Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

I won't comment on the substance, but @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social has a new story about a recording of the Ugandan member of the ASP Bureau making prejudicial comments about the investigation of the Prosecutor. www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...

Today!

This Friday! Come.

This reminds me of when @kevinjonheller.bsky.social wrote about the Obama administration’s killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and it apparently (allegedly) changed its argument midstream in response to his blogpost on Opinion Juris

If you're in Copenhagen October 10, come see Andrew Cayley KC, who ran the Palestine investigation at the #ICC, give a Centre for Military Studies talk entitled "The Future of International Criminal Justice: An Insider’s View." 15:00 at the Law Faculty. Register: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/the-f...

I have finished the first draft of my new article, "A Stillborn Green Revolution: How Elite Activism During the Vietnam War Undermined Wartime Environmental Protection and Doomed the Crime of Ecocide." 33K words, 535 footnotes. Can't wait to share it!

*Now* it cares about federal statutes?

Typically excellent article from Charlie Savage. But I wish he had spent a bit more time on the international-law issues. The statement by Anna Kelly, the White House spokesperson, is remarkable for how much it manages to get wrong in a mere 42 words.

Wherein I further endear myself to the Trump administration by making clear that the attack on the Venezuelan drug-trafficking boat was a clear violation of international human rights law. (My thanks to @elizlanders.bsky.social for the interview.) video.snapstream.net/Play/1LL3E8j...

Fun fact: in 1972, "Apple Pie," a TV ad created by religious antiwar activists and Mad Men that decried US tax dollars being spent on “bombs instead of schools, defoliation instead of clean air and water, tanks instead of trains," won the Clio Award -- Madison Avenue's Oscar.

Art of the deal.

Apparently the US has now sanctioned both #ICC Deputy Prosecutors, Khan and Niang, as well as Judge Guillou of France and Judge Prost of Canada. sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov

Disturbing fact of the day: between 1965 and 1973, the US used nearly 31 billion pounds of munitions in Indochina, more than 7X the total amount used in WW II -- and equivalent to dropping one Hiroshima-sized atomic bomb on Indochina every five days for eight years, 600 in all.

I miss the good old days when rugged, square-jawed, non-woke white warriors led the US Armed Forces to glorious victory. Warriors like Gen. William Westmoreland in Vietnam.

Noted without comment.

Make sure to read my friend and colleague @lisadavisnyc.bsky.social's new article in @foreignpolicy.com, "The ICC’s Arrest Warrants Against Taliban Leaders Are Historic." (They certainly are!) #ICC foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/i...

No, it is not acceptable to "Use an AI chatbot as a writing partner to help generate and develop ideas." Not even with citation. No, it is not acceptable to "Write an essay/chapter. Ask AI to add additional points." Not even with citation. Did AI write @historians.org's guiding principles?

Noted without comment because I can't stop laughing long enough to say anything.

Donald Trump has fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in a rambling Truth Social post where he put his own name in quotation marks, raising new questions about Biden's mental fortitude.

The only voices Trump trusts are the ones he hears in his head.

This is another interesting article by @stephmaupas.bsky.social, one that covers much of the same ground as the @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social blockbuster. www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...

This is one of the coolest flyers ever. If you happen to be in Istanbul next week, come!

But how can you redact a name from a set of files when that name isn’t in that set of files when that set of files doesn’t exist even thought Obama, Clinton, and JFK created the files themselves?

A blockbuster report.

The difference between how Doug and I understand "casual Friday" provides unequivocal proof that the relationship between signifier and signified is arbitrary.

"The Americans" or "The Expanse," depending on your genre preferences.

My kid is out of the country. As I sit in my room eating Frosted Flakes out of the box, I realise that the biggest drawback to not wanting your kid to eat certain things is that you have to give those things up, too.

Great news that a judge in the SDNY has permanently enjoined, on 1A grounds, the Trump administration from applying IEEPA's civil or criminal penalties to Lisa Davis, an OTP Special Adviser, and Gabor Rona, a law professor who works closely with the #ICC. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

A short new post by me @opiniojuris.bsky.social on the latest national deviation from the definition of #ecocide promoted by @stopecocide.bsky.social. Thoughts welcome! opiniojuris.org/2025/07/29/p...

Pub quiz: which leading Cold War strategist wrote the quote below in response to the environmental devastation of the Vietnam War? Answer in the next tweet!

France's Court of Cassation has issued two decisions that deny functional immunity for international crimes but reaffirm personal immunity. The decision will no doubt disappoint many in the human-rights community, but as a matter of positive law it is spot on. www.courdecassation.fr/en/toutes-le...

That critical meeting between club and ball. (But, yeah, Trump is a terrible golfer, so there will indeed be many meetings.)

The story makes two key points deliberately elided by the dishonest WSJ and Dropsite News stories: (1) the decision to seek warrants for Netanyahu/Gallant was made *before* there were any misconduct allegations; and (2) there was *no* active investigation when the applications were actually filed.

It would be great if we could criticise Trump's dismantling of the State Department without conjuring some (imaginary) time when the US was a global force for good. History begs to differ.

Affirmative action is wrong only when it doesn't benefit right-wingers.

The article kindly quotes me -- but only my critical comments about how scholars have tried to aggressively (and in my view wrongly) interpret the 2010 aggression amendments. As I pointed out to the author, I firmly support harmonization and think Western opposition is unprincipled.

New @opiniojuris.bsky.social: my long analysis of the #STCoA Statute -- the good, the bad, the curious, and the terrible. Thoughts welcome! #Ukraine #Russia #Aggression opiniojuris.org/2025/07/11/t...

Just uploaded an updated version of this article that includes reference to recent events such as the Iran-Israel war and the India-Pakistan clashes. Download here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is sloppy reporting for @nytimes.com by Francesca Regalado. @franceskalbs.bsky.social is not "working with" the #ICC. She and it are separate and independent. Albanese has simply commented on the Court while carrying out her mandate, as is her right as Rapporteur. A correction is warranted.

I recently came across this remarkable -- and prescient -- @chathamhouse.org 2021 volume entitled "Myths and misconceptions in the debate on Russia." I can't recommend it highly enough if you haven't read it. www.chathamhouse.org/2021/05/myth...

Happy to see this great contribution by Katerina Borrelli -- by far the most brilliant student I have taught in my 22 years as an academic -- to @opiniojuris.bsky.social's current symposium on Marina Aksenova's new book, "Art, Aesthetics and International Justice." opiniojuris.org/2025/07/08/s...

Colonial crimes as crimes against humanity, arguing that the concept of crimes against humanity should not be read simply through the prism of the Holocaust. doi.org/10.1093/jicj...

It's almost the middle of July and it's 17 degrees in Copenhagen. God is good.

The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Haibatullah Akhundzada (Supreme Leader of the Taliban) & Abdul Hakim Haqqani (Chief Justice of the Taliban) for gender & political persecution in Afghanistan. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati... 1/2

Rutte is an embarrassment to #NATO -- and to Europe. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/m...

If I were an important Russian, I might think about a nice ground-floor apartment.

Because of course it's Russia.

turns out you can win super-super-supermajorities of young men and you don't even have to say slurs, resent women, or promote crypto