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In short, Israel is: an Apartheid state occupying Gaza illegally annexing the WB violating self-determination This is illegal, so it must: end the occupation fully repair/compensate Palestinians, including through right of return & dismantelling settlements Incredible

Help Bring Palestinian Scholar Ibrahim Aldalis to Belfast gofund.me/24e154b6

Ben Lowry on Citizens' Assemblies really is pretty terrible advice for Unionists. Right now Unification can be sold as anything to everyone. They should engage in such mechanisms to the hilt and highlight hard choices - ignoring 50%+1 doesn't stop it: newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion/c…

Oh, my heart. Fair play the Banner.

GAA President Jarlath Burns with a message more important than ever after the All-Ireland Final. “For those who are our diaspora, who left this country because of war and famine, whose ancestors had to leave…and we thank the country’s who took you in and gave you jobs” 👏👏

A little more detail regarding the new UK Govt's Legacy Act plans coming out of NI questions today in the Commons, but also a drum beat on veterans' interests and vexatious litigation that the Conservative party is already trying to rally around: hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-0…

A fight over pay and pensions that never goes away, it just simmers in the background, because if the university funding model is broken, the easiest things to go after are staff pay and conditions: telegraph.co.uk/money/pensions…

Great analysis of some of the overlooked bits of "a multi-speed Europe" - well worth reading:

No pressure, like, but if you don't show up you're off the Christmas Card list...

published an article in the latest 'Public Law', arguing that while the new 'constitutional identity' doctrine in Ireland is probably of modest significance, the constitutional amendment process has itself become an instrument of identity-affirmation. ('free' link below)

So many drenched people, I'm getting terrible Hong Kong handover ceremony vibes.

Challenges with fixing the Legacy Act. Some summer reading for Hillery Benn:

The London Review of International Law invited critical scholars to contribute short reflections on international law and Gaza. The collection of 47 pieces is published here: doi.org/10.1093/lril/l…

Tom Frost and I have a new article in the Melbourne Journal of International Law on how UK ministers and officials viewed questions of self determination and territorial integrity at the time of the BIOT's creation. Hats off to the student editorial team for their work on it: law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/…

For the day that's in it, reposting Tom Frost and my article on the illegality of the BIOT from its creation. A lot of folk have maintained that UK sovereignty over the Chagos remains a strategic necessity, today law finally caught up with those claims: law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/…

New out from me in the NILQ on the many inadequacies of indirect rule in periods when the NI Assembly has collapsed. Let's not go back to this... Part of a fab collection assembled by @tobiaslock, Mary Dobbs now @Mdobbs26.bsky.social and the Maynooth European Law team: doi.org/10.53386/nilq.…

NEW! A follow up to our 2023 academic report, led by Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick, on the implications of education funding cuts upon NI, which tackles the impact of the return of power sharing and the implications of the draft Programme for Govt: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…