Scandalous that “affixable” is not a recognised pangram in today’s The New York Times spelling bee ❌

It is incomprehensible that the image of New Zealand success is Olympic champion Lydia Ko standing behind the British Union Jack🇬🇧. Congrats to Ko and past time for a national flag that actually represents Aotearoa! 🏴 New Zealand Republic Kia Mana Motuhake a Aotearoa

Arriving into Helsinki for the inaugural Helsinki Geoeconomics Week Helsinki Geoeconomics - looking forward to chairing a panel this afternoon discussing journal submissions to Law & Geoeconomics + speaking later this week on geolegality and the international legal order #hgw

Kicking off ‘Helsinki Geoeconomics Week’ - Mikael Wigell starting with the meaning, history and significance of #Geoeconomics🇫🇮🌏

Gala dinner speaker Iain Martin on #geoeconomics “in a war era”: a “rapidly disintegrating global liberal order” and reasons for optimism…

A pleasure to speak at Helsinki Geoeconomics Week 2024 on the panel “Geoeconomics in Court: The Rise of Economic Lawfare” - with Maria Carlsson Victor Ferguson Dr Maria Shagina 🇺🇦 Cindy Whang #HGW

Berlin infrastructure is this sign on the main street - still directing traffic to the closed Schönefeld and Tegel airports that haven’t existed for 4 and 3 years respectively ✈️

A public valedictory ceremony will be held for the retirement of Justice Applegarth AM on Friday 23 August 2024 in the QEII Courts of Law, Brisbane. Event details: bit.ly/30rBscb #auslaw

Hasn't drawn huge attention but Penny Wong gave a really interesting and uncharacteristically personal speech on Monday. Spoke about diversity in political leadership, and her own early experience in parliament when the "only other Asian faces" were cleaners and a librarian 1/

Just published (Free-Access): "Legalization of Foreign Relations in China" by Zheng Tang and Congyan Cai here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27…

Walking along the Rhine to my first day at EBS Universität - looking forward to meeting the new students and teaching this semester’s course in “Introduction to Public International Law & International Relations”⚖️🌏

Reading a CSIS transcript…it’s sometimes hard to feel the love as an international lawyer🥹

Pleased to see my paper on ‘Political Framing in China's Foreign Relations Law’ is now the most read article in the Chinese Journal of Transnational Law Chinese Journal of Transnational Law. Check it out open access here: doi.org/10.1177/275341…

So my international law lecture today was in the “Burmese Teahouse”—a 1971 gift from Myanmar’s repressive military government to a German family company. Now wishing I gave today’s lecture on human rights…

And here we go: Join us for the 2025 EJIL Conference at Freie Universität Berlin Freie Universität „Reconstructing International Law“ 11 - 13 September 2025

Check out my sister in her NPR debut—on the current Pub Choir US tour: npr.org/2024/09/09/nx-…

An interview about realism, empire and international law, Schmitt, Habermas and my 2022 Atlantic Realists —thanks to Goethe Uni. Frankfurt’s Hendrik Simon for the stimulating questions & opportunity to reflect:

On a mission to find a working toilet on Deutschebahn Deutsche Bahn Personenverkehr…🚽🚅

Happening now: ‘Europe and the United States in the Shadow of War’. Ukraine Ambassador to Germany Oleksii MAKEIEV 🇺🇦 - for Russia ‘major goal of war is not Ukraine but the West’

The Governor pinned a medal to my chest today?????????????????? What is happening