As Co-Chair of the 2027 @asilorg.bsky.social #ASIL Annual Meeting I'm especially keen to bring in proposals from junior scholars & practitioners working on both cutting-edge issues & grappling with systemic challenges. Please share this call for proposals far & wide!

this U.N. special rapporteur is using their position to attack trans rights. It’s an abuse of the position, an anti-rights agenda, and it’s condemnable. boo.

I’m so embarrassed that I started this book like, “UGH a canon text, let’s see what’s the fuss,” and now I’m quietly weeping with joy to myself and filled with goodwill and optimism toward humanity and its capacity to love. How dare you, Jane Austen!!!

Should the EU ban young people from accessing social media? @giovannamas.bsky.social, Brian O'Neill & @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @eukidsonline.bsky.social the EU should regulate platforms, not restrict children’s access to digital life @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

No, this seems fine www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

Houston Mayor John Whitmire: For the Salgado family, life will never be the same. At no fault of theirs, Mr. Salgado was chased by a unmarked vehicles. Before he could identify himself and speak as a Houstonian, he was shot and killed. We'll use our resources to pursue a transparent investigation.

“[COI] called on countries to repatriate their nationals from Roj and Aq Burhan camps and release those held arbitrarily. It also pressed Damascus to clarify the fate of roughly 3,500 Syrians, including children, reportedly transferred to Iraq”. news.un.org/en/story/202...

this is imo an example of how data center hatred isn't just reflexive nimbyism

I have a foolproof way to make sure that your papers contain absolutely no fake references . . . . . read the papers you cite.

What has carried our nation forward is not the absence of challenges, but the willingness of ordinary people to meet them with hope, courage, and action. As we celebrate America’s 250th, we must continue to fight for one another, our democracy, and the promise of what we can build together.

Wie frei ist die historische Erinnerungskultur in den USA? Kritische Perspektiven auf Ungerechtigkeiten sollen in US-amerikanischen Museen nicht mehr gezeigt werden. Wie gehen die Beschäftigten mit dem Druck um, die Sammlungen zu „bereinigen“? Irmgard Zündorf hat sich selbst ein Bild gemacht:

A new piece from me: I wrote about the right's attempts to convince young women that birth control is poison, that their hormonal fluctuations mean they can't hack it in a modern workplace, and how their sole goal should be becoming a wife and mother. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

Appalling & heartbreaking: hallucinated cases are nothing next to blowing statute of limitations & having case dismissed on those grounds. But where were the bona fide public interest legal orgs? Big Law pro bono? Others? Why was Cherif handling this on his own at all? Truly awful all around…

A welcome development. Repatriation urgently needed for all those who can safety return home. Time to implement obligations under the CRC and the CEDAW Convention- and particularly for Al Roj camp to ensure the end of arbitrary detention. www.syriahr.com/en/383673/

New #ICJ case: DRC accuses Rwanda of violating the Genocide Convention, CERD, CEDAW, and CAT. We've been down this road before; the ICJ dismissed another DRC v Rwanda case back in 2006 for lack of jurisdiction. 20 years later, have those problems been overcome? www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

Justice Stevens’s dissent in Heller remains the final word on Second Amendment activism. We live in a strange world.

On what basis does the Constitution reject Hawai'ian history as irrelevant? On what basis does the Constitution force "national rules" against the background of "British institutions" and "common law." The U.S. annexed HI 1898 and made it a state in 1959. This, too, is U.S. constitutional history.

With record-level abuses against children in war, many countries are working together to hold abusers to account. Still a long way to go for an effective crimes against humanity treaty, but growing support to include justice for crimes against children www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

New report of the UN Commission of Inquiry: “The essence of childhood has been destroyed”: Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children t.co/wALpHwuT0x

Really big and bad: majority says "Today, we close the door that Sosa cracked and hold that courts may not create new causes of action for violations of international norms" under the ATS.

New Sky News report on the Minab bombing: "The names and identities of everyone based in the school who were killed in the airstrike are all identified. This includes 120 students (73 boys and 47 girls, aged from six to thirteen) and 26 teachers." www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPtI...

it won't make kids 'happier'. it will make them wonder why the adults treat them like idiots who can't figure out a VPN. it will help them think of bans on information as a legit policy option. it will interfere with the fundamental rights of adults. and... www.ft.com/content/e3b7...

Longer days, lighter schedules, and finally time to revisit that draft sitting in your folder. This summer, turn your scholarship into a submission for AJIL. Submit your article → www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

the spread of youth social media *bans* is a great example of politicians performing an act of regulation that not only is ineffective - it's hardly even 'friction' - but it's a disproportionate attack on the rights of kids that incidentally feeds into the censorship narrative of the right.

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

Free education is one of the most powerful tools to combat child labor. As we mark #WorldDayAgainstChildLabour, governments should back a new global education treaty that would guarantee free education for every child. My new piece in @passblue.bsky.social: passblue.com/2026/06/10/f...

“For the first time, the Foreign Secretary has also announced that the UK’s official guidance will explicitly advise businesses against economic and financial activity in illegal settlements.” Finally some implementation of ICJ decision — www.gov.uk/government/n...

I am so ashamed.

Sen. Merkley to Rubio: You have expressed that no one died as a result of the shutdown of USAID. It's estimated that over 500,000 children have died from that shutdown. I hope you ponder that as we strive to rebuild programs related to malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, HIV, nutrition, and Ebola.

Thank you @lawfare www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

"No country can guarantee safety if it lacks functioning asylum laws, honest courts, impartial officials and the will to protect people from detention, coercion, disappearance or onward removal," write James A. Goldston and Natasha Arnpriester.

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

“Westminster needs to wake up…” An important statement from the RHS today on the unfolding situation in UKHE.

UC Berkeley Law: new AI policy bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)."

The designation of one of the world’s most prominent human rights advocates was baseless and shocking; its great news that the decision has (for now at least) been rescinded. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

New dispatch is up on Substack. This is a time of reckoning. It is the only way I can make sense of the moment we are living through. To counter this we have to show up in our communities and take back the power that has slipped away from us for too long. open.substack.com/pub/groundtr...

I wrote on Monday about Pete Hegseth and Gen. Francis Donovan ramping up lawless boat strikes, which amount to extrajudicial killing. This week there have been 3 more strikes! Truly out of control. Awful that the US military is doing this and the world barely notices. wapo.st/4tOygA5

That there is no deep push back or outrage over this just speaks to how profoundly NI is othered in GB politics. There are no votes in it. There's only forget and move on. share.google/PbXA5GOlxyQO...

So excited that Brokering Safety is finally out in the California Law Review! It was such a joy to write this piece with Thomas and Sam, however disturbing the underlying phenomenon we tackle: the abuse enabled by data brokers and the need for a centralized system to empower victims to opt out.

Deeply honored to begin this service alongside @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social, at start of @ajil.bsky.social EIC-ship of @harlangcohen.bsky.social & Neha Jain

Can updated interpretations of IHL close its longstanding gendered gaps? A new analysis examines how the revised Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention addresses – and is constrained by – its gendered foundations. Read more → lnkd.in/eTYytf57 #IHL #GenderJustice

📢 The Inter‑American Court of Human Rights: States, esp. exporting ones, have binding human rights & international obligations to prevent the diversion of firearms into illicit markets, to supervise corporate actors, & to ensure victims have access to justice: ejiltalk.org/the-inter-am...

Marco, thank you & congratulations! It was such a treat to launch your book alongside our co-panelists @olympiabekou.bsky.social, Marco Roscini & Bill Schabas, & many other #ICL colleagues. Bravo!

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stop by the @cambup-law.cambridge.org table at the #ASILAM to pick up a copy of the fantastic Book Reviews special issue of AJIL and some CUP swag!!