Haley S. Anderson

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Thank you so much, Melissa! Can’t wait to descend on Hawaii with all the international law folks in January!

For more info, including more publications, teaching interests, and materials, see my FAR form and/or website: www.haleysanderson.com

I’m looking forward to discussing “The Sovereignty of Personal Jurisdiction” and much more in the coming months!

I’m a proceduralist and political theorist, and I’m currently an Academic Fellow at Columbia Law. My scholarship primarily examines the concept of sovereignty—where it came from, how it shapes legal doctrine today, and what role it ought to play in law.

Screenshot of first page of "The Sovereignty of Personal Jurisdiction," which can be found at the SSRN link above.

A bit belated, but I’m very excited to share that my job market paper is now forthcoming in the Washington & Lee Law Review.

And I’m officially on the law faculty market for civ pro, int’l law, fed courts & related fields. I appreciate help spreading the word!

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System

apparently PACER has been severely compromised for some time (🎁)
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...

"He's a madman": Trump's team frets about Netanyahu after Syria strikes "Netanyahu is sometimes like a child who just won't behave."

If only the U.S. president had some leverage—like critical U.S. military support—in this situation.

www.axios.com/2025/07/20/i...

Screenshot from Bynkershoek's "De foro legatorum," quoting: "The range of popular discussion of the origin of arrest and attachment is amazing. You may sate your mind on these dainty morsels by reading Peck, De iure sistendi, chapter 2; Busius, note 7 of his comments on Digest, V.i, De iudiciis; Hillinger on Doneau, XVII.15.2; Groenewegen on Code, III.xviii, Ubi conveniatur qui certo loco dare promisit; and Voet in notes 22 and 23 on Digest, II.iv, De in ius vocando. But you need pay no more attention to these comments than if they had never been written, and may direct your attention exclusively to the different types of authority which now exist and to the different kinds of subjection of persons and things which result from them."

Petition to make today's scholarship sound more like the early moderns'

(From Bynkershoek, "De foro legatorum," 1744)

A black and white photo of Tim Miller crossing his arms, wearing a dark shirt with a triangle on it and the phrase "silencio=muerte."

We sued in 1990 after performance artist and activist Tim Miller had his grant rescinded from the National Endowment for the Arts because of LGBTQ themes in his work.

The NEA is now under political pressure to force grant applicants to adhere to President Trump's anti-trans agenda, and we're suing.

Congrats on the New DOD Gig, MechaHitler! Turns out, going on anti-Semitic tirades didn’t stop Grok from winning a big government contract.

Usually, when the phrase “extended pro-Hitler rant” is in the same sentence as some HR news, that news is not a hiring. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

(Also so sorry to everyone for the random screenshots as I read for a project on the development of sovereign immunity...)

Screenshot of the opening sentences of a law review article from Dec. 1940. It reads: "While the following pages were written the world witnessed events which demonstrated with brutal clarity the complete collapse of the international community and its traditional legal order. It is almost impossible to imagine that international law in its classical sense, as the law regulating the relations among sixty odd members of a family of nations, can and ever will be revived and revitalized along the lines shaped during the past three centuries. Yet the American courts, at the present as well as in the future, will be confronted with questions involving foreign relations. It might even be that in times like ours the treatment by the courts of legal issues which involve foreign relations has gained increasing importance in a country which wants to stay out of foreign embroilment without sacrificing its ideals of an administration of justice."

Everything old is new again

Here is the full scope of the nationwide class provisionally certified by Judge Laplante accompanying his preliminary injunction stopping the #Birthright citizenship executive order.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Breaking: Trump's birthright citizenship order is blocked nationwide again, after a judge in New Hampshire said he would certify a nationwide class of children who would be deprived of citizenship if the policy took effect.

I tend to conceptually prefer the bifurcated approach myself because it allows us to reason about if and when immunity might be appropriate, but that's a topic for another paper!

It's also especially enlightening to see that the unified model—which renders immunity analytically inert—is the one preferred by this important figure in international criminal law.

I describe that as a unified approach, and I map these onto Ann Woolhandler's discretion and legality models of US executive immunity.

I've found the legality/unified model puzzling, so it's helpful to see it adopted in book-length treatment.

Perhaps most importantly though, the book illustrates a particular understanding of immunity that's relevant to both international and domestic law. Rather than treating responsibility and immunity as separate questions (a bifurcated approach), the book essentially says: if responsible, no immunity.

I applaud the book for tackling the urgent question of accountability. I also raise questions about whether it can live up to its aims, given the absence of central legal questions and the sometimes superficial treatment of history.

"End of Immunity" by Judge Eboe-Osuji (former ICC President) is an interesting, provocative, and at-times frustrating work advancing his longstanding view that customary international law doesn't recognize immunity for heads of State charged by international courts with international crimes.

The Columbia Journal of Transnational Law asked me to review Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji's recent book, and my review, "Modeling Immunity in International and Domestic Courts," is now live.

www.jtl.columbia.edu/bulletin-blo...

And on SSRN for those who prefer footnotes: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“[T]here is no moral or legal obligation to obey the order, but more importantly: there is a moral – and legal – obligation to disobey it.”

As I think Melissa’s article beautifully illustrates, the concern is not only in statelessness per se, but also the threat thereof and the combination of both with the administration’s broader immigration policy. Of course made all the more dangerous by some of the Court’s other rulings.

Brilliant and timely legal analysis paired with moral clarity, as always, from @melissastewart.bsky.social

Justices Extend Due Process Pause To South Sudan Removals - Law360 The U.S. Supreme Court clarified Thursday that its recent order allowing the Trump administration to send noncitizens to countries they have no connection to with little notice or chance to object ext...

"due process pause"

www.law360.com/securities/a...

Screenshot from Jan de Louter's introduction to the 1946 translation of "De foro legatorum liber singularis" by Bynkershoek. Circled sentence reads: "During one of those spasmodic explosions of stock-jobbery that so often shook Western Europe and even excited the usually composed mind of the Dutch to perilous excess, it happened that the envoy-extraordinary of the duke of Schleswig-Holstein at The Hague became involved in huge speculations of the Pacific Company and, having lost, was summoned by his creditors before the Court of Holland in 1720."

On one hand, the state of the country/world is very very bad.

On the other hand, people used to publish sentences like this.

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

The "Unwilling or Unable" Test for Sending Military to Los Angeles It is unlikely that the situation in Los Angeles has met the test of unwilling or unable civilian authorities.

The missing legal argument.

The state of California has not raised a claim in litigation yet on use of Marines/Guard – but it should, writes @rgoodlaw.bsky.social. Indeed, the argument relies on the same sources the DOJ cites.

www.justsecurity.org/114698/unwil...

TLDR: almost certainly no

And directing attacks against civilian scientists would be a violation (of jus in bello), too.

Between this outcome and the oral argument's general "let's dodge the constitutional issue any way we can" attitude, I'm especially curious to see how it pairs with what they do in Fuld.