Illinois now home to federally recognized tribal nation in historic Department of Interior decision chicagotribune.com/2024/04/19/ill…

The story of the past few years of my scholarly work on gender, conflict and counter-terrorism with thanks to the ⁦GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub⁩ for telling the story so beautifully ⁦QUB School of Law⁩ ⁦QUBHumanRightsCentre⁩ ⁦University of Minnesota Law School⁩ thegenderhub.com/stories/gender…

Professor Colleen Murphy has been invited to deliver the Annual Peace Lecture on March 27 at King's College London. Her talk is titled 'Peace vs. Justice Revisited,' in which she will discuss what she calls 'complex peace.'

▶️ kcl.ac.uk/events/annual-…

Honored and excited to deliver the annual Peace Lecture at King's College London this coming Wednesday, March 27. Illinois College of Law

kcl.ac.uk/events/annual-…

How a surprising detail in bank records helped a historian bust a longstanding myth about Irish immigrants yahoo.com/news/surprisin… via Yahoo

#Chicago

It's good to be a Murphy :)

If you visit an Irish pub this St. Patrick’s Day, chances are good it has one of these names wapo.st/3TCAxi4

Cook County expected to pay $17 million in Burge-connected Jackie Wilson case chicagotribune.com/2024/03/11/jac…

Incredibly humbled reading 'The Intersection Between Race and National Security,' a review by Prof. Sheila Vélez Martinez in Jotwell discussing how our book 'offers us a historic opportunity to change our political imaginary.'
Full review available: equality.jotwell.com/the-intersecti…

Prof. E. Tendayi Achiume & I guest edited a special issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice which is forthcoming soon. Preprint of our introductory editorial is up on SSRN for free ssrn.com/abstract=47251…. CFPs was in 2023. So pleased volume will soon be out!

Russia's Frozen Assets Might Pay for Ukraine Reconstruction foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/30/bid…

Provisional measures ordered:
- refrain from acts under the Genocide Convention (with genocidal intent)
- prevent and punish incitement
- allow humanitarian assistance
- preserve evidence
- submit report to the Court in one month

No ceasefire order.

Experts you should be following today:
ICJ procedure: Dr Juliette McIntyre
IHL: Adil Haque
Genocide: Dr Melanie O'Brien
Crime of Starvation: Tom Dannenbaum

A Lawyer for Political Prisoners on Why He Fled Russia justsecurity.org/91443/a-lawyer…

Okay so as expected we have confirmation that the #SouthAfricavsIsrael order will be handed down on Friday. A few reminders from the #ProcedureGoblin about this:

The @NewHumanitarian’s Eric Reidy interviews Alex de Waal, an expert on famine and starvation, about Gaza and the mechanisms that guide a formal famine declaration, what it means for those affected, and the potential legal consequences. thenewhumanitarian.org/interview/2024…

1. The heart of South Africa's case at the ICJ is its claim that Israel knowingly created the ‘conditions of life’ that now threaten to physically destroy the Palestinians of Gaza through famine and disease.

This explains several aspects of the case. 🧵

How the International Court of Justice Should Stop the War in Gaza justsecurity.org/91238/how-the-…

PSA: The verbatim record of South Africa v. Israel, day one, is now available:

icj-cij.org/sites/default/…