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

📢 Join us for the @ejiltalk.bsky.social Foreword Lecture / AEL Distinguished Lecture! Prof. Susan Marks (LSE) on “If the World is a Family, What Kind of Family is It?” 🗓 16 June, 16:15 via Zoom 🔗https://loom.ly/cScT7K8

Happy that my article 'No future for future generations: who is international environmental law for?' is out! It Qs the who of FGs, thinking about race, class, gender, disability and anthropocentrism, before deploying queer & decolnial theory to recast the concept www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...

The amazing @emilyjones.bsky.social's important article on rights of future generations is out. And its open access www.elgaronline.com/view/journal... Looking forward to reading this.

This week! The workshop interrogating international law’s local encounters and (de)coloniality. @uvalawschool.bsky.social, 5-6 June. Together with a community of brilliant colleagues and critical thinkers, we’ll explore some of the most pressing questions in int'l law. acil.uva.nl/content/even...

Terrific to see my book available online — and soon in print! Many thanks to series editors Nadia Lambek, @riclements.bsky.social, @leslava.bsky.social, and Markus Gunneflo! And congrats on the new series!

🌟 After days of intense debates, the workshop on Double Standards in IL has been concluded! 🌍 We received scholars from around the world discussing the implications of double standards in relation to great power competition, climate change, HRL, IHL, ICL, int'l trade, among many other topics.

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp warned that the EU needs to urgently review its association agreement with Israel to make sure it’s in line with rules on respecting humanitarian law, in a leaked document obtained by POLITICO.

We convene in Geneva later this week for some difficult conversations about double standards and international law 👇 Grateful to the Geneva Graduate Institute, Swiss National Science Foundation, Harvard Law School and Osgoode Hall Law School.

Delighted to share that SEVEN - the University of Amsterdam's new #climate institute - is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for our 2-year project on the Fairness of Climate Solutions. Applications close on 15/5 – full details here: tinyurl.com/ypjx3fjj

Working in #internationallaw or related areas? Browse this collection of free articles from @ajil.bsky.social, the Leiden Journal, @iclq.bsky.social, CYIL, AsianJIL, TEL, EJRR, the German Law Journal, IRRC, BHRJ, and many other leading academic law journals: 🌐 cup.org/3GONhy5

Come and work with us - recruitment of Assistant/Associate Professor with priority in Tort or Global health at Warwick Law School. Deadline is Monday. Happy to chat about how it is to work at Warwick; am not involved in the hiring committee. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Dear friends, dear colleagues, after receiving multiple inquiries about the venue of our pre-conference workshop, we are sharing the information about our decision to proceed with the organization of our event. We are also extending the deadline to submit your abstracts to April 27 🚨

🚨 Ahmed Memon's masterclass has been postponed to next week due to the walkout organized by UvA Staff for Palestine🍉 happening tomorrow (April 10) at 12:30! 🚨 📅 New date: 17 April 2025 🕐 Same time: 13:00-15:00 📍 New room: A2.15! 🔗 Sign up: tinyurl.com/34h3hc6t

The International Law & Politics CRN team @ LSA is now on Bluesky! Follow here for updates on all things Chicago 2025: bsky.app/profile/intl...

Job: postdoc in law and humanities - and it's a good one! Focused on the climate crisis, this project uses theatre as law-making in new and meaningful ways. Based in Copenhagen with travel to South Africa and UK. Share and apply! @dinalupin.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/6vc8xpwy

Join us for a keynote lecture by Layal Ftouni, Assist. Prof. at Utrecht University, in conversation with Hala Shoman, PhD from Newcastle University. 📅 Friday, 28 March 🕓 16:00 – 18:00 📍 Doelenzaal, University Library | Singel 425, Amsterdam 🔗 Sign up here: decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...

‘While Giorgia Meloni has proved to be shrewd on the national and the international stage, she is also operating in a country where the normalisation of the far right has been advancing for decades.’ Jan-Werner Müller on Italy’s far-right president: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Dr Machiko Kanetake has been appointed as the new academic director and chair of the executive board of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, starting 1 July 2025. Her leadership, together with the managing director Kasper Vrolijk, will be instrumental in shaping the future of the Institute. 🔗 bit.ly/43ydJp1

🏛 #OpenAccess in the new #ZaöRV: Hilary Charlesworth analyzes the relationship between #InternationalLaw and progress. She identifies a relationship that is not cursed, not charmed, but complicated—and constantly being renegotiated. Read and share: www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.17104/...

Very much look forward to teaching human rights and the environment today @uvalawschool.bsky.social and discussing with our LLM students the work of my favourite scholars, such as @emilyjones.bsky.social @juliadehm.bsky.social, Tendayi Achiume, and Carmen Gonzalez!

Exploring the intersections of international law and time bringing together theory and practice. 11 March 15:00 @tmcasser.bsky.social With the brilliant @ecusato.bsky.social, Geoff Gordon and Manasa Venkatachalam. Registration: www.asser.nl/research/res...

Cameo Appearance at @acil-uva.bsky.social ‘s Decolonial Futures with @drqv.bsky.social , @ecusato.bsky.social and @sofiastolk.bsky.social OA Linkt to the piece in the background, Come walk with me through Brussels and check-out the EU’s architecture: research.vu.nl/ws/portalfil...

with contributions by Hilary Charlesworth, Angelika Nußberger, @giuliaraimondo.bsky.social, Julian Hettihewa, @ecusato.bsky.social, Tania Atilano, Janina Barkholdt, Sissy Katsoni, Martin Schwamborn

I am a signatory of this letter, but I am also a keen observer of my field since the genocide started in 2023. The gap opening between parts of my field is massive and does not follow prior methodological divides. International law is a discipline in crisis. voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...

How to find hope in those disconcerting times? I found it among the convicts of Sing Sing. A beautiful, powerful, hopeful film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3dX...

Our latest #Underworlds episode is now out 🎙️ *Hope* as Site and Struggle of Global Dis/Ordering with Claire Colebrook and David Chandler: open.spotify.com/show/7Ao1I3Q... On what expressions of hope—speculative, pragmatic or nihilist—are foregrounded against the receding horizon of liberal hope.

Good morning. The #Netherlands is cutting its #DevelopmentAid by 2.4 billion. 50% cut to #Unicef. #WomensRights, #GenderEquality, #Education, #Climate, you name it. Gone. As a country, we are so wealthy, and yet...We keep cutting taxes for the rich. #Nederland nos.nl/artikel/2556...

Looking for a PhD in #democracy #criminallaw #sentencing #ruleoflaw? Tom Hannant and I are advertising a fully funded PhD student to study incarceration's collateral consequences for democratic rights and participation. Deadline: 24 February 2025 www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Scholarships! ARC Discovery Project PhD Scholarship in the Protection of Human Rights at Sea at UNSW Sydney Deadline 31 March www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...

One of the coolest calls for paper I have seen in a while and it is for a conference in Trento 👇

We're proud to announce the first event in our Masterclass Series, featuring our visiting scholar @drqv.bsky.social. 🥳 The class is aimed at UvA PhDs and postdocs, building a community of visiting researchers and emerging talents in the field. 🔗More info & registration: tinyurl.com/bdd9drhb

Huge topic here from un cerd - general comment on #reparations for #slavery call for input www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...

🆕📃 New ESIL Reflection by @ecusato.bsky.social and Sofia Tamburello (@uvalawschool.bsky.social) on "Ecological Violence Fast and Slow: International Law, Natural Resources in the OPT, and the ICJ Advisory Opinion”. 🌎💡 Read the full paper on our website ➡️ bit.ly/3CpVIhL

This article explores a microhistory of space lawmaking from 1957-1967, and in the process speaks to wider trends in the making of international law more generally. Factors like UN documentation procedure, US racial segregation, and embassy staffing trends had material impacts on who participated.

Decolonial Futures (@uvalawschool.bsky.social) is proud to announce the first event in our Masterclass Series: "Architecture, International Law, and the Construction of Post-Imperial Regional Orders," featuring Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín. decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...

A short piece co-authored with one of my fantastic LLM students @uvalawschool.bsky.social, Sofia Tamburello, on the ecology of occupation, natural resouce exploitation and water rights in Palestine. thanks to @esil-sedi.bsky.social editorial team, reviewers and friends for their engagement with it!

This year we will be having a stream on food, please share with PhDs working on anything LPE food

🙋🏾‍♀️🦋 Hi Bluesky! We're the Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area. Our 5-year initiative spans Humanities, Law, and Social Sciences, fostering collaborations on decolonial research at the University of Amsterdam. 🔗 Learn more about the RPA on our website: decolonialfutures.uva.nl

The Call for Applications for the 2025 LPE in Europe Summer Academy is now open💥💥💥 2-4 June, Rotterdam Deadline: 23 February. Accommodation and catering expenses are fully covered, with travel budgets also provided. See more: lpeineurope.org/wp-content/u...

Catching up with the oral arguments before the ICJ.The presentations of the state of Palestine and its counsels is a must for those interested in relationships btw violence, militarism, and ecological harms, including to the climate. I wished this gem was available 10 years ago when I wrote my PhD.

The editors of Völkerrechtsblog are calling for blog posts for the fourth 'Women in International Law' symposium - this year with a particular focus on women and armed conflict, but submissions on any topic are welcome. Deadline 3 February 2025. voelkerrechtsblog.org/call-for-pap...

Job alert! Pacific Island Forum is looking for a Legal Counsel to work in Suva, Fiji. careers.forumsec.org/job/legal-co...

Blue Ocean Law filed a complaint with the U.N. Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples on behalf of youth from Palau who say U.S. militarization in their islands is violating their rights. “We’re consistently taking on the U.S. empire in all of these cases,” Aguon said. grist.org/indigenous/j...

Join us in Amsterdam on 16 December for the first Decolonial Futures Annual Lecture with the fabulous Tendayi Achiume🔥🔥 More info and registration link at: decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...

Statement of the editors of the LJIL on a very controversial article recently published:

A statement from the Editors of Leiden Journal of International Law.