Facing a Surge of Criticism, Argentines Have Something to Say www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...

Argentines Facing Surge of Criticism After World Cup Loss Have Something to Say (Gift Article)

Many Argentines condemned their players’ racist chants and aggressive behavior during the World Cup, but rejected what felt like a sweeping stigmatization of their entire nation.

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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been making headlines for months. But what does it reveal about the deeper shifts underway in the global energy economy? Justina Uriburu is joined by Jorge Vinuales and Sergio Puig to explore the present and future of energy and international law’s role in it.

EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 44: One Strait, Many Chokepoints: International Law and the New Geopolitics of Energy

The war in the Middle East has plunged the world into yet another crisis. Days are paced by minute-by-minute updates: at first, tragic reports of civilian deaths and incendiary threats from US Preside...

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Expansive post on our book by @himself.bsky.social whose work with @abenewman.bsky.social has been so illuminating. Interestingly, some of his points about Musk's geopolitical vulnerabilities we pick up on in a piece for @foreignpolicy.com coming later today. open.substack.com/pub/programm...

What would Muskism be without Musk?

The mode of production behind the man

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War in Iran is turbocharging the case for the global energy transition • Policymakers increasingly see shift to renewables as crucial for energy security • Chinese firms manufacture ~70% of worldwide clean-tech supplies, making them well-placed to benefit from trend www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I am deeply honoured to have received the John Jackson Prize from the Journal of International Economic Law (JIEL) for my article ‘Dollar Dominance, De-Dollarization, and International Law’. www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

'[T]he task facing a mature society is to adapt its methods of financing universities to sustaining the purposes for which such institutions exist – rather than, as at present, the other way round'. @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

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Final version up! “The Post-Legitimacy Court,” with Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The Post-Legitimacy Court | The Supreme Court Review: Vol 2025, No null

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A thought for those redesigning universities: 'Any question about the future economics of AI begins with identifying what becomes scarce.' Education is a sector 'where the value of the service is likely to be increasingly linked to the human providing them'. aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-...

What will be scarce?

The economics of structural change and the post-commodity future of work

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I'm delighted to be serving on the Program Committee for the ASIL Abroad Meeting on 'International Legal Order at a Crossroads'. Buenos Aires is a great location and a reminder that legal debates should not be confined to their usual centres. Join us! asil.org/asil-abroad/

2026 ASIL Abroad - Buenos Aires - ASIL

Online Registration Open July 6-7, 2026 The International Legal Order at a Crossroads: Rupture, Resilience, and Renewal The international legal order is facing a moment of profound uncertainty. Armed...

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Andrew Chubb’s EJIL article asks whether international law helps drive confrontation. His study of China’s South China Sea policy shows that UNCLOS has not only structured legal argument but has also helped contribute to interstate maritime conflicts.

International Law as a Driver of Confrontation? UNCLOS and China’s Policy in the South China Sea

Abstract. Could international law contribute to interstate maritime conflicts? A close tracing of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) policies in the So

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Fordham Law Prof. Harlan Cohen (@harlangcohen.bsky.social) appeared on the Michigan Journal of International Law podcast's first episode, discussing how shifts in global power lead to shifts in the international order—potentially reopening interpretative fights over the meaning of security & more.

MJIL Podcast Episode 1: Professor Harlan Grant Cohen

YouTube video by Michigan Journal of International Law

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'For scholars to give up the vocation they’ve spent around 10 years training for, often at the expense of acquiring any other work experience, is a sign that something is truly rotten in the state of UK academia.' www.telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/c...

Today, a spring scouting report on some of the hottest new LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. Congrats to all the authors on such wonderful placements 🎉

Some of the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship

A selection of worthy additions to your “important PDFs” folder.

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De-Dollarization Mainstreaming Today, in the NYT, we read that: 'There is a desperate desire in the world to escape the clutches of the dollar-denominated system'. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...

War and Sanctions Accelerate China’s Currency Push

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@bentarnoff.com and I went long on the Muskism-Fordism comparison, drawing on the Regulation School to ask what social settlement is being offered alongside the Big Tech regime of accumulation and whether they aren‘t perversely harmed by the absence of counterparty. lpeproject.org/blog/muskism...

Watching Budapest fall in 2026 is for national conservatives what watching Budapest fall in 1956 was for reform communists.

Interested in why the (eroding) centrality of the dollar matters for UK trade and investment policy? Then read this briefing paper I co-wrote with economists Jun Du, Sambit Bhattacharyya, and Alejandro Fiorito.

CITP@thecitp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Policy action is needed now. The UK would be a fool not to. Read our latest briefing paper 👉 citp.ac.uk/publications... @fjquintana.com, Sambit Bhattacharyya @sussex.ac.uk

Outright strategic defeat

Aman Batheja@amanbatheja.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New: The White House is signaling that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not a must-have to end the Iran War, potentially setting the stage for Iran to continue to flex its strategic position over one of the world's busiest oil shipping channels for the foreseeable future

'When Iran slammed shut the [Strait of Hormuz], it didn’t just disrupt shipping lanes. It placed maximum stress on the architecture of dollar dominance at its most physical chokepoint.' fortune.com/2026/03/24/i...

Iran, the $39 trillion national debt and dedollarization: How Trump exposed America's Achilles Heel in Hormuz | Fortune

With the national debt at $39 trillion and dollar dominance already at a 30-year low, the petrodollar system is more visible—and threatened—than ever.

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“With the US destroying its own credibility, the opportunity is Beijing’s for the taking.” Discuss.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4mo ago

A blueprint for Chinese global leadership ft.trib.al/z6bs5OY | opinion

The Second Circuit has reversed the $16.1bn YPF judgment against Argentina. That judgment amounted to 45% of Argentina's national budget. A rare piece of good news for Argentina in New York litigation; a rare piece of bad news for speculative litigation finance. www.reuters.com/world/us-app...

US appeals court voids $16.1 billion judgment against Argentina over YPF seizure

A divided U.S. appeals court on Friday struck down a $16.1 billion judgment against Argentina for seizing control of state-owned oil company YPF in ​2012, a victory for Argentine President Javier Mile...

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Over the past months, I have been making the same point across different forums: the dollar remains dominant, but de-dollarising infrastructure is no longer hypothetical. This point becomes more widely accepted everyday, as illustrated by this piece @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/77f8...

Why China’s renminbi push matters even if it never rivals the dollar

If renminbi settlement becomes cheaper and more trade migrates, firms will have less need to generate or hold US currency

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We’re proud to share that we've been ranked 15th in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 🌍 We're also ranked 5th in the UK and 1st in Scotland, this recognition reflects the strength of our teaching, research and community. Read the full story: https://edin.ac/47SuYTs

You could not script a better opening example for a lecture on global law and sanctions.

We have a packed and excellent new issue of EJIL. Out this week! @ejiltalk.bsky.social www.ejiltalk.org/in-this-issu...

In This Issue

As is customary in our final issue of the year, EJIL 36(4) opens with the Afterwords to the annual EJIL Foreword. Published in the first issue of this volume, this year’s Foreword was authored by Susa...

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Excellent thread on the critique of LLMs and its sociology.

Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

Happy to agree with Bradshaw after some time. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

Why The Secret Agent should win the best picture Oscar

Kicking off this year’s series in which our writers advocate for one Academy Award nominee, our chief critic on why the Brazilian drama-thriller is the most audacious and fully realised film in the ra...

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Francisco J. Quintana@fjquintana.com · 5mo ago

Finally saw 'The Secret Agent' – beautiful, hilarious, smart, moving. 2025 was the best film year in over a decade.

Quoted in this excellent article by Heather Stewart in The Guardian on dollar dominance and the slow drift towards a more multipolar currency order.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo ago

Trump is accelerating the world’s slow drift from dollar dominance | Heather Stewart