Adil Hasan Khan’s reflection celebrates Antony Anghie’s formative TWAIL text, drawing on Khan’s presentation at the ‘Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law: 20 Years On’ Conference organised by the Laureate Program on Global Corporations and International Law in Naarm/Melbourne on 7 and 8 August 2025.| TWAILR
This online lecture series seeks to foster interdisciplinary and historically-inflected discussions about how international law both shapes, and is shaped by, struggles over natural resources. In Semester 2, the lecture series will focus on resources struggles in the context of occupation around the world. We will collectively explore how struggles over resource plunder and exploitation shape the dynamics of occupation, and how peoples under occupation are contesting extraction and asserting...| TWAILR
Drones reshape our ethical reasoning. They have a formative effect on the pilot’s cognition and the legal and moral frameworks the individual is situated within.| E-International Relations
Hegseth’s attack on the ROE demonstrates a dangerously limited – and legally incorrect – view about these rules and what they are for. The post Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s War with the Rules of Engagement appeared first on Just Security.| Just Security
Trump's EO on Qatar raises a number of important legal and policy questions that merit careful consideration by Congress and the public. The post Some Questions About Trump’s Order Pledging to Defend Qatar’s Security appeared first on Just Security.| Just Security
If the U.S. and foreign partners could strategically deploy their counterterrorism programs to deliberately target a common enemy, all would mutually benefit. The post A New Approach in the Fight Against Transnational Violent Extremism is Needed appeared first on Just Security.| Just Security
Updated: Key words, phrases, and themes appear to express intent to eliminate Ukraine or Ukrainians as a nation-state, people, or culture. The post Russia’s Eliminationist Rhetoric Against Ukraine: A Collection appeared first on Just Security.| Just Security
Tess Bridgeman and Rachel Goldbrenner are joined by Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane to analyze the facts, the law, and implications of U.S. killings in the Caribbean. The post The Just Security Podcast: Murder on the High Seas Part II — What We Know about U.S. Vessel Strikes One Month In appeared first on Just Security.| Just Security
Global solidarity with Palestine has reached a moment unlike any in recent history. The recognition… The post The Sumud Flotilla And The Shipwreck Of International Law appeared first on RAIOT.| RAIOT
by Jomart Joldoshev, LL.M. The rise of artificial intelligence has transformed many aspects of daily life, including the way governments monitor public spaces. In Glukhin v. Russia, decided in July…| Federal Bar Association
Recording of Panel Discussion: Almost two years into a genocide that has sought to devastate all Palestinian life in Gaza, this move to conditionally recognize a Palestinian state comes across as a response essentially out of time. While this attempt at redeeming a liberal international legal order is no doubt far too little, far too late, what might a Palestinian national liberation movement tactically salvage and repurpose from this irredeemable wreck, and what should they approach with cau...| TWAILR
Almost two years into a genocide that has sought to devastate all Palestinian life in Gaza, this move to conditionally recognize a Palestinian state comes across as a response essentially out of time. While this attempt at redeeming a liberal international legal order is no doubt far too little, far too late, what might a Palestinian national liberation movement tactically salvage and repurpose from this irredeemable wreck, and what should they approach with caution? This panel critically exa...| TWAILR
Reading Time: 5minutesDisponible en français. Genocide, a crime under international law, has been officially recognized in several cases by national or international courts and tribunals, such as the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. However, states, non-governmental organizations and intergovernmental organizations such as... Read More › The post State Recognition of Genocide appeared first on HillNotes.| HillNotes
The US killed 11 people in a reported drone strike on a small boat in the Caribbean Sea on 3 September. Although it has not been confirmed that the strike was carried out by a drone, President Trum…| Drone Wars UK
Mohamed Thahir Sulaiman explores how the Global South has challenged mainstream notions of what it means for a state to be specially affected when it comes to customary international law formation. Sulaiman argues that the doctrine of specially affected states can be used to counteract hegemonic international law and amplify the voices of the Global South in shaping customary international law.| TWAILR
Positive international law is today in the grip of an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy and effectiveness, a phenomenon highlighted by King Mohammed VI in his speech at the opening of the 82nd session of the Institute of International Law, held in Rabat on August 24, 2025.| Morocco World News
By Sanjana Kumar — The climate crisis has been described internationally as “the greatest human rights challenge of the 21st century.” Despite this, there has been great difficulty in legally recognizing it as such. This article focuses on existing variability across paradigms used to assess climate suffering, exploring the legal basis for framing bureaucratic failure to address preventable harm as a violation of human rights. While the principle of a human rights framework exists withi...| Princeton Legal Journal
There was a small glimmer of good news on climate change last week: The International Court of Justice ruled that nation states have legal obligations under climate treaties and customary international law to protect "the climate system and other parts of the environment from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.” … Continue reading →| Unsolicited Feedback
More than 40,000 infants face the risk of death due to Israel’s continued ban on the entry of baby formula into Gaza, local authorities say.| Palestine Chronicle
Donald Trump withdrawing US from UN bodies, tearing up climate change treaties, attacking multilateral orgs, like Presidents Bush, Obama, Reagan. Imperialism is bipartisan in Washington.| Geopolitical Economy Report
The United Nations has said Keir Starmer's ban of Palestine Action could be a breach of international law as it was "disproportionate and unnecessary" to ban the group after it spray-painted an RAF aircraft red last month.| The Daily Sceptic
Topline takeaways World’s highest court finds all nations have a legal responsibility to act to reduce climate risk. Climate protection and a healthy, clean environment are implicit in all ot…| Climate Civics
Several Germans were killed by Israel in Gaza. Even though these are criminal offences, the German government does not want to prosecute them. International lawyers and the Left Party group in the Bundestag are criticising this. Since the attack by Palestinian groups on Israel on 7 October 2023 and Israel’s subsequent war, the German government […]| Matthias Monroy
Join us for an online event to launch the International Procedural Law Research Hub. The IPLR Hub will be based at the University of Glasgow School of Law, led by Dr Matina Papadaki and James Devaney, and funded initially by the Scottish Council on Global Affairs.| Scottish Council On Global Affairs
The Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC), also known as international humanitarian law (IHL), is a set of rules that govern warfare and aim to minimize harm to civilians and non-combatants. Alexandra Meise joins podcast editor Ron Granieri to examine the development of LOAC, which stems from treaties like the Geneva Conventions, domestic laws of individual states, and the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court. Their conversation delves into war crimes, crimes against humanity...| A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Cultural property encompasses both tangible artifacts and intangible heritage that shapes societies. Historian Matthias Rogg is back in the studio, this time with Laurie Rush, an archaeologist and anthropologist working as a Department of the Army civilian at Fort Drum, NY. Laurie, who has extensive experience supporting the Army in cultural property protection missions, highlights the importance of preserving cultural heritage during conflicts. Their conversation turns to the need for increa...| A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Cultural property encompasses both tangible artifacts and intangible heritage that shapes societies. Historian Matthias Rogg and international law expert Lando Kirchmair delve into the critical issue of protecting cultural property during armed conflicts. They discuss the multifaceted threats to cultural property, including destruction, seizure, misuse, and humiliation. Their conversation emphasizes the vital role of international law in safeguarding cultural treasures. They also highlight ho...| A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos on the 'spectacular pseudo-sanctions' against Israel that were recently announced by the UK government, and their role in normalising the settler-colonial project.| Legal Form
Organ transplantation surgery has saved countless lives since its advent in the 1950s. As the techniques and technologies used in transplantation medicine improve, positive outcomes for donors and recipients are increasing. Demand for this treatment, however, far exceeds organ availability. It is estimated that legal transplants performed cover the needs of only 10% of all patients on waiting lists worldwide. As a result, thousands of people die every year waiting for this procedure.| HillNotes
What is the role of the (legal) intellectual in social transformation today, amid escalating environmental and economic injustice, and the rise of racist regimes worldwide? How should the tactics o…| TWAILR
A roundtable discussion involving Sumedha Choudhury, Julia Dehm, André Dao, Haris Jamil, Richard Joyce, Adil Hasan Khan, Tanvee Nandan, Dianne Otto and Saika Sabir, expressing their indebtedness to…| TWAILR
"The West was given a choice today between the international criminal law project it kicked off at Nuremberg and impunity for Israel. It is choosing the latter and thus will destroy the former"| Phoenix Media Co-operative
Over 38,000 bodies recovered and thousands still missing as Gaza's Civil Defense faces immense challenges in the wake of Israel's genocidal assault.| Palestine Chronicle
Issue 5 is out now, including articles on Bob Marley, the neoliberal transformation of the Indian state, teaching international economic law in Africa, children of African Irish descent, settler co…| TWAILR
Contrary to the popular Zionist myth upon which the entire so-called 'peace process' was premised, UN Security Council Resolution 242 requires Israel to fully and immediately withdraw its armed forces from occupied Palestine.| Jeremy R. Hammond
Climate change—in the absence of legal and social protections—works as a threat multiplier that perpetuates gender inequalities and worsens socio-economic injustices in the MENA region| The Cairo Review of Global Affairs
ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan is seeking arrest warrants against two Israeli leaders, including Netanyahu, and three Hamas officials.| Jeremy R. Hammond
Katherine M. Koza "argues that a new U.N. cybercrime treaty should build on the strengths of the Budapest Convention by including a clearer 'extradite-or-prosecute' requirement for its signatories and by creating strong privacy requirements to counterbalance the risks created by any data-sharing provisions."| The University of Chicago Law Review Online Archive
Responding to Profs. Chander & Schwartz’s Privacy and/or Trade, Profs. Kristina Irion, Margot E. Kaminski & Svetlana Yakovleva argue that "international trade as a regime is fundamentally the wrong forum for striking a balance" between "the free flow of information and the protection of data privacy."| The University of Chicago Law Review Online
