Looking forward to meeting international law friends old and new at #ESIL2025!

Catherine O’Rourke is looking for a new (three-year) postdoc for her ERC project on the role of care in international law (deadline: 15 Sept). my.corehr.com/pls/dcurecru...

Vacature: belangenbehartiger Waddenzee (3 dgn p/w) Zeven natuurorganisaties zoeken een strategische verbinder met hart voor natuur & beleid. Werk je graag aan thema’s als biodiversiteit, klimaat & kustontwikkeling? 👉 Solliciteer vóór 31 aug via: www.groningerlandschap.nl/vacatures

The ICJ "for the first time explicitly acknowledged the legal standing of all States in relation to obligations erga omnes (in the sense of Article 48(1)(b) ASR). Until now, the Court’s decisions on collective obligations had been confined to obligations erga omnes partes arising under treaties." 👇

This is SO important. The International Court of Justice affirms that the failure to phase out #FossilFuels can constitute an internationally wrongful act, giving way to #ClimateReparations for related harm. 🔥 Truly a new dawn for climate action and accountability. ⚖️ #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

The #ICJ advisory opinion covers a lot: customary status of climate change-related obligations, what due diligence means for adaptation/mitigation measures, the impact of sea-level rise on statehood, what types of fossil fuel-related activities might constitute an internationally wrongful act. 1/6

The 47th meeting of the World Heritage Committee is at UNESCO until 7/16, & is streaming live. Development, environmental & climate pressures & resilience are being discussed & new site nominations voted on. 🌏 #climateheritage #natureculture Docs & livestream here: whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/...

Hot on the heels of the advisory opinion by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on 3 July confirming obligations on states, the International Court of Justice #ICJ Advisory Opinion #AO on #climatechange to be delivered on 23 July. One to watch!

These beads are beautiful, and this trade wasn't just one-way! At Iron Age Hama, western Syria, amber beads have been found that were produced on the Baltic coast. (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Interesting argument to revoke the WHS status of the Lake District - mass tourism and monoculture farming are indeed important threats to address to ensure biodiversity conservation and sustainable development for cultural landscapes www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One of the best things about working in cultural heritage law? Our conferences have awesome field trips 😎 pictured: Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul.

A reminder that our workshop on cultural heritage and climate change will be taking place next week! There are still some spots available, so do register if you would like to join the discussion.

A reminder that our workshop on cultural heritage and climate change will be taking place next week! There are still some spots available, so do register if you would like to join the discussion.

Join us in Leiden on May 16th for a workshop on heritage reparations! My contribution asks what Dutch water heritage looks like when viewed from Jakarta.

A significant part of the Sudan National Museum’s collections come from the UNESCO campaign of the 1960s and ’70s to salvage ancient artefacts from areas to be flooded for dams. The looting of those collections is the undoing of those efforts, writes Rennan Lemos

What a lovely story: “The 12 dadikwakwa-kwa shell dolls … have been given by the Indigenous Australian Anindilyakwa community to a UK museum on one condition – that children play with them once a year.” www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Saying goodbye to tobogganing #ClimateEmergency

The #AR7 report outlines adopted by @ipcc.bsky.social markedly expand coverage of culture & heritage -- but to realize that potential, the IPCC will now need authors & reviewers with culture expertise. Deadline: 17 April! Learn more: preservinglegacies.circle.so/c/haca-resou... #climateheritage

🚨 Save the date! 🚨 Can we repair the loss of cultural heritage caused by climate change? On 16 May 2025, @gakturk.bsky.social and I are bringing together scholars and practitioners in Leiden for an interdisciplinary workshop. Programme and registration 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20....

❗A reminder that the call for our workshop this September Berlin is open until this Friday - looking forward to receiving everyone's abstracts! ✨

"The museum held an estimated 100,000 artefacts from thousands of years of the country’s history, including the Nubian kingdom, the Kushite empire and through to the Christian and Islamic eras." A desperate tragedy & shameful indictment #KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Just attended the excellent inaugural lecture of Ingrid Boas at Wageningen on the theme of climate mobilities. Lots of things which international lawyers can learn from by viewing movement as a result of climate change (whether of humans or non-humans) through this lens: www.wur.nl/en/newsartic...

Green transformation & climate impacts can reorder/disrupt populations, intersecting with other social change. Excited to speak to heritage’s role at “EU Enlargement: Cultural Heritage as a Key Resource,” 3-4 April in Budva ME & online. 🔗 www.europeanheritagehub.eu/registration... #ClimateHeritage

Starting now! Link: uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/9467075836...

An amazing farewell lecture for an equally amazing professor who has shared his knowledge so generously with his students and colleagues over the course of his career (and has inspired and supported so many ECRs). Thank you Niels 🙏

A reminder that the Call for Papers is open until this Wednesday!

A new CfP from the ESIL IG on the Law of Culture - this time on the theme of ‘progress’ in cultural heritage law. IG workshops are a great way to informally get to know other scholars in the field, so do apply! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

Looking forward to organising this event @unileiden.bsky.social in May 2025 with Gül Aktürk Hauser: “An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate-Induced Damages”. CfP deadline on 14 March 2025: bit.ly/3WLubyc.

Starting now!

Spread the word! There is now a climate & heritage feed. Tag with #climateheritage for all things related to climate change impacts on tangible & intangible cultural heritage & what to do about it. 🏺🧪🗃️🌎 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Looking forward to organising this event @unileiden.bsky.social in May 2025 with Gül Aktürk Hauser: “An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate-Induced Damages”. CfP deadline on 14 March 2025: bit.ly/3WLubyc.

Heritage researchers at Leiden University: next month there will be an informal event where we can get to know one another and pitch our research. Hope to see you there! www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...

Starter packs if you want to follow professionals, scholars and organisations in the field of public international law. go.bsky.app/9mPfGRg

The African Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 14th Annual Conference, to take place October 17-18, 2025, in Maputo. The theme is: "Africa, Culture, and International Law." The call is here 👇🏾 www.afsilsadi.org

New publication out today! 🏺🗃️ This is my argument for an economic history of heritage-making in African states over the past 40 years, and how this speaks to themes like sovereignty, commodification of tradition, and (of course) the idea of usable pasts >>

Reposting Jason's list of people in the art crime field as I suspect we will have new additions after the recent Facebook announcement. ‪@chasingaphrodite.bsky.social has put together a strong list of people engaged in the heritage crime field and is a good list of folks for accurate information.

The ESIL Interest Group on the International Law of Culture is now also on Bluesky - give us a follow in order to see what we are up to!

The editors of Völkerrechtsblog are calling for blog posts for the fourth 'Women in International Law' symposium - this year with a particular focus on women and armed conflict, but submissions on any topic are welcome. Deadline 3 February 2025. voelkerrechtsblog.org/call-for-pap...

Last year I was interviewed by Elien Doesselaere and Henrike Radermacher about my research - we had a wonderful conversation about the ups and downs of heritage protection. The results have just been published in Faro, a Flemish heritage magazine. You can check it out here: issuu.com/faronet/docs...

Gentle Reminder: please submit your abstracts for the 20th Annual Conference of ESIL at FU Berlin until 31 January 2025!

So I'm aware that there's already an excellent #StarterPack on Cultural Heritage Law but maybe it'd be cool to have one dedicated only to art and cultural heritage crime with a wider disciplinary range: go.bsky.app/UtWmSRM This is work-in-progress, and I'm grateful to anyone who helps me grow it!

Happy to chat through (the very awesome) Galway, and what its like working here.

@esil-sedi.bsky.social's Interest Group on the International Law of Culture has just published a new #CfP for an online workshop taking place in March 2025 on the theme of 'Cultural Heritage, Social Resilience and Crisis Response in International Law'. Check it out here: esil-sedi.eu/wp-content/u...

A lecture I gave ('Creating Nubia: How Colonialism, Tourism, and Archaeology Made a Region, a Past, and a People') is included in this excellent new issue of the online platform Urgent Pedagogies, 'Climate Cartographies': urgentpedagogies.iaspis.se/climate-cartog

Amazing turnout today in The Hague at the protest against the budget cuts to Dutch higher education. More than 20.000! #StopDeBezuinigingen #WOInActie

This is big. Thailand has become a major transshipment country for looted artifacts from across the Middle East and beyond, as well as a source of loot itself. It is now moving to ratify the Unesco convention and crack down on antiquities trafficking. world.thaipbs.or.th/detail/thail...

#CfP for a workshop taking place in Leuven in June 2025 on 'Living Heritage, ecological sustainability and climate action': www.waterenland.be/en/news/call...

From December until March, Chiara Bortolotto is organising a monthly online speaker series on the theme of intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development. The first talk is on December 12; the link and the rest of the programme can be found here: heritages.cyu.fr/version-fran...

Today at 2 PM CET, #ICC Trial Chamber X will (finally, after trials and tribulations on the bench) deliver its decision on sentence in the #AlHassan case. The livestream can be found here: www.icc-cpi.int/streaming-al... If you’re interested, you can read up on the context below 👇

Seeing as my staff profile picture was from 2016 (🫠) I figured that it was about time for a new one before my students could no longer recognise me 🫣