International Law. We meet in Vienna on Friday, looking forward to 2 days of thought-provoking papers events.ceu.edu/2025-02-21/s...

#Riyadh talks drenched in infamy. Two troubled states with imperial complexes negotiating spheres of influence, occupation, and resource expropriation without the most affected country and continent. How are these not mobs demarcaring protection rackets? Methods are the same.

Under Trump, CIA plots bigger role in drug cartel fight “Lessons learned in the counterterrorism realm are applicable to the counternarcotics mission and the counter-cartel mission … The full weight of those has not been brought to bear on this problem.” @leoncastjan.bsky.social

From across the pond, can confirm

Translation: "My idol Putin lectured me on WW2, and I am throwing Ukraine under the bus as most of you expected."

If they try this with Canada, release the geese.

Someone to listen carefully to: @johnwdean.bsky.social was a White House lawyer under Nixon, no less.

This is particular move any two bit law prof can recognize and it is a trap. We can imagine hypotheticals that raise hard questions and the result might be constitutional crisis. But the sitting president is right now claiming power to disregard federal law across the board — this is not a hard one.

Write every day for 1 hour. If you miss a writing day add 1 hour to the next. It’s incredible! Tomorrow I’m writing for 7 years.

@jamespsexton.bsky.social, writing a PhD thesis @tmcasser.bsky.social and @uvalawschool.bsky.social on the interaction between sanctions and international criminal justice, providing good comments here! @rvanark.bsky.social

tech journalists, get covering the microsoft angle on this... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This: calls for deregulation are usually in vague, general terms. But what happened with Grenfell is a hard particular.

What else can one say

Hard not to see the parallels: “Wilson segregated federal workers in Washington DC, blocked a proposal to include racial equality as a founding principle in the League of Nations, & hosted White House screenings of the racist 1915 film Birth of a Nation.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

In his first term Trump was lazy and so little was done. In his second term Trump is still lazy, but those around him now realise this means that nothing can stop them.

This post will put me on the “naughty step” for some on legal Bluesky. The necessity of a written constitution should never be questioned. (Subtweets incoming.) But in reality, mere legal form makes little practical difference when there is a failure of constitutionalism in political culture.