The list of countries threatened with U.S. military intervention is growing
· Venezuela 🇻🇪
· Iran 🇮🇷
· Cuba 🇨🇺
· Greenland 🇬🇱
· Canada 🇨🇦
…just this year!
Do they all want "Liberation"? No, I argue in
@foreignaffairs.com
Janina Dill
Is it ever acceptable to kill a few to spare the many? Is assassination a powerful tool for the future? Great debate at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival with David Whetham and Roy Allison, hosted by Angie Hobbs and the Forum for European Philosophy.
Is it ever acceptable to kill a few to spare the many? Is assassination a powerful tool for the future? Great debate at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival with David Whetham and Roy Allison, hosted by Angie Hobbs and the Forum for European Philosophy.
‘The truth is that both ministers and vice-chancellors are locked into a financial model whose premise is misconceived and whose side effects are profoundly damaging for higher education.’
Stefan Collini on the UK’s university problems, online now from the next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The state of higher education in the UK, in a photo
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
Best thing I've listened to in a while. Great discussion on the current state of the international order, its future, and what we (scholars/states) can and should do.
Excellent piece. Two key points, in my view:
"The strike manufactured the war whose laws it now invokes for cover."
"Whatever is permissible for Israel and the United States in 2026 is available to any state with the reach to attempt it in 2027."
Sophie Duroy
Sophie Duroy
New essay, forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the Armenian Journal of International Law and already available on SSRN: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
Comments welcome!
Sophie Duroy
New episode of JIB/JAB - a fascinating and important discussion with @janinadill.bsky.social and @monicahakimi.bsky.social on how the attacks on Iran impact the crisis in int'l law, what follows, and how legal scholars and states should respond.
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Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable.
The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently.
This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1451...
Craig Martin
University and College Union (UCU)
"Washington cannot undo the Khamenei strike, and it is in no position to condemn an operation it materially supported. What it can do, and ought to do, is formalize a legal position before the next conflict forces one out of it," writes William "Chip" Usher. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/kill...
How one strike rewrote the law of leadership decapitation.
Any attempt to fight this storm must start from the "recognition that the task facing a mature society is to adapt its methods of financing universities to sustaining the purposes for which such institutions exist – rather than, as at present, the other way round."
Stefan Collini in @lrb.co.uk. 3/
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
