In rare good news, Professor Phoebe Okowa has been elected to the International Court of Justice. Okowa will fill the vacancy left by Judge Yusuf's retirement and will serve until February 2027. Most expect her to stand for election to a full nine-year term thereafter.

The whole world can see that these boat strikes are murder. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

"Apparently, in Germany, even for Jewish people, there are rules about which words can and cannot be used."

Mr Shamir ... told BBC Verify that according to his sources within the IDF there was a view that: "Hamas is allowed to do what it wants in the territory it controls, and Israel is allowed to do what it wants in the territory it controls." Geneva Convention IV:

"Israeli soldiers . described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers" “If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” [says] Daniel, the commander of an [IDF] tank unit"

"Over the course of the war in Gaza, the press often portrayed international lawyers as “divided” "In response to this misleading depiction, ... an eight-point statement that attracted more than 270 signatures, reflecting how unified international law scholars are on this topic."

AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services" apnews.com/article/trum...

"A wide range of New York’s most prominent civic leaders have for weeks been meeting behind the scenes to plan for the possibility of Trump sending in the National Guard or any other federal agents into New York City, according to multiple top elected officials."

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

That was fast.

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

Groping of Mexico's president highlights violence against women reut.rs/4nJcqdF

Lina Khan joins Zohran's transition team. Big day for actually existing LPE.

Ms Rachel 🤝 Zohran "I refuse to apologize for any of it"

"I am Muslim, I am a Democratic Socialist and most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of it."

Zohran quoted Nehru's Tryst with Destiny speech and it wasn't even his best line.

"No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election." 🔥🔥🔥

Zohran opens his victory speech: "As Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity." Unapologetic. Unafraid.

Hope Brad wears that shirt when he successfully primaries Dan Goldman.

My guy.

Phone at Hyderabadi Zaiqa ringing off the hook rn

Until it is done.

I'm really sorry to have subjected all of you to all this NYC posting but it's really been the most breathtakingly ugly race, particularly given that Mamdani has the affect and manner of a Sesame Street character

More premeditated killing at sea. The "designated terrorist organization" supposedly operating this vessel is unidentified. The basis for labeling the victims "narco-terrorists" is unspecified. Cloaking lawless killing in the guise of counterterrorism doesn't actually make it counterterrorism.

Virginia has elected Ghazala Hashmi as the state’s next lieutenant governor, making her the first Muslim woman ever elected to statewide office in the United States. 19thnews.org/2025/11/virg...

This would be an effective closing message if New Yorkers were known for quietly submitting to arbitrary power.

This goes so hard. Maybe too hard, honestly. We'll find out soon.

In local news: Vote. For Zohran. If Cuomo wins by stirring racial and religious strife, we will have to deal with this garbage every election for the rest of our lives.

In local news: Cuomo is the worst.

There has been-ahem-a lot going on in international law. in this brief chapter, I tried to take stock of the past two years and what they mean for critical IL. TL;DR: the old moves REALLY don't work anymore: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In local news: "The approximately 80,000 voters in Brooklyn’s Haredi communities, where rabbinic dictates about ballot choices lead to a reliable bloc of support, are particularly sought after by candidates."

The military has to refuse to enact these illegal orders. And the international community needs to more vocally condemn these violations

He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’

In local news: Yalla

JIB/JAB is back for a new season - in Episode 41, I speak with @bcfinucane.bsky.social of @crisisgroup.org about the U.S. killings of alleged drug smugglers, and its implications for the international rule of law: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

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@sevslv.bsky.social & I spoke to Middle East Eye about the potential/challenges for the #ICC to take action against individuals in UAE for atrocities in Darfur, Sudan. It’s complicated! #intLaw www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-c...

In local news, if you vote today you get an extra special sticker:

Six Degrees of Separation, but for the Jus Ad Bellum.

@tomfletcherun.bsky.social:""But what is different today, we are seeing a different global reaction. One of resignation... So this is also a crisis of apathy." Apathy to similar crimes elsewhere contributed to this situation. It's why tolerating these crimes is dangerous beyond any one conflict.

(The critics are right)

George Orwell Zohran Mamdani 🤝 "against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism"

In local news: Vote. For Zohran. If Cuomo wins by stirring racial and religious strife, we will have to deal with this garbage every election for the rest of our lives.

The U.S. is massing an unusual buildup of warships, fighter jets and surveillance aircraft off the coast of Venezuela as the Trump administration expands its military campaign against what it says are transnational criminal organizations. What to know:

Let's gooooooooooooo

Hi folks, I have made the interesting life decision to teach a seminar on US Legal Thought for the first time. I welcome sample syllabi and reading recommendations. I especially welcome tips on contemporary conservative thought (beyond originalism and law & econ). Thanks!

Grave fears for civilians after Sudanese paramilitary claims capture of El Fasher

This year, drone strikes have surged dramatically across Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Islamabad claims the intensified operations are a much-needed response to the growing number of security incidents, but many of the victims are civilians?

Congress and the courts should force the Justice Department to release the Office of Legal Counsel memo that purportedly authorizes these strikes--even if there's *nothing* the OLC memo could say that would make these summary executions lawful. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...