How did rare earth minerals become the focus of a geopolitical battle over the future of green energy and, by extension, capitalism? Join us on 12 March 5.30-7pm @lselaw.bsky.social for a lecture by @triofrancos.bsky.social & discussion w/ @cschwobelpatel.bsky.social. 🔗 Register shorturl.at/GwbFh

a powerful account of what’s happening in Minneapolis from Amna Akbar www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Shipping giant MSC facilitates trade from Israeli settlements through the EU. Commercial documents shed light on hundreds of shipments from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

With Fiona Schrading, I will host the standing section "IR in the Anthropocene" at the upcoming @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC in Lisbon, 1-4 Sept. This year we will focus on "Stuckness in the Anthropocene and Landscapes of Destruction". We are looking forward to your contributions! Deadline 19. Feb

It's an attempt to write a way out of the rather desolate place that I took readers to in a recent piece in EJIL (on the kinds of presentism propagated by digital tech) through engagement with recent work of @mariepetersmann.bsky.social Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & others.

How do we, how can we, how might we, think about the 'right now' in international legal work? I just shared on SSRN a preprint of an article forthcoming in the Edinburgh Law Review entitled 'International Legal Critique Now: Neo-Presentism in International Law'. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

📣 LSE Staff & Student Rally to demand Divestment ‼️ Join us tomorrow 25 Nov at 12.30 to protest against LSE's continued and *increasing* investments in the arms trade, crimes against the Palestinian people and the climate breakdown. The staff petition is still open: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

Join us tomorrow 13 November 6-7.30pm at @lselaw.bsky.social for a discussion on the 'Recognition of the State of Palestine – Contested Interpretations'. Register here and come along! lselaw.events/event/recogn...

Very excited to welcome you all at @lselaw.bsky.social on Tuesday 11 November 6-7.30pm for a discussion with the always inspiring *Wendy Brown* on 'The Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy and the Emergence of Alternatives': lselaw.events/event/the-ex... Come along! No registration needed. MAR 2.04.

Public Lecture co-organised by me and @parvathimenon.bsky.social @cceilsoas.bsky.social ( & by Luke McDonagh Gerry Simpson & @mariepetersmann.bsky.social @lselaw.bsky.social ): "Recognition of the State of Palestine: Contested Interpretations" 6pm on Thurs November 13 at LSE. Registration 👇🏾

Israel's cheerleaders have opportunistically seized on a heinous antisemitic attack to silence opponents of genocide. Our freedoms are being stolen - and we are headed to a very dark place. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At ELU-S Plenary on 'Sustainability, Social Justice and Democracy' last week in Prague, I talked about the repression against social movements for climate justice and the end of the genocide in Gaza, and the use of terrorism-labels to proscribe their actions, inspired by the activism of Conor Gearty

This was Conor Gearty only a week or so ago at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on ECHR withdrawal and the Palestine Action ban.

⏳ Starting at 16:00! Join us live for the 2nd episode of #EUIConversations, titled 'Moral abdication: how the world failed to stop the destruction of Gaza', with Didier Fassin, Revital Madar, and Nicolas Guilhot. 🎥 Follow the livestream here: buff.ly/CRE5EaD

'Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich recently boasted that Israelis are finally going to conquer the Gaza Strip: "we are no longer afraid of the word occupation". Smotrich's audacity is our failure'. #NouraErakat on the necessity to refuse what she calls a #NakbaPeace www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46686

With more than half a million people in London to march for Gaza and call on the British government to end its complicity in genocide.

Wrapping up today's panel sessions are Bossissi Nkuba, @mariepetersmann.bsky.social and Julia Suárez-Krabbe, chaired by Olivia Rutazibwa. #LSEHumanRights

The #BritishPavilion — curated by Kathryn Yusoff, Stella Mutegi, Kabage Karanja, and Owen Hopkins — was awarded a Special Mention #LaBiennale for #GeologyofBritannicRepair ✨ I'm here for a 2-day workshop on #InhumanReparations Kathryn co-organised w/ Elsa Noterman and Archie Davies at the Pavilion👇

Looking forward to this 2-day workshop on 'Amazon of Rights: Global Jurisprudence in Times of Urgency'. Thanks to Luis Eslava, Cecilia Oliveira, Igor Karim and Michael Riegner (@rifs-potsdam.bsky.social) for bringing us all together.

This just out now, wherein @david-whyte.bsky.social (of @ccccjustice.bsky.social) gently pick apart the case for an international crime of ecocide. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New #podcast 🌴 Conversation with architect and curator Paulo Tavares rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/... Reflecting on what he calls “a moment of shift” in today’s political climate, Paulo develops his notion of “critical proximity” as well as his understanding of architecture as a political field.

Read more on our website and join us on Saturday 17th May for the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Prof. Françoise Vergès: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/in-...

london today ❤️‍🔥

‘American college administrators and lawyers are responding to Trump’s bullying as if it were an opportunity to carry out “reforms” – and as if they were secretly relieved that their hand has been forced by the Leader.’ Adam Shatz on Columbia’s surrender: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Join us tomorrow 6.30-8pm @granthamicl.bsky.social for 'Climate Liability on Trial: Lessons from Luciano Lliuya v RWE' Featuring Saul Luciano Lliuya himself in conversation w/ @frediotto.bsky.social, Nigel Brook, Noah Walker-Crawford & me. Hong Kong Theatre & online: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

During a workshop on 30-31 January, we critically examined #digitalsovereignty through a #feminist lens. Our collective writing exercise resulted in a blog post just published on Critical Legal Thinking. It is available via the link below! criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/18/t...

Check out our wonderful collection of essays plotting, dreaming, reimagining, abolishing, redistributing and reconstructing ICL's Critical Aftermaths w. Christine Schwoebel-Patel & @riclements.bsky.social @oxfordcrim.bsky.social

Deadline for abstracts is this Friday! ‘Race, Refuge & Repair’ @uctlaw.bsky.social with @bordercrim.bsky.social @refugeestudies.bsky.social & KCL Law with E. Tendayi Achiume, @madlingozi.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social, @seanmacr.bsky.social & Siphamandla Zondi law.uct.ac.za/sites/defaul...

So grateful to Benedict Kingsbury & Angelina Fisher @nyulaw.bsky.social for this workshop on 'Space Law & Earth Justice' 20-21 March: guariniglobal.org/space-law-an... I'm in a panel on 'In/Justice & Ir/Reparability' w/ Tendayi Achiume, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Guy Fiti Sinclair & Donny Persaud 🔥

if you were ever dying to read about how ICL functions as a mode of accumulation and what the implications of that are for its abolition - then today is your lucky day! (& if you're a normal person, then today is just monday)

Join us tomorrow 12:00–13:30 @lselaw.bsky.social for a screening of *Reclaiming Now* Dr Allison Lindner (@ucllaws.bsky.social) will present her film and discuss how to translate research on waste pickers and sustainable development in South Africa for wider impact: lselaw.events/event/transl...

Excited to welcome Nath Gbikpi (Senior Associate Solicitor @leigh-day.bsky.social) to @lselaw.bsky.social to deliver the 1st of 3 Masterclasses on: Who Can Come, Who Can Stay, Who Must Go: A Practical Introduction to UK Immigration Law LSE students & alumni register👇 lselaw.events/event/who-ca...

CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory w/ Dr Alessandra Mezzadri @feministonmarx.bsky.social 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, @qmul 🗓️ Thursday, 13th May ⏰ 5.30pm - 7.30pm Register here: tinyurl.com/mezzadri2005

This is happening tomorrow at 6.30pm! 'The Ecological Face of the Commune Form' Public lecture by Professor Kristin Ross (NYU) hosted by the one and only Dr Ayça Çubukçu (@aycacu.bsky.social). In person and online – come along! LSE Centre Building Lecture Theatre: lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...

📢 Out now! #DigitalEchoes: Season 2 – 'Listening to New Normativities' New episodes 📼 every second Monday on Völkerrechtsblog & Spotify! Read the introduction by @dogot.bsky.social, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social & Anna Sophia Tiedeke. voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...

New work with Gavin Sullivan in the German Law Journal! Informed by unique access, we trace the design of Cerberus: an AI-based risk tool deployed by the UK Home Office. Cerberus, we argue, enacts a governmentality of suspicion that evades our regulatory repertoire. cambridge.org/core/journal...

good series this in the Guardian looking at investor-state dispute settlements www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The Ecological Face of the Commune Form," public lecture by Professor Kristin Ross (NYU) at the London School of Economics on March 12, 6:30 pm. In person and online--all invited! @lsesociology.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social Register: lse.ac.uk/sociology/even

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

Please join us if you are in London for a LSE Law Event: Trump 2.0 and U.S Foreign Economic Policy on Monday, March 3 from 18.00-20.00 Speakers: Kathleen Claussen Rupert Schlegelmilch Alan Beattie Chad Bown Chair: Mona Paulsen lse-law-school.ticketleap.com/trump-20-and...

wrote a thing about disciplinary crises & politics, CLS vs. marxism, letters & signing things & had lots of fun doing it ❤️‍🔥

Can't wait for this talk tomorrow at LSE @lsehumanrights.bsky.social 🔥 Tao Leigh Goffe will discuss her new book with Sara Salem: #DarkLaboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis 📆 Tuesday 4 March, 5-7pm, Old Building 3.24 lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev... All welcome!

I wrote about why the most important Oscar nominee is the movie about how living under authoritarian rule can feel surprisingly normal.

🎉 No Other Land Wins the Oscar for Best Documentary! 🎉 Congratulations to +972 Magazine’s very own reporter, Yuval Abraham, and long-time contributor, Basel Adra, on winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for their powerful film, No Other Land. #NoOtherLand #Oscars2025

Enemies, Frenemies, Comrades and Exes - Dread and Dreamwork in the Pursuit of Feminism 7 March 2025, 1pm-5pm A space for collaborative thinking (and some doing), as a prelude to the 2025 UCL Public Lecture by Sophie Lewis on her new book 'Enemy Feminisms' www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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