An important and wide-ranging interview with Nahed Samour on international law and Palestine, among other things on the role of law and narrative, on the relation between positivism and critique, and on transnational resistance: academic.oup.com/lril/advance...

I am happy that this finally out now—and we are now very close to the publication of the full special issue. Stay tuned!

a timely and important symposium at @voelkerrechtsblog.org : ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’ voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...

“Both B’Tselem and PHR said Israel’s western allies were enabling the genocidal campaign, and shared responsibility for suffering in Gaza. “It couldn’t happen without the support of the western world,” Novak said. “Any leader that is not doing whatever they can to stop it is part of this horror.””

@jtheilen.bsky.social und ich haben für @verfassungsblog.de das Ramstein-Urteil analysiert. Trotz der sehr hohen Hürden, die das Gericht für staatliche Schutzpflichten aufstellt, wird klar: Bei Waffenlieferungen an Israel muss eine solche Pflicht greifen.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency earlier this month. There's a LOT to be said about its content, but for now, I am sharing my first impressions in case you are interested 😎

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

How do we make sense of what's happening in Germany? "...there is active suppression of speech, but that the reason may not be law, but obedience or something beyond “law”." Stacy Douglas engages in a significant discussion here: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/08/i...

From economy of occupation to economy of genocide www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Nervous Conditions

‘I appreciate depreciation’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Trump is little more than a symptom of the forces that over decades have produced this gradual decline, though he may also prove to be the final nail in the coffin." www.bostonreview.net/articles/asl...

When we are all enemies of the state www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

Drawing a line under extreme wealth "the very idea of an extreme wealth line focuses public and political thinking and narratives around the question of how much is too much." www.openglobalrights.org/the-human-ri...

These are just lies. Iran didn’t actually leave the negotiating table. Israel simply bombed Iran and now the US has joined. And the UK just declared that it supports these bombings. It’s difficult to stress how dangerous this all is, and how reckless Starmer is

Following contributions by @cohelongo.bsky.social, @drqv.bsky.social, and @vanditak.bsky.social, the 4th piece in our special issue on Framing Europe in Human Rights, authored by Nurbanu Hayır, has just been published. Available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Another paper from our special issue on Frames of European human rights is out: “Seriously ill migrants in European human rights: Framing global inequalities” by @vanditak.bsky.social — absolute must-read on humanitarianism, responsibility & structural inequality www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If I were teaching a course on authoritarianism, I would ask students for an essay comparing Harvard with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. So different, on the one hand, and comparable, on the other.

"For the last thirty years there has been almost no new scholarship on the Peasants’ War. After reunification the subject was simply too difficult, because the former East and the former West had diametrically opposed interpretations of it." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Join us for the conference "Utopian Imagination and Dystopian Practices: Future in the Past / Past in the Future" June 6-7, 2025 @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI "We need the energy in all forms, renewable, non-renewable, whatever." futurism.com/google-ceo-c...

Scary... www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

CCRD Konuşmaları Ali Yalçın Göymen'le Mayıs 20 Salı günü devam ediyor. Berlin'deyseniz bekleriz. @goymenyalcin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @irgac-rls.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social

I fell asleep reading #Arboreality by R. Campbell, a collection of stories about ecological collapse. In the morning, instead of news on degrowth, I find myself scrolling through headline after headline about expanding military collaborations and massive tech investments. Which one is the fiction?

I have just heard of the passing of Françoise Hampson. Rest in peace, Françoise Hampson. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...

This week, we had one and only @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social in my Human Rights & Global Governance class. Lys shared valuable insights into the role of special sapporteurs within the UN system, the mandate of the SP on the Right to Food, and the recent report on starvation. @hertiecfr.bsky.social

📄 New article: Colonialism continues to shape the project of European human rights. In this article I trace the continuity of civilizational hierarchies in the ECtHR’s case-law on extraterritoriality and European consensus Available in EJIL @ejiltalk.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

Nazan, Unufak'ı Fındık, Azad, Maro ve Anna'yı anlamaya çalışarak anlatmış. ’Bu dört kadın da anlatıyı kuran, hafızayı taşıyan, hikâyelerinden güç alan karakterler. Romanın gerçek kalbi onlarda atıyor. Belki bu yüzden, Unufak aynı zamanda bir erkeklik eleştirisi.' www.sanatatak.com/o-zaman-cadi...

On European human rights, frames, and critique. @jtheilen.bsky.social and I had a very insightful conversation with Daniela Rau from Völkerrechtsblog about studying European human rights, authoritarianism, climate change, and migration through the lenses of critique and framing.

The rise of end times fascism by Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Some wounds, time never heals. #24April1915 Take some time today to read Antaram's Journey by my dear friend, Nazan Maksudyan: www.academia.edu/45188161/_An...

Or politicians with weapons using force to aid in the resolution of 'political problems'? How nice it would be to read more on this from Graeber, if he would see a distinction between what is administrative and political in the uses of the police.

Günlerdir ne zaman Sırrı Süreyya Önder'i düşünsem, hafızama kazınmış bir yazısını hatırlıyorum: "Kazandılar. Ülke, güvercin kasaplarının darbesine teslim oldu. Çöpçüler, kuşlarla beraber insan ölüleri toplamaya başladı." Yazının tamamını şurada buldum: kedikoprusu1.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/s...

Istanbul last night. Protesters saving another protester from being detained. 📸: @emreorman.bsky.social

“If I die, I want a loud death,” ... “I don’t want to be just breaking news, or a number in a group, I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Next up! Not one but two #AFAR researchers are joining our next Spring Colloquium session on 23 April! Hear from PI @profccostello.bsky.social and @francescapalmiotto.bsky.social on "Theories of Procedural Fairness and their Implications for Automation." Register here: https://tinyurl.com/48etxh95

"Yeni gelenlere yapılan şakaları burada anlatıp 'spoiler' vermeyeceğim. Memlekette yaşadığı topluma ve dünyaya sorumluluk hisseden herkesin yolu cezaevlerinden geçtiği için, yaşayarak öğrenme deneyimini elinizden almak istemem." kaosgl.org/haber/yildiz...

A very insightful essan: "The world is thus entering a new era in which the rich countries will follow an unusual two-pronged policy. Having jettisoned neoliberal globalization, they’ll now press ahead even more firmly with a project of domestic neoliberalism." jacobin.com/2025/03/what...

"Gordon calls this ‘a white response’: it is a response typical of those who had the privilege of being surrounded by scholarship that is not offensive to their being. ... www.diggitmagazine.com/column/racis...

‘They’re using it now against the white people,’ O’Brien told me; ‘the Arab and Muslim communities have been getting it ten times worse.’ I wrote about the four Berlin activists set to be deported for Palestine activism, and Germany's descent into lawlessness in the name of its Staatsräson.

Last week, Wiebke Judith of @proasyl.de joined our Human Rights & Global Governance class to discuss asylum politics today. It was an eye-opening session on the challenges facing asylum work and how the far right and conservatives have advanced anti-migrant agendas. @hertiecfr.bsky.social

We've got the numbers. #HandsOff

Fresh from @jtheilen.bsky.social: Framing Migration in Human Rights on how the ECtHR frames border control measures and legitimizes border regimes. Open-access read! #FramesProject @hertiecfr.bsky.social

What is happening in Turkey goes well beyond the detention of Istanbul's mayor and his team on bogus charges. People are resisting the enrenchment of fascism. There are calls for a general strike and an academic boycott.

whether you like AOC or not, that's a fucking bar bsky.app/profile/acyn...

University campuses across Turkey have (again) become a major site of protest. Demonstrations today from Istanbul and Ankara to Bursa, Antalya, Trabzon, Mersin. İmamoğlu’s diploma annulment and detention were the catalyst, but are far from the only grievance. www.gazetepencere.com/siyaset/univ...