An important and wide-ranging interview with Nahed Samour on international law and Palestine, among other things on the role of law and narrative, on the relation between positivism and critique, and on transnational resistance: academic.oup.com/lril/advance...

International law, populism and Palestine: an interview with Nahed Samour

In this interview, Dr Richard Joyce and Professor Sundhya Pahuja are joined by German-Palestinian international legal scholar, Dr Nahed Samour, currently b

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I am happy that this finally out now—and we are now very close to the publication of the full special issue. Stay tuned!

Jens Theilen@jtheilen.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Another article from our special issue on frames of human rights is out: @esrademir.bsky.social’s fantastic piece on oppositional frames, analysing how concepts like authoritarianism and populism are used and what this tells us about the Council of Europe itself www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

a timely and important symposium at @voelkerrechtsblog.org : ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’ voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...

Introducing the Symposium ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’

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“Both B’Tselem and PHR said Israel’s western allies were enabling the genocidal campaign, and shared responsibility for suffering in Gaza. “It couldn’t happen without the support of the western world,” Novak said. “Any leader that is not doing whatever they can to stop it is part of this horror.””

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups

@jtheilen.bsky.social und ich haben für @verfassungsblog.de das Ramstein-Urteil analysiert. Trotz der sehr hohen Hürden, die das Gericht für staatliche Schutzpflichten aufstellt, wird klar: Bei Waffenlieferungen an Israel muss eine solche Pflicht greifen.

Vertrauen und Vertretbarkeit

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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency earlier this month. There's a LOT to be said about its content, but for now, I am sharing my first impressions in case you are interested 😎

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South Contribution to Climate Governance

On 3 July 2025, Justice Nancy Hernandez, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), announced the issuance of the new Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency (AO-32). In front o...

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Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

How do we make sense of what's happening in Germany? "...there is active suppression of speech, but that the reason may not be law, but obedience or something beyond “law”." Stacy Douglas engages in a significant discussion here: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/08/i...

From economy of occupation to economy of genocide www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Nervous Conditions

‘I appreciate depreciation’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Katrina Forrester · ‘I appreciate depreciation’: Dynastic Capitalism

Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of...

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The Material Foundations of War

Three emerging dynamics in the global economy: slowdown, militarization, and geopolitical tensions

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"Trump is little more than a symptom of the forces that over decades have produced this gradual decline, though he may also prove to be the final nail in the coffin." www.bostonreview.net/articles/asl...

America's Imperial Unraveling - Boston Review

Could Trump's repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?

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When we are all enemies of the state www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

When We Are All Enemies of the State - Boston Review

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.

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Drawing a line under extreme wealth "the very idea of an extreme wealth line focuses public and political thinking and narratives around the question of how much is too much." www.openglobalrights.org/the-human-ri...

The human rights case for drawing a line under extreme wealth

An extreme wealth line focuses attention on a simple question: How much is too much?

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These are just lies. Iran didn’t actually leave the negotiating table. Israel simply bombed Iran and now the US has joined. And the UK just declared that it supports these bombings. It’s difficult to stress how dangerous this all is, and how reckless Starmer is

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: Keir Starmer reacts to the US bombing Iran’s nuclear sites

Following contributions by @cohelongo.bsky.social, @drqv.bsky.social, and @vanditak.bsky.social, the 4th piece in our special issue on Framing Europe in Human Rights, authored by Nurbanu Hayır, has just been published. Available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Another paper from our special issue on Frames of European human rights is out: “Seriously ill migrants in European human rights: Framing global inequalities” by @vanditak.bsky.social — absolute must-read on humanitarianism, responsibility & structural inequality www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Arboreality

If I were teaching a course on authoritarianism, I would ask students for an essay comparing Harvard with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. So different, on the one hand, and comparable, on the other.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Rachel Malik | ‘It’s enough now’

My mother would say, simply and unmelodramatically, to anyone she knew well, that she wanted to die: ‘I’ve had...

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"For the last thirty years there has been almost no new scholarship on the Peasants’ War. After reunification the subject was simply too difficult, because the former East and the former West had diametrically opposed interpretations of it." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Lyndal Roper | How is the German Peasants’ War remembered?

Five hundred years ago this week, the rebels of the German Peasants’ War, or Bauernkrieg, were defeated in a series of...

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Join us for the conference "Utopian Imagination and Dystopian Practices: Future in the Past / Past in the Future" June 6-7, 2025 @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI "We need the energy in all forms, renewable, non-renewable, whatever." futurism.com/google-ceo-c...

Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI

Billionaire tech tycoon Eric Schmidt told Congress that 99 percent of electricity will soon be used to power AI.

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Scary... www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Misogyny in the metaverse

Advances in technology and artificial intelligence have created a brave new world – and women are hated here, too.

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CCRD Konuşmaları Ali Yalçın Göymen'le Mayıs 20 Salı günü devam ediyor. Berlin'deyseniz bekleriz. @goymenyalcin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social @irgac-rls.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social

I fell asleep reading #Arboreality by R. Campbell, a collection of stories about ecological collapse. In the morning, instead of news on degrowth, I find myself scrolling through headline after headline about expanding military collaborations and massive tech investments. Which one is the fiction?

I have just heard of the passing of Françoise Hampson. Rest in peace, Françoise Hampson. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...

Françoise Hampson obituary

Human rights lawyer who argued cases challenging the territorial limits of responsibility for military operations

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This week, we had one and only @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social in my Human Rights & Global Governance class. Lys shared valuable insights into the role of special sapporteurs within the UN system, the mandate of the SP on the Right to Food, and the recent report on starvation. @hertiecfr.bsky.social

📄 New article: Colonialism continues to shape the project of European human rights. In this article I trace the continuity of civilizational hierarchies in the ECtHR’s case-law on extraterritoriality and European consensus Available in EJIL @ejiltalk.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...