The #ICJ has fixed exceedingly long time-limits for the second round of written pleadings in South Africa v Israel (SA's reply is due 22 Nov 2027, ISR's rejoinder is due 22 May 2029). This likely means that no judgment on the merits should be expected until late 2030 at the absolute earliest.

If I’m understanding the Home Office’s trial age assessment tech, it gets people’s ages wrong by an *average* of 2.5-3 years, is inaccurate for the most crucial cohort (teenagers) and is worse in assessing women/girls and non-white people (umm…) but they’re going for it anyway, because computer

“The report said the cases the UN had verified were carried out against 14 men, seven women, nine boys and one girl. The violations included rape, gang rape, forced nudity, & violence to genitals committed by officers from the Israeli military, police and prison service.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great how CSJ's report came out in the same week as the actual independent review into youth unemployment, which specifically found that immigration was not a main driver of youth unemployment. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Doing a bit of crowdsourcing: For a research project, I am trying to identify universities or law schools that have made express efforts to hire conservative faculty. Would be grateful if folks could post job announcements that reflected this trend!

My piece "From Settlement to Genocide: The State-Sponsored Demographic Engineering of Palestine and the Challenge of Enforcement in the Aftermath of the 2024 ICJ's Advisory Opinion on Israel's Occupation" (2024) has been published in the Bogazici Conference Book www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Shocking details in this report by UNSR #Torture Alice Edwards. Horrific abuse, sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners by #Israel. & importantly, incl details of denial of right to adequate std of living- sanitation, food, water. Disgraceful conditions. #humanRights www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

One of my favorite genres lately is evidently AI-generated LinkedIn posts complaining about AI in academia: "This is not only X. It's Y. We shouldn't just do X -- we should do Y, Z, and W." Alrighty...

WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda ‘emergency’ of international concern

📢 Undergrads researching the Holocaust — want to present at a conference? The BIAHS Postgraduate Conference has an undergraduate panel on 2 June at the University of Southampton. Ask your supervisor to nominate you by 18 May 👇 [email protected] #HolocaustStudies #BIAHS2026

Our latest legal analysis of the first known case of "right to remain" in the UK amid displacement due to climate change has been published by the RLI blog 👇

Disasters displace two people every second. Yet, a draft treaty on the Protection of Persons in the event of Disasters barely refers to displacement. Our 2-page brief explains why – and how – displacement, evacuations and planned relocations should be added www.unsw.edu.au/kaldor-centr...

The World Bank, the EU, and the UN have issued the "Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment", documenting housing and infrastructure destruction in the Strip and assessing actions for reconstruction: thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/e539c...

Very pleased to share this piece, co-authored with Aldo Zammit-Borda & Stefan Mandelbaum, published in the American Journal of International Law (@ajil.bsky.social): 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘓𝘊 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴: 𝘈𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘗𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 (Open Access) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

As an Italian, this is embarrassing on so many levels

Join my colleagues and I on Wednesday, 22 April at 2.30pm UK for a discussion on the situation in the Middle East and International Law 👉 teams.microsoft.com/meet/3679082... Kindly hosted by the Centre for International Law & Globalisation

The President of Iran condemns insults to the Pope and the desecration of Jesus by the President of the United States. What a time to be alive.

Every single country that does not cease all relations with Israel is complicit in today's massacres in Lebanon

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

New blog post out in @opiniojuris.bsky.social w/ @natasamav.bsky.social ! We contributed to a great symposium on Prosecuting "Heads of State", discussing "Punishing the powerful" and the allure and limits of the penal accountability paradigm ⚖️ Read here: opiniojuris.org/2026/03/27/s...

This week, Israel’s Defense Minister said Israel would occupy the area south of the Litani River in Lebanon, where hundreds of thousands of people live. That area is around 8% of Lebanon’s territory and is larger than Bahrain, New York City or Singapore. It is twice the size of Gaza.

Sewage released into England’s rivers and seas nearly 300,000 times last year

The Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social at UNSW Law & Justice is excited to offer two PhD scholarships in law to examine the role of evacuations in different contexts. Applications due 18 May 2026; details here: www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...

NEW: UN Security Council resolution on new framework to deal with impasse around Morocco’s claims to Western Sahara does not ensure that the right to self-determination for the territory’s peoples is upheld and is consistent with international law @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert calls on the International Criminal Court to "take enforcement measures and issue arrest warrants” concerning settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Proud to share this symposium on Prosecuting Heads of State for International #Crimes organized with @ayicl.bsky.social & published on @opiniojuris.bsky.social this week! In this intro, we highlight four cross-cutting themes emerging across the eleven contributions👇 opiniojuris.org/2026/03/23/s...

"There is no way of knowing where international relations are going and what will be possible. What is certain is that...any fair trial, is a result of quiet hard work, and persistence, and a belief that it is worth it, while at the same time remaining cognizant of the limits of this process."

This is big. It doesn't just happen. Germany has been a stalwart supporter of Israel, despite clear evidence of its violations of the Genocide Convention in Gaza. The decision not to intervene at the #ICJ is likely bc its best lawyers have told Berlin that doing so can't help a lost case.

Nabatiyeh is being completely razed to the ground by the Israelis. It was one of the largest cities in South Lebanon, around 100,000 people. Now around 150 families left there. Video: www.instagram.com/p/DV0q4AbCBLB/

Israel's military campaign in Lebanon is illegal because it is unnecessary. It is unnecessary because Israel has a reasonable alternative. That reasonable alternative is for Israel to end its unlawful act of aggression against Iran. My latest @justsecurity.org

hitting the same target twice is for killing emergency responders, and for making people afraid to help those who have been injured or maimed in a previous strike the US did this to a schoolhouse

If Iran was member of the ICC, the current crimes committed by the US army could be investigated. Of course this would expose Italian authorities to scrutiny, too, for their own potential war crimes going forward. But with old leadership been wiped out, at least in part, there could be some appetite

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.

The Justice Department publicly posted additional records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including some that include allegations against President Trump, following sharp criticism of the agency’s handling of the issue.

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

And how Ukraine isn't their war, so we in Europe have to pay almost the entire cost of supporting the Ukrainians. But Israel's wars are their wars, apparently, and we should join them too.

Read this and don't get the level of pushback on the merit of it. The title is misleading imo. What the blog actually suggests is essentially that the researcher does the research and then genAI is good at writing it up if well supervised, and agentic AI can do good stuff if you instruct it well. 🤷‍♀️

And this is how European leaders lost any little credibility they had left after Gaza. We’re beyond double standards, we’re acquiescing to clear violations because we can’t upset “our” bully. (So why should a small country bordering with Russia/China/India/you name it do otherwise?)

International lawyers: US-Israel strikes on Iran are illegal European government officials: are the strikes illegal? WhO cAN sAy? Certainly not us. The media: Iran takes illegal escalating action across the Middle East

(Keir Starmer)

Trump’s new “Board of Peace” met for the first time in Washington last week with billions pledged for a Gaza 'reconstruction plan.' Analysts say the Board's plans reframe Gaza’s reconstruction as an investment project. Alessandra Pellegrini reports: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1658...

What I term AI confirmation bias

Divisional Court grants Home Secretary’s app for permission to appeal and suspends its quashing of proscription of Palestine Action pending determination of the appeal. Claimant’s app for permission to cross-appeal refused. The proscription Order remains in force. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/hu...

There are two legal questions here. One question here is if AI companies have a duty to report dangerous behaviors. Another question is if it's legitimate that they monitor everyone's individual chats or that violates privacy

"A UN Human Rights Office report released today raises concerns over ethnic cleansing by Israeli authorities in both Gaza and the West Bank" "It details the deaths of at least 463 Palestinians, including 157 children, from starvation in the Gaza strip." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

RSF siege of El Fasher in Sudan has ‘hallmarks of genocide’, UN mission finds

A devastating report by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan, finding that the 18-month starvation siege & subsequent atrocities during the fall of El-Fasher genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

My piece for Verfassungsblog on the High Court judgment regarding the proscription of Palestine Action. verfassungsblog.de/palestine-ac...

Forcing displacement and unlivable conditions are means of genocide when there's special intent. These actions also come with killings. Can we talk about genocide against Palestinians in general yet?