I had a blast at the LSE just before the Easter break. Impressive work by students on bank accountability for climate change, a panel full of interesting contributions and a packed lecture hall. Kudos to @mariepetersmann.bsky.social for bringing this together www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Who pays for climate breakdown? Banks, financed emissions, and the road to climate accountability - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

As the world’s biggest banks continue to pour billions into fossil fuels—nearly US$8 trillion since the Paris Agreement—a pressing legal...

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How did rare earth minerals become the focus of a geopolitical battle over the future of green energy and, by extension, capitalism? Join us on 12 March 5.30-7pm @lselaw.bsky.social for a lecture by @triofrancos.bsky.social & discussion w/ @cschwobelpatel.bsky.social. 🔗 Register shorturl.at/GwbFh

a powerful account of what’s happening in Minneapolis from Amna Akbar www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Amna A. Akbar | In South Minneapolis

ICE have gone from wearing tactical army gear to Midwestern civilian garb; I have even seen photos of agents in...

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Shipping giant MSC facilitates trade from Israeli settlements through the EU. Commercial documents shed light on hundreds of shipments from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...

World’s biggest shipping company facilitates trade from Israeli settlements

Commercial documents shed light on hundreds of shipments from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

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With Fiona Schrading, I will host the standing section "IR in the Anthropocene" at the upcoming @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC in Lisbon, 1-4 Sept. This year we will focus on "Stuckness in the Anthropocene and Landscapes of Destruction". We are looking forward to your contributions! Deadline 19. Feb

It's an attempt to write a way out of the rather desolate place that I took readers to in a recent piece in EJIL (on the kinds of presentism propagated by digital tech) through engagement with recent work of @mariepetersmann.bsky.social Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change & others.

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....

📣 LSE Staff & Student Rally to demand Divestment ‼️ Join us tomorrow 25 Nov at 12.30 to protest against LSE's continued and *increasing* investments in the arms trade, crimes against the Palestinian people and the climate breakdown. The staff petition is still open: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

Join us tomorrow 13 November 6-7.30pm at @lselaw.bsky.social for a discussion on the 'Recognition of the State of Palestine – Contested Interpretations'. Register here and come along! lselaw.events/event/recogn...

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Public Lecture co-organised by me and @parvathimenon.bsky.social @cceilsoas.bsky.social ( & by Luke McDonagh Gerry Simpson & @mariepetersmann.bsky.social @lselaw.bsky.social ): "Recognition of the State of Palestine: Contested Interpretations" 6pm on Thurs November 13 at LSE. Registration 👇🏾

Very excited to welcome you all at @lselaw.bsky.social on Tuesday 11 November 6-7.30pm for a discussion with the always inspiring *Wendy Brown* on 'The Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy and the Emergence of Alternatives': lselaw.events/event/the-ex... Come along! No registration needed. MAR 2.04.

The Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy and the Emergence of Alternatives - LSE Law School Events

This talk examines the limits of liberalism for handling urgent contemporary problems, among them the climate emergency and the conquest of states by concentrated capital. Acknowledging that the Right...

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Public Lecture co-organised by me and @parvathimenon.bsky.social @cceilsoas.bsky.social ( & by Luke McDonagh Gerry Simpson & @mariepetersmann.bsky.social @lselaw.bsky.social ): "Recognition of the State of Palestine: Contested Interpretations" 6pm on Thurs November 13 at LSE. Registration 👇🏾

Recognition of the State of Palestine - Contested Interpretations - LSE Law School Events

What is the meaning and significance of the legal recognition of the state of Palestine in international law?   Speakers: Prof Vasuki Nesiah, Dr. Shahd Hammouri, Dr Mazen Masri & Dr Nora Jaber

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Israel's cheerleaders have opportunistically seized on a heinous antisemitic attack to silence opponents of genocide. Our freedoms are being stolen - and we are headed to a very dark place. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage government, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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At ELU-S Plenary on 'Sustainability, Social Justice and Democracy' last week in Prague, I talked about the repression against social movements for climate justice and the end of the genocide in Gaza, and the use of terrorism-labels to proscribe their actions, inspired by the activism of Conor Gearty

This was Conor Gearty only a week or so ago at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on ECHR withdrawal and the Palestine Action ban.

Prospect Magazine@prospectmagazine.co.uk · 11mo ago

🎧: The Prospect Podcast is back from summer break! On today’s episode, Conor Gearty explains what’s at stake if Britain leaves the ECHR, and reacts to the Palestine Action ban.

⏳ Starting at 16:00! Join us live for the 2nd episode of #EUIConversations, titled 'Moral abdication: how the world failed to stop the destruction of Gaza', with Didier Fassin, Revital Madar, and Nicolas Guilhot. 🎥 Follow the livestream here: buff.ly/CRE5EaD

'Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich recently boasted that Israelis are finally going to conquer the Gaza Strip: "we are no longer afraid of the word occupation". Smotrich's audacity is our failure'. #NouraErakat on the necessity to refuse what she calls a #NakbaPeace www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46686

Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat Addresses the UN in Commemoration of the 77th Anniversary of the Nakba

Comemmorating the 77th anniversary of the start of the Nakba, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat adressed the UN. During the address, Erakat  highlighted the shortcomings of international law in stoppin...

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With more than half a million people in London to march for Gaza and call on the British government to end its complicity in genocide.

Wrapping up today's panel sessions are Bossissi Nkuba, @mariepetersmann.bsky.social and Julia Suárez-Krabbe, chaired by Olivia Rutazibwa. #LSEHumanRights

The #BritishPavilion — curated by Kathryn Yusoff, Stella Mutegi, Kabage Karanja, and Owen Hopkins — was awarded a Special Mention #LaBiennale for #GeologyofBritannicRepair ✨ I'm here for a 2-day workshop on #InhumanReparations Kathryn co-organised w/ Elsa Noterman and Archie Davies at the Pavilion👇

Looking forward to this 2-day workshop on 'Amazon of Rights: Global Jurisprudence in Times of Urgency'. Thanks to Luis Eslava, Cecilia Oliveira, Igor Karim and Michael Riegner (@rifs-potsdam.bsky.social) for bringing us all together.

This just out now, wherein @david-whyte.bsky.social (of @ccccjustice.bsky.social) gently pick apart the case for an international crime of ecocide. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Law’s quick fix? Ecocide, social transformation and the pitfalls of criminalisation

Calls to criminalise ‘ecocide’ are, it seems, everywhere. What unites these calls is both a sense of urgency and a need for international action. The need for a quick and plausible fix makes intern...

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New #podcast 🌴 Conversation with architect and curator Paulo Tavares rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/... Reflecting on what he calls “a moment of shift” in today’s political climate, Paulo develops his notion of “critical proximity” as well as his understanding of architecture as a political field.

Read more on our website and join us on Saturday 17th May for the 8th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Prof. Françoise Vergès: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/in-...

In Search of Common Ground - Stuart Hall Foundation

“How can we organise these huge, randomly varied, and diverse things we call human subjects into positions where they can recognise one another for long enough to act together, and thus to take up a p...

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london today ❤️‍🔥

‘American college administrators and lawyers are responding to Trump’s bullying as if it were an opportunity to carry out “reforms” – and as if they were secretly relieved that their hand has been forced by the Leader.’ Adam Shatz on Columbia’s surrender: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Adam Shatz | Submission

There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

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Join us tomorrow 6.30-8pm @granthamicl.bsky.social for 'Climate Liability on Trial: Lessons from Luciano Lliuya v RWE' Featuring Saul Luciano Lliuya himself in conversation w/ @frediotto.bsky.social, Nigel Brook, Noah Walker-Crawford & me. Hong Kong Theatre & online: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Climate Liability on Trial: Lessons from Luciano Lliuya v RWE - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

This panel discussion will consider the implications of the landmark climate litigation case, Luciano Lliuya v RWE in which a Peruvian farmer is seeking to hold a major German energy company to accoun...

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During a workshop on 30-31 January, we critically examined #digitalsovereignty through a #feminist lens. Our collective writing exercise resulted in a blog post just published on Critical Legal Thinking. It is available via the link below! criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/18/t...

To Reclaim or Resist: Can Digital Sovereignty Ever Be Feminist?

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK; Bloem van Smarten (1990-1991) On 30 and 31 January 2025, a group of researchers participated in a workshop examining

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