Brilliant. I would add, though, that US strikes in Syria are not the exception that proves the rule. They were motivated not by humanitarian concerns for Syrian civilians, but by the fear that chemical weapons would fall into the hands of actors that might use them against Americans.
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Whatever Thomas Weiss says about ICISS, nothing in R2P permits the use of force without Security Council approval. That is crystal clear from the High Level Panel report, the UNSG report, and the World Summit Outcome Document. Here's the UN page. www.un.org/en/genocide-....
The Xavier Collins character in Paradise S02E04 was reading Mary Shelley's "The Last Man" -- Shelly's best book. (Yes, I will die on that hill.) A perfect choice given the nature of the show.
What AI skills need to be developed exactly? How to copy and paste a question prompt? How to write a more precise command or inquiry? How to better disguise and humanize the resulting AI essay?
These are hardly "critical" skills. And none of this is "education."
(To be clear, I am not offering an opinion about whether the attack was legal. I'm just commenting on how mistakes of fact function in domestic and international criminal law.)
A defendant always runs the risk that a "mistake" is so unreasonable that the finder of fact concludes it was not honestly made. But if the fact-finder concludes that the mistake was honestly made, the defendant did not act with recklessness or dolus eventualis even if the mistake was unreasonable.
There are a few civil-law systems that still make use of "unconscious recklessness." Turkey is an example. The UK used to use that mens rea (Caldwell recklessness) but it was eliminated in 2003. There has never been unconscious recklessness in international criminal law.
It's true that some war crimes under customary international law (and a couple in the Rome Statute) require only recklessness/dolus eventualis. But an honest mistake negates any mens rea that requires conscious awareness, as both do.
🚨Just published with @cspjournal.bsky.social: A Civilisational Imaginary of Western Military Technology
I look at how narratives of “civilisation” and “The West” distort thinking around the design, regulation, and use of military technology, including military AI
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Amazing public service. The journalist has an MSc in International Human Rights Law from Oxford. It shows.
John Sayles once said a director who doesn't edit their own films isn't a director. The corollary is that a scholar who doesn't create their own outlines isn't a scholar. Outlining with #AI isn't scholarship.
Wtaf. This is an actual sentence in an actual book. The 2nd edition of Natural Law and Natural Rights published in *2011*
I knew Finnis was an un reconstructed arsehat, but ...
This @theverge.com series looks amazing. Particularly interested in "For Scale," about the use of high-explosive munitions -- an amount in South Vietnam described by one scholar as "equivalent to dropping one Hiroshima-sized atomic bomb... every five days throughout the seven year period.”
For outsiders -- which includes me -- I asked Gemini to create a chart of where the parties fall on the political spectrum. Seems accurate, though Danish friends please weigh in! It's great to see the environmentalist Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF/F) in second place and growing.
Nearly every day I wake up and think how lucky I am to live in a society that, though hardly without its problems, is generally healthy and well-functioning. ❤️🇩🇰
Together with some stellar colleagues I reflect on the implications of this very public dispute between Anthropic and the DoD about ethical red lines. Read it here on @opiniojuris.bsky.social ttps://opiniojuris.org/2026/02/26/the-pentagon-anthropic-clash-over-military-ai-guardrails/
A hidden benefit of being an arrogant academic: believing that you will always write better than an AI.
Indomitable, indefatigable, and inestimable.
Today's major accomplishment. (Anyone who points out the flags are not perfectly straight will be immediately blocked. It's already going to torture me forever.)
This one hits hard.
I have posted a new background paper on hypersonic weapons and international law @opiniojuris.bsky.social. Comments and criticisms welcome! opiniojuris.org/2026/02/20/n...
Please read the very important new post @opiniojuris.bsky.social by Fadel Abdulghany and @kenroth.bsky.social about post-Assad #Syria. opiniojuris.org/2026/02/20/a...
Wait, haven't all the AI mega-corporations been telling us that they absolutely, positively have to steal our intellectual property or the entire industry will collapse like a flan in the cupboard? (To appropriate the great Eddie Izzard.)
I particularly love SDR's concluding paragraph. 👏👏👏
This is a great review of a terrible book. I admire SDR's ability to read it all; I stopped after a couple of chapters. It's too bad Gladwell didn't spend 10,000 hours researching his subject; maybe then he wouldn't have produced a parody of serious scholarship.
Another chemical company, Corteva, recently agreed to discontinue the herbicide Enlist Duo, which combined glyphosate with 2,4-D, one of the key ingredients in Agent Orange -- the herbicide that caused so much environmental destruction during the Vietnam War. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This @houseagdems.bsky.social announcement is ironic, given that two days ago #Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, agreed to pay a plaintiff class $7.25 billion for failing to warn consumers that the #glyphosate in the herbicide #Roundup was linked to cancer. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Britons living in EU face repayment hikes amid Reeves student loans row.
Choice - Stay in the UK, be unemployed, claim dole OR go and work in EU, make higher loan repayments
How many would sever links with the UK?
Most European countries do not charge University tuition fees
UK system is a mess.
"It really has to sting for Bari. The person she wanted for the Evening News anchor chair is choosing to leave CBS altogether because of her," one CBS News staffer told me tonight. "This is 'fuck you' to Bari."
