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Wow - the front page of Canada's national newspaper today.

Pretty interesting and ironic - Musk's Grok-3 assesses the probability that Donald Trump is a Russian asset at between 70%-85%. Prompt and conclusion below - the analysis was long, but you can try it yourself for the full answer.

The Harvard Int'l L.J. (Harvard International Law Journal) this week published an article by me and Scott Moore (Scott Moore), on the grave risks posed by a form of solar geoengineering, and in particular the underappreciated risk that it could lead to war. Download available:

This episode of The Daily was so disturbing - arguing that the threatened tariffs against Mexico are "effective" in reducing the supply of Fentanyl, thus legitimizing them, without any discussion of how those tariffs violate int'l trade law, including the treaty Trump himself

This is outrageous and deeply chilling.

Extraordinary

This should terrify everyone - the arrest, detention in whereabouts unknown, and intent to strip residency status and deport in violation of immigration law, apparently for the content of speech and exercise of the right of assembly and association, in flagrant violation of the

Good legal analysis of the immigration and constitutional issues implicated in the Khlil case, by Steve Vladeck: buff.ly/lOpkjQv

This is profoundly disturbing - the US cannot “relax the rules of war” or “reinterpret” the Geneva Conventions. This will lead to violations of IHL: buff.ly/fSJey7n

Indeed it is not.

Here’s the op-ed that is the purported reason for which the Tufts Ph.D. student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was arrested in the street by masked ICE officials, detained, stripped of her visa, and facing deportation: buff.ly/Ltu1qzO

This piece in Just Security is an excellent analysis of the legal issues raised by US threats to “re-take” the Panama Canal: buff.ly/tXcqEpT

This "plan" would effectively endorse and reward Russia's egregious violation of the prohibitions on the use of force and the annexation of territory by conquest, two peremptory norms of international law. It not only harms Ukraine, but the int'l legal order and rule of law:

These efforts to blind us to the costs and consequences of climate change will be so harmful to the country and the world - these are the acts of those who serve only their own narrow short-term interests. Shameful. pbs.org/newshour/scien…

My new article on the need for more specific regulation of autonomous weapons systems has just been published in the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, and can be downloaded on SSRN: buff.ly/bSR27T0 (abstract below).

Looking forward to speaking tomorrow at a conference hosted by the University of Milan, on the impact of the war in Ukraine on the pacifist principles of the Japanese and Italian constitutions. Russian aggression is not only undermining international law, but also some

This piece in Articles of War , claiming that US drone strikes against Mexican cartels would be lawful, stretches the questionable "unwilling or unable" doctrine beyond the scope of self-defense, and is patently inconsistent with the lex lata of jus ad bellum.

This piece by Ann Peters, "International Law and its Scholarship in the Time of Monsters," looks like one for the top of the pile... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

We face not only a crisis of compliance with international humanitarian law #IHL , but of our collective conscience. If you don't defend #IHL today, you are accepting a world where wars are fought with increasing barbarity and disregard for our shared humanity.

This is ethically reprehensible, but it also would constitute a violation of its legal obligations under the Paris Agreement, to which it is bound until Jan. 2026, and even the UNFCCC itself. buff.ly/aZn1hlS