Heads of all Israeli universities express “concern” over the pro Palestinian demonstrations at 🇺🇸 campuses, condemning “violence” and “antisemitism”, claiming that it’s done with support of “terror organisations”. Let them know that u see their role in genocide and support BDS

This 👇articulates the complicity of Israel’s legal infrastructure, including judiciary and academia, in enabling and legitimises war crimes. The coordinater of Intl Law forum at the Hebrew U explains why no independent investigation into Israel's atrocities in Gaza is needed

“Anthropology and Gaza”

Decolonise Anthropology
LSE
have organised a panel on the politics of witnessing, so central to anthropological method, in the midst of Gaza | 2 May, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

#Gaza
#Palestine

Register on the link below 👇🏽

lse.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3P…

‘The practice of constitutional law has been politicised to such an extent that scholars now despair of being able to teach the subject at all. This is a desperate state of affairs.’

Martin Loughlin on America’s political quandary:
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Indeed. Agree with James Lee This from Jim Robottom my colleague Matrix is both scholarly and of great interest. An early draft of a skeleton for the Supreme Court…??

The ICRC’s Legal Division is offering six paid traineeships at its headquarters in Geneva for a period of one year, commencing February 2025. Details below 👇 careers.icrc.org/job/Geneva-%28…

Join us for launch of CostasDouzinas book: 'The States of Exception: biopolitics, human rights, utopia'; LSE Lecture Theatre WC2A 2AE; 8 May 2024 6.30pm. Free but must register: lse.ac.uk/sociology/even… Birkbeck, University of London Birkbeck Law School Birkbeck Law SchoolSoc LSE Centre for Critical Legal Studies Social & Legal Studies

We need our human rights now more than ever ✊

At this The Wollstonecraft Society Lecture, Shami Chakrabarti, Conor Gearty, Bee Rowlatt & Alpa Shah shall discuss Chakrabarti's new book, Human Rights and more.

LSE Inequalities & LSE Human Rights event. Details ⤵️ lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

Shocking even by recent standards of violence in Gaza. Note this is UN news.

As my employer - Columbia University University - calls armed riot police into campus to smash a peaceful protest against a genocide, we must all speak out. My former students have been arrested. I'm proud of you. History will be too. Remember what I said in our first class last year:

Please join us for the launch of the latest book by CostasDouzinas of Birkbeck Law School, w/Conor Gearty, Kirsten Campbell, and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera.

The States of Exception: Biopolitics, Human Rights, Utopia

May 8, 6:30 pm LSE Human Rights LSE Sociology

lse.ac.uk/sociology/even…

UNRWA premises and staff have been targeted since the beginning of the war.

178 UNRWA personnel have been killed.

More than 160 UNWRA premises, mostly used as shelters, have been damaged or destroyed, killing more than 400 people.

Premises vacated by the Agency have been used…

Daniel Dennett (28th March 1942 - 19th April 2024)

RIP

Dennett on how to criticise wisely

This is rather sweet, especially for those of use of, well, a certain age ...

Disappointed at outcome of UN Security Council vote on Palestinian UN membership.

It is past time for Palestine to take its rightful place amongst the nations of the world. 🇮🇪 fully supports UN membership and will vote in favour of any UNGA resolution to that end.

Israeli police interrogated Prof Shalhoub-Kevorkian about her academic publications. The academic establishment is, by and large, silent. After vilifying her and her work, and suspending her for speaking her mind. BDS now

Gibraltar, and reviewing the Brexit 'bill of goods'. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With reports of an imminent deal, a look at the Gibraltar issue & how it contains lessons which continue to play out across the entirety of the ongoing Brexit process chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/gibral…

In which we respond to yesterdays denunciation from the pulpit

CostasDouzinas is launching his STATES OF EXCEPTION, a critical analysis of governmental responses to economic crisis, refugees, & Covid. Join Costas, Kirsten Campbell, @ConorGearty, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, @ayca_uu, LSE Lecture Theatre, Wed 8 May, 18.30: lse.ac.uk/sociology/even…

New on the MLR Forum, Illan rua Wall and Daniel Matthews have posted a brief rejoinder to Loughlin: modernlawreview.co.uk/sovereignty-pe…