Gut beobachtet.

This week, Edward Martin, the interim US attorney for Washington, DC, sent a letter to the dean of Georgetown University Law School threatening to investigate the school if it did not scrub its policies and curriculum of diversity and inclusion initiatives. Here is the Dean's response.

“The last thing universities...should do at a time like this is accede to bullying, especially when those that choose to stand up to the president have the law on their side.” —David Cole go.nybooks.com/4isPMnK

Group of Eight- which represents Australia’s major universities- is calling on the federal govt to intervene after the Trump Administration suspended multiple research grants and sent "show cause" notices to researchers with questions on (among other things) China links and DEI

From the Interim President of Georgetown University: Over the past few weeks, the lives of thousands of public servants have been disrupted with reductions in staff at federal agencies. Facing this, deans and program leaders have asked themselves, “How should we live Georgetown’s mission

Gerade an einer der größten Kreuzungen in Ann Arbor vorbeigefahren: Da war eine Anti-Trump Demo mit sechs Leuten. Ann Arbor ist zu >90% Demokratisch (genaue Zahl müsste ich nachschauen), das sagt also viel über die zivile Unruhe in den USA aus gerade.

Back in Berlin now, following three wonderful, invigorating, inspiring and productive months as a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow in Sundhya Pahuja's Laureate Program Global Corporations & International Law (lpgcil.org) at Melbourne Law School. Laureate Program Global Corps & International Law

This week, leading up to Ascension Day on Thursday, is Rogationtide - an ancient season of processions to ask for blessings on the land and the fruits of the earth. As summer blossoms, Rogationtide celebrates our deep connection to nature and its gifts aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2013/05/lfric-…

On this feast day of St Augustine, revisit the manuscript that started it all, the sixth-century Augustine Gospels (MS 286), carried by the Saint on his mission to bring Christianity to England corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library…

Das Präsidium der Humboldt-Universität wehrt sich mit einer neuen Stellungnahme gegen die Kampagne, an der sich hier in den vergangenen Tagen erschreckend viele Akteure beteiligt haben. Lektüreempfehlung für Armin Laschet, Karin Prien, Ambassador Ron Prosor et al. hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachrich…

From #Gaza, the cries of parents rise to heaven ever more intensely as they clutch the lifeless bodies of their children, searching for food and shelter from bombs. I renew my appeal to leaders: cease fire, release all hostages, and fully respect international humanitarian law!

Wie kann es eigentlich sein, dass die, die strategischen Diskussionen Impulse und Foren geben sollten, für „Tiefe und Substanz“ halten, was im Diskurs der radikalen Rechten stattfindet?

Ach je, brauchen wir auch für diese Erkenntnis gleich wieder den späten Schmitt? Ein kleiner Blick in aktuelle völkerrechtliche Debatten tut’s auch. Da diskutieren wir seit Jahren die verhängnisvollen Effekte von double standards.

Die Glocken läuten den Feiertag ein. Und vom Rathausturm spielt die Stadtkapelle das Te Deum. Fronleichnam, morgens halb sechs in Seligenstadt. Procedamus in pace.

'In June, when the jewel climbs up highest in the year into the heavens, brightest of stars... At that time the fairest of lights likes to gaze longer upon the earth, to move more slowly across the meadows.' Anglo-Saxon writers on the summer solstice: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/06/se-len…

One of the worst features of academia is reliance on especially younger people taking low paid, short-term jobs, going from one such position to the next, irresponsibly encouraged to believe that a permanent job will eventually be theirs. We are all diminished by this

Trump doesn‘t feel the need to try to justify the attacks on Iran by anything resembling a legal or normative argument. It’s all about the exercise of unrestrained executive power by an unrestrained superpower.

Alarming news continues to emerge from the Middle East, especially from Iran. Against this tragic backdrop, which includes Israel and Palestine, people’s daily suffering, especially in Gaza and the other territories, where the need for adequate humanitarian aid is becoming

Today more than ever, humanity cries out and calls for peace. This is a cry that requires responsibility and reason, and it must not be drowned out by the din of weapons or the rhetoric that incites conflict. Every member of the international community has a moral responsibility

It is disheartening to see today that the strength of international law and humanitarian law no longer seems binding, replaced by the presumed right to overpower others. This is unworthy and shameful for humanity and for the leaders of nations.