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…

Thanks for such an unbelievably kind welcome Lund University Palestine solidarity comrades.

Superb questions and such determination in the room.

Onwards!

“Your conclusions are not just extreme - they are extremist”. Funny how the “most memorable” more often than not seems to be negative and/or inappropriate

Fantastic workshop on Research Methods in Global Political Economy with Asli Bali, Ntina Tzouvala and Rob Knox organised by The LPE Project - well worth everyone’s Saturday afternoon

Three women talking about IL and non-Western imperialisms for a historical materialist perspective, you truly love to see this. Anastasiya Kotova Parvathi Menon Wanshu

We have just started the TWAIL, Geopolitical Competition and the Rise of Non-Western Imperialisms event at Yale Law School w/ Aslı Bâli, Ntina Tzouvala, Anastasiya Kotova, Rob Knox, and @VasukiNesia!

Join us: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Last days to apply for our SLSA seminar organised by HumanRightsLawCentre & Nottingham Law School Climate Justice Hub (shorturl.at/mnpKP):

‘Climate Change and Migration: New Challenges, Legal Responses, and Policy Solutions’

In collab with ESIL-SEDI, ICON•S

Deadline: 12 April

Details👇🏽

What about the investigation of the 33,000+ Palestinians, including 13,000+ children, that you have killed in the past six months?

fascinating how someone who wants to appear as pro self-determination is so eager to deny agency to a people and instead confirm a right of an imperial power to a contemporary version of grossraum. cool and normal leftist position to have.

Was the military lawyer present when 2,000 tom bombs were dropped on densely populated residential areas? When was the last time anyone in Gaza was safe?

This is an absolute must-read!

The first session of Lund University’s Human Rights Lunch Online series takes place tomorrow, where Daria presents her project “Refugee Finance: Histories, Frameworks, Practices”. More info: lu.se/evenemang/huma….

'Indeed, to be a Marxist and a lawyer promises to be a contradictory or schizoid existence.'

World Central Kitchen Today would have been Shireen's 53rd birthday

Today, the State of Palestine, and upon instructions of the Palestinian leadership, sent a letter the Secretary General requesting renewed consideration to Membership application State of Palestine - MFA 🇵🇸🇵🇸 António Guterres #Palestine United Nations

If in New Haven, come along to our workshop on TWAIL, Geopolitical Competition and Non-Western Imperialisms: lpeproject.org/events/twail-g… Thursday roundtable will be hybrid, Friday workshop in person. Terrific lineup with Wanshu Anastasiya Kotova Parvathi Menon Vincent Wong (vwlegal.bsky.social) Maryam Jamshidi (msjamshidi.bsky.social) 1/2

I am recruiting 3 PhD researchers for my European Research Council (ERC) StG '23 project GENESIS (genesis-erc.eu) UAntwerpLaw
If you have a background in law/social sciences & are interested in doing a PhD in international law/human rights, come join the GENESIS team! (Vacancy links⬇️)

well, today’s mail was certainly much better than the usual combo of bills and ads. an exciting volume with more than a hundred tributes to Lenin’s differing legacies from all over the world, edited by Hjalmar Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn and Patrick Anderson. do get your hands on it!