The Knesset just passed a law mandating "Death Penalty for Terrorists", that will effectively apply only to Palestinians.

"A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal." www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Impossible Conditions of Life: Famine, Humanitarian Management, and Genocide in Gaza muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

featuring a very interesting paper on the politics of food relief and Kurdish self-determination muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Humanity's new issue is out muse.jhu.edu/issue/56620

Terrific book - congratulations!

All of the contributions reflecting on the ICRC Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention are now available - check the link for the entire collection below. www.justsecurity.org/131639/sympo...

very interesting global history of Japanese internment by the Allies during WWII muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

Medical Lawfare: The Nakba and Israel’s Attacks on Palestinian Healthcare www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"War with Iran is a long-held ambition of Netanyahu’s, but Gaza is where he and his generals designed the playbook that is now being followed in that war." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Pope Leo has said that aerial bombardments should be banned www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Ten years ago (in 2014), V-Dem assessed that 48% of the world’s population lived under autocratic rule, circa 3.5–3.6 billion people. That number has since grown to 72% — roughly 5.7–5.8 billion, or what was the entire population of the world in 1996.

The American Society for Legal History has announced a new prize for the best dissertation in global legal history (deadline: 1 June). legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/glob...

"Self-conscious nations, he urges, may want to think hard before they choose to acquire the not always effective apparatus of nation-states." www.ft.com/content/8666...

"The attack on Iran was meant to be a dazzling display of military supremacy. It has instead illuminated chinks in the US’s armour." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

excellent interview with @kevinjonheller.bsky.social www.middleeasteye.net/video/icc-wa...

fascinating article www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

"The defiance is remarkable for a regime that at the start of the war 11 days ago was seeking little more than its own survival." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Mamdani is coming to Oxford www.area-studies.ox.ac.uk/african-stud...

The rise of repatriation: Global South refugees and forerunners of the International Organization for Migration in the long 1970s www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"It is deeply unfortunate that, at a moment when we need ICC to deliver justice, it finds itself paralyzed by allegations against its chief prosecutor. Member states have a duty to move beyond this stalemate without further delay." foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/11/i...

Universal Jurisdiction over Genocide and the Making of Transnational Justice (1961–2025): Prosecutions and a Tiered Typology of Institutional Designs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Visible and Invisible: Socialist Medical Aid to Mozambique and Angola (open access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

coming out soon www.hurstpublishers.com/book/empire-...

When Soldiers Became Jurists: The Legal Origins of Indonesia’s Authoritarianism revdem.ceu.edu/2026/03/11/w...

Being Economical with the Truth: Dutch Public Claims and Hidden Agendas about Papuan Self-Determination and the Economic Exploitation of Netherlands New Guinea www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"This adds new urgency to the need for limits to the use of lethal autonomous weapons systems, or Laws. At least for now, a moratorium on their use seems in order, and a complete ban may eventually be necessary." www.ft.com/content/5d29...

4-year PhD opportunity at Bergen! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

yes fully agree ecfr.eu/article/war-...

Het internationaal recht wordt verdrongen door pure machtspolitiek. Europa moet zich daarbij niet neerleggen, zegt hoogleraar @jannenijman.bsky.social in @volkskrant.nl. 'Als je het internationaal recht loslaat, kom je op een doodlopende weg.' @acil-uva.bsky.social @tmcasser.bsky.social

Analyzing @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social’s report on attacks on food systems around El Fasher early in the siege, @oonahathaway.bsky.social & I find “compelling evidence relevant to … war crimes, crimes against humanity, & genocide” medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo... www.justsecurity.org/131508/repor...

You can see why Russia sees an opportunity to settle scores. "Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Excellent analysis of the conflict causing the world’s most extensive humanitarian disaster right now: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

new article "Dual use as a political technology of contemporary military violence" - by Craig Jones, Ichamati Mousamputri, and Mark Griffiths www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bound by History: How Antecedents Shaped the League of Nations Institutional Design academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

Gaza: Trapped by the International Order - by Faisal Devji humanityjournal.org/blog/gaza-tr...

this looks great www.jtl.columbia.edu/volume-64/th...

Croatia becomes mine-free after 30 years, meeting Ottawa Convention commitment www.croatiaweek.com/croatia-mine...

great opportunity for a fully-funded PhD - on the history of the social sciences, demography, and nutritional sciences of blockades werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

"international organizations that overrepresent white-majority countries at inception tend to disproportionately expand membership to other white-majority countries." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A reassessment of Quentin Skinner's classic paper on its 50th anniversary, drawn from a @britishacademy.bsky.social conference - Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond, edited by @adrianblau.bsky.social & open access at www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

looks terrific - warm congrats @briandrohan.bsky.social & @drmargottudor.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

great essay www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"The Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) project responds to the growing risk of loss affecting digital archives, records, and datasets related to humanitarian response and global health." research.manchester.ac.uk/en/projects/...

The Many Usages of “Nuremberg”: On the Aftermath of the International Military Tribunal and Subsequent Trials www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

After Nuremberg: The Trial of Alexander Löhr and the Boundaries of Civilian Protection www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

fully agree www.justsecurity.org/131513/comme...

Hegseth: "Israel has clear missions as well for which we are grateful. Capable partners are good partners, unlike so many of our traditional allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force ... no stupid rules of engagement."

looks fascinating - coming out this month press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...