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International law, historical materialism, Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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International Law & the Question of Palestine: A Reading List A great resource covering 23 topics on IL and Palestine, historical and contemporary👇 twailr.com/internationa...

My new book - 'A Pacific Power' - has a cover, and you can pre-order it! www.waterstones.com/book/a-pacif...

Very excited to see my newest article, ‘Colonialism on the Defensive: Australia in the UN Trusteeship Council’ has now been published in the International History Review! I started working on this in 2020 so I’m glad it’s finally out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jairus Banaji's recent talk at UCL is now published. A great introduction to the origins of capitalism debate and his own contributions to it. www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/reto...

an endowed chair in What Is Even Going On

this one is at least funny since "not from the faculty lounge, but from the assembly line" is the kind of thing you are much likelier to hear in a faculty lounge than anywhere else

Look forward to my @ucllaws.bsky.social inaugural lecture this Thursday night www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

LPE friends, big announcement! 🔥🔥 This Sept, the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association! Been working hard on this, with an amazing crowd of LPE fac and groups - more here: law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau....

This is a ridiculous and damaging move from the ARC which should cause all academics here and abroad substantial concern. www.afr.com/policy/healt...

I just checked and this is a real result in Google search.

Wired: $5 subscription for one year (seriously) www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi... Rolling Stone: $7.99 per month (though you can find deals if you like) www.rollingstone.com/subscribe/ Teen Vogue: No subscription, but you can sign up for their newsletters www.teenvogue.com/newsletter

I am a signatory of this letter, but I am also a keen observer of my field since the genocide started in 2023. The gap opening between parts of my field is massive and does not follow prior methodological divides. International law is a discipline in crisis. voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...

How is this any different from Trump’s DEI inspired attack on higher ed? Democrats normalizing attacks on free speech, free thought and academic freedom are as troubling as their GOP counterparts.

"Either we act together to enforce international law or we risk its collapse." Read 🇨🇴 Gustavo Petro, 🇿🇦 Cyril Ramaphosa, 🇲🇾 Anwar Ibrahim and Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla in Foreign Policy: https://buff.ly/4hTpwTs

When my grandfather, a European Jewish refugee and WWII vet, passed away in 2007, I remember talking to a family friend at the funeral. The friend, a former Leo Strauss student, worried about how few people even then were still alive who remembered the struggle of that time. 1/4

If you have watched Conclave, you will sure know that the Pope has a chance to do the funniest thing here.

Notably, the Trump Organization is a family business devoted to personal branding, not a publicly-traded company accountable to a board of directors and to shareholders who can review its finances. And while Tesla is publicly traded, Xitter is Musk's personal property.

Above is what happened to AfD’s support after Musk zoomed in to their rally, below is what happened to the Left’s—if you’re wondering about his ability to play global puppet master.

Only the finest management and HR talent can end up spending $1.1 million on lawyers (just their own!) for an issue with a temporary employee who had two days left on her contract. In awe of the skills.

This is, with all respect to my colleagues who in good faith hold other views, the place I'm tentatively at with AI. Put aside the ethical reasons to oppose AI. Put aside the educational ones. There's a decent chance AI will have gone the way of the NFT before our incoming crop of LLB's graduate.

NBC almost now white enough to be confused with Australian network TV

Folks from across the LPE landscape are coming together to create an LPE Association (democratic, membership-based, dues-paying), which will launch at the first ever NATIONAL LPE CONFERENCE!! Save the date Sept 11-13!! law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau...

issue with “hire more conservative professors” is that they don’t mean “hire a smart guy who happens to think taxes should be lower”, they mean “hire a movement conservative”, and these days there are multiple litmus tests for being that type of person that are “insist this false thing is true”

"In the evening, [Pope Francis] called the parish priest of Gaza to express his paternal closeness." "It has been reported that the Holy Family parish in Gaza had sent a video, and the Pope called to thank them." Not Catholic myself, but this is legendary stuff. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

we are many

Brazil, Chile, Morocco, Nigeria, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan each bought enough solar panels from China in 2024 to meet between 3% and 5% of their annual electricy demand. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Vulgar Marxism being mostly right most of the time

Over the weekend Steve Bannon: - Proclaimed support for Israel - Did a sieg heil salute - Issued threats against progressive American Jews. Bannon and his actions epitomize what it means to be an antisemitic supporter of Israel in our government.

With due respect, Senator, federal employees are not “his staff.” The whole damned problem here is that federal employees in no legal sense report to Elon Musk.

having to sell my ability to work in order to survive sucks, cause I need to 'write emails to follow up' and 'gently remind' people things, and 'do my own own research', while what I SHOULD to be doing is stay at home and learn the choreography to Abracadabra.

The future belongs to the Luddites

In Jacobin, Julia Damphouse observes that losing their "anti-woke" faction helped Die Linke regain its footing as a straightforwardly left party. That's encouraging! Perhaps something similar could be possible in the US. Maybe even at certain left-wing magazines. jacobin.com/2025/02/germ...

Danish Marxism has arrived in the colonies @sorenmau.bsky.social

With another set of news headlines about political elites using “””Roman salutes””” I just want to note that the Nazi salute means “I want to murder your family” and the n-word means “I want to lynch you.” That’s what they mean, they make me righteously angry, and I won’t let anybody minimize them.

I just wish that we actually cared about antisemitism in this country. But instead yall had congressional hearings vilifying students and faculty (of all races & ethnicities) protesting genocide and silence with actual sieg heiling by white suprmacists.

NATO can't protect Europe from Russia because the US has defected. The EU can't because UK is no longer a member. The UN can't because of Russia & US. We need a body with Europe + UK but not Russia + US, with existing admin infrastructure. What I'm saying is: arm the Eurovision Song Contest.

'In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.' is such a beautiful indictment of bourgeois culture.

my anecdotal evidence is that young women (say, under 30) are both very queer and very left-wing and I am extremely interested in the route of causation. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a twist on 'political lesbianism': not being queer as politics, but being queer cause men's politics is trash

Warm welcome to join a new reading group on "Making and Unmaking Natural Resources" convened by Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social and myself. 10am AEDT Tuesdays fortnightly from 11 March 2025, via Zoom (with winter break), email for link and readings! lawecologypolitics.com/making-and-u...

“It is difficult to say that [Terfism] is not feminism, that the philosophical and movement roots of their whole deal is not feminism,” Lewis said. “That’s the bad news. But the good news is that there were always other feminists fighting them tooth and nail. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

you know this is sincere animosity because egging something is a significant expense these days

If you’re a federal employee who got an email from Elon asking what you did last week, reply, “Not as much ketamine as you did, fuckwad”

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.