Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige

‘We’re the good guys’: why moral storytelling doesn’t make the war on Iran necessary or legal Once the narrative of a “just war” replaces the rule of law, there is little left to restrain powerful states from dominating weaker ones.

This short piece from @tamermorris.bsky.social is excellent and worth your time to read it: theconversation.com/were-the-goo...

On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

Meanwhile, the slaughter at sea continues.

No telling what a military that engages in a months long killing spree outside the law might do.

Romance fiction in a fantasy setting – pretty expansive subgenre within fantasy

The institutionalised contempt for trans people is breathtaking in its devastation. This is not about politicians’ “legitimate concerns” regarding medicine. It’s fundamentally about a desire to stop trans people existing. We must continue to challenge such transphobic politics unapologetically.

Screenshot of text: At a time when those of us who are most precariously positioned are being most aggressively targeted, our work must be informed by care, by collectivity, and by deep political clarity. We must think carefully about when and how we show up, how we protect one another, and how we continue to build towards liberation.

On International Women’s Day, I am reminded of the importance of feminist organising for building a more just world.

And shout out to my brilliant Feminist Legal Studies colleagues who continue to undertake this critical emotional and intellectual labour.

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Historians will refer to this era as the "Warcrimapalooza period"

A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival.

Targeting a civilian object is a war crime.

Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime.

NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

I had a blast recording this episode of #CalledToTheBar on submarine cables – one of the most legally under considered pieces of critical infrastructure

66. Submarine cables In this episode, Douglas Guilfoyle and Tamsin Phillipa Paige are joined by Dr Tara Davenport (NUS Centre for International Law) and Dita Liliansa (UNSW Sydney) for a deep dive into the law, history, a

New #CalledToTheBar: submarine cables, the invisible infrastructure carrying ~99% of global data.
Colonial origins, UNCLOS, grey zone sabotage, and why relevant LOAC is alarmingly undercooked.
With @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social, @taradavenport.bsky.social & Dita Liliansa.
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I watch them while I play games. I find them alone is too passive – I'll read for single focus activities

I've come to the conclusion that I actually don't have the patience to play games with a grind or open map/exploration element. If your story progression doesn't show me the world and leave me adequately levelled to keep progressing the story the you are wasting my time

You cannot really run a university like a business because our most valuable product is failure.

The legal arguments and architecture for what's happening in Iran now, and were deployed in relation to Gaza, really did not come out of nowhere.

The pre-emption and targetted assassination arguments might appear spectacular, but they were the workaday archiecture of the war on terror.

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.

Join me this Friday 6 March, 1pm UK time/8 am EST, online or in-person: My lecture at @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social
– #Athenia, or the #Nuremberg Trial at Midpoint – will discuss less-known events & persons, & also less-discussed #legacies, some at play today. Reg: buff.ly/Mxee8k0

a man wearing a mask with the words " life is pain " below him ALT: a man wearing a mask with the words " life is pain " below him

The Princess Bride is still an outstanding film

The UK's legal position on the use of its bases in the Middle East is solid with one glaring hole: The US cannot act in collective self-defence with the Gulf States. It is the aggressor. Ergo the UK cannot assist the US in collective self-defence.

The environmental harm caused?

The strikes are so obviously unlawful that it is not even up for debate. If the Foreign Minister has legal advice to the contrary, she should release it to the public immediately.

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And even then they don't bother saying the right things so much of the time – evidence is their open support for US and Israeli aggression

No Senator Wong the legality isn't a matter for the US and Israel to determine, it is the responsibility of the international community to speak up when blatant disregard for international law takes place. So it is absolutely a question for Australia to be addressing unless you support aggression

Does it have saltwater crocs in the tank?

The trans women in women's sports thing annoys the fuck out of me because trans women were first allowed to compete as women in the Olympics in 2004. This was the policy for at least 6 summer Olympics, at which not a single trans woman ever won a medal.

When in doubt, read @adhaque.bsky.social

Always. Read. Adil.

I mean that's basically his entire argument and I have cited it to call him a raging cocksore but I'm close to John Yooing him and just putting in a footnote telling people that if they really want to know google him but I'm not jacking his citation count

Legit, your mum sounds like she is the fucking best