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crisveijk.bsky.social
International law, the space commons, and how they're made. PhD @newcastleuni.bsky.social | 🇺🇸🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈 | 🔊: krɪs van aɪk | he/him https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/research/students/current-pgr-students/cristian-van-eijk/
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The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

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Live shot of my reaction to this, thanks to @matteobassetti.bsky.social.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Project 2025: 35% complete in 32 days in office www.project2025.observer

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Asked FAA if it’ll require investigation of SpX 2nd stage debris in Poland. Answer: “SpaceX informed the FAA the company is working to confirm whether the space debris found in Poland belongs to them. Contact SpaceX for additional information.”

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The Wallet Inspector is coming.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Important to stop phrasing & headlining things as "Trump does XXX" (e.g. "Trump fires all USPS heads and integrates it under Commerce"); we can simply say he is purporting to do XXX, or claiming the power to do XXX. Mere fact of a president saying he did something doesn't will it into existence.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Me and my pending MDR would really like if it this side of the federal firestorm could calm down pls.

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UPDATE: The JFK Library will reopen tomorrow, February 19. Good news. But this obviously isn't over.

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The first meeting of the Deakin Law School feminist reading group has been completed and it is universally agreed that the chapter by @matteobassetti.bsky.social on trans pathologisation and the right to life is in fact a banger

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So much of this depends on (opposing) lawyers and judges being unaware or uncertain enough about the science to defer to ignorance. The whole edifice collapses *so* quickly if they don't.

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"Long hours of trawling through the historical archives (OK, reading his Wikipedia entry)" There's an old trope that archivists work at 'the archive' (singular), an actual place with walls and doors; researchers visit 'the archives' (plural), an imaginary where they are Colombus of the records.

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This is a remarkable exchange and also the way journalists should consistently be framing their reporting on this. With skepticism. With insistence on proof of the assertion and specific examples of the harm caused. Too much benefit of the doubt is given, and that is antithetical to our training.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I keep being torn between 'We're so far through the looking glass that history is not longer useful' and 'A critical historical perspective has never been more important'...😑

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

This new book in the Brill Diplomatic Studies series explores how diplomatic pressure shapes global governance at the UN. Naif Al-Mulla shows the impact on foreign policy + global multilateral outcomes. @ISGA_Hague @isadiplomacy @Brill_Social brill.com/display/titl...

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Mia Mottley, everyone. youtu.be/m5VhPF8rsYU

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Can I have three?

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Coming soon: Elon's Mars Utopia, where your drinking water or employment rights may be suddenly axed for "budget efficiency".

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 8 days ago • 382 comments

I... don't quite know what to say to this.

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Credit to the programmers who decided, 65 years ago, that international law was important enough to set their default date to when the Metric Convention was signed. ... *Kinda* wish they'd chosen the date that it entered into force (1 January 1876).

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Politico: "the U.S. scheme 'might not work' as it could fall afoul of Ukrainian law." UNGA Res 1803 (XVII) on Permanent Sovereignty Over Natural Resources, para 4: "the owner shall be paid appropriate compensation, in accordance with the rules in force in the State taking such measures..."

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Spare me from folk who said nothing about the treatment of the Chagossians over their 50 years of forced displacement by the UK but have now discovered them as a means to thwart the deal over islands which the UK has no lawful basis for holding. Bonus points for making it all about NI.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Read Danielle Sassoon’s letter explaining how Eric Adams’s counsel offered a quid pro quo, Emil Bove told the other DOJ lawyers in the room not to take notes, and then made the deal. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

Okay everyone, this is a great regular reminder to go read @caitstorr.bsky.social's work on Trusteeship and the colonial harms of 'benevolent' language like this.

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Ep. 29 of #CalledToTheBar is live! What do we make of the ICJ judicial plagiarism controversy? What does it tell us about the judicial role and judicial ethics? @drnajimagi.bsky.social unpacks the issues with @mikebecker.bsky.social and @kyrawigard.bsky.social soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

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This is so close to the stated justification for Indian Removal--that it would be better for the Cherokees and others Natives to be moved West of the Mississippi--although not even Andrew Jackson stooped to calling the "Trail of Tears" majestic.

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

@washingtonpost: Breaking news: The Kennedy Center board of trustees voted Wednesday afternoon to install President Trump as chairman of the board, cementing the plan Trump announced Friday to overhaul the storied arts institution with him at its helm.

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