Israel is killing medics and children today. They do this every single day.

Declaring that no quarter will be given is straightforwardly prohibited under international humanitarian law. When done to threaten an adversary, the declaration itself amounts to a war crime. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

"Epistemic disobedience is…necessary because there is no way out of the coloniality of power from within Western categories of thought. Epistemic disobedience takes us to a different place...to spatial sites of struggles & building rather than to a new temporality within the same space." W. Mignolo

The “liberal international legal order” is over. The age of universalist pretence is fading. Onur Uraz and Aytekin Kaan Kurtul contend that international law survives regardless, but not as a universally shared project. It persists as a fragmented order shaped by multipolarity.

🚨 Save the date: 07 Oct 2026 🚨 Looking beyond the marginalised groups recognised in most frameworks, this one day conference will focus on communities who are hyper-marginalised & often pushed to the edges of #DRR due to social stigma and/or exclusion. Speakers and details soon. #InclusiveDRR

Take note, @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social: Irish President Catherine Connolly says events in the Middle East are “deliberate assaults on international law” and must be called out “without euphemism and without equivocation”. www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-4...

Looking forward to this conversation with the ever insightful Scott Williams around how we can use play and poetry to unearth and move beyond the underlying premises, metaphors and myths within international law and governance on climate and disaster risk. Join us!

Amazing public service. The journalist has an MSc in International Human Rights Law from Oxford. It shows.

The U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran are illegal. Iran's attacks in Gulf States are illegal. The U.K. defending Gulf States is legal, but allowing the U.S. to use its bases is illegal. In short, everyone is violating international law and should stop. My latest @justsecurity.org

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"This is a space in which to lodge critiques from multiple trajectories, for renderings of humans and other beings ill matched to prevailing orthodoxies; to identify and aspire to new possibilities of repair and transformation; to reject state legibilities or to refashion them" Yes, please!

A group of legal academics from across Ireland have called on the Governor of the Central Bank to immediately prohibit the marketing and sale of Israeli state bonds in or from Ireland, and to refuse to re-approve the bond prospectus on the renewal date of 2 September. 

As leaving the #ECHR is back (again) on the agenda here is myself @colinmurray.bsky.social & Ben Warwick on why for #NorthernIreland this is nigh on impossible & why renegotiating the 1998 Good Friday Agreement is not to be done lightly papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/2

🎉 Registration is now open for the 2025 LSAANZ Conference: Rights, Relationality, Resilience, Reciprocity — taking place 3–5 December 2025 at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha I University of Canterbury, in Ōtautahi Christchurch! www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/academ...

👉 If governments fail to abate the use of fossil fuels, approve fossil fuel projects or invest public money in fossil fuels, they could be in breach of international law. 👉 There is a potential route to reparations for states enduring the worst of the climate crisis.

Gives examples of fossil fuel licenses or permits as a possible internationally wrongful act holy shit

Once a State is established the disappearance of one of its constituent elements does not necessarily entail the loss of its Statehood - you can be a State without a territory!!!

Ahead of today's ICJ #ClimateChange #AdvisoryOpinion, I've seen a lot of "but it won't be binding." This is, like a lot of things, technically true and also beyond the point. 🧵 #IntLaw

⚖️2 days to go before the world’s top court delivers a climate verdict that could change everything. What’s at stake? Who’s responsible? What comes next? Read our blog here 👉 bit.ly/3UlX8Pz for the 6 issues to watch in the #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ. By: @joiec.bsky.social & @duycks.bsky.social

Gaza is being deliberately starved to death in front of the whole world, and the only people being arrested over it are those who opposed the crime.

If arrested 200 kms from Gaza, then this was on the high seas and the arrest was unlawful under both the law of the sea and international humanitarian law. The forced 're-education' is also clearly unlawful. www.smh.com.au/world/middle...

Pointing to the coloniality of current social relations invites an understanding that logics of colonial violence were dispatched but never recalled. These logics include the idea that survival of the colonial state requires the annihilation of the other... wherever they are.

Dr Henrietta Zeffert will speak at the Gaza Tribunal in Sarajevo this week.The aim of the Tribunal is to awaken civil society to its responsibility and opportunity to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The hearings are being broadcast live on YouTube - click the link below to tune in: gazatribunal.com

So lucky to be able to meet with some fabulous contributors to Queer Judgments and launch our book at the Law & Society Association conference in Chicago. You can download the book on a pay what you feel basis here: counterpress.org.uk #LSA2025 @queerjudgments.bsky.social @lawandsociety.bsky.social

In this article, Kathryn Allinson of the University of Bristol Law School discusses the international legal implications of supporting Israel in light of the ICJ’s provisional measures and advisory opinion. legalresearch.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/05/the-...

When we discuss the genocide in Gaza, we must choose our words carefully. My letter in today's edition of the @irishtimes.com

It was so lovely to join Fahmeda Naheed at #Cork City Community Radio yesterday for a chat about Trail Criú Munster, inclusion in #trailrunning, and the joy of sharing adventures in the #outdoors. If you'd like to give it a listen, the recording is available here: www.mixcloud.com/corkradio/le...

“‘Never Again is now’ as JVP activists have chanted throughout this genocide. We must ask ourselves: Who is grievable, who’s ungrievable? Who’s countable, who is uncountable — and who is accountable? Palestinians are not begging the world for charity. We’re calling for meaningful solidarity…"

We invite signatures from UK law people for our open letter on the aftermath of FWS. *Please sign and share with your networks* as we will send to the relevant parliamentary human rights bodies on closure of the letter.

My first time joining @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & @aoifemod.bsky.social's Utopias Reading Group today 📚 Discussing @gautambhatia88.bsky.social's brilliant 'The Sentence' and thinking through questions of forgotten histories, law, and anarchy in the global order (& many other things). Such a treat!

Yay! the School of Law at University College Cork is now on Bluesky 💚 @lawucc.bsky.social

3 Criticizing a government that carries out war crimes is not hate. It’s obligation. If your politics can’t confront genocide, then your politics are trash: No more money. No more bombs. No more fake neutrality. You are either against genocide. Or you are part of it. Now pick a side.

terfs obsession with toilets and what people have in their pants is weird and perverted, frankly. this kind of shit was inevitable.

#ProcedureGoblin thread 🧵 Obligations of Israel blah blah blah ICJ Advisory Opinion Day 3 starts here!

This looks truly brilliant. AND with an online option at a time when I'll be awake over here 🥳🙏 Looking forward to it!

#ProcedureGoblin thread 🧵 about the ICJ case called [deep breath] ~ Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory ~ starts here

This is a story about deep sea mining, beautifully told. Mining something that takes millions of years to form. What could go wrong? Ehm…🛢️👀 Letting an industry with a terrible record on land do the same in the ocean where there’s way less oversight. What could go wrong? 🤔

I gave an interview to Al Jazeera on the Supreme Court judgment, and the surrounding context. I think it's possibly the best thing I've ever done (?) so give it a listen. youtu.be/dhRKIZi60NI?...

Feminist legal theory demonstrated long ago just how much harm 'common sense' arguments cause harm. Any form of commonality in legal arguments represents the dominant voice. It was common sense that women couldn't vote because of biology once...

🌍 Join us for a groundbreaking online event on Child/Youth Participation, Climate Action, and Success in a Climate Case! 🗓️ Wednesday, May 21, 2025 🕜1:30 - 4:30 p.m. (Ireland/UK time) 💻Online via Microsoft Teams 🔗Open to All - Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e3fce2...

Come and work with me! We’re hiring a new Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow with expertise in international disaster law to join us at the Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social - apply by 15 May external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

If you're affected by the Supreme Court's decision this week, you're not alone and we stand with you 💜 Here are some resources for our trans friends and allies 👇

The UK Supreme Court ruling yesterday is horrible & has real-world impacts for trans folk in #disaster situations, deepening harm to an already marginalised people. Inclusive DRR must always centre those most at-risk whilst building trust & inclusion. bit.ly/3Gbl1FL #InclusiveDRR

BBC: "WHO agrees legally binding pandemic treaty" www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

THIS: "Alive to our era of genuine existential danger...but financially and ideologically committed to deepening those threats, contemporary far-right movements lack any credible vision for a hopeful future." A must read by @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social.

We’re looking for outstanding PhD candidates to study with us at the Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social! You must have a demonstrated interest in disaster law, human rights law, international humanitarian law, or diplomatic and consular law. www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...

Many thanks to CHANSE & HERA and @researchireland.bsky.social for supporting 'Home in Crisis'. It's already such a joy to be working with and learning from @miriamcullen.bsky.social @dinalupin.bsky.social & Hugo Reinert, and our brilliant partners. More info at: chanse.org/home-in-cris...