Maybe this is too international law of me, but you canβt liberate women by slaughtering school girls.
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Maybe this is too international law of me, but you canβt liberate women by slaughtering school girls.
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, Iβll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls weβve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
Great post, @yusrasuedi.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/simplela...
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
Calculus
Social, Economic, and Political Thought
Performance for Radio
Non-Western Literary Criticism
Basic Lifesaving/Lifeguard Training
"All the stories about alien abduction and spaceships? They already happened. Entire mass populations moved; forcibly dematerialised. How much more alien do you think it gets than slavery?"
Kodwo Eshun in The Last Angel of History
Looking for specialist medical negligence solicitors in the UK. Is there anyone here who could help or who could make a referral? Thank you!
A CAUSE OF THE PRESENT CRISIS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW I. International law is at present obviously facing a crisis. With the exception of the diplomatic and consular fields, almost all the rules of public international law have been constantly violated. Particularly subject to violation have been the rules concerning the use of force in international relations. The weak or weakened norms on the prohibition of the threat or use of force are not complied with; their binding force is not established. These phenomena reflect a lamentable truth of our age, that international relations are not governed by international law but by the balance of power. The present-day crisis of international law stems from the fact that states, especially the larger ones, do not regard its rules as binding upon them. They treat the law as recommendations or as non-binding rules of international courtesy or morality. Such an attitude by states toward international law is dictated by many causes, the main one being the priority given to individual political interests. However, one of those causes is also the over-politization of intemational law in terms of denying independent existence to international legal norms
"The present-day crisis of international law stems from the fact that states, especially the larger ones, do not regard its rules as binding upon them."
Miodrag SukijasoviΔ, American Journal of International Law 1971. Gentle reminder that international law is always in crisis.
Read @yusrasuedi.bsky.social's newest explainer: The U.S. has only stepped back from parts of the UN system, and withdrawn from one treaty: the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The U.S. remains bound by the UN Charter.
open.substack.com/pub/simplela...
"Unapologetic defiance of law is much more dangerous β for the law and hence for global stability β than violations couched in, however implausible, legal apologia, as previous US military interventions often were."
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...
Revisiting this article from last year:
'As we spoke about the condition of international law writ large, he slipped into the past tense: βIt was a way of challenging brute uses of force, and that is no longer there.β'
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...
Not to make this about Kelsen but Kelsen warned us that "national law monism" (the view that one's own legal system is the only valid legal system) is the legal theory of imperialism and militarism.
open.substack.com/pub/simplela...
Excellent explainer from @yusrasuedi.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/lsei...
This should preface every bit of news coverage and commentary on what the US did today in Venezuela
What??!!!
If this doesn't come with a UNGA Uniting for Peace resolution and global condemnation then the prohibition on the use of force is finished and the UN will go the way of the League of Nations.
Ask the international lawyers in your life how they are because right now I wish I weren't 10 years sober
Shaking in anger at what I am seeing in the news. Patently illegal and absolutely terrifying
I think this feels particularly shocking because no matter how much you stretch the law this has absolutely no basis of legality whatsoever. No terrorists, no "threat" requiring anticipatory self defence. Nothing.
π¦ These viruses spread through the air we breathe, especially indoors in cramped spaces:
Flu
RSV
COVID
Measles
Whooping cough
βοΈProtect our communities:
Stay up to date with available vaccines
Wear a wellβfitting mask in higherβrisk spaces
Improve indoor air quality
πͺClean air saves lives.
π― 'Time is well overdue for international policy bodies to acknowledge the totality of evidence on the science of masks and masking and to show leadership in providing such messaging to policymakers, clinicians, and the public.' @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social et al
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Just because youβre a professor and you hold the opinion that masks donβt work doesnβt make you a βtop scientistβ.
Looking forward to this! My hometown (Baguio City) in the Philippines is very much into country music as well, and I have also been meaning to write about it π
I urgently need help with a case of discrimination against a disabled person. Apple Store Battersea, London. Please get in touch with me ASAP. Please reshare @goodlawproject.org?
I urgently need help with a case of discrimination against a disabled person. Apple Store Battersea, London. Please get in touch with me ASAP. Please reshare
Trump's Ukraine-Russia Peace Plan violates international law in several ways. My thoughts, in 2 minutes: www.simplelaw.blog/p/4-ways-tru...
The prototype nation-state isnβt a territory that contains only its ancestral people. That type of polity has been very rare in history.
The prototype nation-state oppresses a different group in the same territory. The one-people model is a theoretical simplification, like a frictionless surface.
