This was expected, and a rumour around town for a while, so hardly surprising, but I suspect it will unleash yet more backlash at the institution. Its members and proponents must do a better job at protecting it. #ICC #Israel #Palestine #InternationalLaw www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...

Ik blijf erbij: dit is geen polarisatie, dit is radicalisering van één kant.

Today at the #ICC #Libya #Migration #Refugees www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I went to @unileiden.bsky.social last night to visit my friend, @casperwits.bsky.social and talk to his BA students in the honours program. We talked about international law, courts, and the politics around it. They had good questions. #InternationalLaw #History #InternationalRelations #HigherEd

This is interesting. It's something I worked on too and I discuss it in my book on Serbian #paramilitaries, in another context of course. Take a look. It's about #ProxyWar, #ArmedGroups, attribution, ambiguities etc. #Mercenaries #Wagner #IHL www.armedgroups-internationallaw.org/2026/05/18/b...

This absolutely boggles the mind. Of course you're meant to check your citations and make sure they are real and accurate! Why the ever-living fuck are you citing something in the first place if you haven't reviewed it as part of the research for your work?!

To blow that kind of influence...Completely irrational. Against their own interests. They will regret it, and if they want to rebuild after this plague passes, it will take a long time.

I am not sure if there has been, ever, a country which looked at its soft power, its status as a leader in knowledge, science and in intellectual circles globally, and said "fuck it, let's blow it up." Maybe the UK is a close second now?! #Academia #HigherEd time.com/article/2026...

daaaamn london

Evening watch, the lecture #ICJ Judge Hilary Charlesworth gave at the @nurembergacademy.bsky.social recently. In light of some of the cases the Court has been dealing with lately, it's important to hear the judge ask "does the ICJ have criminal jurisdiction?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zru_...

Any conversation with "voters" about Iran should begin with a map and asking them to show it on a map. Hell, reporters should ask Trump to point it on an unmarked map.

I’m sorry but if you aren’t sure of a citation, whether what it means or that it exists… why are you citing it. why are you referring to something you haven’t read or don’t understand? that defeats the entire bloody point

Khan in consistent in pushing against the hate.

"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

One rail trip across countries in Europe, one ticket, full passenger rights? Here’s hoping the EU’s proposal for rail reform makes it across the line. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

‘Je kunt niet jarenlang extreemrechts naar de mond praten en dan verbaasd zijn over haat, intimidatie en geweld’, schrijft columnist @nadiabouras.bsky.social. De permanente crisistaal rond asielzoekers – ook van media en het ‘redelijke midden’ – heeft dit klimaat geschapen.

Pure slopaganda that previous generations in the UK would have viewed as a style that is too crudely American Cc @miyhnea.bsky.social

These are such huge changes in #UK #HigerEd. I hope it's for the better. #Academia #Teaching www.theguardian.com/education/20...

In Cold Blood

“A real hit on Jesus” is one of the funniest sentences I’ve ever heard.

Still funny that in the year of our lord 2026, reporters are still asking Trump questions like he knows what they’re talking about

My friend Barbara wrote this and it's being published in several languages. It came out recently in the @groene.nl It's an early case tried in #TheHague. Take a look if you read Dutch. #ICTY #Perpetrators #MassViolence #Photography #Evidence #WarCrimes #Accountability www.groene.nl/artikel/moor...

It’s completely unworkable to put the onus on reviewers to track down the veracity of references in a paper. And references are crucial for establishing lineage of thought, among other reasons. Substantial penalties as disincentives is the only way to ensure the literature is not swarmed with crap

I mean, why the hell not?

The clematis is being dramatis

Jelle Postma over het extreemrechtse geweld in Loosdrecht en de reactie van Yesilgöz, die verkoos het alleen over hulpverleners te hebben en voor het gemak even vergat dat er asielzoekers in dat gebouw zaten. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Also an important read: #UN #ICJ #ClimateChange www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Africa CDC is sounding the alarm over an Ebola outbreak in DRC, where 13 of 20 samples tested were positive for Ebola - likely a non-Zaire ebolavirus. So far, there are about 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths.

Maar wie zijn nou eigenlijk echt de mensen in het land die niets meer mogen zeggen? www.ad.nl/ijsselstein/...

The Friday morning coffee read: #InternationalLaw #InternationalRelations #ContemporaryHistory yjil.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

Lovely.

I'm in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today looking at why so many unis are in financial trouble and what the government needs to do to save HE. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

This is good news. "“Albanese has done nothing more than speak!” Leon wrote in his opinion. “It is undisputed that her recommendations have no binding effect on the ICC’s actions-they are nothing more than her opinion.” #Palestine #Sanctions #ICC www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The morning coffee read:

Can a State that violates another State's sovereignty still demand respect for its own sovereignty? Werther highlights an observation from recent domestic judgments: The obligation to grant immunity to a foreign State was denied when the foreign State infringed on the forum State’s sovereignty.

If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Ok, so the Dutch intelligence agencies found two London firms spied on ICC staffers and their families, especially the alleged victim in the sexual misconduct investigation process (which is now drawing to an end). Who hired these firms and why? #ICC www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

I wonder if these trials will also be "monitored" by Westeners for compliance with #FairTrial rights, they way we were monitored when we were doing trials domestically in Bosnia. We were monitored for biases. Will they be too? #Judiciary #WarCrimes #Genocide www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/w...

This is not new and it's horrific. #SGBV #CRSV #Israel #Palestine www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

I'll go to this, but as others have argued, while this is useful, it's the structural, mundane destruction of the environment we all participate in (to a different degree) that gets excused, when we just focus on the extraordinary, the "crime". #Ecocide #Environment #ICL www.asser.nl/events/publi...

This shit is out of control. Call this out for the act of right wing terrorism that it is. Fight it or we're a fascist country. #Nederland nos.nl/artikel/2613...

Binnen een week. Maar blijf het vooral als politici lekker aanwakkeren.

Not the main thing, but notable that the biggest of recipient of US military aid is using the language of counterinsurgency (hearts and minds) to refer to the US population.

This whole thread, with the only friendly amendment that you can substitute at least “All humanistic inquiry” for “Historical research.”

The morning #CriminalJustice read: "As a potential model, Mohala Wahine is almost certainly more effective than a hyper-retributive system in which we take broken people, break them further and then send them right back to where they were broken in the first place." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/o...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Options being drawn up for possible EU action on Israeli settlement trade