Julian Arato
@aratojulian.bsky.social
Professor of Law, University of Michigan International law, trade, investment, contracts, corporations, etc
Michigan Law #MorningRead Introduction to the Symposium on Africa’s International Law of Democracy. Professor @aratojulian.bsky.social in @ajil.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Introduction to the Symposium on Africa’s International Law of Democracy | American Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core
Introduction to the Symposium on Africa’s International Law of Democracy - Volume 119
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Michigan Law #MorningRead Professor @aratojulian.bsky.social in the Michigan Journal of International Law: “The Institutions of Exceptions: Justification in Trade and Investment Treaties.” repository.law.umich.edu/mjil/vol47/i...
A Reckoning in the Emperor’s Court: Jamaica’s Reparations Petition to the Privy Council | by Britta Redwood
A Reckoning in the Emperor’s Court: Jamaica’s Reparations Petition to the Privy Council
On 7 September 2026, Jamaica, which remains a Commonwealth Country with King Charles III as its head of state, will formally present a petition to the King with three questions about the legality of transatlantic chattel slavery and the UK’s responsibility to make reparations. Jamaica’s petition is part of a decade-long coordinated campaign of Caribbean […]
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@gregorycshaffer.bsky.social and I show how the proposed tariff rates in USTR's forced-labor Section 301 report track whether or not a country has cut a deal with the U.S. administration, and not its policing of forced-labor imports for @justsecurity.org
The Cynicism Behind the Administration’s Proposed Forced Labor Tariffs
The USTR's proposed Section 301 tariffs are intended more to pressure countries to sign and implement deals than to protect labor.
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On the Trump administration's proposed forced labor tariffs: "If the United States is serious about the moral outrage of forced labor, it should address practices at home and work with foreign countries, including through technical assistance to developing countries in need of enforcement capacity"
Jeremiah May@jeremiahmay.bsky.social · 3mo ago@gregorycshaffer.bsky.social and I show how the proposed tariff rates in USTR's forced-labor Section 301 report track whether or not a country has cut a deal with the U.S. administration, and not its policing of forced-labor imports for @justsecurity.org
Most of Trump's current tariffs are only temporary, expiring in July. Last night we got more details of how the USTR is planning to replace them. The Trump administration is accusing 54 economies of failing to ban imports made with forced labour...
This analysis of the Declaration by @profveronika.bsky.social & Mikael Rask Madsen is both extremely informed and, not gonna lie, pretty therapeutic at this point: verfassungsblog.de/shopping-lis...
Shopping Lists and Steppingstones
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Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 5mo agoLabour has pushed for this for months, and finally they achieved it, ending universal human rights by making them conditional upon political will and bringing back a version of the Rwanda deal via the backdoor. 90/ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Orban concedes. Supermajority (constitutional amending power) within reach for Tisza opposition. A chance that must not be squandered.
mathieu gallard@mathieugallard.bsky.social · 6mo ago🗳️ Déclaration d'Orban devant ses partisans : "Le résultat est douloureux mais clair. La responsabilité de gouverner ne nous a pas été confiée. J’ai félicité le parti vainqueur. [...] Mes amis, nous allons servir la nation hongroise dans l’opposition." www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y_K...
🗳️ Le média en ligne d'opposition Partizan annonce que Viktor Orban a félicité Péter Magyar.
mathieu gallard@mathieugallard.bsky.social · 6mo ago🇭🇺🗳️ Sur 45,7% des bulletins dépouillés, le parti d'opposition TISZA de Péter Magyar dépasse la majorité des deux tiers au Parlement hongrois : 🔵Tisza (P. Magyar, conservateur) : 52%, 135 élus ⚫️Fidesz (V. Orban, droite populiste) : 39,4%, 57 élus ⚫️MH (extrême-droite) : 6,1%, 7 élus
🇭🇺🗳️ Sur 45,7% des bulletins dépouillés, le parti d'opposition TISZA de Péter Magyar dépasse la majorité des deux tiers au Parlement hongrois : 🔵Tisza (P. Magyar, conservateur) : 52%, 135 élus ⚫️Fidesz (V. Orban, droite populiste) : 39,4%, 57 élus ⚫️MH (extrême-droite) : 6,1%, 7 élus
mathieu gallard@mathieugallard.bsky.social · 6mo ago🇭🇺🗳️Résultats sur 37% des bulletins dépouillés 🔵Tisza (Magyar, conservateur) : 51,2%, 132 élus ⚫️Fidesz (Orban, droite populiste) : 40,1%, 59 élus ⚫️MH (extrême-droite) : 6,1%, 8 élus 🟣DK (social-libéral) : 1,2% 🟡MKKP (satirique) : 0,7% Le Fidesz ↘️ constamment, et la majorité des 2/3 est à 133 sièges.
🇭🇺🗳️Résultats sur 37% des bulletins dépouillés 🔵Tisza (Magyar, conservateur) : 51,2%, 132 élus ⚫️Fidesz (Orban, droite populiste) : 40,1%, 59 élus ⚫️MH (extrême-droite) : 6,1%, 8 élus 🟣DK (social-libéral) : 1,2% 🟡MKKP (satirique) : 0,7% Le Fidesz ↘️ constamment, et la majorité des 2/3 est à 133 sièges.
mathieu gallard@mathieugallard.bsky.social · 6mo ago🗳️ Résultats sur 21,5% des bulletins dépouillés : 🔵Tisza (P. Magyar, conservateur) : 49,4%, 128 élus ⚫️Fidesz (V. Orban, droite populiste) : 42%, 62 élus ⚫️MH (extrême-droite) : 6,1%, 8 élus 🟣DK (social-libéral) : 1,2% 🟡MKKP (satirique) : 0,7% ➡️ Majorité des 2/3 ou pas ?
🗳️ Résultats sur 21,5% des bulletins dépouillés : 🔵Tisza (P. Magyar, conservateur) : 49,4%, 128 élus ⚫️Fidesz (V. Orban, droite populiste) : 42%, 62 élus ⚫️MH (extrême-droite) : 6,1%, 8 élus 🟣DK (social-libéral) : 1,2% 🟡MKKP (satirique) : 0,7% ➡️ Majorité des 2/3 ou pas ?
mathieu gallard@mathieugallard.bsky.social · 6mo ago🗳️ Les résultats qui arrivent des circonscriptions rurales en déclin qui sont traditionnellement des fiefs du Fidesz sont vraiment très mauvais pour Orban.
SCOTUS strikes down Trumps Tariffs. “Based on two words … in 1702(a)(1)(B) of IEEPA—“regulate” and “importation”—the President asserts the independent power to impose tariffs on imports from any country, of any product, at any rate, for any amount of time. Those words cannot bear such weight”
My article, "Birthright Citizenship, Denaturalization, and the Specter of Statelessness" was published yesterday in the UCLA Law Review Discourse - just in time for all of the amicus briefs dropping. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Prof. Chiara Giorgetti and Amb. Franz Perrez introduce a Joint Symposium on Negotiating a Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity, a collaboration with our friends at @ejiltalk.bsky.social: www.justsecurity.org/128702/negot...
Negotiating a Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity – Introduction to the Joint Symposium
A symposium of expert analyses on advancing the draft International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity.
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Expropriation, Oil and the Prohibition on the Use of Force: Justification Narratives and the Effectiveness of International Law in the Venezuela Crisis | by Julian Scheu
Expropriation, Oil and the Prohibition on the Use of Force: Justification Narratives and the Effectiveness of International Law in the Venezuela Crisis
The US military intervention in Venezuela amounts to a manifest breach of the prohibition on the use of force under international law. Neither self-defence nor authorization by the UN Security Council...
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Ahora disponible en español. Este artículo, escrito junto a @aratojulian.bsky.social, analiza el ataque de Estados Unidos contra Venezuela y sus consecuencias a la luz del derecho internacional. lacritica.ar/post/ataque-...
My latest together with @justinauriburu.bsky.social No love lost for Maduro, and no apologies made for his regime. But the attack on Venezuela was plainly illegal. States can either say so clearly, or parse their way into a law of boundless exceptions and self-judgment.
EJIL: Talk!@ejiltalk.bsky.social · 9mo agoTrump’s Illegal Attack on Venezuela and Its Consequences | by @justinauriburu.bsky.social and @aratojulian.bsky.social
I found this blog post (co-authored by my colleague julian arato) very clear and helpful, fyi www.ejiltalk.org/trumps-illeg...
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One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen. - No reference to UN Charter legal justification - Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned) - Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal - Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989
NB Superb analysis by @justinauriburu.bsky.social @aratojulian.bsky.social: 'The attack on Panama, like this weekend’s attack on Venezuela, was simply illegal. In fact, several of these historical arguments have since become textbook examples of impermissible justifications under the jus ad bellum.'
EJIL: Talk!@ejiltalk.bsky.social · 9mo agoTrump’s Illegal Attack on Venezuela and Its Consequences | by @justinauriburu.bsky.social and @aratojulian.bsky.social
"The Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement [121 member States] categorically condemns the act of aggression perpetrated by the United States . against . Venezuela ... which included armed attacks against civilian and military locations"
"the military aggression of January 3rd against targets in the territory of Venezuela [was] in clear violation of article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations" "These actions must not be allowed" "It is for sovereign peoples to decide their destiny"
"Brazil categorically and firmly rejects the armed intervention in Venezuelan territory in flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations and of international law" "an extremely dangerous precedent for the entire international community"
"Chile would like to express our deep concern and firm condemnation of the unilateral military action taken by the United States in the territory of . Venezuela." "Chile does not recognize the Maduro regime. But serious violations of human rights faced by Venezuela do not have a military solution."
"The unilateral military strikes carried out by the United States . wantonly violates the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independence of Venezuela" "Any enforcement of domestic law, including arrest, by one State within the territory of another . is an unlawful violation of sovereignty"
Justina Uriburu @justinauriburu.bsky.social and Julian Arato @aratojulian.bsky.social: "Trump’s Illegal Attack on Venezuela and Its Consequences" The attack "was plainly illegal" - "a flagrant and grave violation" of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, "and a severe breach of US law". 1/12
Markus Krajewski@krajewskimarkus.bsky.social · 9mo agoPlease read: www.ejiltalk.org/trumps-illeg...
"The military operation ... runs counter to the principle of non-use of force" "The proliferation of violations of the [UN] Charter ... by States vested with responsibility as permanent members of the Security Council chips away at the very foundation of the international order"
