I’ve had a spirited chat with @iaindale.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk regarding the legality of the use of force against Iran.

With a number of colleagues from across Europe we submitted a brief as amici to the US Supreme Court in Exxon Mobil v CIMEX.

With Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social we gave oral evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on the use of force in Venezuela.

Join us for the first lecture of the new term: 1 pm Fri 23 January 2026: 'Marxist Insights for International Law' with Prof Antonios Tzanakopoulos. Sandwich lunch from 12.30 pm. All welcome to attend. Further information: www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events...

This week I gave a course at The Hague Academy of International Law on International Law and Domestic Courts: Quantum Uncertainty. Many thanks to the Curatorium and staff of the Academy, the wonderful students, and the lovely interpreters and technicians.

I’ve been a low-key fan of this pod since it started - I particularly enjoy the “what everyone gets wrong about…” sub-series. Deliciously irreverent and appropriately highbrow. But for this one I have to thank the co-hosts for the shout-out. Perhaps I need to write about 2803.

Thanks to the Codification Division for inviting me to teach on the UN Regional Course in International Law for Asia and the Pacific - I had a great time debating international law issues with enthusiastic colleagues from the region. Special thanks to Carla Hoe & to Judith Violago.

I spoke on Populism and international law at the Margalla Dialogue in Islamabad. Many thanks to all the participants and colleagues at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute, for the hospitality and spirited exchanges. Until next time!

Oxford Law academics Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos and Dr Miles Jackson have acted as counsel for Malaysia and Namibia respectively in recent proceedings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague 🏛️ Read more about their contributions👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

I gave a talk on the UN and its sanctioning power at the International Symposium on the 80th anniversary of the United Nations in Shenzhen. Thanks to the wonderful colleagues at the Institute of International Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for the kind invitation.

With some excellent colleagues we represented the Republic of Equatorial Guinea before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in the M/T Heroic Idun (No 2) case. A great team.

A wonderful - if unorthodox (pun intended) - start to the academic year: a seminar on reservations to treaties for the LLM of the University of Athens, on the margins of a long hearing at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Thanks to all for the enjoyable seminar.

With Johanna Lorenzo and Christian Walter, we shared our impressions at the concluding roundtable of the @esil-sedi.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference in Berlin on Reconstructing Int’l Law. Chaired by Vasilka Sancin. Many thanks to Helmut Aust and Heike Krieger of @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

Our Issue Paper with Efthymios Papastavridis for UNODC on Surveillance and Enforcement of High Seas Marine Protected Areas has been published and will be presented at UNHQ in NYC on 27 Aug.

UNODC Expert Group Meeting: our issue paper with Efthymios Papastavridis on Surveillance and Enforcement in High Seas MPAs is still in draft as we incorporate comments from the experts.

Thank you, IDS class of 2024-25. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did - and sorry we got rained on just when y’all wanted to take a picture.

We’re now mid-way through Trinity Term! 🌞 Today, we had the fantastic opportunity to hear from Prof @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social on ‘International Law and Domestic Courts: Quantum Uncertainty’.

I wrote commentaries on Articles 21 (self-defence) and 50 (obligations not affected by countermeasures) for the Commentary on the Articles of State Responsibility edited by Patrícia Galvão Teles and Pierre Bodeau-Livinec.

Together with some excellent colleagues, I will deliver a special course on international law and domestic courts at The Hague Academy of International Law in January 2026.

Happy Week 2 everyone! In today’s PIL seminar, Tsvetelina van Benthem shared interesting aspects of her research on ‘International Law Protections against Indoctrination’.

Team Malaysia 🇲🇾 at the ICJ for the Advisory Opinion on the presence and activities of the UN and others in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

I spoke to Matt Frei on LBC Radio on the sanctions imposed by the Trump Administration against the International Criminal Court.

Λονδίνο σήμερα. #Δεν_Έχω_Οξυγόνο

From our discussion with Brad Roth, moderated by Maria Varaki, and hosted by Yuval Shany at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London on ‘Marx in Our Times - and Legal Order’. Papers below.

Today 17:45 at CTLS London with Brad Roth, Maria Varaki, Yuval Shany.

I spoke to ‘The Day’ on the Deutsche Welle regarding the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant (and Deif).

United Nations (Human Rights Special Procedures) - International Conference on Sanctions, Business and Human Rights 🇺🇳🇨🇭

United Nations Regional Course in International Law for Asia and the Pacific 🇺🇳🇹🇭