Dr C Ward SC

Great conference. Deserved break!

I am delighted and honoured to have been elected Vice-Chair of the International Law Association by the Executive Council. The ILA was founded in Brussels in 1873 to progress the study, clarification and development of international law, now more important than ever.

Happy Friday!! The April issue of AJIL has been published online and featuring a stellar line up of authors. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Text of the decision. Full text in the link.

EU Member States agree that EU Commission should negotiate EU signing up to treaty setting up International Claims Commission for Ukraine 🇺🇦 eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

I'm trying to work out why Norfolk Island and Heard and McDonald Islands get their own little tariff regime. Perhaps the penguins on Heard have been exporting cuteness?

Wilmer-Hale has made a powerful application, in the face of despicable attacks on the firm, and to clients of the firm, for the act of lawyering in the highest traditions of our profession. I have acted for many years for clients espousing difficult positions, my thoughts are with them

🚨 REACTION: Oxfam reaction to Israel’s attack on Gaza despite ceasefire.

“The ongoing targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure cannot be justified under any circumstances," said @oxfaminternational.bsky.social 's Clémence Lagouardat.

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The apparent suspension of the Yale Journal of International Law by Musk is insidious.

The ludicrous hypocrisy of Vance pretending to lecture Europe on free speech, whilst dismantling every facet of free speech in the US, says everything we need to know.

No, I think I'll continue to focus on the intention to commit deliberate war crimes.

Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force, U.S. officials told NBC News.

I intend to continue to stress the applicability and significance of public international law. Departures from it must be identified. The threatened use of military force, even as an 'option' to affect sovereign control of territory, is flagrantly unlawful.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

A photo of two US-made F-35 fighter jets flying towards the camera. One has a US flag visible in the cockpit

🚨MAJOR DEVELOPMENT

Portugal has cancelled plans to buy F-35 fighter jets from the US and will look to replace their F-16s with European fighters.

“We have to be able to count on the predictability of our allies, which is no longer the case with the United States."💥

The use of economic force to attack a sovereign State is emphatically illegal.

The use of economic force to annex a sovereign State, Canada, is every bit as illegal, and despicable, as military force.

Has anyone given Vance and Trump lettuces yet?

It starts with the flagrant breach of Art 59 and descends swiftly to the level of a crime.
And results in the devaluation of international law everywhere.

Coalition of the sane.

It's a thing called precedent.

It is time to create an 'Axis of Sanity' that starts in Canada and ends in Australia and New Zealand. Enough is enough.

Trump administration says it's cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judge’s order giving the Trump administration a midnight deadline to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.

The first meaningful analyses of the practical devastation to follow the despicable slashing of USAID projects are starting to be identified. apnews.com/article/trum...

I am very pleased to be speaking on the topic of international law and the resolution of groundwater disputes in the Middle East and Africa in Riyadh.

@ASSELLMU

CLA Statement on the execution of the Death Penalty in Singapore Pannir Selvam Pranthaman - News - CLA The Commonwealth Lawyers Association (“CLA”) is deeply concerned that Pannir Selvam Pranthaman (“Pannir“) is scheduled to be executed in Singapore on 20

www.commonwealthlawyers.com/statement/cc...

The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.

Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

An apparently serious statement that the USA will "take" Gaza is utterly inconsistent with bedrock international law and has no place in our world.

The ABA supports the rule of law It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Iran: Urgent global action needed to halt imminent execution of Kurdish humanitarian worker Responding to reports that Iran’s Supreme Court rejected the request for judicial review of the conviction and death sentence of humanitarian aid worker Pakhshan Azizi, 40, from Iran’s oppressed Kurdi...

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

The rule of law, domestic and international, requires lawyers and the judiciary to stand strong, affirm the place of law in a healthy democracy, and adhere to legal principle.

Except Philip Allott.

For the avoidance of doubt, an occupying power is not entitled to cede the occupied territory to a third State and the third State does not thereby gain any form of sovereignty, whether to build condominiums and casinos or otherwise.