"If prohibition on use of force is falling apart, we must not simply mourn the loss. We must consider what we can do to protect against most catastrophic effects of this shift & seize opportunity to build a new, more resilient, more equitable int legal order." carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

"Die Völkerrechtslage ist klar. Verträge dürfen nach der Wiener Vertragsrechtskonvention nicht zulasten Dritter geschlossen werden." Völkerrechtler Helmut Philipp Aust hatte im Februar mit Franziska Kring über die Ukraine-Verhandlungen gesprochen - hier lesen: www.lto.de/recht/hinter...

Ein Thema, das uns Jurist:innen wichtig ist und allen, die an den Funktionsbedingungen des Rechtsstaats interessiert sind wichtig sein sollte! www.lto.de/recht/meinun...

Das deutsche Abtreibungsrecht diskriminiert Kinder mit Behinderung. Anstatt Frau Brosius-Gersdorf irgendeinen Quatsch zu unterstellen, den sie nie gesagt hat, könnte man zur Abwechslung auch mal über dieses reale Thema sprechen - das nämlich durchaus mehr Diskussion vertragen könnte.

That feeling when you think you still have 10 more pages to read but it turns out to be all references and bibliography.

The “Last Window of Opportunity” Test Is Not the Law — and Shouldn’t Be opiniojuris.org/2025/06/24/t...

236 Jahre Sturm auf die Bastille und die Deutsche Rentenversicherung hat immer noch diese Anreden in ihrem Online-Portal

Group of Israeli international law scholars send urgent letter to Israel’s Minister of Defense, IDF Chief of Staff, and Attorney General On plan to "concentrate" Palestinian population in South Gaza via @eliavl.bsky.social and @tamarmegiddo.bsky.social

This cutting edge program will surely be a highlight of the coming international law conversations in Berlin this fall. Among other perspectives, I will get to present for the first time my evolving project on critical legal metaphorologies of the sea.

Warum war Israels Angriff auf Iran völkerrechtswidrig? Und brauchen wir das Völkerrecht überhaupt noch, wenn so etwas ohne Folgen passiert? @heikekrieger.bsky.social hat es mir erklärt - herzlichen Dank für das interessante Gespräch!

Ein Gespräch zum Iran und zum Völkerrecht mit der NZZ (hinter paywall) www.nzz.ch/internationa...

Wer kommt zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft?19 Uhr Rostlaube Habelschwerdter Allee 45 K 29 HS1a Podiumsdiskussion mit Lora Anne Viola und Ned Richardson-Little ‪@historyned.bsky.social Recht oder Macht? Deutschlands Rolle im Umbruch der Weltordnung www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm/det...

“I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong.” For The Atlantic’s September 2023 issue, Jennifer Senior wrote about her aunt Adele, who was institutionalized as a toddler because of an intellectual disability, and the life she could have lived.

Wer kommt zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaft?19 Uhr Rostlaube Habelschwerdter Allee 45 K 29 HS1a Podiumsdiskussion mit Lora Anne Viola und Ned Richardson-Little ‪@historyned.bsky.social Recht oder Macht? Deutschlands Rolle im Umbruch der Weltordnung www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm/det...

Mein Artikel @taz.de über die Angriffe auf den EGMR ist jetzt auch in der Online-Version veröffentlicht worden. Neun Nationalstaaten wollen die Auslegung der Menschenrechtskonvention beeinflussen - und sägen damit an der Rechtsstaatlichkeit. taz.de/EU-Rechtspre...

brian was starting to think that maybe his mom wasn’t coming back

Long time coming (already SIX YEARS since the #ICJ AO!): The #UK signed an agreement to hand over the #Chagos Islands to #Mauritius and lease back the Diego Garcia military base. #intlaw www.jurist.org/news/2025/05...

Looking forward to discussing „Die Zukunft des Völkerrechts – Anker in einer bröckelnden Weltordnung?" - Mittwoch, 04. Juni 2025 I 18.00 – 20.00 Uhr - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin with Janina Dill, Wolfgang Kaleck and Boris Mijatović moderated by Stephan Detjen!

Joint statement by #Belgium 🇧🇪 with 🇦🇹🇨🇿🇩🇰🇪🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇱🇺🇳🇱🇵🇹🇸🇮🇪🇸🇸🇪, on the infringement of the fundamental rights of LGBTIQ+ persons in #Hungary.

"Es ist höchste Zeit, dass sich deutsche Wissenschaftsinstitutionen nicht nur mit Solidaritätsbekundungen an die USA wenden, sondern sich auch gegen die wachsende Bedrohung für Wissenschaft und Demokratie in Deutschland positionieren." www.jmwiarda.de/2025/05/27/w...

Secretary-General of the CoE:“In a society governed by the rule of law, no judiciary should face political pressure. Institutions that protect fundamental rights cannot bend to political cycles. If they do, we risk eroding the very stability they were built to ensure“ www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

A new level of backlash - A new level of distortion. stm.dk/statsministe...

"The sanctions are hampering work on a broad array of investigations, not just the one into Israel’s leaders." "The ICC had been investigating atrocities in Sudan .... That probe has ground to a halt even as reports mount of new atrocities in Sudan"

🚨 Volume 26 (2023) of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is now available! It features two chapters on ‘Humanitarian Actors’, two general chapters, and the ‘Year in Review’ that covers IHL-related developments throughout 2023. Link here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Angry judge roasts Biglaw lawyers for their "collective debacle" filing a brief where "~9 of the 27 legal citations in the 10-page brief were incorrect in some way" due to Generative AI digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcont... Lawyers will pay $31k for their sloppiness 🤖😵

"[ICC prosecutor Karim Khan] has lost access to his email [as a result of Microsoft cancelling], and his bank accounts [in UK] have been frozen (...) the US sanctions are hampering work on a broad array of investigations, not just the Israeli one." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right. It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

The program for the 20th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law is online. Come join us in Berlin! www.esil2025.de/_files/ugd/b...

Looking forward to @esil-sedi.bsky.social's 2025 Annual Conference, and to chairing Agora 11 on Rethinking the Laws of War. Full programme and registration here: esil2025.de

@jkappelmann.bsky.social @politikuhh.bsky.social @cenunihh.bsky.social @hugheshall.bsky.social @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social The Oxford Handbook on Norms in International Relations is forthcoming 👇🏻👇🏻

Am 12. Mai 2025 findet an der HU Berlin ein MPIL Buchgespräch zu "Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law" statt. @alexanderwentker.bsky.social  Mit Prof. Dr. Claus Kreß und @Heikekrieger.bsky.social Moderation: @chr-marxsen.bsky.social  🕒 18 Uhr Anmeldung: [email protected]

‘A slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject RFK Jr’s national autism database

Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed

The American Government Sides with the Party of German Neo-Nazis   The MAGA-AfD alliance of extremists is not surprising, but it remains outrageous. If democracy is to prevail, America needs to establish a robust anti-fascist consensus.   New piece:

Even the AI knew to give Trump a red lightsaber.

Trump says he ‘doesn’t rule out’ using military force to control Greenland

Here is this year‘s Call for Papers of the Yearbook of IHL dedicated to „Facts in IHL“. Please share and send in your abstracts!

Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof hat ein Verfahren gegen Ungarn eingeleitet. www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

Wow. The International Criminal Court has opened proceedings against Hungary for failing to comply with the Court's request to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and surrender him to the Court, and invited Hungary to provide submissions by 23 May 2025.

See/hear a very interesting discussion of these issue by Julio César Díaz Calderón, Alison Howell & Amanda Chisholm here www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVTC... #Autisticsky

#IR / #internationalrelations / #IRtheory needs to reckon with its #ableism problem - not to mention the way these metaphors are fused with racist, colonial, imperial and other oppressive logics 3/ #academicsky

Brings up two thoughts for me: 1) with decades of explicit academic ableism like this, no wonder the abomination that is RFK Jr's policies exists 2) it is easier to publish demeaning ableist stereotypes in IR than it is for Autistic people to publish about our own knowledge and culture 2/

Belatedly reading this v interesting article on the use of autism metaphors in #IR & #IRtheory. It shows how major thinkers in the field have framed 'autism' as self-centeredness, violence, childishness, loneliness & many other negative stereotypes 1/ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Überfälliges Statement hochrangiger deutscher Diplomaten zum Krieg im Nahen Osten (FAZ, 17.4.25)

Asparagus and red currants in 1703, by Adriaen Coorte.

China initiates WTO dispute regarding US “reciprocal tariffs”

Läuft ziemlich suboptimal…

Noch Donnerstag will #Ungarn das Austrittsverfahren einleiten - das Land tritt aus dem IStGH aus: #Völkerrecht #Netanjahu #Israel www.lto.de/recht/nachri...

La Hongrie annonce son intention de se retirer de la CPI