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The ICRC is hiring for six paid associate positions at our legal division at HQ in Geneva. See the job description for details.

Deadline to apply is 17 May: careers.icrc.org/job/Geneva-%28…

3-year post-doc (project headed by Julia Moses) on 'Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts: Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Present' (focus on 1945-73 in Germany/Britain).
Please spread the word!
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If an entire life studying *just war theory* yields the judgment that killing 20k civilians in order to kill 10k combatants is 'not a bad ratio,' then what good was your philosophy?

Do not utilitarian wonks, calculating politicians, & hard bitten militarists think just the same?

Hi All, Latest piece out in Foreign Affairs . Together, FRANKY and G Alexander Crowther and I explore different options for European forces to intervene in Ukraine and how they could make a big difference. Its so important this get properly discussed. foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/europe…

Several years ago, Antony Anghie and his co-editors asked me to write a chapter on the general topic of 'critiquing TWAIL' for their forthcoming TWAIL Reader. Since that volume is now going to press, I'm sharing my little ditty here.
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'Benton criticizes the Eurocentrism with which historians often recount the development of the laws of war (...) violence between Europeans and their others overseas was never as lawless as this story implies.'

jacobin.com/2024/04/small-…

Incidentality of the civilian harm in international humanitarian law and its Contra Legem antonyms in recent discourses on the laws of war - by Luigi Daniele

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“The struggle for Sudan” chronicles the current counterrevolutionary war from Khartoum to Darfur—a war that has wrought displacement, death and famine on a population of nearly 50 million” merip.org/magazine/310/

IO now welcomes -- in addition to research articles and research notes --a new type of submission, 'essays.'

Essays have a 10,000 word limit. They propose innovative ideas of interest to a broad audience of IR scholars. [1/3]

Judgement at Tokyo by Gary J. Bass | Book review | The TLS the-tls.co.uk/articles/judge…

If you need anything digitized from Yale University's Manuscripts & Archives, a student of mine is working as a research assistant in New Haven this summer. For more on Yale's archives: web.library.yale.edu/mssa. I'll be happy to connect you!

I wrote about how Israel mobilises a highly permissive interpretation of the international humanitarian law prohibition of starving civilians to portray its starvation campaign as a ‘tragic humanitarian crisis’’ and give legal cover to its genocide tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Judge Joan Donoghue will be speaking today at All Souls with Dapo Akande

law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/…

Brilliant essay

Refugee who left UK for holiday in 2008 stranded in east Africa for 16 years theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

The US is considering sanctions against several other IDF & police unit in addition to the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, which the Biden administration will be designating this week, two US sources tell The Times of Israel (1/15) timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

The St George’s Day dinner is an ancient and hallowed tradition of Magdalen College dating all the way back to …. [checks notes] …. 2016!

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