In Breakthrough, U.S. and Three Arab Powers Agree on Sudan Peace Roadmap www.crisisgroup.org/africa/sudan...

At the Coming U.N. Leaders Meetings: Existential Questions on the U.S. Role, Israel-Palestine, and the U.N. Itself at www.justsecurity.org/120676/un-le...

An Inversion of Pariah Status: How Washington is undermining the UN General Assembly as a sanctuary for peace to thwart the ICC justiceinconflict.org/2025/09/16/a...

Intersecting Crises: War, Diplomacy, and the Future of the Middle East events.ceu.edu/2025-09-29/i...

UN report finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in eastern DRC conflict www.jurist.org/news/?p=292080

Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

New US sanctions on International Criminal Court news.un.org/en/story/202...

‘Nie wszystko jest dozwolone’: Moja rozmowa w Gazecie Prawnej o zbrodni ludobójstwa w Gazie www.gazetaprawna.pl/magazyn-na-w... Wersja open access: www.academia.edu/143447112/Ni...

ICC Prosecutor Office urged to formally investigate atrocities by Nigeria military www.jurist.org/news/?p=288924

Thanks to a group of Pacific students who, to paraphrase Mark Twain, did not know it was impossible, the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on climate change is now a reality, and conduct responsible for climate change can no longer hide in plain legal sight www.ejiltalk.org/the-great-re...

On July 24, Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona were found guilty by the International Criminal Court for crimes committed in 2013-2014 in Central African Republic. It was an emblematic trial of old days www.justiceinfo.net/en/148388-ic...

Libyan ICC war crimes suspect arrested in Germany www.reuters.com/world/europe...

An important read by Omar Bartov: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

It was a pleasure to discuss the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine at the OSCE in Vienna. Amb. Korynevych introduced the tribunal's drafting history and main features, I then reflected on how the tribunal related to shifts in international criminal justice...

Our Duty to Explain Israel’s Operation to “Concentrate and Move Population” in Gaza is a Manifest War Crime www.justsecurity.org/116459/israe...

Beyond Russo-centrism in academia open.substack.com/pub/efdavies...

On 7 July 2025, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate @avalaina.bsky.social calls on all States Parties of the ICC to adopt the proposed #amendments aimed at closing the accountability gap on the #crimeofaggression that obliged Ukraine to negotiate the creation of a special tribunal: youtu.be/RcLZFO1P01w?...

"La justice, surtout internationale, est longue. Mais la possibilité pour les victimes de présenter leur récit, leur vérité, dans le cadre de la documentation des crimes, est déjà très importante. Cela fait partie du processus de reconnaissance"

Our symposium on the Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic has been published in the Journal of International Criminal Justice. Jérôme de Hemptinne, Patryk Labuda, Foreword. A Decade of Hybrid Justice in the Central African Republic: academic.oup.com/jicj/advance...

In thoughts with all our scholars, artists and social justice advocates who have joined the defense against the russian invasion of Ukraine and are on the frontlines. We are so with you in spirit and grateful that you’re protecting us so that we can gather here for dialogues. May all empires fall!

The ICC's Libya quagmire www.justiceinfo.net/en/146538-ic...

Double Standards and International Law: Highlights from the Workshop in Geneva nathanson.osgoode.yorku.ca/sharing-insi...

It was honour to attend the Polish Institute of International Affairs' 2025 Strategic Ark Conference. I had the pleasure of moderating a conversation with Comfort Ero and Michael O'Flaherty on “Laws of Peace & Conflict: Views from the Middle East and Ukraine” . Program: www.pism.pl/konferencje/...

Grateful to have contributed to the Workshop on #DoubleStandards in #InternationalLaw @gvagrad-law.bsky.social, speaking about neutrality & fairness in the context of #Sports, #Governance & #HumanRights Programme and Project: lnkd.in/eCEKdgtD @pilabuda.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

It was honour to attend the Polish Institute of International Affairs' 2025 Strategic Ark Conference. I had the pleasure of moderating a conversation with Comfort Ero and Michael O'Flaherty on “Laws of Peace & Conflict: Views from the Middle East and Ukraine” . Program: www.pism.pl/konferencje/...

Tomorrow's panel in particular promises to be interesting (Panel VI, 14.30-15.30 CET) Laws of Peace & Conflict - Views From the Middle East and Ukraine. This panel will feature @comfortero.crisisgroup.org and Michael O'Flaherty moderated by Patryk I Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social

!!!!!! @radek-sikorski.bsky.social , Minister @polandmfa.bsky.social , will join #Strategic_Ark! He’ll take part in the opening session: "Avoiding the Perils of Negotiated Peace with Dictators" ‼️Don’t miss hearing from one of Europe's key voices with Director of PISM Dr Jarosław Ćwiek-Karpowicz!

🌟 After days of intense debates, the workshop on Double Standards in IL has been concluded! 🌍 We received scholars from around the world discussing the implications of double standards in relation to great power competition, climate change, HRL, IHL, ICL, int'l trade, among many other topics.

Very grateful to all the contributors to our double standards workshop in Geneva - lots to think about as this project moves into the next phase. Some photos below from an intense 2,5 days at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

UN Relief Chief calls on Security Council to act decisively to prevent genocide in Gaza www.unocha.org/news/un-reli...

The #ESIL2025 programme is now live!🗓️ Join us in Berlin, from 11 to 13 September 2025, for one of the key events in international law, hosted by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social🌏 📌Explore the programme & register here 👉 esil2025.de 🕑Early-bird fees are available until 5 June only - don't miss out!

We convene in Geneva later this week for some difficult conversations about double standards and international law 👇 Grateful to the Geneva Graduate Institute, Swiss National Science Foundation, Harvard Law School and Osgoode Hall Law School.

The Foreign Ministers of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine: Lessons From World War II to Avoid World War III www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Ukraine to host foreign ministers to endorse 'special tribunal' for Russian leadership www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Double standards are pervasive in international politics but a serious challenge to international law - a challenge we try to understand in this conference - organized by @pilabuda.bsky.social and David Hughes, with a stellar cast. @gvagrad-law.bsky.social www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

Great trip to DC for the ASIL 2025 Annual Conference, where I presented on a panel on double standards and received the 2025 ASIL ICL Scholarship Prize, followed by a visit to the Annual Conference of the Association for Global Political Thought at American University (catching up with KFG friends!)

What will be the legacy of the France-Cameroon commission? www.justiceinfo.net/en/144072-wh...

apnews.com/article/cent... rally against Russian Wagner mercenaries in Central African Republic

Pleased to announce the programme for our workshop on double standards and international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute, 15-17 May 2025. In addition to 9 academic panels, we have a high-level diplomatic forum

Deeply honored, the American Society of International Law has awarded the inaugural International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize to my article 'Countering Imperialism in International Law: Examining the Special Tribunal for Aggression Against Ukraine through a Post-Colonial Eastern European Lens' in

Double Standards in International Criminal Law - reflections on recent developments. Curious to read more? I`m grateful to @afronomicslaw.bsky.social for publishing my blog as part of the symposium on double standards. @pilabuda.bsky.social @ecchr.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5n7pw2sa

Join us 1 April in Vienna for a roundtable on the new book 'Socialism and International Law. The Cold War and Its Legacies' (Oxford Univ. Press 2024) newcoldwarstudies-hist.univie.ac.at/news-and-eve... More information about the book here academic.oup.com/book/58976

South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi will withdraw troops from conflict-torn eastern Congo apnews.com/article/sadc...

Join us 1 April in Vienna for a roundtable on the new book 'Socialism and International Law. The Cold War and Its Legacies' (Oxford Univ. Press 2024) newcoldwarstudies-hist.univie.ac.at/news-and-eve... More information about the book here academic.oup.com/book/58976

A thread of interest, especially to scholars who work in the field of international law and related disciplines

"The United States voted with Russia, North Korea, Belarus and 14 other Moscow-friendly countries Monday on a resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine and calling for its occupied territory to be returned" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Once again, the rise of the AfD and its relatively greater popularity in the East has led to yet another round of discussion around the legacy of the GDR and contemporary German politics. A short thread:

Thanks so much to the participants in the inaugural SWAIL (Second World Approaches to International Law) workshop in Vienna. 2 intense days of conversations that have left me intellectually enriched and exhausted (in a good way). Hard to summarize this event...

Double Standards in UN Political Bodies: Is Impartiality Possible? www.afronomicslaw.org/category/ana...

Recommend this thought-provoking piece by Peter Brett who suggests ideological assumptions about international law and double standards are more fluid than mainstream critique acknowledges. He uses ICL to make his point but worth pondering parallels elsewhere 👇