Professor Leila Sadat

Back at you, dear Sarah! ❤️

Joint Civil Society Declaration in Advance of the First Preparatory Committee Session for the Crimes against Humanity Treaty With the first Preparatory Committee Session for the Crimes against Humanity Convention fast approaching on January 19, 2026, please consider signing the below joint letter to UN Member States, unders...

The preparatory committee for the crimes against humanity treaty begins deliberations on January 19. Access of civil society to these negotiations, which will take place over the next 4 years is at stake. Please consider signing this declaration to show your support! forms.gle/L8e1UmaXRnCP...

Red States Aren’t Loving MAGA Reality It’s not a resistance yet, but folks aren’t buying that everything’s a hoax.

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And one year later, last Friday the sixth committee set the date for the second prepcom. First prepcom com begins January 19! #CAHTreatyNow

Dear @k-interarma.bsky.social thank you so much for this wonderful summary! Giggling a little bit to hear myself described as a benevolent overlord! It’s a team effort! I’m looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues in The Hague! #CAHTreatyNow

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!

We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Spinning genocide: How is Israel using US PR firms to frame its Gaza war? Israel has contracted three US public relations companies to help it win back American hearts and minds.

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Thanks for the shout out and can’t wait to see you there!

Case for Environmental Harm as a 12th Crime Against Humanity Addressing the global environmental crisis requires urgent action. This treaty offers an opportunity to confront it directly and decisively.

From Saddam Hussein’s draining of southern Iraq’s marshes to Russia’s attacks on a Ukrainian dam and nuclear power plant, calls are increasing to recognize mass environmental harms as international crimes.

@leilasadat1.bsky.social outlines a role for the proposed #CrimesAgainstHumanity treaty:

Must-read paper on the developments to date in the effort to establish a treaty on the prohibition, prevention, and punishment of crimes against humanity, by @leilasadat1.bsky.social, who has been central to that effort:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

So great to be with you @bechamilton.bsky.social and @alkapradhan.bsky.social … you are trailblazers!

So honored to be with you @bechamilton.bsky.social at @auwcl.bsky.social at this amazing program!

The next episode of our podcast, International Law Chats, is live!

Chiara Giorgetti and Milena Sterio interviewed our Chair, @leilasadat1.bsky.social, about her longstanding efforts to establish a treaty on Crimes Against Humanity. Listen on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/1bcl...

Thanks @craigxmartin.bsky.social for the shout out!

Landmark Ruling Gives Paris Climate Agreement Teeth A rare unanimous ruling from the International Court of Justice creates a pathway to hold all governments, even the climate-denying ones, legally liable for climate risk.

The ruling from the International Court of Justice last week is genuinely a big fucking deal. It makes it a legal obligation for countries to address climate change. Yes, even the ones not signed on to Paris. Yes, even the U.S. More from me & @rishpardikar.bsky.social drilled.media/news/ijc-1

No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

It’s way too late, but the truth has a way of coming out. Forget the airdrops and scrap GHF — let the UN organizations resume their humanitarian delivery operations NOW to stop the ongoing starvation:

This woman does the best she can and I'm glad she stepped up and got in officers faces.

A few quick notes about "warrants" and due process when law enforcement arrest people, and how this squares with the current TRO that ostensibly blocks profiling by race, language, occupation, and location

know we're not supposed to share things like this on Linkedn, but I'm going to share it anyway because it was horrifying and it's happening everywhere and it needs to be shared. This morning when I was driving home after dropping my son off at summer camp, I saw a swarm of ICE agents as I drove past our local Home Depot. It looked like they were tying up some workers, and my first reaction was to pull into the parking lot. I couldn't think. I couldn't process. I couldn't reason. I just jumped out of my car and started filming. I then watched as these two people were disappeared into unmarked vehicles, with one of the ICE vehicles trying to back into me when I wasn't looking. Another woman tried to help. An ICE agent tried to slap her phone down when she tried to get a phone number to call this man's family. They wouldn't let her. Instead, they whisked him away and accused her of obstructing justice. I'm currently lying awake in bed at 11pm thinking about how these men won't return home to their families tonight, and their families will probably never know what happened to them. I've been through some traumatic events in my life, but I've never witnessed anything like this. This was down the street from my son's elementary school in our little peaceful coastal town. You may not see it on the news, but you'll hear it from me because it needs to be shared.

From the LinkedIn of the woman—a white lawyer from Carlsbad, CA—who filmed this encounter and shared the video:

Thanks for the opportunity @abilaofficial.bsky.social

All four of my grandparents were immigrants, and two barely spoke English. Well, my Irish nana also spoke what we think was English

Bill Kristol (!) putting the blame where the blame lies. Miller and Trump took the fight to LA, and to the country. Not the other way round.

Newsom Formally Asks Trump to Pull National Guard Out of L.A. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office, in a letter to the Trump administration, called the deployment of troops “unlawful” and a “serious breach of state sovereignty.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom demanded on Sunday that President Trump pull California National Guard troops off the streets and away from the demonstrations unfolding in Los Angeles.

Deploying the National Guard—over the objections of state leaders and local law enforcement—is a dangerous escalation.

This isn’t about enforcing law and order, it’s about seizing power and control. Americans won’t tolerate this slide into authoritarianism.

There is no climate justice without justice for oppressed people.
I wish the climate scientists vocal on climate mitigation all had the level of moral clarity that Greta Thunberg has.

There's no way you can look at Ukraine hitting a lawful military target, used for bombing Ukrainian cities, and think that justifies retribution against those same cities, without believing almost wholly in the Russian framing of the war.

Oh dear, this is definitely the worst non-apology ever….

Page One in Des Moines.

@jemsinger.bsky.social

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

So brave…