📚#ISLJ Vol. 25(4) is out. Part I of the Special Issue on empowering athletes’ human rights, covering social protection, data protection, women’s health, religious freedom in sport and access to justice before CAS. 🔗 Read the issue: lnkd.in/eZqTBT_A #SportsLaw @fbakkerfrank.bsky.social

📢 Call for papers – Early career workshop on arms control and rearmament: Contradiction or synergy. The workshop focuses on tensions between arms control & rearmament from political, legal, & technological perspectives. Present your research & receive feedback from experts & peers. lnkd.in/euDYMR88

📰 Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTF) Knowledge Hub has been updated with recent developments in Syria/Iraq and states' responses, including: - Indonesia's repatriation efforts - Kosovo & India prosecutions - Germany's rehabilitation/reintegration measures - New data on active FTFs 👉 lnkd.in/eEVKHXtY

❓A recent blogpost from Jonathan Kwik and Adriaan Wiese theorises that defensive AI agents could independently teach themselves to abuse protected symbols like the Red Cross to trick enemies into aborting attacks. ➡️ lnkd.in/dKxhfdFS #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #AIregulation #CyberSecurity

Edited by Eva Kassoti, Teresa M. Cabrita & Narin Idriz; the book offers the first critical, legal account of the EU as a Regional International Organization (RIO). Explore how viewing the EU as a RIO provides perspectives on its legal identity, functioning, & international impact. lnkd.in/euZb43gd

"The bottom line: there is no legal basis for targeting the drugs, the boats carrying them, or the people on board. That is true under the law that applies (international human rights law) and under the law that does not apply (the law of armed conflict)."

⏰ Last call 📢 Join us for a conference that explores and critically reflects on this shifting institutional landscape in EU external relations. lnkd.in/eWjNJxnX

@tmcasser.bsky.social grateful for the opportunity to present at #OPCW on dual-use challenges

The Research Handbook on Global Governance is now out in the world! Edited with @aoifemod.bsky.social and Cher Weixia Chen this Handbook is 10yrs in the making!

Not acceptable.

When does exercising EU rights become an abuse of law? ⚖️ A new book from Asser Press / Springer by Luca Pantaleo is a must-read on the principle of abuse of law in the EU and its role in ensuring consistency, justice, and fairness. 📘 Order now: lnkd.in/ehjr6vPS #EULaw @fbakkerfrank.bsky.social

The F-35 case: Who holds the final say in arms exports? Join us for a roundtable to discuss the implications arising from the Dutch Supreme Court’s judgment. 21 November @machikokanetake.bsky.social, @tmcasser.bsky.social, @uvalawschool.bsky.social acil.uva.nl/content/even...

📢We’re looking for a researcher in private international law to join our team! If you are a motivated legal scholar with expertise in private international law, we would like to hear from you! 📅 Application deadline: 24 November 2025, 12:00 CET ➡️ Further details and application: lnkd.in/eD7SssN7

3. The report embraces the 'direct and foreseeable impact' standard for establishing extraterritorial jurisdiction—well ahead of the approach taken by, for example, the ECtHR. This standard could open new avenues for litigating extraterritorial human rights violations against migrants.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants has published a report on the externalisation of migration and its implications under international law. The report is highly critical of many current practices by states of the Global North and the EU as such. Points of note:

De rechter zegt: kabinet, beslis zelf - maar hou je aan de regels. En die zijn duidelijk: geen wapenexport bij mensenrechtenschendingen. Wat ons betreft kan het kabinet dus maar 1 conclusie trekken: geen export F-35-onderdelen naar Israël terwijl genocide in Gaza plaatsvindt. #RodeLijn

The core point of the judgment is that the Dutch Supreme Court left this legally clear issue to the counterbalancing policy decisions. The reasoning was disappointing, yet I still hope that the government finds "clear risk" (and no further balancing exercise).

This is disappointing, to say the least. Legally speaking, if there is a clear risk, EU member states cannot export relevant arms, and full stop. I do not think that other international agreements are meant to be counterbalabcing the decisions arising from this risk. www.hogeraad.nl/actueel/nieu...

since early 2025 I have set up a monthly donation to Wikipedia (one of humanity’s greatest achievements) and you should too. AI is (partly) a reaction against the extraordinary democratic promise that is Wikipedia.

Wonderful roundtable ‘ReArming Europe and the future of international and European law’ @tmcasser.bsky.social welcoming @machikokanetake.bsky.social as our new Academic Director! www.asser.nl/education-ev... @lijnzaad.bsky.social @clingendael.bsky.social @leoncastjan.bsky.social @paxvoorvrede.nl

My old research group at UvA is hiring an assistant professor to replace me. Do get in touch if you want to know what a fabulous place it is to work. And female colleagues, I especially encourage you to apply!

If you're in Copenhagen October 10, come see Andrew Cayley KC, who ran the Palestine investigation at the #ICC, give a Centre for Military Studies talk entitled "The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View." 15:00 at the Law Faculty. Register: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/the-f...

As Europe increases its defence production, how should law respond? Join us for a roundtable on 30 September that examines the role and direction of international & EU law in regulating governmental and corporate decisions in the development, export & use of weapons. ➡️ www.asser.nl/education-ev...

Ursula von der Leyen calls for suspension of EU trade with Israel

Heading to Berlin for the ESIL @esil-sedi.bsky.social Annual Conference via an early morning 🚉. Looking forward to meeting new people & catching up with friends!

Back to work with the news that the book "Justice for Atrocities: Dialogues and Encounters between Latin America and Europe" that I edited with J.P. Perez-Leon-Acevedo is available for preorder, out 30 September! www.routledge.com/Justice-for-...

"This echoes the darkest chapter of the 1990s when the council was rebuked for its failures during the genocides in Rwanda and Srebrenica." "Today, the same question will be asked of us in our failure to act." Remarkable speech. webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1r...

🎉 Speakers @machikokanetake.bsky.social and Anh Nguyen are confirmed for the colloquium on the emerging law and practice of knowledge security in quantum innovation. ➡️ Learn more and enrol: lnkd.in/eNjmDQnN #QuantumInnovation #KnowledgeSecurity #InternationalLaw

"Trump officials asked for an end to Harvard’s partnership with Birzeit University, a top Palestinian college in the West Bank. Harvard said it had suspended the relationship and had struck up new ones with institutions in Israel."

Crowd out for Palestine in Meanjin.

In its justification for the rejection, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs fails to mention of the use of the profiling algorithm and doesn’t provide an assessment of its impact on human rights. The court hereby mandates a Fundamental Rights Impacts Assessment. 3/

💥 Important interim judgement by a Dutch national court concerning the right to an effective remedy and the right to non-discrimination when using a profiling algorithm for the allocation of short stay visa (Ministry of FA) 🧵1/

This is excellent, high-level stuff, bringing expert analysis (and a bit of academic infighting) to a general audience. Check out MEE's Expert Witness series on YouTube if you haven't already.

Legal Tribune Online (@lto-de.bsky.social) asked eleven scholars whether Israel's actions in #Gaza now meet the legal definition of genocide. I am quoted alongside @adhaque.bsky.social, @janinadill.bsky.social, @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social, @itamann.bsky.social and others. www.lto.de/recht/hinter...

My years reporting on Gaza broke me down. Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged? | Phoebe Greenwood

Is Genocide Happening in Gaza? opiniojuris.org/2025/08/04/i...

Join the Adv. Summer Programme 'Terrorism, counter-terrorism and the rule of law' on 25-29 August. Lectures by leading experts, in-person study visits to Europol and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and a keynote by Ben Saul from the UN. bit.ly/4lpIp1m @tmcasser.bsky.social

One of the necessary steps to be taken immediately, as the UN experts urged: "to impose a full arms embargo on Israel" due to violations, "suspend trade and investment agreements that may result in harming the Palestinians" and "hold corporate entities accountable." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

"For approximately 78 days, nothing entered Gaza. No food, no water, no medicine, nothing." UN Food Rapporteur Michael Fakhri speaks to @krishgm.bsky.social about Israel's "starvation campaign" and occupation of Gaza. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/israel-...

"We cannot wait until it’s time to count the graves of the children who have perished, declare it a famine — or indeed, a genocide — and say, simply, “Never again.” — Alex de Waal www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/o...

"Belgium’s federal prosecutor referred a 92-year-old former diplomat, Étienne Davignon, to the Brussels criminal court over alleged war crimes related to the killings." Belgium marks Congo’s slain leader Lumumba's 100th birthday w exhibition – & possible trial: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Israel will not agree to a two-state solution so the UK may as well recognize Palestine now.

I live in Britain; I grew up in Israel. It’s painful to say, but we need real UK sanctions to save Gaza | Yair Wallach

UK must use economic and military leverages now instead of creating political time and space even further

Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation

Food-distribution points in Gaza have practically become death traps, @ibishblog.bsky.social argues. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation may not have intended to create these conditions, but it now perpetuates them without correction and with full awareness.

IDF now promising airdrops (pure theater, disaster waiting to happen) humanitarian corridors and pauses (can work but must be extensive and reliable) restoring electricity to desalination plant (overdue) Still insists "there is no starvation in Gaza" because they think we don't have eyes.