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Public international law advocate and academic lawyer: 6 St James Hall International, Sydney, 3VB Barristers, London, Australian National University, Vice President and former President International Law Association (ILA).
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Has anyone given Vance and Trump lettuces yet?

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Coalition of the sane.

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It's a thing called precedent.

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It is time to create an 'Axis of Sanity' that starts in Canada and ends in Australia and New Zealand. Enough is enough.

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The first meaningful analyses of the practical devastation to follow the despicable slashing of USAID projects are starting to be identified. apnews.com/article/trum...

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I am very pleased to be speaking on the topic of international law and the resolution of groundwater disputes in the Middle East and Africa in Riyadh. @ASSELLMU

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www.commonwealthlawyers.com/statement/cc...

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Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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An apparently serious statement that the USA will "take" Gaza is utterly inconsistent with bedrock international law and has no place in our world.

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www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

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www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

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The rule of law, domestic and international, requires lawyers and the judiciary to stand strong, affirm the place of law in a healthy democracy, and adhere to legal principle.

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For the avoidance of doubt, an occupying power is not entitled to cede the occupied territory to a third State and the third State does not thereby gain any form of sovereignty, whether to build condominiums and casinos or otherwise.

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Article 49(1) Geneva IV, and customary international law, and jus cogens, render this mad thought bubble utterly illegal.

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Professor Johns will be a terrific Dean of the Sydney Law School @sydneyuni.bsky.social. Welcome back @fleurjohns.bsky.social! #auslaw #internationallaw www.sydney.edu.au/law/news-and...

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@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling. It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks. Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

submitted 30 days ago • 20 comments

Article 49, Geneva IV. Enough said.

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Distressingly, one of the first executive orders is to make wildly false claims about the death penalty and call for its wider use in the US. As a long-term death penalty advocate and campaigner the call for more state killings is deeply disturbing. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Today the Society turns 119 years old! We were formally established on this day in 1906 at the NYC Bar Association by people who wanted to prevent war and make peace. Our activities have broadened since, but we still serve the same mission. Find out more at asil.org/about.

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The Guardian view on capital punishment: an upsurge in executions should concern us all | Editorial www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A principled and overdue decision. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/u...

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Sydney, The Hague, London, Malta. A very full week of challenging international law work on complex human rights matters, climate change and capital punishment. Beginning with the ILA Australia event to celebrate former President Margaret Brewster and ending with the launch of new ILA Malta Branch.

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Tomorrow the execution of Masoud Rahimi, aged 34 is intended in Singapore. He was only 20 when arrested. This is a continuing horror and one of many healthy precious lives taken needlessly iland cruelly in the past weeks.

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BREAKING: Downing Street has said the government would fulfill its legal obligations in relation to the ICC after they issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu

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The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope - Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex

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www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/...

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I was delighted to address issues of groundwater and aquifer resources at Dubai Arbitration Week on Thursday, joining my 3 VB colleagues Dr Cameron Miles, Professor Attila M. Tanzi, Jane Davies Evans KC and Georges Chalfoun on a panel on freshwater scarcity and litigious issues.

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Final Conclusions Published - ILA 150th Anniversary Conference 2023 www.ila-hq.org/en/news-arti... 2023 marked 150 years since the creation of the International Law Association (ILA)

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I am pleased to have joined this community and look forward to more international lawyers joining as twitter fades into obscurity.

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