What is going on at the ICJ? Tal Mimran outlines serious procedural and substantive concerns about how the Court is issuing provisional orders in the South Africa v. Israel case. #UpholdingIL #HumanRights Tal Mimran Verfassungsblog verfassungsblog.de/third-provisio…

Boomerang: French NGOs have filed a discrimination complaint at the UN on law enforcement racial profiling. The NGOs allege French institutions have documented racial profiling, but the govt has not stopped it. #CompetingPerspectives #HumanRights f24.my/AFiU.X

Universal jurisdiction in action: Belgium has begun the trial of Nkunduwimye for the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Troubling: he served as a defense witness in other trials & claims he is being prosecuted as retaliation. #CriminalLaw JusticeInfo.net justiceinfo.net/en/130447-belg…

One reason why negotiating a Gaza ceasefire is hard: experts suspect that many/most of the October 7 civilian hostages may now be dead. But Hamas will not confirm whether this is true. #ArmedConflict wsj.com/world/middle-e…

Flexibility in practice?: Multiple states are reportedly trying to convince Iran to ignore the prior Israeli strike and _not_ retaliate despite Iran’s prior statement that Israel must be “punished” #BreakingIL #UpholdingIL ft.com/content/015cee…

Data security isn’t just about privacy rights. Kat Duffy & Kyle Fendorf warn that it matters for national security, including economic competitiveness and vulnerability to military threats. #HumanRights #UseOfForce @cfr_org CFR RealEcon Kat Duffy @[email protected] on.cfr.org/49pfPqC

Why are multilateral troops in the eastern DRC? How should we classify the conflict? What intl laws apply? Martha Bradley & Marko Svicevic tackle these questions. #UseOfForce #ArmedConflict Articles of War Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare Martha M Bradley Marko Svicevic
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Everyday antisemitism: UCLA protestors can't resist using a pig, a bag of money, and a Star of David to protest the Gaza War. A truly sad statement about discourse on college campuses. David N Myers
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Words matter: Pres. Kagame of Rwanda is upset that Sec. Blinken was ambiguous about who was the victim (& who was the perpetrator) of the 1994 genocide. When will US docs be declassified, Blinken? They might clarify. #HumanRights #CriminalLaw Secretary Antony Blinken
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Everyday antisemitism in America: You are the Dean of Berkeley Law and your students harass you, in your own home, at a party you threw for them, for being Jewish ...

Turkey is restricting exports of construction materials to Israel bec of the Gaza war. But Israel isn’t building bec workers are serving in the military. So the restrictions are kosher under GATT Art XXI, but also ineffective. #UpholdingIL #TradeLaw aje.io/c2sa1w

EU parliament passes major new law for asylum applications. Watch out! This will likely trigger numerous lawsuits using various intl law claims. #HumanRights #MigrationLaw f24.my/AFXk.X

Things are bad since Ethiopia signed an agreement with Somaliland for port access. Somalia relies on Ethiopian troops to help it fight al-Shabaab. Will Ethiopia keep providing troops to a state that kicked out its diplomats?!? #UpholdingIL #UseOfForce africanews.com/2024/04/09/why…

Import surge: China is shipping so many electric vehicle exports to Europe that the cars are being abandoned in port parking lots for months with no one to sell or transport them. Time for safeguards? #TradeLaw
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Want to storm a foreign embassy? Resist the temptation. James Bosworth explains how Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa ended up storming the Mexican embassy last Friday. Bad move. #UpholdingIL World Politics Review boz worldpoliticsreview.com/ecuador-mexico…

Gulf diplomacy is a tightrope since Israel’s attack on Syria. Giorgio Cafiero explains: it's a “delicate balancing” of “disapproval of [an] illegal bombing … without appearing to align with” Iran. #UpholdingIL #UseOfForce @atlanticcouncil Giorgio Cafiero atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasour…

What is a “state”? The Olympics is always political, and Palestine has been allowed to compete since 1996. Palestinian athletes are preparing for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris with the assistance of friendly states. #CompetingPerspectives f24.my/AEnL.X

Spain will stop granting “right to residency” status to foreigners who make major investments in real estate. This practice began after the 2008 financial crisis but increased housing prices for native citizens. #InvestmentLaw #MigrationLaw ft.com/content/aa6232…

BREAKING: Mexico to institute proceedings against Ecuador at the International Court of Justice CIJ_ICJ following the storming of its Embassy in Quito by police.

“Wow, US media sure is East Coast-biased,” says the Californian after 8+ hours of TV news coverage of an earthquake that caused NO damage.