I am honored to assume the presidency of @asilorg.bsky.social. Our 4000 members share a mission: to foster the study of international law, and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the basis of law and justice.
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🌊 Today is #WorldEnvironmentDay!
Read our 2021 Q&A with environmental law expert @johnhknox.bsky.social on why a healthy environment is a human right — now recognized as such by the UN Human Rights Council.
✍️ @katarinazimmer.bsky.social: knowmag.org/4uQ0laE
In her address to the ASIL annual meeting, incoming president Oona Hathaway says international law has never mattered more than it does right now.
There is a huge shift in climate politics happening RIGHT NOW in Santa Marta, Colombia. Countries are meeting to discuss a treaty to phase out fossil fuels -- the one issue that #UNFCCC has studiously avoided for 30 years. 🧵
The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them.
We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.
UN recognition would strengthen legal arguments for preserving nature
