My book now published #openaccess: “American Foreign Policy Ideology and The International Rule of Law: Contesting Power through the International Criminal Court” (Cambridge UP, 2020). More timely in 2025 than ever, with ICC politics a key battleground for international law doi.org/10.1017/9781...

1/2 My exchange with Condoleezza Rice at the American Academy in Berlin. Only critical intervention of the event, despite obvious contradiction of speaking on “What Comes Next? Imagining a New Economic and Security Commons”, without acknowledging her role undermining the current international order.

Opening of the 2025 European Society of International Law Annual Conference “Reconstructing International Law” @esil-sedi.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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Declaring that the US Department of Defense/“War” will be guided by “maximum lethality—not tepid legality” is as explicit a rejection of the international legal order as one can imagine #intlaw

Pleased to contribute comments for this #CBC ‘About That’ investigative report on the history and politics of the International Criminal Court—and significance of recent US sanctions against #ICC judges and senior personnel including 🇨🇦Judge Kimberly Prost youtu.be/mBW6DOss67w

‘One Of The Most Advanced Militaries In The World Accidentally Hits Another Hospital Again’ via @betootaadvocate.bsky.social www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorize...

Six Viewpoints on the Future of the International Legal Order and the Role of International Courts | by Philippa Webb and Lydia Kim

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. When Is It Genocide? Philippe Sands discusses how to think about the tragedies in Gaza through the lens of international law. open.spotify.com/episode/0ZBm... youtu.be/RrhBypHFYPY?...

Do statehood and sovereignty persist when a state sinks? AURELIO CORNEO and JUDITH SCHERER examine what the ICJ says on this question in its climate advisory opinion and explore the issues of territory, population, and government in times of climate crisis. verfassungsblog.de/montevideo-c...

Prof. Dapo Akande, UK candidate for the ICJ, speaking at @humboldtuni.bsky.social, Berlin on “Is the International Legal Order Eroding? And If So, What Can be Done About it?”

Last week’s Berlin workshop with authors from every continent, for a forthcoming edited volume: “Comparative International Legal Policy: National, Regional and Transnational Approaches”. An interdisciplinary look at political approaches towards international legal order📖🌏

Join us in Berlin next Wed. 2 July, for an exceptional public forum @Humboldt University: “The Politics of International Law: How do States Aim to Change the International Legal Order?”—5 leading scholars from diverse perspectives debating foreign policies towards international law. RSVP [email protected]

Turns out that the unlawful use of force is illegal for a reason. www.justsecurity.org/109537/upend...

Join us in Berlin next Wed. 2 July, for an exceptional public forum @Humboldt University: “The Politics of International Law: How do States Aim to Change the International Legal Order?”—5 leading scholars from diverse perspectives debating foreign policies towards international law. RSVP [email protected]

A pretty clear signal that the internal legal advice was: “there is no way to spin this as legal”; which, in fairness, is the only available assessment.

Thoughts from John Bolton: ◦Takes no responsibility for foreign policy ideas influencing Trump ◦🇬🇱 a part of American landmass “I would personally welcome American sovereignty over Greenland” ◦Gaza War solution is to remove Palestinians from their own lands and abolish UNRWA

When your sister @astridjorgensen.bsky.social has a much cooler job than you #AGT #pubchoir youtu.be/DckioIUhP1I?...

The best conference so far this year! Congratulations to @ninareiners.bsky.social & @debremaria.bsky.social on fostering such a rich interdisciplinary discussion on this timely topic! Not to mention an incredible opening event at the historic Norwegian Nobel Institute!

Flying over Greenland…no American flags in sight🇬🇱

Great start to 3 days of discussion at the “Autocracies as International Lawmakers” Workshop, University of Oslo - hosted by @ninareiners.bsky.social @debremaria.bsky.social 🇳🇴

Working with Sugarloaf Mountain in the background is possibly the best office view I will ever have - thanks to @fgvoficial.bsky.social Rio Law for the research stay 🇧🇷

Possible international law consequences for the election of #PopeLeoXIV - with statements directly opposing UN values by one of the leading conservative rivals for the post #intlaw

#auspol #ausvotes #ausvotes25

A pleasure to speak at the “Association for Global Political Thought Annual Conference @americanuniversity.bsky.social in Washington D.C.—on the shift “From International Legal Order to Geolegal Orders: The Politics of ‘Multipolarity’ in International Law”

Reunion of @kfgintlaw.bsky.social alumni for the “Association for Global Political Thought Annual Conference”, School of International Service, @americanuniversity.bsky.social—Washington D.C.

Happening now: “The First 100 Days: Trump 2.0 and U.S.-Taiwan and Cross Strait Relations” Sigur Center, Elliott School @gwu1821.bsky.social - Washington DC

Pleased to announce my upcoming talk for the U.S.-Asia Law Institute @nyulaw.bsky.social: 'Multipolarity, Civilizations and Universality in International Law', Monday, 28 April 2025, 14:00-15:30 EDT. I look forward to seeing any colleagues attending in person or via Zoom usali.org/events/multi...

Awake uncomfortably early this Berlin Saturday morning for a remote Shanghai-afternoon talk on ‘China’s Foreign Relations Law: Multipolarity and “Fundamental Norms Governing International Relations”’—for @nyulaw.bsky.social US-Asia Law Institute

Welcome drinks for “Singapore Geoeconomics Forum 2025”—promising to be an invigorating few days ahead, including my panel discussion on “The Future of Multilateral Lawfare” www.geoeconomics.fi/event/singap...

My attempt to make sense of how changing international order influences international legal interpretation, exploring shifts in views of economic security + economic coercion, from postwar developing state proposals through recent resuscitations by US, EU, & others: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Something I can appreciate about Germany is seeing the former Chancellor just stroll past on a Sunday afternoon - with backpack and without any obvious security detail🇩🇪

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov isn’t exactly talking like a new friend of Donald Trump: ‘“America first” is alarmingly similar to the Hitlerite slogan “Germany above all”’. It might take a bit more convincing to create a new strategic alignment… mid.ru/en/foreign_p...

A full house at @americanacademy.bsky.social for: "The Future of Democracy in America: A Conversation with @theatlantic.com"—with Jeffrey Goldberg, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social & George Packer

Some governments want to challenge the president; some want to emulate him. But most just want to stay out of his way.

Statement on Academic Freedom by Gleider Hernández, President of the European Society of International Law. Read the full statement here: bit.ly/4hTr7bT

Very timely thoughts from Gideon Rose @americanacademy.bsky.social @cfr.org on “The Future of European Security”: The imbalance of power has hollowed out the NATO relationship—US less likely to withdraw from alliance than simply erode its security guarantees from the inside

„Trump’s Gaza Plan is Absurd and an Affront to International Law“ - please read Eliav Lieblich‘s @eliavl.bsky.social text!

Notable that fmr. Vice President Pence is now consistently speaking out almost as a shadow President across a range of issues - representing voice of the old Republican party. Something to watch if support declines for Trump’s disruption of all international norms and relationships

The absolute irony of the 2025 @munsecconf.bsky.social report entitled “Multipolarization” referring to the “BICS” countries to exclude Russia—rather than #BRICS. Surely the essence of a more multipolar world is less Western choice about whose views it engages with and whose it excludes?

Great insights by colleague Hansong Li @ausis.bsky.social on “The Geopolitics of Renaming Landmarks”: “…naming a landmark, region, or cultural practice is about collective ownership, way of life, and even being itself”. www.american.edu/sis/news/202...

Perfectly timed Berlin winter background for the inaugural team photo of the Chair of Public Law and Public International Law @humboldtuni.bsky.social @chr-marxsen.bsky.social

We’ve put together a Starter Pack featuring the accounts of current MPIL Heidelberg researchers, designed to help you stay connected. 🌐👥💬 Stay in touch with our experts working on comparative public law, EU law & international law! go.bsky.app/MjP6GGR

The new cover of TIME magazine has an illustration of Elon Musk sitting behind the Resolute Desk.

Yet another version of the ‘Democratic Exception’ to ICC Jurisdiction in yesterday’s White House statement imposing renewed US sanctions against the court. My recent article on the political trend linked below. verfassungsblog.de/exception-to...

I explain further in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My recent disappointment at #AfD election signs going up in my Berlin neighbourhood seems to have been resolved by the good citizens of Schöneberg💪 Before…and after🚮

Trump would deserve credit…if he actually returned to an “America First” foreign policy in the sense of one not distracted by interventionist global moralising…🤔 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Pleased to see this citation of my research on international law and the “rules-based order”, by Prof. Mary Ellen O’Connell @notredame.bsky.social—“What Remains of Law Against War”, Vol.113 Georgetown LJ 319 (2024): www.law.georgetown.edu/georgetown-l...