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Criminalizing Ecocide: An Opportunity to Embed the Inseparability of Humans from Nature Into the Law is now up on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil’s name is read out in the list of graduating students at the Columbia commencement ceremony he was supposed to graduate in. Instead of Khalil being here wearing his graduation cap and gown though, he is in a detention facility more than a thousand miles away

This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus. It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments

I don't tend to share much that is personal on here, but in light of the Trump administration's actions this week it feels important to point out that I was the beneficiary of a foreign student visa to Harvard Law School

Also - if anyone out there has a wild idea for an ultra-marathon open water swim to raise awareness on a social &/or environmental justice issue, please reach out to me!

Supporting Our International Students and Scholars harvard.edu/president/news…

“There is a pattern to how authoritarians capture the media. It begins subtly and ends with near-total narrative control” When the Free Press Falters: What America Can Learn from Russia’s Descent at justsecurity.org/113471/us-pres…

Speaking of the tightening grip on press freedom… yet another data point reuters.com/business/media…

Several years ago Molly Land & I used foreign examples to discuss “conditioning speech” that lays the foundations for incitement & atrocities: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Here, a domestic example, from POTUS on Memorial Day

The suit brought by NPR challenging the Trump EO is available via the Just Security litigation tracker: justsecurity.org/107087/tracker…

Be disturbed by this, and stay disturbed by it. Reporting impacts policy; policy impacts lives. Trump’s human rights litmus test politi.co/3Z72AbY via POLITICO

The cruel idiocy continues unabated…

Reposting— I don’t say this lightly: this is the most important piece I’ve read in years. Read it, then read it again: cjil.uchicago.edu/print-archive/…

Elon needs to work on his bomb drop chops. Least surprising reveal of all time. Truly. Who out there imagined DJT was *not* in the Epstein files?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon was scrambling Monday to establish rules to guide U.S. Marines who could be faced with the rare and difficult prospect of using force against citizens on American soil, now that the Trump administration is deploying active duty troops to the

The one-stop piece for all your legal qs on what is unfolding in LA, thanks to Elizabeth Goitein Just Security “The Insurrection Act” by Any Other Name: Unpacking Trump’s Memorandum Authorizing Domestic Deployment of the Military at justsecurity.org/114282/memoran…

As a former Fulbright scholar I am grateful to the Board for resigning en masse rather than accepting politicized interference: substack.com/inbox/post/165…

This is devastating. The quality of work @hrl_yaleSPH has produced is unparalleled & has rightly become an invaluable source in the pursuit of accountability for international crimes. The only winners from this news are perpetrators.

Trump is defunding the conflict monitor Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH. Its work was used in ICC indictments of Russia for war crimes. Its maps of scorched earth in Darfur informed urgent (& Pulitzer-winning) stories on Sudan we ran last year. 📄nyti.ms/4kBz9Hw 📺youtu.be/H231YlstDKk

If this can be done (in full view of the press, no less) to a US Senator, then how can any of us feel safe?