I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

📣Call for applications: Dialogues on Mobility, Surveillance & Resistance JAN 26–30, 26 Tijuana, Mexico Organized by International Migration Institute & University of Amsterdam's Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area. Apply by SEP 25. Funding available! www.migrationinstitute.org/imi-archive/...

📣 Call for Papers 📣 Citizenship Challenges for Children and Young People: Barriers, Borders, and Bureaucracy in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 🌍🚧📜 📝 Abstracts: 20 Oct 2025 📄 Drafts: 31 Mar 2026 📍 Workshop: Barcelona, 14–15 May 2026 (TBC) ✅ Final Paper: 17 Jul 2026 Full Details 👇

It is truly horrifying what is being alleged against the Trump administration in the Ghana case. Here is from an affidavit filed in the case today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@who.int is doing all we can to alleviate suffering & evacuate those who need urgent medical care outside Gaza. The urgent problem we face is that too few countries are willing to receive them. We call for countries to open their arms to these critically ill patients.

This is known as "chain refoulment" and yes, it's a violation of international law.

Inspiring article (gift link) highlighting the important role that a group of student activists from the Pacific Islands played in bringing about the International Court of Justice's momentous climate ruling. Features Solomon Yeo, a recent LLM student @uhawaiilaw.bsky.social.

Trump has stripped, or moved to strip, Temporary Protected Status from over: - 605,000 Venezuelans - 330,700 Haitians - 51,200 Hondurans, - 8,100 Afghans - 7,100 Nepalese - 4,900 Cameroonians - 2,900 Nicaraguans These figures don't even count the hundreds of thousands of parole terminations.

NEW: This morning the Trump admin put out the Federal Register notice terminating the 2021 TPS designation for Venezuela. It is set to end 60 days from Monday, or Friday, November 7. This termination brings the number of people Trump has stripped TPS from to at least 1 million.

Can Israel’s actions in Gaza be described as a genocide? How do you prove special intent and separate legitimate self-defence from international crime? @DrMelOB explains the different elements she and other academics have to consider. Episode out now👇 www.asymmetricalhaircuts.com/episodes/epi...

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

🚨 ATTN: Early career scholars and future authors! 🚨We hope you join us at the ASIL Midyear Meeting to discuss the craft of international legal scholarship, the opportunities to publish in the Journal, and some tips for navigating the peer review process. asil.org/midyear-meet...

Texas Law has a new academic fellowship program. Please share with any aspiring legal academics! (The first fellow started this summer and I can say the level of mentorship, support, and inclusion of fellows is exceptional)

Old enough to remember the outrage in the United States when Serb forces killed Bosnian civilians fetching water during the siege of Sarajevo.

Haley is a star and a wonderful colleague and friend. Any school would be lucky to have her.

A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Demetre Daskalakis' resignation letter. One for the history books. www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-resign...

Scott on Climage Change, International Law, and Time, buff.ly/9aOxRqS - David M Scott (Queen Mary University of London) has posted Timing the Environment in International Law: Reflections on Temporality in the Three Advisory Opinions on Climate Change on SSRN.

Besson on Equity in International Law, buff.ly/98DzWSl - Samantha Besson (University of Fribourg) has posted Equity in International Law (Lefkowitz and Follesdal (eds), Philosophy and International Law (CUP 2026)) on SSRN.

I am so honored by the selection of my article "Transgender Students and the First Amendment" for a Dukeminier Award, given by the Williams Institute and the editors of the Dukeminier Awards Journal. All of the awardees will be presenting our work in a Zoom panel on 9/17.

"India is quietly creating a class of stateless people — not by war or displacement, but through bureaucracy. It’s happening not at its borders but in cities, detention centers and courtrooms, turning citizens into suspects and neighbors into outsiders."

Trump proposes to rescind AIDS funds. Congress rejects the proposal. So Trump and his henchman Russ Vought just refuse to spend the money and try to hide that decision from Congress and the public. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/h...

My full statement on the Gaza Famine :

A U.N.-backed food security group has issued a dire warning: famine has officially now taken hold in northern Gaza and is expected to spread in the coming months.

NEW VIDEO: "So You're About To Start Law School: An Incoming Law Student's Guide to the First Month" My tips, especially for those first-gen students who don't know a lot of lawyers. Hope students find it useful. youtube.com/watch?v=Ayl3...

An excellent #Appellatejob has opened up, at the Georgetown Law's @immersionclinic.bsky.social. Really a great job for someone wanting to work in an appellate clinic, it seems to me. perma.cc/CX9E-NSEJ

What's happening in Indiana should be a warning for all of higher ed. IU sanctioned a Professor--who was previously arrested and sanctioned during a campus protest--for allegedly violating the state's "intellectual diversity" law, based on an anonymous complaint. www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

Once again tapping the sign of Article 55 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care

“50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations." "for every person [killed] on October 7, 50 Palestinians need to die." "It does not matter now if they are children." "They need a Nakba from time to time to feel the price."

NEWS: Judge Dolly Gee denied DOJ’s request to terminate the Flores settlement — a 1997 settlement that provides court oversight of gov’t treatment of migrant children subject to detention until a final rule is in effect. The settlement will remain: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Great TLBlog post by Bill Dodge on an important TVPA case and the long search for justice for human rights defenders and the community in Les Irois, Haiti. cc: @skotchka.bsky.social tlblog.org/first-circui...

The Faculty Lounge: Call for Papers: Columbia-Cornell Political Economy of Work Junior Scholars Workshop www.thefacultylounge.org/2025/08/call...

Ahead of #UNGA80, where several states are expected to recognise the State of #Palestine, we're co-hosting a webinar on "Recognition of Palestine in International Law: Australian and New Zealand Perspectives", on 18 Aug 2025, 3-4PM AEST (5-6PM NZT). Register now www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/recognitio...

We sued the Trump administration for trying to illegally open one of the world’s most pristine tropical marine environments to commercial fishing — and we won.​ This is a huge win! Even short-term commercial fishing can cause lasting harm to the pristine marine environment.

Ezra Klein's interview with Philippe Sands is very good overall. But I want to reiterate that the ICJ has never said that the definition of genocide requires a "single intent." Nor does the ICJ's standard of proof preclude a finding of genocide in cases of plural intent. 1/🧵

At some point, I’m going to have to actually read all of the articles and blog posts I keep emailing to myself.

🌍 New #Symposium – A Right to a Clean, Healthy & Sustainable Environment 🌱 On 23 July 2025, the #ICJ issued its landmark Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States regarding #ClimateChange. We offer an early assessment of the opinion from various angles! voelkerrechtsblog.org/symposium/sy...

Richardson Law is proud to be recognized in The Princeton Review’s “Best Law Schools for 2025,” earning No. 1 for Most Diverse Faculty. We also ranked among the top schools for Best State & Local Clerkships and Most Chosen by Older Students. #LegalEducation #Law Read more: law.hawaii.edu/28395/

"Russia and the United States have discussed Israel’s occupation of the West Bank as a model for ending the war in Ukraine" “Ukraine will never give up its sovereignty. But the reality is it’ll be occupied territory and the model is Palestine.” An abomination.

Until recently, the term "occupation" in Israel was used to underscore its negative connotations. This is changing. ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social‬) on the shifting meaning of the word – and why it now obscures something worse: expulsion and destruction. verfassungsblog.de/occupation-a...

Read my analysis here

The stats here are awful on the impact of cuts to food aid, esp from the #USA. This: "The estimated funding reductions will cut off treatment for 2.3 million children in low- and middle-income countries, leading to 369,000 additional child deaths per year." www.devex.com/news/deep-di...

Every study about vaccines that comes out is like "this vaccine is 97% effective at preventing this disease & also 3 other diseases & it somehow helps you play the violin beautifully" and antivaxxers are doing their own research that's telling them they can cure measles by eating polar bear liver.

Australia to join 150 states & recognizing Palestine as a state at the UN General Assembly next month. New Zealand is considering joining Canberra, along w Canada, the UK, France & others. But if Netanyahu & his thugs aren’t stopped, how much of Palestine will be left? www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Such a dangerous time to be having a child.