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…

Enormous thanks to Tor Krever and LRIL team for this critical effort. Proud to be a smalll part of it. Together with Nahed Samour and Michelle Burgis-Kasthala, I consider the deafening silence of the absence of settler colonialism as a legal category in international law.

Berlin 2024: ‘no taxes for genocide - time for resistance. Remember Rosa Luxemburg? Learn from her example’ 🌹

2024. Now. Before everyone’s eyes. “The only democracy in the Middle East”. “Defending liberal values”. What in the name of god or in the name of humanity or in the name of whatever, justifies any of this? If this doesn’t move you, what does? How do you sleep at night?

Online Exhibition: Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice Christine Schwobel-Patel warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/re…

Despite overwhelming evidence of Israeli war crimes, the UK government continues to export weapons to Israel. End this complicity. Immediately suspend all arms sales.

‘After the 26 January ICJ ruling, states cannot claim they did not know what they were risking to partake in,” said Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory’ theguardian.com/world/article/…

A fantastic interview with always insightful Thea Riofrancos about topics around the materiality and global political economy of mining for the green transition

No port access for German-owned vessel carring military equipment to Israel Namibia denied German-owned cargo vessel MV Kathrin (sailing under the flag of Portugal) access to its port of Walvis Bay on the ground that the vessel carried “explosive material destined for Israel."

The scale and intensity of Israel's four-day incursion in Jenin is very alarming. Israeli forces keep obstructing access to health facilities blocking and even targeting ambulances, delaying people’s access to care.

Shaina Potts, Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire - Duke University Press, September 2024 dukeupress.edu/judicial-terri… Introduction open access at this link

Seeing lots of posts on my timeline about the new academic year, people starting new jobs, PhD programmes, etc. A reminder that 1000s of Palestinian staff and students are unable to start the new academic year because of Israel’s ongoing scholasticide & genocide

Greatly looking forward to speaking Lauterpacht Centre for International Law about some new work, reading international legal debates about decolonization and the transition to neoliberalism on the basis of contemporaneous Marxist state theory. Register via link below. lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events/2…

GLAN and Al-Haq, who are engaged in on-going litigation on the UK’s failures to halt weapons exports to Israel, will now analyse whether the government is acting in accordance with UK law by exempting the F35 components and will pursue accountability in court.

I wrote a queer analysis of international environmental law focusing on human and nonhuman rights, common heritage and future generations for Claerwen O´Hara and Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige's forthcoming Queer Engaganents with Int'l Law collection. Read it for free using the link below 👇

Teaching term is approaching & maybe its time to recommend the Critical Legal Pocketbook to your freshfaced new law students? Fairly cheap paperback& pay what you can ebook-its a really helpful text to help them see through the politics of their law degree criticallegalthinking.com/2021/11/08/the…

Have been thinking about clarity and Germans - it’s ironic how we pride ourselves on being precise and clear and yet are willing for post-colonialism and anti-zionism to be conflated with anti-semitism. There’s nothing clear or precise about that conflation.