Today I'm publishing a (lightly updated) syllabus for a new course I taught earlier this year 👇 ✨ Ways of Seeing International Law: Theories, Frames and the Everyday Life of International Law(yers) ✨ Short 🧵 on key aspects of the course design academia.edu/resource/work/…

Really enjoyed putting these events together with the ESIL IG International Law and Technology team for @ESIL2024Vilnius! Join us in person or online for our workshop on the dis/continuities of international law and technology, which will kick-off soon 👇

Wonderful to present my latest work on Climate Change, AI and Human Rights @ESIL2024Vilnius Thank you to my fellow panellists, Marie Petersmann for being a brilliant chair, and to the audience for your excellent questions 🙏

Incredibly powerful talk by Henning Lahmann ESIL-SEDI. On open source investigations and imperial gaslighting. On why the saturation with digital data cannot save us from political processes and hegemonic forces of fact-making. On the massive elephant in the room.

Really fascinating ESIL IG International Law and Technology agora @ESIL2024Vilnius on smart treaties, genetic sequence data sharing, and open source software 👇 Thanks to our wonderful panelists Niccolò Ridi, Adam Strobeyko, Jennifer Tridgell, and excellent chair Sarah Zarmsky 👏

How was Isr. able to starve 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza at unprecedented speed and intensity? I answer this question in my new report. I'll be discussing my report with the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, October 18. undocs.org/a/79/171 Here's a 🧵...

This week Michelle Burgis-Kasthala and I are convening a symposium on Opinio Juris based on our recent JICJ symposium, Contemporary International Criminal Law After Critique Our opening post focuses on carceral internationalism in the Situation of Palestine 👇

"I argue that making an Article 15 communication enables civil society actors to engage in sociological criminalisation, pursuing a form of extralegal accountability – including for those who remain unaccountable before the ICC" Natalie Hodgson in our ICL After Critique symposium 👇

My latest post with Opinio Juris applies some of the findings from my recent JICJ article (and PhD research) on online harms to current events in Ukraine and in Palestine. Thanks to Barrie Sander & Michelle Burgis-Kasthala for organizing this stellar symposium!

"Whether digital harms are accounted for as their own offence... or potentially through other means such as an aggravating factor.., their recognition by int'l legal institutions will be critical in order to ensure justice for victims in a digital age" Great post by Sarah Zarmsky 👇

"In essence, we argue that scholars would do well to abandon the armchair and engage more closely with everyday efforts to mobilize, reconstruct, and re-imagine international criminal justice 'from below'" Great post by Daniel Bertram & George Hill on the ecocide aesthetic 👇

‘In recognising these constraints within an already carceral frame, it is imperative that our scholarly critiques do not slide into criticism of Palestinian choices about their own engagement with ICL’ Barrie Sander & M Burgis-Kasthala: ICL after critique opiniojuris.org/2024/09/09/con…

"I argue that... we need an abolitionist movement for ICL. This movement would ‘refuse imprisonment and policing as the main responses to mass atrocity, and instead would seek to understand the social causes and conditions that cause such mass atrocity'" Sophie Rigney 👇

"Some... may agree with the broader conception of impunity that I offer & yet think that since the idea has already been compromised by a punitive ethos, it would be wiser to concede the term... But I disagree; I think the struggle over the concept is crucial" Rocío Lorca 👇

Here, I try to unpack the challenges of a carceral approach to the situation in Palestine. I argue instead for a transformative justice without criminal law, both in Palestine & beyond. I hope for a free Palestine and a more just world, without the carceral violence of ICL.

My thanks to Barrie Sander and Michelle Michelle Burgis-Kasthala, whose excellent piece on similar themes is here opiniojuris.org/2024/09/09/con… and whose mentorship has been invaluable; and to Opinio Juris for the space

"to align environmental destruction & illegal land dispossession with the ICC’s focus on physical destruction of groups, the communication had to distil Indigenous Peoples’ ways of life into a framework that reduced their land & environment to mere commodities" Giovanna Frisso👇

Contemporary International Criminal Law After Critique Symposium: embodied justice through praxes of abolition feminisms opiniojuris.org/2024/09/12/con…

Thomas Skouteris concludes our symposium on International Criminal Law After Critique 👇 Special thanks to everyone Opinio Juris for providing a space for our discussion 🙏

As LJIL becomes #OpenAccess, I'm delighted to announce that I've joined the Editorial Board I'll be part of the Int'l Criminal Courts & Tribunals team w/the brilliant Hemi Mistry, Lachezar Yanev & Marta Bo Looking forward to being part of this new chapter for LJIL... 👇