Christopher Long, 'The construction of Eurocentric universals: recognition, property and the dynamic force of the negative', International Relations, March 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… #WorkingWithTheNegative

Mekong tributaries flowing from Myanmar to northern Thailand, once clear and pristine, have morphed into an ominous, murky shade of orange-yellow. The cause: abnormally high levels of arsenic, run-off from mines in Myanmar. buff.ly/uNXioFA

What limits does international law place on using force in self-defence in the cyber context? See my new ECIL Working Paper on how the customary international law requirements of necessity and proportionality apply to cyber operations: tinyurl.com/mrxhmszr

✏️ Call for papers Interdisciplinary perspectives on empire, colonialism, and anticolonialism This call for papers is aimed at presenters from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences at any stage of their career Submit by 30 August 2025 crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/4727…

⚖️[Press release] Scope of immunity of foreign officials and Heads of State 👓Press release and rulings > courdecassation.fr/en/toutes…

The 'world court' on climate change - Cambridge professor and Centre Fellow, Prof Jorge Viñuales, and counsel team member for Vanuatu gives his initial views on the landmark ICJ Advisory Opinion. Read more at: cam.ac.uk/stories/icj-climat…

Good piece: Liberalism is worth saving. Just ask its critics. | Vox vox.com/politics/418116/anti…

1/2 Out now! "Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas: A Dialogue on Liberty" by Quentin Skinner (@qmHPT) & @tomaashby (@UTokyo_News), a wide-ranging, scholarly, & full-length discussion article - the first such piece our journal! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

After months of back-and-forth drafting, & over 10,000 words of dialogue, I am delighted that this discussion article co-authored with Quentin Skinner (@QMUL) is now published @Global_IH tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.…

"This is not about the lack of law. It’s about the remaking of the law." @BayoumiMoustafa Excellent analysis of the use of law to advance political interests in both domestic and intl affairs. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i…

I reviewed Quentin Skinner’s new one thenation.com/article/archiv…

I’m sharing my new article in @RIPEJournal , where I argue that the Third World, in its efforts to establish a New International Economic Order (NIEO), developed a novel political vocabulary grounded in two key ideas (1/5) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Want to learn more about negotiation & arbitration under #CEDAW in view of the potential #Afghanistan case before the #ICJ? Payam Akhavan & Hanifa Girowal will join @MPF_heidelberg's #ALRN on June 10th at 5:00 PM CEST/11:00 AM EDT to discuss this important issue. Link below ⤵️

"ฮุนเซน" ยืนยันพื้นที่ "สามเหลี่ยมมรกต" เป็นดินแดนของกัมพูชา ท้าขึ้นศาลโลกยุติข้อพิพาท เชื่อเหตุการณ์ที่เกิดขึ้นมาจากผู้บังคับบัญชาระดับล่างและกลุ่มหัวรุนแรงของไทย อ่านข่าว : ch3plus.com/news/internation… #เรื่องเล่าเช้านี้ #ข่าวช่อง3 #ข่าวต่างประเทศ #ฮุนเซน #กัมพูชา

Glad to see this article now out. Part of a special issue on the history of international law, I write on, and against, the erasure of the Marxist tradition in the international legal history of decolonisation. brill.com/view/journals/jhil…

Extremely happy to announce the #ILC unanimously adopted the #sea-level rise final report set of conclusions crowning our work since 2018 to address one of the most pressing challenges confronting millions. #PIF #AOSIS @BogdanAurescu @PatrciaGalvoTe1 JJ RudaSantolario

Can AI be a ‘legal author’? @BojanSpaic and I had a blast exploring this seemly unattended question in contemporary debate (ft. authority, interpretation, intention, GenAI, creation & generation, Monty Python, Star Trek, S Lem, R Barthes, cats & more) 👉doi.org/10.1007/s10982-025-0…

My new article on the international thought of Hans Kelsen is out now in the Journal of Global History (@GlobalHistJnl)doi.org/10.1017/S17400228240…

Very pleased to have written a report with @yuanyi_z for Policy Exchange @Policy_Exchange that challenges the commonly heard view that the European Convention on Human Rights is a “British legacy” – and that to leave the Convention would be to a “betrayal” of Sir Winston Churchill.  Through a close examination of the historical record, the report refutes that claim and demonstrates that the ECHR which was accepted by the Attlee government is radically different from the ECHR which exists today, with a vast gap between what its drafters had envisaged and the Convention as it exists today. Link below ⬇️