If you are in Berlin, please join me for my talk, "War Unbound," on Monday evening at the Freie Universität Berlin!  Details here:
www.jura.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/...
@sophieschuberth.bsky.social
PhD candidate in international law at Freie Universität Berlin & Law Clerk at Higher Regional Court Berlin Interested in international law, especially peremptory norms, duty to cooperate, occupation, state responsibility, IHL, use of force, ICJ
If you are in Berlin, please join me for my talk, "War Unbound," on Monday evening at the Freie Universität Berlin!  Details here:
www.jura.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/...
You can find the written version of my talk here: 👇 
www.ismllw.org/wp-content/u...
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... on a fascinating panel discussing 'The Law of Occupation and State Practice'.
In my presentation, “The (Il)Legality of Occupation: An Integrated Jus Ad Bellum Approach", I explored the relationship between occupation, general international law, and jus cogens norms. /2
Grateful to the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War for the opportunity to speak at the VIII “Silent leges inter arma?” Conference in beautiful Bruges last month. 🙏 
I had the pleasure of joining Hanne Cuyckens, Prof. Dr. Natia Kalandarishvili-Mueller, and Nele Verlinden .. /1
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told
A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea “unlawful combatants.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Just published in ICLQ via @cambup-law.cambridge.org, an excellent article by Marko Milanovic @unirdg-law.bsky.social analysing the notion of an illegal occupation in the recent #ICJ Advisory Opinion on Palestine.
#InternationalLaw #IHL #Occupation #AdvisoryOpinion
New publication👇
@heikekrieger.bsky.social writing about 'Third Party Obligations and World Ordering in the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory' in the German Yearbook of International Law
elibrary.duncker-humblot.com/article/7557...
The 8th ‘Silent leges inter arma?’ conference will be organised in the city of Bruges from 16-19 September 2025 by the 🇧🇪 Group of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. 
Check out this year’s topics and other information at: ismllw.org
Only 3 weeks left to register for this event hosted in Bruges from 16 to 19 September 2025!
Check out the detailed programme at www.ismllw.org.
The Supporting Partners of this event 
👉 Netherlands Defence Academy
👉the Centre for International Humanitarian and Operational Law, Palacky University
Quote: “Small island States have contributed the least to climate change, yet now face an existential threat.”
Do statehood and sovereignty persist when a state sinks?
AURELIO CORNEO and JUDITH SCHERER examine what the ICJ says on this question in its climate advisory opinion and explore the issues of territory, population, and government in times of climate crisis.
verfassungsblog.de/montevideo-c...
A State consent dilemma in the current work of the International Law Commission on the theory of sources | by Dmytro Soldatenko
14.07.2025 11:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The ICJ "for the first time explicitly acknowledged the legal standing of all States in relation to obligations erga omnes (in the sense of Article 48(1)(b) ASR). Until now, the Court’s decisions on collective obligations had been confined to obligations erga omnes partes arising under treaties." 👇
28.07.2025 10:24 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0The duty to cooperate under customary international law is fundamental to the response to climate change, and is intrinsically linked to the duty to prevent harm, requiring good faith, continuous and sustained forms of collective action, applying to all states (subject only to CBDR);...10/17
23.07.2025 18:29 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change:
23.07.2025 16:39 — 👍 85 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 3Ein Gespräch zum Iran und zum Völkerrecht mit der NZZ (hinter paywall)
www.nzz.ch/internationa...
The Illegal Israeli-American Use of Force Against Iran: A Follow-Up | by Marko Milanovic
23.06.2025 11:11 — 👍 18 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 9Instrumentalized Migration and Jurisdictional Challenges: Lithuania v. Belarus at the ICJ | by Niccolò Ridi and Matina Papadaki
16.06.2025 12:39 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0A Humanitarian Action by the UN General Assembly in Gaza? | by Enzo Cannizzaro
17.06.2025 16:10 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Historic decision at #WHA78:
Member States of WHO today formally adopted by consensus the world's first #PandemicAgreement to make the world more equitable and safer from future pandemics.
🔗 bit.ly/43p0DsH
The newly announced tribunal to try the crime of aggression in Ukraine is a good step forward, if not what many of us hoped was possible. For the deep background, take a look at this @justsecurity.org series that started with this post in September 2022: www.justsecurity.org/83117/the-ca...
09.05.2025 11:46 — 👍 58 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1The program for the 20th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law is online. Come join us in Berlin!
www.esil2025.de/_files/ugd/b...
This event - "The future of international law - an anchor in a crumbling world" - will be simultaneously translated into English and live streamed.
Registration link below.
Die Zukunft des Völkerrechts, ich freue mich auf die Diskussion mit den Kollegen.
calendar.boell.de/de/event/die...
I talk to @afpfr.bsky.social about UN reform plans.
"We do not know how far Guterres will run with these ideas, but he is now in his final period in office, so he may decide to go out with a bang!"
www.bssnews.net/internationa...
📢 Our #callforpapers for Volume 28 (2025) is now out!
📖 Theme: "Facts in International Humanitarian Law"
📅 Abstract deadline: 13 June
More info: www.asser.nl/asserpress/d...
#IHL #LOAC
Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof hat ein Verfahren gegen Ungarn eingeleitet.
www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...
Todays big international law news, that seems to be buried in the back pages. This pandemic treaty now needs to be adopted at the World Health Assembky in May.
#PandemicAccord  www.bbc.com/news/article...
✨Neuer #Völkerrechtspodcast zur Integrität von Wahlen und ausländischen Einflusskampagnen!
🎙️ Moderation: @erik.d-64.social & Rouven Diekjobst
🗣️ Interview: @erik.d-64.social mit Henning Lahmann
📚 Grundlagenteil: @isalischewski.bsky.social
voelkerrechtsblog.org/de/45-ohne-s...
📖 Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social returns w/ "38 Londres Street"—a gripping story of law, memory & pursuit.
🎙️Join the conversation on 6 May 2025 in Courtroom 600.
From Pinochet to Patagonia—don't miss it.
🔗 bit.ly/4jbHZeG
#PhilippeSands #38LondresStreet #NurembergAcademy #Courtroom600