Limn is an exquisite journal illuminating (or limning) problems emerging at the interface of technology, politics, & contemporary life: limn.press I have a short essay in the latest issue, 'When the grounds shake', about platformised tsunami warning and parasitism: limn.press/article/when...

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How do we, how can we, how might we, think about the 'right now' in international legal work? I just shared on SSRN a preprint of an article forthcoming in the Edinburgh Law Review entitled 'International Legal Critique Now: Neo-Presentism in International Law'. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Hello all. My OA article “Palliative Presentism & Its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces” has been published in the European Journal of International Law. It is about time, technology, humanitarian emergencies & international law. academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

Palliative Presentism and Its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces

Abstract. International organizations (IOs) are having growing recourse to digital technologies in emergency response. Digital interfaces, such as online e

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How does the design of digital govt infrastructure impact decision-making & accountability? @jenraso.bsky.social & I argue that data-sharing arrangements underlying digital govt programs are dispersing responsibilities within decision-making, generating what we call 'bureaucratic disempowerment' 1/4

Data Entry and Decision Chains: Distributed Responsibility and Bureaucratic Disempowerment in the UK’s Universal Credit Programme

Abstract. Digitalising public programmes creates new accountability challenges, many of which are under-theorised. Using Universal Credit to illustrate its

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To the extent that Trump’s foreign policy has a coherent logic, that logic — the accompanying conception of state territory & national interest etc — is best understood through the historical & legal lens of consular internationalism rather than diplomatic relations www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last yr.

A snippet from Elizabeth Saunders' excellent new piece in Foreign Affairs on Trump's foreign policy of whim and caprice: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · last yr.

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Great hybrid-conversation at the Law & Society conference about our book (co-ed by Gavin Sullivan, @dimitrivdm.bsky.social & me) Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule, f’coming open access with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. 🙏to Gavin & to @mattcanfield.bsky.social for comments.

🔥🔥🔥 Excited to share this collection in @ejiltalk.bsky.social: International Law and Technology as a Critical Project: A Collective Reading. 👇 This piece draws the contours of a critical approach to IL and technology by introducing five wonderful review essays. t.co/bd0DOcbXKp

Thanks to the editors of @verfassungsblog.de for publishing this new short essay, somewhat bleak, but it did give me the privilege of linking to work by my better half. verfassungsblog.de/in-the-grave...

For anyone thinking about doing a PhD in Law, expressions of interest for Pitch-a-PhD at The University of Sydney Law School are now open for international applicants. Please share widely. Submission link: lnkd.in/gcibSc9g Scholarships info here: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Ernst Fraenkel’s work is worth revisiting but the “dual state” as a diagnosis of contemporary authoritarianism (A) is misguided insofar as it maintains the separability of a “zone of legality” from a “legal abyss”, absolving the former of responsibility for A’s rise www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...

The Frightening Precedents for Trump’s ‘Legal Abyss’

The ‘dual-state theory’ explains how authoritarians bend the law to their will.

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In this OA article in the Leiden Journal of Int’l Law, I argue that the distinctive logic of consular internationalism can aid analysis of entanglements of imperial & commercial power & grappling with unofficial actors’ role in shaping international law www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies" is now available to read and features and incredible line-up of scholars. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 Out now! #DigitalEchoes: Season 2 – 'Listening to New Normativities' New episodes 📼 every second Monday on Völkerrechtsblog & Spotify! Read the introduction by @dogot.bsky.social, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social & Anna Sophia Tiedeke. voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...

Introducing the Second Seasons of Digital Echoes

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Our edited collection on 'Geopolitical Change and the Antarctic Treaty System' will be out in January 2025. A big thanks to co-editors Shirley Scott and Jeff McGee and to the contributors for making this project possible. link.springer.com/book/9789819...

Geopolitical Change and the Antarctic Treaty System

This book explores all aspects of geopolitical considerations between key states of the Antarctica Treaty System (ATS) and lessons that can be gained.

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New publication alert ⚠️ We evaluated controls on food marketing in six different jurisdictions, producing recommendations for effective, transparent, and accountable regulation. Key takeaway: good regulatory design is just as important as regulatory tool choice. Full version: shorturl.at/ky4fp

Reducing unhealthy food and beverage advertising to children: a framework for strengthening performance, transparency and enforcement

Food and beverage multinationals spend vast sums of money marketing unhealthy foods and drinks to children, using an integrated array of advertising techniques and media platforms. Countries have resp...

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Interested in competing ideas of "gender" in international criminal law? I'll be chatting next week on this with the brilliant Akila Radhakrishnan, Valerie Oosterveld, Lily Kather, Juliana Santos de Carvalho & Lena Holzer. Tune in on Monday 3 February at 10am, Cambridge time.

Check out @louravn.bsky.social's wonderful interview with @fleurjohns.bsky.social in Critical Humanities - it's OA and is of interest to anyone interested in critical data studies, humanitarianism and interdisciplinary legal perspectives to datafication @tgammeltoft.bsky.social #DALOSS #MOBILE

Louis Ravn@louravn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very pleased to see my interview with @fleurjohns.bsky.social out in Critical Humanities: mds.marshall.edu/criticalhuma...! 🌞 In it, Fleur Johns explains the central arguments of her recent book “#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order“ (OUP, 2023)…🧵

I’m so grateful to @louravn.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about some of the arguments in my @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book ‘#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order’ in the Critical Humanities journal 👇

Louis Ravn@louravn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very pleased to see my interview with @fleurjohns.bsky.social out in Critical Humanities: mds.marshall.edu/criticalhuma...! 🌞 In it, Fleur Johns explains the central arguments of her recent book “#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order“ (OUP, 2023)…🧵

The paper seeks to contribute to broader questions about global data/infrastructure governance. The final version of the paper will be published in a volume on governance by data edited by @fleurjohns.bsky.social @dimitrivdm.bsky.social and Gavin Sullivan.

I have a new article forthcoming in the European Journal of International Law (@ejiltalk.bsky.social): 'Palliative Presentism and its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces'. It is available via SSRN pending publication: ssrn.com/abstract=505... Below is an abstract:

Conversations with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social & Dr. Mohammad Amir Anwar led to this dialogue on the limits of digital dispossession as a lens onto exploitation & domination in the digital economy in the Backchannels blog of @4sweb.bsky.social of which Nanna gives a great preview. I echo her thanks.

Nanna B Thylstrup@nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/ Honored (!) to explore digital dispossession's implications for law, critical/cultural data studies & STS with @fleurjohns.bsky.social in @4sweb.bsky.social's Backchannels: 4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=38459!Thank you Aaron Gregory and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for editorial guidance!

As reports have come in about devastating flooding in Malaysia & Thailand, it’s time to step up ambition & engagement in regional disaster diplomacy, as I write today in The Interpreter published by @lowyinstitute.bsky.social www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

Australia is out to lunch on disaster diplomacy

Despite multiple strategies, frameworks and partnerships, Canberra still lags on regional disaster relief.

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Save the date for the world's best-sized international law conference! The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University. The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’. Please re-post!

go.bsky.app/KE77aRL new starter pack for ECRs in international law, EU law, IHRL and legal theory! 🫡 I guess it might be useful for many (Disclaimer: I added people according to *my* sense of who an early career researcher is - of course, feel free to join if you consider yourself an ECR!)

After COVID foiled October plans, I am especially pleased to have made it to Edinburgh Law School to deliver the 2nd of their 2024 Dean's Lectures at Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College, on Wed 20 November 2024 17:00-18:30, on ‘International Legal Critique Now’ www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

I’m looking forward to giving the inaugural annual lecture of SCRIPT, the Scottish Research Centre for IP & Technology Law, at the University of Edinburgh: ‘On Tech Diplomacy & Dilemmas of human-nonhuman interface’ 25 Nov 2024, 17:30 - 20:00 www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

with the final round of UN plastics treaty negotiations in two weeks, we have published a preprint paper on the risks and limits of 'plastic credits' as a solution to this planetary crisis @melaniebergma18.bsky.social @emmaanne.bsky.social @lisalsong.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1411...

I have a new paper, forthcoming (open access) in the Leiden Journal of International Law, entitled 'On Consular Internationalism'. A preprint is now available at SSRN : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Thank you to Renske Vos & the entire LJIL team. Here's the abstract:

Wonderful to have a 'Conversation with Book' Symposium in the International Trade & Business Law Review focus on my book #Help: Digital Humanitarianism & the Remaking of International Order (OUP) 🙏 to Cynthia Farid, Morshed Mannan, Michael Anthony C. Dizon & the ITBLR team. tinyurl.com/ITBLR