My latest article evaluating the impact of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on #WesternSahara at 50 has been published #OpenAccess on the Journal of International Dispute Settlement. Spoiler: it's probably not what you expect! academic.oup.com/jids/article...

The legacy of the ICJ’s Western Sahara opinion 50 years after its adoption

Abstract. In 2025 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) marks 50 years since its advisory opinion on Western Sahara, which confirmed the Ṣaḥrāwī people’

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We’re excited to kick off our third annual Nottingham International Criminal Law Conference this morning, bringing together leading academics, practitioners & policymakers to discuss current issues and recent developments in the field. #UoN_ICJ26 #IntlCrimJustice For updates, follow along here 🧵⤵️

Our fourth session features an open panel, broadly covering the limits of Intl Criminal Justice. Chaired by Mando Rachovitsa @rachovitsa.bsky.social, with Andrea Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social, Michelle Coleman @michellecoleman.bsky.social & Róisín Mulgrew @roisinmulgrew.bsky.social #UON_ICJ26

Update: the biggest supermarket in my neighborhood closed down because all the refrigerators stopped working because of the heat (??)

One of the many funny things of living in the UK as an Italian is that the country literally freaks out when it hits 30°: schools closed, meetings canceled, trains stop working... literally!

Ehud Olmert: Israel Is Conducting a Systematic Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity in the West Bank "These are unprecedented and harsh accusations ... especially from a former prime minister. But after years of restraint, I have no choice" www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

Israel is conducting a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank | Opinion

These Are Unprecedented and Harsh Accusations Against an Israeli Government and the Defense Establishment, Especially From a Former Prime Minister. But After Years of Restraint, I Have No Choice but t...

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We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. Will you join over 106,000 women and add your name to the list? https://notinourname.org.uk/petition/not-in-our-name-women-in-support-of-the-trans-community/

The #ICJ has fixed exceedingly long time-limits for the second round of written pleadings in South Africa v Israel (SA's reply is due 22 Nov 2027, ISR's rejoinder is due 22 May 2029). This likely means that no judgment on the merits should be expected until late 2030 at the absolute earliest.

If I’m understanding the Home Office’s trial age assessment tech, it gets people’s ages wrong by an *average* of 2.5-3 years, is inaccurate for the most crucial cohort (teenagers) and is worse in assessing women/girls and non-white people (umm…) but they’re going for it anyway, because computer

Jonathan Kingham@jonkingh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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“The report said the cases the UN had verified were carried out against 14 men, seven women, nine boys and one girl. The violations included rape, gang rape, forced nudity, & violence to genitals committed by officers from the Israeli military, police and prison service.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel put on UN sexual violence in warzones blacklist for first time

Israel says it rejects allegations in a new report by the office of the UN secretary general.

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Great how CSJ's report came out in the same week as the actual independent review into youth unemployment, which specifically found that immigration was not a main driver of youth unemployment. www.gov.uk/government/p...

Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21

Doing a bit of crowdsourcing: For a research project, I am trying to identify universities or law schools that have made express efforts to hire conservative faculty. Would be grateful if folks could post job announcements that reflected this trend!

My piece "From Settlement to Genocide: The State-Sponsored Demographic Engineering of Palestine and the Challenge of Enforcement in the Aftermath of the 2024 ICJ's Advisory Opinion on Israel's Occupation" (2024) has been published in the Bogazici Conference Book www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Shocking details in this report by UNSR #Torture Alice Edwards. Horrific abuse, sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners by #Israel. & importantly, incl details of denial of right to adequate std of living- sanitation, food, water. Disgraceful conditions. #humanRights www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Special Rapporteur on torture warns of persistent risks for Palestinian detainees, implores Israel to change course

GENEVA – The Special Rapporteur on torture today urged Israel to review and revise its detention laws, policies and practices, in her latest transmission of a substantial body of torture allegations, ...

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One of my favorite genres lately is evidently AI-generated LinkedIn posts complaining about AI in academia: "This is not only X. It's Y. We shouldn't just do X -- we should do Y, Z, and W." Alrighty...

WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda ‘emergency’ of international concern

WHO declares Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda ‘emergency’ of international concern

At least 80 deaths reported in Congo’s Ituri province while Uganda reports spread from travellers from the DRC The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern”. The WHO on Sunday said the outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, does not meet the criteria of a pandemic emergency. Continue reading...

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📢 Undergrads researching the Holocaust — want to present at a conference? The BIAHS Postgraduate Conference has an undergraduate panel on 2 June at the University of Southampton. Ask your supervisor to nominate you by 18 May 👇 biahspg2026@gmail.com #HolocaustStudies #BIAHS2026

Our latest legal analysis of the first known case of "right to remain" in the UK amid displacement due to climate change has been published by the RLI blog 👇

Refugee Law Initiative@rli-sas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New on the #RLIBlog 'Leave to Remain for “Climate Refugees”: UK Human Rights Appeal Granted on Climate Change Grounds' by Andrea Maria Pelliconi, Gamal Basha, and Sourina Bej. rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/04/21/l... #climaterefugees #asylumseekers #ukrefugees

Disasters displace two people every second. Yet, a draft treaty on the Protection of Persons in the event of Disasters barely refers to displacement. Our 2-page brief explains why – and how – displacement, evacuations and planned relocations should be added www.unsw.edu.au/kaldor-centr...

The World Bank, the EU, and the UN have issued the "Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment", documenting housing and infrastructure destruction in the Strip and assessing actions for reconstruction: thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/e539c...

Very pleased to share this piece, co-authored with Aldo Zammit-Borda & Stefan Mandelbaum, published in the American Journal of International Law (@ajil.bsky.social): 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘓𝘊 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴: 𝘈𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘗𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 (Open Access) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

As an Italian, this is embarrassing on so many levels

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3mo ago

Trump envoy seeks to replace Iran with Italy in upcoming World Cup ft.trib.al/3HAGfpw

Join my colleagues and I on Wednesday, 22 April at 2.30pm UK for a discussion on the situation in the Middle East and International Law 👉 teams.microsoft.com/meet/3679082... Kindly hosted by the Centre for International Law & Globalisation

The President of Iran condemns insults to the Pope and the desecration of Jesus by the President of the United States. What a time to be alive.

Every single country that does not cease all relations with Israel is complicit in today's massacres in Lebanon

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

Lebanon: ICRC outraged by deadly strikes in densely populated areas

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is outraged by the devastating death and destruction in densely populated areas across Lebanon today following intensified military operations.

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New blog post out in @opiniojuris.bsky.social w/ @natasamav.bsky.social ! We contributed to a great symposium on Prosecuting "Heads of State", discussing "Punishing the powerful" and the allure and limits of the penal accountability paradigm ⚖️ Read here: opiniojuris.org/2026/03/27/s...

Symposium on Prosecuting Heads of State for International Crimes: Punishing the Powerful – The Allure and Limits of the Penal Accountability Paradigm

[Natasa Mavronicola is a Professor of Human Rights Law at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham; co-editor of Coercive Human Rights: Positive Duties to Mobilise the Criminal Law under the…

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This week, Israel’s Defense Minister said Israel would occupy the area south of the Litani River in Lebanon, where hundreds of thousands of people live. That area is around 8% of Lebanon’s territory and is larger than Bahrain, New York City or Singapore. It is twice the size of Gaza.

Sewage released into England’s rivers and seas nearly 300,000 times last year

Sewage released into England’s rivers and seas nearly 300,000 times last year

Campaigners criticise frequent use of storm overflows when parts of the country were in drought for months Raw sewage was discharged into rivers and seas almost 300,000 times last year after the driest spring for more than 100 years and the sunniest and warmest year on record in England. Water companies released raw sewage into rivers and seas from storm overflows, designed to be used in extreme wet weather conditions, 291,492 times. This was a 35% reduction on record spills in 2024. Average discharges were 20.5 spills for each overflow, compared with 31.8 in the previous year. Continue reading...

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The Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social at UNSW Law & Justice is excited to offer two PhD scholarships in law to examine the role of evacuations in different contexts. Applications due 18 May 2026; details here: www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...

ARC Laureate Fellowship: PhD Scholarships on Evacuations | UNSW Sydney

UNSW Law & Justice offers two PhD scholarships for researchers who are part of the Evacuations Research Hub . Join our community of scholars today.

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