new special issue on second world approaches to international law, edited by Patryk Labuda and Marek Wasiński brill.com/view/journal...

worrying, but also telling, how much fear the ICC continues to instill in the hegemon - "during his summit with Xi, Trump suggested that the US, China and Russia should join forces to combat the ICC, saying their interests were aligned." www.ft.com/content/567c...

The Rise of International Environmental Law, 1946–1993: Narrow Limits and Extensive Tasks - by Outi Penttilä & Martti Koskenniemi academic.oup.com/ejil/article...

Sovereignty in translation: Western Sahara, international law, and translation as a decolonial strategy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Aiding peace or conflict? The impact of USAID cuts on violence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Switzerland to open secret files on Auschwitz 'Angel of Death' Mengele www.bbc.com/news/article...

"UK and US have claimed that [they're] waging ‘civilised war’ and they distinguished [themselves] from the indiscriminate violence they condemn in others. But two recent developments suggest that such a moral high-ground is no longer being so brazenly claimed." aoav.org.uk/2026/britain...

Encouraging Warsaw Pact intervention? North Vietnam and the 1968 Prague Spring in light of new archival evidence www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How a New Israeli Policy Cuts Off Humanitarian Aid in Gaza www.newyorker.com/science/medi...

(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History academic.oup.com/past/article...

The Political Economy of Liberation: The PLO and the NIEO www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

All eyes on the Philippine Senate today. Watching the news and yet to be confirmed whether Bato is even still inside the premises. The guy has been evading arrest re: ICC warrant of arrest www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Judge overturns US sanctions on UN official who called for war crimes prosecutions over Gaza By Josh Gerstein “Albanese has done nothing more than speak!” Judge Richard Leon wrote. @joshgerstein.bsky.social

came out last month beltz.de/kolonialismu...

OUT NOW! The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells is now available online academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 47 chapters on Wells and his worlds Hardcopy to follow in June

🚨New issue is out now! 🌍 Is there a future for the UN in the Middle East? 💻 Have technologies revolutionized maritime security? 👀 How does ignorance shape world orders? Read research on these topics and much more, along with 20 book reviews, in our May issue: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/102/3

A little over a month until our book launch in the centre of Bristol for our edited volume, Military Humanitarianism: Histories and Practices on 17th June @ 5.30pm. Join @briandrohan.bsky.social and me to celebrate the publication and all its contributors! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/military-h...

Localising Civil Wars: International Law, the Spanish Civil War, and the Institutionalisation of ‘Non-Intervention’ brill.com/view/journal...

Shell and the Creation of International Investment Law, 1957–1968 academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

The Ministry of Defence has no system for examining whether UK military action has killed or injured civilians in war www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

timely interview with Andrew Clapham www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Peter Gatrell's latest piece - The ‘Refugee World’: A Twentieth-Century Retrospective www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"If history is any guide, we could be living through yet another historical cycle, during which dismay about lack of efficacy of, and widespread disregard for, IHL ultimately gives rise to reinvigorated efforts to innovate and strengthen its application." opiniojuris.org/2026/05/05/t...

very interesting opportunity - the Graduate Institute is offering 2 PhD scholarships for projects on the memory politics of NATO Enlargement in Europe. erecruit.graduateinstitute.ch/recrutement/...

CFP: Famine Studies Conference 2026 www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...

intriguing interview with Richard Overy about his career and his thought. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...

Al-Shabaab, Food Insecurity, Humanitarian Access and Protection of Civilians in Somalia beyond-compliance-consortium.org/al-shabaab-f...

CFP: Workshop The Political Afterlives of Sexual Violence Allegations: The ICC as Case Study drive.google.com/file/d/1z8Ci...

Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closes due to cuts www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

New handbook: International Law for Diplomats brill.com/edcollbook/t...

came out last week www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

All they will find is sand - Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It's so refreshing to read a book with a genuinely fresh and critical approach to the Vietnam War - strongly recommend Gina Marie Weaver's 'Ideologies of Forgetting - Rape in the Vietnam War', which hasn't received the attention it deserves. (h/t @susieprotschky.bsky.social)

The Unmixing of Populations in Wartime Algeria, 1954–1962 academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Archives and Algorithms: The Plancondor.org Experience and the Human Rights Potential of New Technologies academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...

“With Mr Trump in office, there is no better time to ask: whose security are we funding – Britain’s or America’s?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is warning a protracted dispute in the Strait of Hormuz could cause a food crisis around the world. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

US blockade on Iran to hit food supplies www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

👏 www.standaard.be/media-en-cul...

came out last week academic.oup.com/book/62562

🎯 www.bostonmagazine.com/education/20...

The Man Who Shaped Washington’s View of the Middle East foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/09/b...

"Synonymous with European empire (...) permanent security is sovereignty's conceit that reserves right to “shock conscience of mankind” in name of self-preservation. Whether “genocide” serves/contests this conceit is the question." journals.sagepub.com/eprint/GRB3N...

just accepted a senior fellowship at the RefLex Centre at Humboldt - very much looking forward to being there next year. reflex.hu-berlin.de

came out this month academic.oup.com/book/62553

Gaza, Ukraine, and the Lessons of the Nazi Past read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...

Ben Roberts-Smith has been arrested in relation to multiple counts of murdering unarmed Afghan civilians and prisoners in what looms as the most significant war crimes prosecution in Australian history. www.smh.com.au/national/ben...

the new Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law just came out link.springer.com/book/10.1007...