What do changing understandings of coercion + security tell us about relationship between international order and international law? My stab at an explanation, nodding to Robert Cover and following interpretative fights from UN Charter through the NIEO and Washington Consensus to today.

What do changing understandings of coercion + security tell us about relationship between international order and international law? My stab at an explanation, nodding to Robert Cover and following interpretative fights from UN Charter through the NIEO and Washington Consensus to today.

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Always one of the highlights of the meeting

Really important paper, reconceptualizing developments in the economic-security space.

Watching this foreseeable chaos and tragedy unfold and I keep thinking about what this administration’s own lawyers revealed about its national security process, in the OLC memo on Venezuela. The not war by not planning theory of war powers:

The irony is that the subway is the ordinary way many New York City kids get to and from school. New York provides school buses through 6th grade and assumes kids will use free OMNY cards afterwards. The subways teem with teens.

As an alum of the International Law Seminar (ILS2007!!), I'd strongly encourage you to apply. If you have a strong background and knowledge of #internationallaw and want to advance it further, then this is for you. #ILS2026 www.ilsgeneva.ch/en/page/welc...

The Denver Law Review is pleased to announce the 2026 Emerging Scholar Award! The winner receives a $500 award and publication in Issue 1 of Volume 104. Submissions are open now through March 15, 2026. To submit, send your article and CV to [email protected].

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

Most telling thing about this is that the only unifying theme is macho vibes. No sense in asking if they actually want to glorify drug dealing, criminal underworld, insurgents against imperial power, or emotionally-impaired dark-siders. It's irrelevant compared to the glorification of testoterone.

Leshem on Ships as Legal Persons Ela A. Leshem (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Normative Transplants: The Case of Ships as Legal Persons (Forthcoming in Legal Personhood in Private Law (Paul B. Miller, Christopher Essert & Eva Micheler eds., Cambridge University Press 2026)) on SSRN.…

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Our primary insight into how the Trump Admin lawyers* war powers comes from the OLC memo they published on the Venezuela strikes and capture of Maduro. My analysis here:

Hopefully, when Anthropic helps build the Death Star, they remember to leave in a fatal vulnerability: share.google/UP6PSJlS0LYs...

This is not a drill! Part I of Global Health at a Crossroads Symposiumis out in the American Journal of International Law Unbound. My intro. to the symposium is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/service... Check out all the insightful contributions below! #globalhealth #internationallaw

Call for submissions for our symposium with @monicahakimi.bsky.social at the University of Groningen is still open! igiltp.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/s...

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Despite all the focus on the tariffs, I suspect this may eventually be the most cited part of the opinion, and NOT in trade cases.

It's more complicated than you think. Great explainer from Kathleen Claussen.

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INTERNATIONAL LAW WEEKEND 2026: [R]evolution in the International Legal Order The American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) is pleased to invite proposals for International Law Weekend 2026 (ILW 2026), Oct 22-24, 2026. www.ila-americanbranch.org/internationa...

Roberts, Barrett, & Gorsuch's fixation on including MQD may end up a gift to challengers of other claimed emergency powers. None of this discussion of the dangers of emergency power was necessary to find IEEPA didn't cover tariffs, but it is now certain to appear in briefs & opinions in other areas.

Among the most important signs of how SCOTUS might rein in a President's claim to emergency powers is: Chief Justice Roberts with Justices Gorsuch and Barrett on the 'major questions' doctrine. The three express deep skepticism of claims to open-ended emergency powers: 1/

There are obviously limits to what one decision limited to one statute can do, but the shadow of IEEPA's open-ended discretionary authority has played a massive role in the the coercive foreign policy of the last year - just think of the Greenland arc - and some sand in those gears should be welcome

Just sayin....

Amidst many crises, the #Trump admin may be on the verge of a war of choice against #Iran. It would be: -blatantly illegal (U.S. & int'l law) -hugely costly (human & financial) -has no clear end game Your elected representatives have power to stop it. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

🚨 🚨 🚨 IG on international legal theory and philosophy of @esil-sedi.bsky.social organises a symposium in conversation with Monica Hakimi (@monicahakimi.bsky.social) on 29 April 2026 at the University of Groningen! Details: igiltp.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/s... #InternationalLaw #jurisprudensky

I believe this is the first time I have ever seen the expression "Horsefeathers!" in a judicial opinion.

AJIL Explainers is a new video series exploring the impact of Trump's second presidential term on #internationallaw. Watch the @ajil.bsky.social#internationallaweditorial board dive into trade agreements, global perspectives, immigration and more: 🎥 https://cup.org/4rrvWxk

Ben's unflinching ability to see connections between different forms of coercive power has made him one of the clearest voices on the challenges we face.

Coining "war in the constitutional sense" was such a deeply pernicious OLC wrong turn.

There's a dollar "vibe shift" happening now that is different from past bouts of dollar pessimism. You might be skeptical. That's understandable since the de-dollarization narrative has been around for years now, and little has changed about the dollar's global position. 1/

Thanks so much to @dorfmandoron.bsky.social and his colleagues at Seton Hall Law for engaging with me so deeply and thoughtfully on state of international law and the international order at yesterday's faculty workshop. I truly appreciated the conversation.

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Also, the fact that this isn’t a leading headline on either NYTimes or WaPo is rather astonishing. Our closest ally is saying the international rules based order, such as it was, is over. The days of propping up American hegemony, are over. Our allies are choosing to reimagine the future without us.

Couple random points I fear getting lost: 1. Denmark likely believes it cannot legally sell Greenland at all b/c of international law re self-determination that didn't exist 100 yrs ago. 2. What does long-term US military power look like when its forces are no longer welcome in European bases?:

Written about the European Anti-coercion Instrument approximately one year ago: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We are very proud to begin 2026 with such a stellar issue! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Tear up your existing reading lists! Massive kudos to Jeff Dunoff and everyone involved in bringing this this masterful issue together.

Hey law prof friends/colleagues - looking for a great place to spend a sabbatical year? Reminder today's the last day to apply for a 2026-27 Crane Fellowship in the Princeton Program for Law & Public Policy starting this fall.

It's that time of year! Tulane Law School invites applications for its Forrester Fellowship position, which is designed for promising scholars who plan to apply for tenure-track law school positions. The Forrester Fellow is full-time faculty in the law school and... 1/4

This fall, Fordham Law Prof. Doni Bloomfield (@donibloomfield.bsky.social) delivered a keynote address at a University-hosted symposium on responsible artificial intelligence, exploring the ethics of scientists generating, disseminating, and regulating pathogen data to train AI models. Read more:

"Trump 2.0: An AJIL Explainer on the US-Ukraine Strategic Minerals Partnership" with @lawprofpuig.bsky.social & Gregory Shaffer ▶️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoUM... 🔖:"The U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Minerals Partnership in the Wake of Russia’s War of Aggression" tinyurl.com/wv2n25jj

“Trump 2.0: An AJIL Explainer on the View from Europe” with Anne van Aaken ▶️: tinyurl.com/ycxd4xfs 📖: “From Cooperation to Anomie and Transaction in the Transatlantic Relationship? A View from Europe on the Trump Administration 2.0” by Anne van Aaken: tinyurl.com/5xn83c9u

10/11: “Trump 2.0: An AJIL Explainer on International Climate Law” with Daniel Bodansky & John Knox ▶️: tinyurl.com/27cv6cbe 📖: “The Trump Administration Steps Back from International Environmental Cooperation” by John H. Knox, Daniel Bodansky, Lavanya Rajamani: tinyurl.com/6k879xr9

9/11: “Trump 2.0: An AJIL Explainer on the International Trading System” with Jeff Dunoff, Mark Pollack, Ingrid Brunk, and Monica Hakimi ▶️: tinyurl.com/2d9srzsx 📖: “The Trump Administration’s Trade Policy and the International Trading System”: tinyurl.com/3r59hjb4

8/11: "Trump 2.0: An AJIL Explainer on the View from Africa” with @akinkugbe.bsky.social ▶️: tinyurl.com/528danvu 📖: “Entrenching Inequality or Opportunities to Forge New Pathways: Implications of U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts and Reciprocal Tariffs for African Countries” tinyurl.com/mtxyr8dk