ICC bureau votes to pursue misconduct case against Karim Khan - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-governing-bureau-votes-pursue-karim-khan-misconduct-case

Very kind of @tmgneff.bsky.social to quote me in this interesting @nytimes.com article on the US housing American soldiers in civilian hotels and offices throughout the Middle East. Tl;dr -- probably a violation of IHL, definitely a terrible idea. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u...

That international law is "real" law.

Thoughts on the Panel report by @sevslv and Judge Cuno Tarfusser, formerly of the #ICC.

ICC states should not ignore judicial experts’ conclusions in Khan’s case. Doing so would damage State Parties’ own credibility and that of the ICC system. Former ICC Judge Tarfusser's and my opinion piece for @ajenglish.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Another report on the investigation. Striking pre-report comment by FIDH and WIJG.

Statement by the African Bar Association. afribar.org/african-bar-...

Le Monde: 'Majority' of ICC bureau members support Karim Khan exoneration report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/le-monde-majority-icc-bureau-members-support-karim-khan-exoneration

Le sort du procureur de la CPI, Karim Khan, reste incertain au sein de l’institution malgré l’enquête qui le blanchit

Drop a movie that traumatized you as a kid.

Exclusive: 'Handful' of ICC states aim to sabotage report that cleared Karim Khan - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iccs-risks-politicisation-states-seek-sideline-karim-khan-judges-report

I have a long post @opiniojuris.bsky.social today about the standard of proof that applies in #ICC disciplinary proceedings. The answer is clear and unequivocal: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. opiniojuris.org/2026/03/23/t...

Exclusive: Judges clear ICC’s Karim Khan over sexual misconduct claims - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/judges-clear-icc-prosecutor-karim-khan-sexual-misconduct

Yep, can't imagine why the Non-Aligned Movement routinely insists no form of anticipatory self-defence is lawful.

Denmark is willing to defend its sovereign territory against any aggressor - including, potentially, the US. This is the conclusion of an excellent piece by Danish national broadcaster DR on the active defence set up by 🇩🇰Denmark to defend 🇬🇱Greenland against a US military operation. 1/4

Thanks to @sondosasem.bsky.social and @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social for the interview -- the longest I've ever given. In my academic capacity, I try to explain the history of the #Palestine investigation and the process leading to the issuance of arrest warrants for Hamas and Israeli officials.

Devastating, in-depth indictment of Witkoff's handling of the Iran negotiations: "Witkoff did not have sufficient technical expertise or diplomatic experience to engage in effective diplomacy." www.armscontrol.org/blog/2026-03...

Those sympathetic to the idea that international law is meaningless might ask themselves why, if that is the case, the architects of the US's wars of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity are so committed to getting rid of military lawyers. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

You thought the #Republican party of yesteryear was racist and antisemitic? You ain't seen nothing yet.

Brilliant from @familyguyonfox.bsky.social -- a fake Dupont ad from the Vietnam War era.

Professor Pål Wrange is presented with surprise liber amicorum with 33 chapters on "Reconstructing Power and Hegemony in Public International Law". Authors include Koskenniemi, Orford, Kjeldgaard-Petersen and Okowa. Book freely available online (open access). link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Impressive how many people can build a social-media following by helping students use AI to avoid thinking and to commit plagiarism, thereby ensuring that they will never become actual Stanford PhD students.

The endless procession of blog posts arguing that international law must adapt to the US's desire to launch wars of aggression is very depressing.

When Watkin talks about the need for the jus ad bellum to reflect what "States" want, he isn't talking about the 140+ States in the Global South. The only States that count for him and scholars like Shany, Cohen, Ku are Western ones -- and even more specifically, the ones that routinely use force.

Brilliant. I would add, though, that US strikes in Syria are not the exception that proves the rule. They were motivated not by humanitarian concerns for Syrian civilians, but by the fear that chemical weapons would fall into the hands of actors that might use them against Americans.

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Whatever Thomas Weiss says about ICISS, nothing in R2P permits the use of force without Security Council approval. That is crystal clear from the High Level Panel report, the UNSG report, and the World Summit Outcome Document. Here's the UN page. www.un.org/en/genocide-....

The Xavier Collins character in Paradise S02E04 was reading Mary Shelley's "The Last Man" -- Shelly's best book. (Yes, I will die on that hill.) A perfect choice given the nature of the show.

What AI skills need to be developed exactly? How to copy and paste a question prompt? How to write a more precise command or inquiry? How to better disguise and humanize the resulting AI essay? These are hardly "critical" skills. And none of this is "education."

It's true that some war crimes under customary international law (and a couple in the Rome Statute) require only recklessness/dolus eventualis. But an honest mistake negates any mens rea that requires conscious awareness, as both do.

🚨Just published with @cspjournal.bsky.social: A Civilisational Imaginary of Western Military Technology I look at how narratives of “civilisation” and “The West” distort thinking around the design, regulation, and use of military technology, including military AI www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Amazing public service. The journalist has an MSc in International Human Rights Law from Oxford. It shows.

John Sayles once said a director who doesn't edit their own films isn't a director. The corollary is that a scholar who doesn't create their own outlines isn't a scholar. Outlining with #AI isn't scholarship.

Wtaf. This is an actual sentence in an actual book. The 2nd edition of Natural Law and Natural Rights published in *2011* I knew Finnis was an un reconstructed arsehat, but ...

This @theverge.com series looks amazing. Particularly interested in "For Scale," about the use of high-explosive munitions -- an amount in South Vietnam described by one scholar as "equivalent to dropping one Hiroshima-sized atomic bomb... every five days throughout the seven year period.”

For outsiders -- which includes me -- I asked Gemini to create a chart of where the parties fall on the political spectrum. Seems accurate, though Danish friends please weigh in! It's great to see the environmentalist Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF/F) in second place and growing.

Nearly every day I wake up and think how lucky I am to live in a society that, though hardly without its problems, is generally healthy and well-functioning. ❤️🇩🇰

Together with some stellar colleagues I reflect on the implications of this very public dispute between Anthropic and the DoD about ethical red lines. Read it here on @opiniojuris.bsky.social ttps://opiniojuris.org/2026/02/26/the-pentagon-anthropic-clash-over-military-ai-guardrails/

A hidden benefit of being an arrogant academic: believing that you will always write better than an AI.

Indomitable, indefatigable, and inestimable.

Today's major accomplishment. (Anyone who points out the flags are not perfectly straight will be immediately blocked. It's already going to torture me forever.)

This one hits hard.

I have posted a new background paper on hypersonic weapons and international law @opiniojuris.bsky.social. Comments and criticisms welcome! opiniojuris.org/2026/02/20/n...

Please read the very important new post @opiniojuris.bsky.social by Fadel Abdulghany and @kenroth.bsky.social about post-Assad #Syria. opiniojuris.org/2026/02/20/a...

Wait, haven't all the AI mega-corporations been telling us that they absolutely, positively have to steal our intellectual property or the entire industry will collapse like a flan in the cupboard? (To appropriate the great Eddie Izzard.)

This is a great review of a terrible book. I admire SDR's ability to read it all; I stopped after a couple of chapters. It's too bad Gladwell didn't spend 10,000 hours researching his subject; maybe then he wouldn't have produced a parody of serious scholarship.

This @houseagdems.bsky.social announcement is ironic, given that two days ago #Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, agreed to pay a plaintiff class $7.25 billion for failing to warn consumers that the #glyphosate in the herbicide #Roundup was linked to cancer. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Britons living in EU face repayment hikes amid Reeves student loans row. Choice - Stay in the UK, be unemployed, claim dole OR go and work in EU, make higher loan repayments How many would sever links with the UK? Most European countries do not charge University tuition fees UK system is a mess.

"It really has to sting for Bari. The person she wanted for the Evening News anchor chair is choosing to leave CBS altogether because of her," one CBS News staffer told me tonight. "This is 'fuck you' to Bari."

TFW the computer program you are using shows an animated rolodex while loading pages and you have to explain to everyone else in the room what a rolodex is. 😢