Another Substack post - The academic (in)humanities open.substack.com/pub/intlegal...

A really excellent editorial reflecting on IL's contemporary moment: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Some reflections on my experiences of #AI in academia (tl,dr: too apolitical, too a-humanities). Hopefully of interest to anyone as ambivalent about tech zealotry as me. intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/on-ai

Just released - what a feast for the start of term! www.sup.org/books/law/ra...

The latest international legal craft Substack is up! This week, I'm thinking about scholarly canons, floorplans and Hannah Arendt. Check it out/subscribe here: intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/the-houses...

My latest Substack post on the 'academic artisan' intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/enter-the-...

After some humming and hahing, I set up a Substack. Will be writing about intl law, the field, writing, teaching, the university, and more. Subscribe/share if you're interested (or, as I still am, mildly amused): substack.com/@intlegalcra...

I had the pleasure to review The Justice Factory: Management practices at the ICC (academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...) for IA (@iajournal.bsky.social). Richard ‪Clements' (@riclements.bsky.social‬) pathbreaking book is a must read for those interested in the ICC and global governance more generally .

One way to understand the nature of legal work is to ask how the jurist becomes oriented towards their materials. What draws us in or excites us, what leaves us unmoved or repels us - (1/n)

A nice overview from editors Negar Mansouri and @drqv.bsky.social on this excellent volume on alternative approaches to international institutional law: cambridgeblog.org/2025/06/inte...

Forgive me, but if your "industry" depends entirely on stealing someone else's work, it deserves to die. "Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.” www.theverge.com/news/674366/...

Terrific to see my book available online — and soon in print! Many thanks to series editors Nadia Lambek, @riclements.bsky.social, @leslava.bsky.social, and Markus Gunneflo! And congrats on the new series!

The Element is *FREE* to access online for the next 2 weeks and pre-order print copies can be purchased in advance of print publication in June at a VERY reasonable price: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

In a short piece I wrote for @ejiltalk.bsky.social, I ask how the finalised #PandemicAgreement innovates the existing #globalhealth infrastructure, and how it reflects/adjusts relations between global north/south states in seeking to tackle pandemics equitably. www.ejiltalk.org/the-who-pand...

Todays big international law news, that seems to be buried in the back pages. This pandemic treaty now needs to be adopted at the World Health Assembky in May. #PandemicAccord www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law', edited by @drqv.bsky.social and Negar Mansouri is now available online! Wonderful to have been part of this project. Open access and 20% discount here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

The Pandemic Agreement is close to being finalised. However, north/south vaccine-sharing remains the most contentious issue: www.reuters.com/business/hea...

It's official! Our CUP Elements book series on International Law & Society now has a webpage! Check us out here if you are interested in publishing a short piece (20k-30k) with us: www.cambridge.org/core/publica.... Thanks to all at @cambridgeup.bsky.social for making this possible!

Associate/Assistant Professor job at Warwick Law School is now being advertised. Preference for candidates who can contribute to the teaching of Tort Law or Global Health Law, but teaching & research in other areas also considered. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN009/a...

The International Law & Politics CRN team @ LSA is now on Bluesky! Follow here for updates on all things Chicago 2025: bsky.app/profile/intl...

Where does ICL go from here? Check out our @ajil.bsky.social symposium "ICL's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution and Transformational Pedagogies" co-edited with the wonderful @leilaullrich.bsky.social and Christine Schwobel Patel.

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

We are hiring TWO political theorists as well as a PPE position which is open to theorists (focus on history of economic thought) - please apply and circulate! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-...

Interesting piece by @jannenijman.bsky.social on empire by purchase from Manhattan to Greenland. www.ejiltalk.org/empire-by-pu...

It was such a pleasure to chat with Conflict Law Centre, Pakistan about my new book, The Justice Factory, a few weeks ago. You can find the full 25-minute interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=lD7F... (Perfect timing for the commute!)

With an editorial against impact and a symposium on global south methodologies in international law, issue 37.4 of LJIL is a real treat before the holidays! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Only **one week** left to send your abstract for the International Legal Work(shop): Compositions and Performances of Global Governance, happening at Tilburg Law School in June 2025. For further details on submission and themes, see the extended cfp here: drive.google.com/file/d/10KpC...

A global treaty to curb #plastic pollution was not finalized after the last round of negotiations in Busan. The meeting, part of five planned INC sessions, aimed to create a legally binding agreement, but disagreements over the treaty's scope prevented a decision. earth.org/negotiators-...

Poem #1 - Accreditation

Today 20,000 strong protested in The Hague against €1 Billion cuts to education by the Dutch govt ✊ #EppoCiao #stopdebezuinigingen #onderwijs

#WOinActie #StopDeBezuinigingen #EppoCiao

The Most Important Negotiation You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of @ejiltalk.bsky.social www.ejiltalk.org/the-most-imp...

Nice one! 1) Working on: How international lawyers have become crisis managers. 2) Not working on but still obsessed with: What if Woolf's Orlando was set in plantation Ulster instead?

📢A “big” conference alert!📢 To all colleagues working in the fields of PIL, IEL, LPE, law & corporations, empire, colonialism: Liverpool is hosting the SLSA annual conference 2025 and the call for papers is out: www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-202...

These two important books by Leila Ullrich & @riclements.bsky.social have made it to our South African shores & I’m very much looking forward to reviewing them for the London Review of International Law. @marinavelickovic.bsky.social @torkrever.bsky.social

Because fragmentation is the enemy, I will be taking more opportunities to post about various things on Bluesky than on X. Being an academic is - I like to think - one of the least interesting, though deeply rewarding, aspects of life. So to that end...

Well, isn't this a little more airy?

Seeing my book in print finally was like staring at a limb. Pretty surreal. But here it is! Thanks to everyone who made the journey worth it.

A new three-part series on law&lit for ECRs wondering how to get into the conversation without needing to have internalised F.R. Leavis. Join us this spring! Registration here: tinyurl.com/274vzbjb

To clarify for those not in UK academia: this means no foreigners qualify to even apply for museum jobs, anything in heritage or libraries, junior fac jobs, UK postdocs, all are entirely out of the question. And do that math outside academia- no foreign nurses, teachers, and on and on.

My book, The Justice Factory, is now (digitally) OUT! Come for the cover, stay for the endless ICC reform cycles, pesky performance appraisal forms, and the pre-history of managerial justice in plantations, factories and war. www.cambridge.org/core/books/j...

Tomorrow at Tilburg University, Edouard Louis will participate in a Q&A on poverty and inequality. An event not to be missed. Registration here: www.tilburguniversity.edu/nl/campus/st...

“I think I will lose a lot of weight,” she said, and laughed. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

My book, The Justice Factory, published by CUP in a month, is now available on pre-order 🎉 For a 20% discount, use the code in the attached flyer at checkout: www.cambridge.org/nl/universit...

This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in the "Global North". Scholars who are geographically located in the "Global South" will be given priority. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Another excellent intervention by Fleur Johns here on the imagination idiom in intl law & rethinking the familiar moves of the critical intl lawyer. link.springer.com/article/10.1...