Join us for next Friday’s lunchtime lecture 1pm, Fri 10 May 2024 with Prof Guy Fiti Sinclair. Sandwich lunch from 12.30 pm. All welcome to attend: buff.ly/3JihEuN Guy Fiti Sinclair Auckland Law School

New article on the history of the drafting of the UN Genocide Convention

So delighted to see that my book exists in the world! It was an adventure to write, and I can't wait for you all to read (and cook with). 🍋⚘️

The latest issue of Humanity is out

humanityjournal.org/current-issue/

Death toll in Sudan's war could be as high 150,000 by now, US envoy Tom Perriello has acknowledged at a Senate committee hearing.
Existing estimates of 15,000 to 30,000 could be an under-count 'by a factor of 10 to 15,' he said. 'Some think it's 150,000.'
foreign.senate.gov/hearings/confl…

Queen Mary is looking for a new lecturer in (international) political theory.

jobs.ac.uk/job/DHJ467/lec…

Sorry Adil Haque

Claire Vergerio and I have a new article out in International Politics: “Three Histories of the System of States” link.springer.com/article/10.105… In it, we explore the enduring question of the origins of the system of states, mapping out three different ways of periodising its emergence:

for my IHL history followers: does anyone have access to a detailed obituary/nécrologie for the IHL expert Henri Meyrowitz? I'm particularly interested in his political, legal, and doctrinal career - as a former German-Jewish stateless person.

📣We are delighted to host the #MWP Multidisciplinary Workshop ‘Oppression and Resistance in the History of International Law’.

📖Keynote lecture by Surabhi Ranganathan Faculty of Law on the evolution of oppression narratives and the role of oceans in its shaping.

feeling grateful & fortunate - I've received a BA/Leverhulme grant to complete the final part of my new book project, enabling me to do research in archives in Chile and Argentina to explore the role of int organizations and law during the period of 1970s right-wing state terror.

The tents are gone, but they left their mark.

Minouche Shafik wrote a 2021 book - 'What we owe each other' - where she proposes a reset of the social contract to improve intergenerational fairness.
Then she went to Columbia and brought a notoriously violent police force into that social contract

Today, the ICRC Review is proud to launch our new call for papers, in an effort to stimulate thoughtful and updated conversations on a hugely important topic: gender, sexuality and armed conflict. Proposals are due 27 June to [email protected]. international-review.icrc.org/call-for-paper…

Don't miss this opportunity to work with us at the ICRC legal division! DL 17 May

There is some incredible critical legal writing on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. @[email protected], Marina Velickovic and I put together a reading list based on our own reading over these past seven months. We hope it’s useful to others. Apologies to those we have missed!

Had a great time reading Jessica Chapman's superb Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War--highly recommend it!--and an even better time writing the review for H-Diplo, with RJISSF. Check out the roundtable at:
networks.h-net.org/group/discussi…

Thank you to MSF Crash for publishing this reflection on change in humanitarian organisations and the way it is remembered and discussed, looking at the fascinating but understudied La Mancha dialogues. French version on the CRASH website too.

“We’ve Become Addicted to Explosions” The IDF Unit Responsible for Demolishing Homes Across Gaza

bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

join us this thursday if you are in the boston area, or via zoom. it’s always timely to speak on pacification and colonial wars