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Richard Clements

@riclements.bsky.social

Assistant prof at Tilburg writing about international law, expertise and compositional form but also the odd poem, essay, story. https://linktr.ee/richard.clements

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Richard Clements@riclements.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My editorial @ljil-leiden.bsky.social just out today. I ask whether a life beyond #interpretation is possible for international lawyers, and offer #composition to think about the process of intl law's unfolding, and the experience of those engaging with it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lex erotica? From interpretation to composition | Leiden Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core

Lex erotica? From interpretation to composition

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Lucrecia Garcia Iommi@lucreciagiommi.bsky.social · last yr.

I had the pleasure to review The Justice Factory: Management practices at the ICC (academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...) for IA (@iajournal.bsky.social). Richard ‪Clements' (@riclements.bsky.social‬) pathbreaking book is a must read for those interested in the ICC and global governance more generally .

The justice factory: management practices at the International Criminal Court

In The justice factory, Richard Clements explores the relationship between global justice and management discourses that permeate the International Crimina

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Danish Sheikh@dansheikh.bsky.social · last yr.

One way to understand the nature of legal work is to ask how the jurist becomes oriented towards their materials. What draws us in or excites us, what leaves us unmoved or repels us - (1/n)

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Richard Clements@riclements.bsky.social · last yr.

A nice overview from editors Negar Mansouri and @drqv.bsky.social on this excellent volume on alternative approaches to international institutional law: cambridgeblog.org/2025/06/inte...

International Organisations as Vessels for Visions of World Ordering

What do international institutional lawyers see when they peek out from a window? If, as David Kennedy argues, public international lawyers see a “world of nation-states and war” while trade lawyers s...

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Karen Engle@karengle.bsky.social · last yr.

Terrific to see my book available online — and soon in print! Many thanks to series editors Nadia Lambek, @riclements.bsky.social, @leslava.bsky.social, and Markus Gunneflo! And congrats on the new series!

International Law & Politics CRN@intllawpoliticscrn.bsky.social · last yr.

The Element is *FREE* to access online for the next 2 weeks and pre-order print copies can be purchased in advance of print publication in June at a VERY reasonable price: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Richard Clements@riclements.bsky.social · last yr.

In a short piece I wrote for @ejiltalk.bsky.social, I ask how the finalised #PandemicAgreement innovates the existing #globalhealth infrastructure, and how it reflects/adjusts relations between global north/south states in seeking to tackle pandemics equitably. www.ejiltalk.org/the-who-pand...

The WHO Pandemic Agreement: Equity for Developing States or Business as Usual?

At 3am on Wednesday 16th April 2025, after three years of intense negotiations, WHO member states (minus the United States) preliminarily consented to a final text of the so-called Pandemic Agreement....

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Richard Clements@riclements.bsky.social · last yr.

The Pandemic Agreement is close to being finalised. However, north/south vaccine-sharing remains the most contentious issue: www.reuters.com/business/hea...

WHO members close to accord on tackling future pandemics, sources say

Members of the World Health Organization are close to a deal on a treaty to prepare for future pandemics, sources involved in the talks told Reuters on Saturday, with a WHO spokesperson saying discussions had been paused until Tuesday.

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Richard Clements@riclements.bsky.social · last yr.

It's official! Our CUP Elements book series on International Law & Society now has a webpage! Check us out here if you are interested in publishing a short piece (20k-30k) with us: www.cambridge.org/core/publica.... Thanks to all at @cambridgeup.bsky.social for making this possible!

Elements in International Law and Society

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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International Law & Politics CRN@intllawpoliticscrn.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 After much planning, we are delighted to announce that our new short-form Elements *book series* with @cambridgeup.bsky.social is now official! 🎉 If you are interested in publishing a 20k-30k piece on 'International Law & Society', check us out: www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

Ali Struthers@dralistruthers.bsky.social · last yr.

Associate/Assistant Professor job at Warwick Law School is now being advertised. Preference for candidates who can contribute to the teaching of Tort Law or Global Health Law, but teaching & research in other areas also considered. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN009/a...

Associate Professor or Assistant Professor (107930-0325) at University of Warwick

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Associate Professor or Assistant Professor (107930-0325) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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Richard Clements@riclements.bsky.social · last yr.

Where does ICL go from here? Check out our @ajil.bsky.social symposium "ICL's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution and Transformational Pedagogies" co-edited with the wonderful @leilaullrich.bsky.social and Christine Schwobel Patel.

AJIL and AJIL Unbound@ajil.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism@jksteinberger.bsky.social · last yr.

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

NO CHATGPT Or other artificial stupidity: motivation First, clarity on distinguishing AIs: Non-generative: grammar aid, translation, dictionary, text-to-audio (e.g. Natural Reader): no problem As long as you use the appropriate tools (least intensive in data and server energy use). Why? Because you provide the content. Your brain is doing the most important work Generative: ChatGPT & Co. You only supply the prompt, the AI supplies the content. Why is this delegation of work problematic? 3 domains: ethical, environmental, intellectual engagement. (Caveat: generative is probably ok for computer programming, where it can be useful and save time. Not relevant to this class.) 1) AI and ethics Mass theft of all and everything «learning» on books, articles, blogs, social media, images, music, cultural production, without permission of authors/creators, and leading to their mass joblessness. Profits are not reditributed to originators. Permanent destruction of the mental health of underpaid precarious tech workers in the Global South (Kenya, Philippines …): «correction» to avoid production of violent and pedophile contents etc, tech workers are obliged to watch and correct super violent contents for days on end, leading to extreme psychological suffering and trauma, from which recovery is doubtful. No or little compensation (certainly not at the level of the suffering inflicted). In short, an industry built on theft of real human creation and sacrifice of real human health, profiting a few megafortunes. 2) AI and (un)sustainability Massive consumption of electricity, water, server capacity for generative AI. Outcome: keep fossil fuel companies in business, using up new renewable capacity, without any satisfaction of basic human needs. Massive misappropriation of the finance necessary for climate and ecological action (renewable generation, efficiency and retrofit for buildings, public transit, infrastructures for cycling etc) towards AI industry. Overall: undermine climate action, reinforce fossil industry, waste resources necessary for human development. 3) AI and intellectual engagement First, what learning is (or should be) about: The goal should not (only) be the reproduction of «correct» knowledge, But mainly personal engagement and experience of thinking about topics of interest. Personal engagement = using one’s own brain. The most important activity for learning and intellectual engagement is the experience of making one’s own mistakes, by trial and error, corrections based on new ideas, starting over again. Learning to recognise nuances, knowledge gaps, better explanations This kind of learning is possible only through using your own brain, not AI. Also, Ais are not «intelligent». At all. They simply reproduce pre-existing patterns. They «bullshit», invent false references, false facts, false data, simply because those sound plausible. VERY DANGEROUS. If you learn how to NOT use AI, and how to research facts and data on your own, this will serve you and your communities for the rest of your life.
Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism@jksteinberger.bsky.social · last yr.

Blessings of the morning: going over student weekly reading reports, and as requested, they didn't use chatgpt. It's all full of life and originality and actual thinking, confusion, brain work. 😍😍😍 Will share the anti-AI motivational slides I showed them, French and English versions, a bit later.