illegal use of force by every measure, domestic & international
28.02.2026 07:05 — 👍 491 🔁 211 💬 4 📌 3@cyberdean07.bsky.social
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illegal use of force by every measure, domestic & international
28.02.2026 07:05 — 👍 491 🔁 211 💬 4 📌 3
The Schmittian Redux
verfassungsblog.de/trump-2-0-as...
War crimes prosecutor Reed Brody joins Democracy Now! to discuss a number of ongoing human rights issues.
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On January 12 the ICJ will hear the merits in the landmark genocide case by Gambia against Myanmar.
Read reflections from @hrw.org, @womenspeacenetwork.org, Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, Refugee Women for Peace and Justice, & and @globaljusticec.bsky.social
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www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...
A historic moment in the Hague — International Court of Justice judges are hearing the merits in Gambia’s case against Myanmar under the Genocide Convention.
Learn more about the landmark case pursuing justice:
As merit hearings in the landmark genocide case brought by #Gambia v. #Myanmar before the International Court of Justice continue, and the court hears testimonies from witnesses, including Rohingya survivors, watch the event we co-organized at the start of the hearings: youtube.com/watch?v=ZDXv...
21.01.2026 16:05 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0We are in the Hague for the confirmation of charges hearing of former President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte at the ICC. This hearing is not a trial but it's an important step towards accountability for victims of the war on drugs. bsky.app/profile/hrw....
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🚨The #ICC hearing to decide whether to confirm the charges against #Duterte and send his case to trial begins tomorrow. @hrw.org will be in The Hague to observe the proceedings.
You can watch the hearing here: www.icc-cpi.int/streaming-al...
For more info read our Q&A: www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
ICC opens four-day confirmation of charges hearing vs. Duterte
via Arjielyn Mangulabnan, HIGHPOINT
#Highpoint
Former president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is facing a landmark hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Over the next week, ICC judges will hear evidence to determine whether to send this case to trial. Learn more from HRW ⤵️
LIVE: ICC hearing for Philippine ex-president Duterte youtube.com/live/8m-boDl...
23.02.2026 09:48 — 👍 20 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1Delighted to post the final version of my article, "Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment," in the @BCLawReview, on how much of a search occurs with a government-ordered scan—an issue very relevant to the Supreme Court's geofence warrant case to be argued in April. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Important from @pauloffit.bsky.social — RFK’s anti-vax policies are causing death and disease, and he’s trying to keep the public in the dark about it.
open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...
Duterte was 'pivotal' in murder of thousands, ICC prosecutors say reut.rs/4kNuQda
23.02.2026 12:01 — 👍 44 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 4We @knightcolumbia.org have started to post short essays from some of the scholars and advocates participating in our "Reconstructing Free Expression" project. I'm going to post the essays in this thread, as we publish them. They're really good! knightcolumbia.org/research/rec...
23.02.2026 19:47 — 👍 56 🔁 29 💬 2 📌 0What's at stake as ICC judges hear charges against ex-Philippine president Duterte?
What's at stake as ICC judges hear charges against ex-Philippine president Duterte?
Duterte is accused of crimes against humanity during a long and bloody war on drugs in which thousands were killed.
“Generative AI breaks long-standing correlations that society uses to infer things like effort, sincerity, authenticity, and credibility. Once these signals erode, we don’t automatically get something better.”
jessicahullman.substack.com/p/zeynep-tuf...
Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch (1853-1890), Peach Trees in Blossom, 1889, oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England
19.02.2026 17:53 — 👍 149 🔁 30 💬 6 📌 1
🇸🇪🇺🇦 Sweden has announced one of its largest military aid packages to Ukraine — worth nearly 12.9 billion SEK (approx. $1.4 billion).
❤️THANK YOU SWEDEN
“If Donald Trump’s capriciousness inspires deep anxiety among Europeans, they are also troubled by another uncomfortable idea: a scratchy sense that perhaps France was right after all”
Europeans confront the unthinkable 😉
economist.com/europe/2026/...
Just Security is delighted to co-host a symposium with @icrclawpolicy.bsky.social and @ejiltalk.bsky.social on the updated Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention on protection of civilians during war. Read the first contribution by Jean-Marie Henckaerts:
www.justsecurity.org/131639/sympo...
the parents are alright
17.02.2026 01:41 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Yes, the thing about the law & constitution is that they make certain things illegal & unconstitutional
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Jeremy Bentham, philosopher, jurist, author of The Principles of Morals and Legislation, reformer, ‘spiritual founder' of University College London, preserved as auto-icon at UCL, born #OTD 1748.
National Portrait Gallery | UCL @ucl.ac.uk
Transcribe Bentham @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social
It is not too early for Democrats to build a Project 2028, because if we win, every single agency is going to have to be restaffed and rebuilt from the ground up in the first 100 days, and "We're going to undo the damage" can't be the sole item on our four-year agenda.READ NEXT POST BEFORE REPLYING>
14.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 571 🔁 84 💬 34 📌 5#UVALaw alumna and former faculty member M. Elizabeth “Liz” Magill ’95 has been named dean of @georgetownlaw.bsky.social.
13.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 126,000 John Rawls, Political Liberalism, 34,200 Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia, 32,300 Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice, 20,700 Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship, 20,200 Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice, 17,000 Martha Nussbaum, Women and Human Development, 16,500 Miranda Fricker, Epistemic Injustice, 16,300 Martha Nussbaum, Creating Capabilities, 13,000 John Rawls, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, 12,600 Michael Sandel, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, 12,500 John Rawls, The Law of Peoples, 12,200 Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom, 11,800 Charles Mills, The Racial Contract, 10,000 Martha Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice, 10,000 Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government, 7,800 Thomas Pogge, World Poverty and Human Rights, 6,900 Ronald Dworkin, Sovereign Virtue, 6,800 Will Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy, 6,800 Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family, 6,700 David Gauthier, Morals by Agreement, 6,200 Will Kymlicka, Liberalism, Community and Culture, 5,700 Brian Barry, Culture and Inequality, 5,000 David Miller, On Nationality, 5,000 Charles Beitz, Political Theory and International Relations, 4,900 Will Kymlicka, Politics and the Vernacular, 4,600 Bruce Ackerman, Social Justice in the Liberal State, 4,200 Martha Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice, 4,100
If this Most Cited List (from a Leiter post earlier this year on political philosophy books with over 4000 citations) is right then it's wild just how hard liberalism is winning in political philosophy. Total ideological domination.
13.02.2026 17:51 — 👍 135 🔁 23 💬 27 📌 4
So I recently sat down with Sainted Judge Hilary Charlesworth (blessed be her name), Prof Di Otto, and Prof Christine Chinkin to record the Season 3 opener of #CalledToTheBar
Go have a listen: on.soundcloud.com/Vaq9CC1yiokQ...
The UK's "free AI training for all" program may offer free courses, but there is a cost to society for the government's approach. Elinor Carmi, Tania Duarte, Mark Wong, Susan Oman & Tim Davies argue it deepens Big Tech dependency while sidelining critical AI literacy and community organizations.
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