Philippines media now reporting that Bato dela Rosa has fled the Senate premises, continuing to evade ICC arrest for his role in Duterte's deadly "war on drugs" How could this have happened when he was supposed to have been under Senate protective custody? www.rappler.com/philippines/...

All eyes on the Philippine Senate today. Watching the news and yet to be confirmed whether Bato is even still inside the premises. The guy has been evading arrest re: ICC warrant of arrest www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

ICC judges unseal arrest warrant against Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa for alleged crime against humanity in connection with the situation in the Philippines Meanwhile, he has been placed under the Philippines Senate protective custody www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Woke up to surprising news re: Philippines case in the ICC

An excellent example of feminist strategic litigation: ✅seeks to enhance gender equality ✅builds community involving local activists, NGOs & lawyers, plus an int'l NGO ✅while using a local forum, also uses international resources (IACHR Advisory Opinion 24/17) ✅tells a story of justice.

The Sick Times: 'We need masks in healthcare. Now.' Written by Tesla Bellina-Gustafson 'As a person with Long COVID, losing consciousness was a terrifying experience made worse by a potential exposure risk.' thesicktimes.org/2026/04/24/w...

Legally Queerly: 30 lesbians and queer individuals in the legal sector tell us why visibility is important this #LVW26

So apparently Johnson and Vance are Just War Theory experts now. As someone who used to lecture on this, I'd be interested in their detailed explanations of: jus ad bellum and the legitimacy of the attack on Iran in the absence of an imminent threat...

I'm in Barcelona for #CHI26, presenting my paper "Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems for Social Media" Friday in the 9am "Community Governance and Moderation" session. @chi.acm.org dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

I'm in Barcelona all week to attend CHI 2026 - the leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Happy to meet up with anyone interested or doing work on tech and governance, public policy, and human rights. Send me a quick note here if you are around! chi2026.acm.org

Excited to finally see this out in the world! It's a fantastic collection, and I am proud to have contributed a chapter academic.oup.com/book/62553

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

This law is a straightforward case of apartheid. Apartheid is an international crime. Every legislator who voted for it, every military police office who prosecutes a crime under it, every judicial officer who applies it, is committing an international crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

We must all start calling out the absurd breaches of international law by the current US Government- this one clearly breaches UN obligations but few seem to call it out: Judge never reconsidered working at ICC despite sanctions www.rte.ie/news/2026/03...

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Maybe this is too international law of me, but you can’t liberate women by slaughtering school girls.

okay, Ill bite. What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Great post, @yusrasuedi.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/simplela...

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. Calculus Social, Economic, and Political Thought Performance for Radio Non-Western Literary Criticism Basic Lifesaving/Lifeguard Training

"All the stories about alien abduction and spaceships? They already happened. Entire mass populations moved; forcibly dematerialised. How much more alien do you think it gets than slavery?" Kodwo Eshun in The Last Angel of History

Looking for specialist medical negligence solicitors in the UK. Is there anyone here who could help or who could make a referral? Thank you!

"The present-day crisis of international law stems from the fact that states, especially the larger ones, do not regard its rules as binding upon them." Miodrag Sukijasović, American Journal of International Law 1971. Gentle reminder that international law is always in crisis.

Read @yusrasuedi.bsky.social's newest explainer: The U.S. has only stepped back from parts of the UN system, and withdrawn from one treaty: the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The U.S. remains bound by the UN Charter. open.substack.com/pub/simplela...

"Unapologetic defiance of law is much more dangerous – for the law and hence for global stability – than violations couched in, however implausible, legal apologia, as previous US military interventions often were." www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

Revisiting this article from last year: 'As we spoke about the condition of international law writ large, he slipped into the past tense: “It was a way of challenging brute uses of force, and that is no longer there.”' www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

Not to make this about Kelsen but Kelsen warned us that "national law monism" (the view that one's own legal system is the only valid legal system) is the legal theory of imperialism and militarism.

open.substack.com/pub/simplela... Excellent explainer from @yusrasuedi.bsky.social

This should preface every bit of news coverage and commentary on what the US did today in Venezuela

What??!!!

If this doesn't come with a UNGA Uniting for Peace resolution and global condemnation then the prohibition on the use of force is finished and the UN will go the way of the League of Nations. Ask the international lawyers in your life how they are because right now I wish I weren't 10 years sober

Shaking in anger at what I am seeing in the news. Patently illegal and absolutely terrifying

I think this feels particularly shocking because no matter how much you stretch the law this has absolutely no basis of legality whatsoever. No terrorists, no "threat" requiring anticipatory self defence. Nothing.

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💯 'Time is well overdue for international policy bodies to acknowledge the totality of evidence on the science of masks and masking and to show leadership in providing such messaging to policymakers, clinicians, and the public.' @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social et al journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Just because you’re a professor and you hold the opinion that masks don’t work doesn’t make you a “top scientist”.

I urgently need help with a case of discrimination against a disabled person. Apple Store Battersea, London. Please get in touch with me ASAP. Please reshare @goodlawproject.org?

I urgently need help with a case of discrimination against a disabled person. Apple Store Battersea, London. Please get in touch with me ASAP. Please reshare

Trump's Ukraine-Russia Peace Plan violates international law in several ways. My thoughts, in 2 minutes: www.simplelaw.blog/p/4-ways-tru...

The prototype nation-state isn’t a territory that contains only its ancestral people. That type of polity has been very rare in history. The prototype nation-state oppresses a different group in the same territory. The one-people model is a theoretical simplification, like a frictionless surface.

This version of a deal would signal that it’s aok to invade neighbouring territory if they’re considered to be part of your sphere of influence. Might as well hand over Taiwan to China right now.

Team Mongolia 😍 www.primetimer.com/news/the-rea...

'The constitutional question, or what I’m now calling the post-constitutional question, isn’t just “what kind of leader?” It might be “how do we act responsibly, horizontally, without waiting for leaders?”' open.substack.com/pub/theordin...

im beginning to think it was a mistake to stake our entire economy on chatbots and fake internet money

"It felt like the flags were creating no-go zones... You add on top of that real autonomous working, that real bravery of working in people’s homes, with an environment … [where] it feels like it’s an area that’s designed to exclude them.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Amazing news from Yusra! Give her blog a read

"Yet according to a UN Women survey in early 2025, global cuts to foreign aid budgets make it harder for women to make these vital contributions to peace and security." theconversation.com/involving-wo...

"It is an unprecedented lawsuit in the UK and globally, as the first civil claim to directly link polluting companies to deaths and personal injuries that have already happened in the global south." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"We must start by asking better questions: who is represented in anatomical imagery today? Whose bodies are missing? And whose stories are never told?" The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent theconversation.com/the-dark-his...