We are delighted to invite students at overseas institutions to our International Summer School on July 13-24. Applications are due by April 15. For more information, see www.reading.ac.uk/law/undergra...

I was interviewed for this piece and I am quoted a few times sharing my thoughts on some of the impact and implications of ongoing US sanctions for the International Criminal Court's (primarily OTP) uses of technologies - www.justiceinfo.net/en/156691-ho...

Under IHL, intentionally directing an attack against a cultural site is a war crime if the site is not a legitimate military objective. Even then, all parties must take precautions & must take special care to avoid damaging cultural sites & minimize incidental damage to them.

The International Criminal Court is dropping an investigation into whether U.S. sanctions against Venezuela qualified as crimes against humanity.

Over 150 Universal Jurisdiction cases are on the books currently in France. How are they going? Who is making them happen? And why now? Episode out now👇 www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi... #AsymmetricalHaircuts #podcast #pod #internationallaw #internationaljustice #thehague #warcrimes

You know who is getting things done today? ICC appeals court judges. They just released a decision keeping former Philippine President Rodrigo Dutertein custody.

📣 #CfP: "New Approaches to the Study of the ICTY Archives" Workshop @uni-graz.at, Oct 15–16, 2026. We welcome proposals on tribunal truths, digital infrastructure & memory politics. Exploring digital coloniality & computational methods. 📅 Deadline: March 31, 2026 ➡️ leibniz-ios.de/en/knowledge...

🇵🇭 #Philippines - Having held a week of hearings at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, judges will now decide if former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Roa Duterte, will go to trial for crimes against humanity. www.justiceinfo.net/en/155870-ta... #RodrigoDuterte #ICC

Unsurprisingly, Marko has already written something… /3 www.ejiltalk.org/the-american...

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

Very important point

To start the academic year @uctlaw.bsky.social A/Prof Holly Porter (University of Cambridge) will be speaking on "Rebel Sex: male combatants and desire in coercive circumstances”. Register below to join us online forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... @cclas2025.bsky.social @calsza.bsky.social

The UN Independent Int'l Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan: the Rapid Support Forces carried out ethnically targeted killings, widespread sexual violence and enforced disappearances in #ElFasher, Sudan, bearing "hallmarks of genocide" against the Zaghawa and Fur communities. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Promises, Processes, and Pitfalls of International Criminal Justice Today - www.humanrightshere.com/post/promise...

"UN approves 40-member scientific panel on the impact of artificial intelligence over US objections" apnews.com/article/un-u...

Francesca Albanese and various judges and prosecutors of the International Criminal Court "now sit on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals list, alongside suspected al Qaeda terrorists, Mexican drug traffickers and North Korean arms dealers". www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Around Europe, governments and institutions are seeking to reduce their use of digital services from U.S. Big Tech companies and turning to domestic or free alternatives.

⚖️How should international law handle accountability for harmful cyber & AI operations? The ESIL-supported event "𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆" will convene scholars and practitioners in Perugia to tackle the question in October 2026. Discover more at lnkd.in/dNEAKVyT

Award for late Afrobeat pioneer and political radical is the 'anti-establishment being recognised by the establishment'.

The morning residual mechanism pre-yoga read: www.ejiltalk.org/beyond-resid...

From @justiceinfo.bsky.social: “The trial of Congolese Roger Lumbala before a Paris court ended last year with a heavy conviction. It raises issues relating to procedure and principles of law observed in universal jurisdiction trials” www.justiceinfo.net/en/154432-un...

OUT NOW 🎙️ How do survivors see the International Criminal Court? At the ASP last year, we sat down with three survivors of torture: Oleksandr Maksymenko from Ukraine, Elizabeth Atieno from Kenya, and Venezuelan Luis Carlos Díaz www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/jus...

This quote by Ha'aretz journalist Nir Hasson is my opinion one of the most profound things written about the way many Israelis experienced Gaza since October 2023

A great opportunity for students from Palestine to undertake fully-funded masters programs at QUB: www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI...

What are the afterlives of atrocity tribunals? What do contested legacies mean for afterlives of defendants, judgements, witnesses, and archives? See this fascinating and exciting #CallforPapers from Mark Drumbl, Maria Elander, and @rachelkillean.bsky.social ! wlu.app.box.com/s/ubi9i56841...

There's much commentary on Venezuela Maduro and international law. We focus on potential accountability routes, after examining illegality of US actions + immunity issues. www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi... Thanks @bcfinucane.bsky.social and Ignacio for making time.

You can (and should) be able oppose dictatorship and drug trafficking while also opposing: - violations of intl law - human rights violations - kidnapping - the theft of natural resources - illegal war - violent regime change What 🇺🇸 is doing in #Venezuela is all of the above.

This might be a good moment for Europeans to quickly start thinking about how much we care about international law banning offensive warfare when it doesn't happen in our immediate neighbourhood, and the affected country is not a democracy.

This! 👇

While I was never a fan of Project Harmony for a variety of reasons, namely its encroachment with Microsoft, as well as broader concerns about AI (not all digital evidence obviously), this is a good recap by @benjaminthorne.bsky.social of the impact of sanctions on evidence gathering / preservation

#Rwanda’s UN Ambassador re-stresses its bid to host the #ICTR #archives (currently housed @ the Mechanism in #Arusha 🇹🇿 & on the #UN Court Records Database) Ngoga says the records contain "the authoritative historical account of the #Genocide against the Tutsi” www.newtimes.co.rw/article/3191...

⚡️The Moscow City "Court" convicted the ICC Prosecutor & 8 sitting/former judges of "unlawful prosecution" of Russian citizens (because one of them got so upset). ICC officials were sentenced in absentia (keep it that way!) to jail terms of 3.5-15 years. Karim Khan received 15.

#InternationalCriminalCourt - "It feels as if the institutional ‘erasure’ of the third ICC Prosecutor* has begun, even before the current improvised, imperfect, and non-transparent investigation process has run its course." - Sergey Vasiliev (professor of international law) * Karim Khan

#InternationalCriminalCourt - While everything indicates that Prosecutor Karim Khan has already left the stage, the Assembly of States Parties to the #ICC, refused to address the elephant in the room. This year, there were several of them. www.justiceinfo.net/en/153443-af... #ASP24

I really enjoyed participating in this event yesterday and the really engaging discussions. Thank you very much to the organizers for the invitations hosting!

"Microsoft processing facilitated the killing of civilians in Gaza by Israel, ... 'enables mass surveillance of individuals in the entire occupied Palestinian territory' and the illegal occupation of lands". Complaint lodged by @iccl.bsky.social to Data Protection Commission

📣 ESIL Annual Conference 2026 – Website is LIVE! ℹ️International Law and Conflict: An Enduring Tension? 📅 3–5 Sept 2026 📍 University of Málaga, Spain Explore global governance, humanitarian law & dispute resolution. Event details 👉 eventos.uma.es/135950/detai... #ESILAC2026 #ESILCommunity

To add to the OTP's language of 'Resilient Justice' in its 2025 report, maybe also 'austerity justice'?

The budget 2026 is guided by realism and driven by the goal to carry out ICC mission at challenging times. It has required difficult internal adjustment. Every programme has been reassessed. The budget presented is lean. The Court is a responsible steward of public funds. #ASP24

A question: Is it actually possible for the ICC to meaningfully & in a sustainable way address all of its internal cultural issues while simultaneously attempting to fulfill its mandate, which in a general sense, it struggles with, & even more so recently with numerous external pressures? #ICC

Rare good news 4 #ICC on 1st day annual meeting: Libyan Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri transferred from Germany. He’s alleged to have committed directly, ordered or overseen crimes against humanity + war crimes; murder, torture, rape + sexual violence at Mitiga prison. (Pic of prison from earlier).

I really appreciated the opportunity to have been able to present on Saturday at the ADC-ICT Annual Conference where I discussed international criminal investigations beyond The Hague (ICC) and ongoing challenges and uncertainties relating to technology and the digital accountability 'ecosystem'.

A question: Is it actually possible for the ICC to meaningfully & in a sustainable way address all of its internal cultural issues while simultaneously attempting to fulfill its mandate, which in a general sense, it struggles with, & even more so recently with numerous external pressures? #ICC