ICC warrant out for Senator Bato according to Sec Remulla. Bato can now get his Christmas wish of joining Rody at The Hague

Just published in the @phillawjournal.bsky.social

I hesitated posting this, but maybe it’s time to share so it serves its original purpose: an internal accounting, to bookend this part of my life. Not Another Drug War Essay but also, yes another drug war essay. One that does not aspire to do grand things at all. open.substack.com/pub/rosselle...

A Quezon (2025) review by way of three book titles: - The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State (Leia Castañeda Anastacio) - Massacre in the Clouds (Kim Wagner) - Everything is Tuberculosis (John Green) Screening in some HOYTS cinemas!!

Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Perceiving Time and Hope in International Law Through Hadestown opiniojuris.org/2025/10/31/f...

Weekend reading, for your consideration: a piece I wrote that’s included in the 5th Annual Pop Culture and International Law Symposium of @opiniojuris.bsky.social. opiniojuris.org/2025/10/31/f...

We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so... What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?

Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

In the Philippines, we mostly call aunts “tita” and this includes even your parent’s friends. Anyway this is Filipina drag artist Tita Baby. She is your tita now.

I made the cut in this year’s @opiniojuris.bsky.social Pop Culture and IL symposium. My piece comes out on Friday. opiniojuris.org/2025/10/27/f...

Two water-hungry abominations we ought to despise: AI data centers and golf courses. I will not explain

Gonna watch Quezon on Friday so I can join the Discourse

Exactly one angry netizen complaining about the 1935 Constitution in the comments section of a review of “Quezon” (in Mr Avanceña’s wall no less). Legal transfers bleeding out into Facebook thanks to Jerrold Tarog’s film, I guess??

Someone has to write how increasingly corny the Philippine Bar Exams have become. The 2026 Bar chair’s special letter to examinees took it up a notch by sounding like an Alpha Male motivational script.

Spring is shaping to be me versus wattle and my inner saboteur.

Nothing like a rawdogged 6km afternoon walk under the sun to make me realise a key concept I overlooked in my project. I call this the idiot walk

Encountering truly devastating grief four months into the PhD—TWICE—not in my bingo card but it is life, which must go on, and the best way to honor the people I lost is to just believe in me and make the distance make sense

One of the few times I will invoke that Filipino nationalist card is to defend our pop girlie Olivia Rodrigo. I have claws out.

The IIMM has released a report on the destruction of #Rohingya property in #Myanmar, positioning this as #genocide. I spoke to @janethanderson.bsky.social, who covered the report. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150350-my...

This is probably the biggest PH corruption scandal I have seen in recent memory. This is just one district, one province. They build poor infra on purpose to rake in BILLIONS. Meanwhile, it is so common now for Pinoys to die and lose homes in floods. www.rappler.com/philippines/...

Starting Duterte’s presidential campaign to the present, ‘DDS’ has earned a certain currency. To be a ‘proud DDS’ is to signal loyalty to the President and his violent vision. Now ‘DDS’ appears in the charges to refer to the perp group. It’s only apt. After all, DDS is really ‘Davao Death Squad.’

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

The outrage in Manila shouldn’t come as a surprise when state violence has always been an everyday reality. Photos by Ezra Acayan.

In solidarity with the protests happening back home.

I am only 60% successful in making Filipino-style spaghetti without the Del Monte cheat code sauce.

The last time I had insomnia this bad was when I moved to Europe briefly for LLM. My indio tropical colonised brain is not wired for four seasons

#Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza, theUN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel said in a new report, urging all States to fulfil their legal obligations to end it. ➡️ bit.ly/4mjBAi2

my terrific phd student @rosselle.bsky.social wrote this excellent case note on CEDAW and the rights of Filipino women survivors of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery. Important case that highlights the responsibilities (and appalling behaviour) of home states journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Published in Intl J of Discrimination & the Law: I analyse CEDAW’s Views on the communications from Filipina survivors of Japan’s WWII sexual slavery. The Views show that PH’s continuing breaches highlight the lasting, gendered legacies of war. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

More than a century of just waiting for the national elite to fall, and I’m not holding my breath being used to disappointment in Philippine politics, but it would be extremely satisfying to have a revolutionary moment triggered by tacky internet content

I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...

Please I just want to see Lav Diaz’s Magellan (2025) 😭 one of the few times since getting here that I wish I was in Manila instead lol

Private contractors are destroying the moral fibre of the Philippines because their infantilized adult spawns want 20 sports cars and Patek watches and Instagrammable European vacations. The state is utterly captured. Robbery of public funds in the name of Labubus and Lululemon coordinates

A short reflection on my decade of working in the human rights sector and the daily anti-Arab racisms i had to navigate, kindly published by Feminist Legal Studies link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“People who are experts in the study of genocide can see this situation for what it is,” Melanie O’Brien, the organization’s president and a professor of international law at the University of Western Australia, told The Associated Press.

Me reading this rather divisive scholar: “Is he mad at Stalinism or is he just mad at Joma”

Philippines Reddit is having a field day exposing all the rich nepo babies of corrupt government officials and contractors. We definitely should return to our roots. Remember the time when we ousted a president through text message chains? Good times.

Outright acceptance, cool and unexpected. The International Journal of Discrimination and the Law will publish my note on the CEDAW Committee’s Views on the communication filed by remaining survivors of wartime sexual slavery in the Philippines. A positive outcome years after domestic remedy failed.

The moments where I find myself lacking confidence in public int’l law is solely attributable to the fact that my first PIL teacher is now a fugitive in The Hague whose latest viral meltdown is over a pork dish during a picnic of ‘Duterte diehard supporters’

Pinoy kids who grew up in the 80s-90s would get their soda in plastic bags made for making ice. Only now, the bag is my head and the soda is all the information I get from reading. It's all sloshing around my head. I try not to puncture it. This is my dumb thought allocation for the day

The good folks at TWAIL Review maintain a helpful list of readings on #internationallaw and #Palestine, which includes writings by—*checks notes*—actual Palestinian scholars twailr.com/internationa...

My beef with the justice is properly one-sided because I, too, got caught in the net of his Twitter blocking spree. #Footnote

lpeproject.org/blog/gone-fi... The LPE blog has gone on holiday, and I have now joined its editorial board. I am choosing to believe that this is a coincidence. PS. Pitch us all your international law and political economy work, we want to make the blog more internationally-facing.

I can finally use the law review/Bluebook jokes I have collected from Twitter now that the Philippine Supreme Court has (again) triggered a constitutional crisis out of bad source-pulling and footnoting

This is a problem w/ #genocide. States (& other entities) wait until people die before they call it. But genocide is a process that starts long before the dying. My book details this process & why we should focus on all the genocide crimes, not just 'killing'. www.routledge.com/From-Discrim...

The Philippines is the perfect case study why nepo babies should not be allowed to rule

Bongbong’s state of the nation address feed FREEZING mid broadcast is the true state of the nation

Cartoon villains, honestly. The wannabe poet in the Supreme Court who’s chronically online deserves all the flak.

I wonder if I’ll ever go back to Siargao as a tourist because apparently everything is too expensive, especially for locals. Settler-gentrifiers are of a certain nationality!