My new paper with David Eaves and Beatriz Vasconcellos applying my Common Good framing to the governance of Digital Public Infrastructure ⬇️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

This week at Yale's Seminar in Private Law: Eric Helleiner & Nicholas Mulder on "Sovereignty and Expropriation." To register, go to yale.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

An interesting article: Tristan Hughes, "The Political Theory of Techno-colonialism," European Journal of Political Theory (2024) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

2024 Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence by Prof. Rahel Jaeggi 16th May, 6-7.30pm. Register here: qmul.ac.uk/law/events/ite…

Charles Taylor's new big book "Cosmic Connections: Poetry in an Age of Disenchantment" (Harvard University Press) has chapters on Hopkins, Rilke, Eliot and Milosz. Amazing. hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…

On June 6th and 7th, 2024, the 3rd #KFG20 #Conference "Human Rights. Between Universalism and Particularism" will take place Institut für Zeitgeschichte München−Berlin ⏰ Start: June 6th, 1:00 pm 🚩Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Leonrodstr. 46b, Munich ⬇️Program

The UN Security Council in the new era of great power competition: crisisgroup.org/global/un-secu… By Crisis Group's Richard Gowan.

Double Standards and International Law, 15-16 July, Berlin, co-sponsored by KFG "International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?" and HLS Program on Int’l Law & Armed Conflict; pleased to announce the programme for our workshop kfg-intlaw.de/News%20and%20E…

Claude Lévi-Strauss would write that his formative intellectual influences were, in order: geology, Freud, Marxism. What they share is a sense of a hidden order of reality. Gili Kliger on his enduring legacy: bostonreview.net/articles/gili-…

How did 18th-century authors envisage 'the end of Enlightenment'? Roundtable on Richard Whatmore's book at our #EnlightenmentWorkshop on Wednesday, 13 Nov, 5pm Magdalen College. With the author (Institute of Intellectual History) and Oxford-based discussants: voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/research-… All welcome!

The Early Political Writings of the German Romanticists. Ed. Frederick Beiser.

My article on why the US President's plan to "take over" Gaza and displace its people would violate international law, including Palestinian self-determination, the ban on military force & annexation of territory & the war crime of forced displacement lnkd.in/gn_M-hwZ

Gaza Prepares for Palm Sunday St. Porphyrius Orthodox Church April 11, 2025

The Crucifixion #GoodFriday BL Add MS 7170; Syriac Lectionary; 13th century; Northern Syria BL Asian and African Medieval Manuscripts

595 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza since the collapse of the ceasefire on March 18. This is beyond words.

A short reflection from me on the death of Pope Francis, who ‘knew that peace is “never quiet” — that “the call for peace must be shouted” against the “walls of ignominy.”’ abc.net.au/religion/the-l… #PopeFrancis

Farewell to Pope Francis and a special Mass at St. Peter’s Square. The unity of people from all parts of the world. Gratitude to Pope Francis. Prayers that strengthen and inspire hope. May the Lord hear every sincere heart today!

Coming soon!

"I am deeply saddened by what is happening in the Gaza Strip. Cease fire immediately! Let humanitarian aid be provided to the exhausted civilian population and let all hostages be freed."