Ports, Politics, and Power: The Messy Reality of China’s Overseas Port Investments. Check out Professor Alexandra Meise’s co-authored piece for War on the Rocks. @ruleoflaw.bsky.social @warontherocks.bsky.social warontherocks.com/2025/09/port...

In @warontherocks.bsky.social @zenel25.bsky.social & I argue that Beijing may have strategic aims for port investments, but #SOE, provincial, & host-country goals & rivalries keep things complicated & not guaranteed. States retain #sovereign power to steer & control what happens tinyurl.com/4ratufkz

In @warontherocks.bsky.social Dr. Meise and I argue that China’s port investments aren’t a single, coherent strategy for global dominance. Beijing has strategic aims, but projects are shaped by SOEs seeking profit, provincial rivalries, and host country politics. warontherocks.com/2025/09/port...

Newly minted #1L? I recommend reading this very helpful essay by @orinkerr.bluesky.social You made it through studying for the #LSAT, you can make it through reading and digesting case law. (It gets easier with time. I promise.😉) @nusl.bsky.social @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @pennlaw.Bluesky.social

I was in DC for its 2012 #derecho. Monday in #Carlisle PA was just as crazy. 🌳s down. Bark & plant debris everywhere. 💧up to car hoods. Chairs & tables flipped. Steel plates upended. Our backyard canopy destroyed, along w/those @ this #Dickinson construction site. Chaos! #ExtremeWeather #Cumberland

#FBF to last week when I visited @perryworldhouse.bsky.social to give a talk on #China ‘s use of #lawfare in the #Arctic & #Antarctic Always a pleasure to return to @upenn.bsky.social & talk #EnvironmentalSecurity! @nusl.bsky.social

In #SGBV news this week... 1. Research has found a link btwn #climateChange & #VAW, where #DFV increases during & after heatwaves; & that #women are abused by employers if their work slows during extreme heat. #endVAW www.context.news/climate-just...

Thrilled to welcome aboard @justsecurity.org three new editorial members, each superb experts in their fields! Kathleen Claussen Tom Dannenbaum (@tomdannenbaum.bsky.social) Eliav Lieblich (@eliavl.bsky.social)

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

It was a pleasure to serve on this panel tackling important issues about the value & import of international accountability institutions & the uptick in #Genocide litigation w/ @keitnerlaw.bsky.social @bechamilton.bsky.social @rlopez.bsky.social @jonathanhafetz.bsky.social & Matthew Charity

For your weekend listening: on @lawfare.bsky.social, @melissastewart.bsky.social spoke to me about climate change at the ICJ, the legal arguments made during last month's oral proceedings, and where the judges might land on the forthcoming advisory opinion. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...

Big news from #Guantanamo with transfers of prisoners. But what do the legal challenges around Guantanamo, particularly concerning #IHL and #torture, reveal about the future of #US policy and its impact on global justice? Episode out now👇 www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

NEWS: An appeals panel has reached down here into Guantanamo Bay and stopped tomorrow's plea hearing in the long-running 9/11 case. Family members prosecutors brought here to watch the proceedings are upset. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...

Honored to join to this superb panel at #AALS2025 @TheAALS in San Francisco on "Litigation before the ICJ under the Genocide Convention" with @keitnerlaw.bsky.social @bechamilton.bsky.social @rlopez.bsky.social @ruleoflaw.bsky.social & Matthew Charity

A friendly reminder that the Mercator Projection of the globe distorts the relative size of land masses in the polar regions. E.g., Africa is 14x larger than #Greenland, despite looking similar in size on the #MercatorProjection: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsNl...

Now I can show you this: Camp Justice here at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is paying respects to Jimmy Carter in a photograph I took yesterday at the Pentagon’s approved site for media opportunities. Court security cleared these images this morning.

The Netherlands releases names of 425k suspected Nazi collaborators: bbc.com/news/article...

Germany argues that the Paris Agreement and the UNFCCC are the decisive treaties in determining States' international legal obligations in the face of climate change. States wanted to avoid a rigid differentiation between developed and developing states while ensuring differentiated responsibility.

Congratulations to Professor Alexandra Meise @ruleoflaw.bsky.social, who has been appointed Women, Peace and Security Studies Chair at the United States Army War College! #NUSLPride law.northeastern.edu/meise-appoin...

🌍Arguments start today in landmark ICJ case about State obligations to address climate change: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request by Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff to transfer to federal court the Georgia election interference case against him.

The sea strikes back: www.theguardian.com/world/2023/o...

The climate crisis poses an “existential risk” to the health and wellbeing of all children and action to tackle it is needed immediately, Britain’s most senior paediatrician has said. www.theguardian.com/society/2023...