Marketplace in Bergen op Zoom, 1590, by Abel Grimmer. Truly one of best early modern cityscapes, with many wonderful incidental details showing urban life in my youth!

He he. Eindelijk, een ijzersterk artikel en een dappere journalist die het precies benoemt zoals het is: grootschalig politiek geweld. nrc vandaag:

Uiteraard komt de beste analyse over her geweld van zaterdag van collega @leoniedejonge.bsky.social

This came out over the weekend in Trouw, about how to stop a genocide. In the piece, I argued that you have to be careful not to, in fact, help the perpetrators achieve their goals. #Genocide #Gaza www.trouw.nl/buitenland/i...

Remember how I said I had a service dog in class this year in my course Politics of Violence? HERE SHE IS!!!!!!! Keesje <3 I am buying her love with treats. It's working. #dog #AmTeaching

This is bananas. And it's terrible.

I have deleted the ads that were on the icebox and which you were probably saving for shopping Forgive me they were irritating so banal and so intrusive

On my commute to work, I listened to this podcast on #Kony, produced by my friends Steph and Janet. I have strong feelings about what was said on the need to make the in absentia hearings a sleek, Hollywood-style production, in order to capture attention of the world public. #ICC short 🧵

You forgot to compliment fake tans and long red ties. Off to the gulag with you.

The morning read.

An interruption of regular programming to show you a really nice picture of me in the sea. It was taken last summer, during sailing trip in Greece. Look what a cool picture. I love it. I've always loved the sea, I learned how to swim early, and I think it just comes across here. #Sea #Swimming

Ik kan er niet bij hoe onverantwoord het is om in deze tijden van uitdagingen, problemen en crises juist het onderwijs zo achter te laten. Kennis is de enige grondstof die Nederland in overvloed heeft, maar op deze manier niet lang meer. Met dank aan kabinet Schoof. www.aob.nl/actueel/arti...

Interesting new publication alert 🚨! #intLaw after the #Ukraine War, w/lots of great looking chapters from authors incl @vukusiciva.bsky.social @pilabuda.bsky.social www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

It's a real pleasure to announce that this book, and my chapter within it, has been published (and the e-book is open access - check out the link below). Grateful to the editors who brought us together. #InternationalLaw #Accountability #Justice #Ukraine www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

There is a small assistance dog coming to my class tomorrow. I discussed this with the student, and apparently it's ok to acknowledge and interact with the dog (in this case). I am bringing some treats to class, just in case, if it's ok to give the dog a little something. #AmTeaching #HigherEd #Dog

This is on for just a few more days. Try to see it, in #Amsterdam. Saw two images Paul Lowe took (as a number of photographs from the past were displayed), and made me miss him. He was a good colleague and a great photographer. #Photography #WorldPressPhoto www.nieuwekerk.nl/en/exhibitio...

An in-depth Dutch-language reportage this morning, about the horrific wounds children are treated for in #Gaza, and including testimonies of numerous doctors saying evidence suggests the kids are being targeted deliberately. #Palestine #Israel #IHL #Genocide www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

The morning #ClimateChange #IntLaw read: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m... #ICJ

This repression will have lasting consequences for American #academia and #science. People will not want to go work there at all. Many already wouldn't go, and many, like me, won't even travel there now. This is such a horrific thing to happen. Everything in on the line. #Texas #HigherEd #USA

Scenes from the MAGA Cultural Revolution

I just cannot shake the feeling that this theater is a bad idea. 20 years of investigations, it sure does suck if it never reaches the courtroom with this accused individual. I understand that. Is the solution to do in absentia theater? #ICC #Kony #InAbsentia www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Newcastle upon Tyne street, 1950, photo by Bert Hardy.

This is just...I mean, what even can we say. Every day a new low, and every day it just goes on and on. www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

This is coming up, I'm one of the guests, so please come join us if you're interested in these topics. #InternationalJustice #Accountability #Justice #TheHague #ICL

First day back teaching at #UtrechtUniversity, and I have a new lunch bag! This is merch from the Ministry of Defense of #Japan, which I bough in #Tokyo, when I went to visit the site of the Tokyo Trials. #HigherEd #Teaching

The #academia evening read: #Nederland www.folia.nl/en/opinie/16...

Listening to this now. #Accountability #Justice #Ukraine

Can you imagine peddling a future where people can't READ or WRITE, and that's intentional. We cannot let these assholes win.

We went to Japan this year. Next year, we're off to Hong Kong and Taiwan (again in April). It's such a joy to have something concrete in the future to look forward to. What a privilege.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Why is everything so stupid? #LateStageCapitalism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/s...

The #Kony hearing is next week. Still not convinced this is the way to spend tight resources....It's almost like doing it to have something to show for 20 years of engagement with this case. I fear more of these performances are coming, with little substantive effect #ICC www.icc-cpi.int/uganda/kony

Can you imagine being this rich, and choosing to kiss his ass...The people who know better, and who can afford to walk away, if not fight (although they can afford to). And they still fawn over him. Unforgivable. Shameful.

Pet the damn dog <3

No one has been able to invent a technological innovation that is better for learning than simply reading books and getting together in small groups to talk about them.

My latest blog post is a detailed invitation to join a research network devoted to critical pedagogies of race and imperialism in law. In it, I outline who its organisers are, the reasons why we have set up the network,and what we hope to achieve in it. Welcome! folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...

Tear gas in Novi Sad. Protests focused on a university building taken over by police and Vucic loyalists last week #serbia

These mofos owe me money. I'm in there. #OpenAI #LLMs #GenAI #Copyright

Nobody wants your stupid robo taxis. Fund public transport. Eyeroll.

My government is now sanctioning three leading Palestinian human rights groups: (1) Al Haq Law in the Service of Mankind; (2) Al Mezan Center for Human Rights; (3) Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Utterly disgraceful.

Why the defensiveness? Why justify it in terms of "value"? The value is in knowing shit, I don't know, is that enough? Or does only a corporate job mean something after? Maybe that's just me but I hate this framing. Why accept this as the framing of the conversation?

Sorry for the miserable post.

If you're trying to work out a legal justification AFTER the attack, then, I'm sorry to say, your attack was illegal.

The morning coffee read on #WarStudies, and studying it today, by @sodrock.bsky.social #HigherEd #Teaching secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/the-war-st...

Something I wonder about for real is what comes after this, whenever that is. Because it can't be this again, right? Like if this is what the presidency is now then we can't ever have another president

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity

The morning #Genocide read. I agree that they "could be", but I don't think they will. The courts struggle even with much more straightforward cases than complicity of third states...Not to mention the politics of it. #ICC #ICJ #Accountability www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...

*DOG: “You're finally back! I missed you so much!!”

The evening read, tonight's offering is by @dirkmoses.bsky.social about his time in Germany, and what being in Frankfurt made his think about in the present moment, on the state of #HigherEd #Protest #Gaza etc. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

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