Christine Schwobel-Patel
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Professor @Warwick_Law , international law, political economy, aesthetics, green transition. fellow @CRASSHlive . Marketing Global Justice:
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Academic production can seem meaningless in these times, but I guess we do it to make sense of the world. I hope that with our collection The Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice we might contribute a little.
@pashukanist
Out soon with
@2counterpress
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I dare say the sardonic and patronising tone of Malcolm Shaw KC before the Bench is not having the effect that he is hoping for...it is making SA's decency and humanity yesterday stand out even more
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No immediate hard legal implications, other than Israel needing to report to the ICJ, which will prob amount to something like stricter Israeli military/political discipline.
BUT other implications, which looked like wishful thinking before, start looking much more serious.🧵
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Settler colonialism in full view. Disturbing how the land that is literally rubble and strewn with corpses is painted here as green and full of potential.
BREAKING: Within the first hour the "Return to
#Gaza
Conference" - attended by
#Israeli
Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament - presents a plan for the re-establishment of 15 Israeli settlements and the addition of 6 new ones, on where recently destroyed
#Palestinian
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The history-writing of the ICJ's provisional measures, in which it restated many of SA's submissions on the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza, should not be underestimated, or relativised. It is, for a court that has submitted to hegemonic power so often, truly extraordinary.
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1. companies delivering arms will have to show as part of due diligence that they are not contravening international law, but prob more importantly national laws that prohibit complicity in genocide
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2. states that have contracts with arms companies delivering to Israel could potentially be viewed as complicit in genocide: (threat of) more ICJ cases?
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6. Unis that have research partnerships with Israeli unis that develop weapons/systems to oppress Palestinians could see pressure from their students (student fees for assisting genocide is a bad look for reputation sensitive unis)
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3. states with universal jurisdiction legislation for genocide (e.g. Switzerland) could see (further) arrest warrants against Israeli officials and their allies issued
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8. In short: an arguably legally sanctioned growing isolation of Israel and its allies in terms of foreign policy/economy. Not enough, but not nothing...
What have I missed?
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4. Investors will start to get jittery about potential risks associated with Israel’s economy/regional escalation (demand higher risk premiums)
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Final chemo today. Dressed up in sparkles for the occasion. Wish me luck! Also, if you’ve checked out this post, why not check your boobs too for any lumps or changes?
#breastcancerawareness
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Thrilled to have been promoted to professor
@Warwick_Law
! 🎉 thankful for all the people who got me here.
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7. Legitimacy of the (huge) numbers of Palestinians killed, and injuries reported. Israel claimed that these were Hamas figures and therefore not reliable.
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Israel suggests that Gaza was 'a coastal area with potential to become a political and economic success story' thwarted by Hamas... Extraordinary to suggest this in light of continued blockade by Israel, and repeated description of Gaza as an open-air prison, before 7th October.
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It's arrived, in the flesh! Go and get your copy with discount code MGJ2021
@CUP_Law
Of interest to those who are concerned about the commodification of our relationship with global justice.
#twinningwithyourbook
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Thrilled to have been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship
@LeverhulmeTrust
for my research project on 'New Frontiers of Extraction: Greenland and the International Law of Imperial Rentier Capitalism'.
Basically: IL, extractive industries for green energy, imperialism
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For all those men pointing out that building a case around legal nit-picking and pedantic bureaucracy without compassion is the ‘proper’ way to do law: you do realise that Germany has a history of doing precisely this to facilitate genocide?
Germany’s pleadings at the ICJ: Germany was in its comfort-zone of nit-picking legalism and pedantic bureaucracy. Building its case around laws, metrics, and risk assessments… words of compassion uttered sounded awfully hollow.
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In our teaching of (public) international law
@Warwick_Law
, we have committed to decolonising the curriculum. I'll be sharing some thoughts on this process as we move through the syllabus week by week. It would be great to get feedback. Here's how we started. Thread.
@tor_krever
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What do you know about German colonialism in the 19th century-early 20th century? This podcast by
@juergenzimmerer
with
@derspiegel
is phenomenal. Auf Deutsch, and couldn't help taking notes. Thread
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I ran 5k! 11 weeks since chemo and 7 weeks since finishing radiotherapy. I did not think I would ever have the strength to run again, let alone run a 5k.
#parkrun
#breastcancerawareness
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Germany’s pleadings at the ICJ: Germany was in its comfort-zone of nit-picking legalism and pedantic bureaucracy. Building its case around laws, metrics, and risk assessments… words of compassion uttered sounded awfully hollow.
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There is a distinct Weimar Republic feel to Germany at the moment
- rise of far right groups (in and outside of parliament)
- blaming of ‘others’
- fiscal uncertainty/chaos
- increased international isolation
- ignorance of genocidal intentions/actions towards an ethnic group
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I wrote a short explainer on South Africa v Israel for
@critlegthinking
:
- why the case is important
- why South Africa
- why the ICJ
- what genocide is according to the Convention
- what provisional measures are
- what will happen next
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Call for abstracts!
@Serena_Natile
and I aim to bring together scholars and comrades in law, social science, pol economy and beyond to collectively celebrate and reflect on the work of Rosa Luxemburg and its contribution to international legal debates.
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Excited to share my piece for
@TeenVogue
on de-commodifying social values in our current condition. Referencing Stuart Hall on appropriating 'togetherness', and Marx on commodity fetishism.
Buying More Stuff Isn’t the Answer to Our Current Crises
Buying More Stuff Isn’t the Answer to Our Current Crises
The brands won't save us.
www.teenvogue.com
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The way in which Germany's idea of 'never again' is used (by the Social Democrats!) to support mass deportations, militarisation, and the targeting of civilians in Gaza is frankly obsecene.
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With regret, I resigned today as external examiner on the LLM programmes
@LSELaw
and
@LancasterUni
in solidarity with the
@ucu
struggle against pension cuts and to support
#fourfights
.
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The contender for the longest running academic project is actually a manuscript!
Excited that this collection, ed. with
@pashukanist
, (ass ed. Rosie Woodhouse) will be published with
@2counterpress
!
Incl. a screenplay, parables, comics, poetry, art, & brilliant scholarship
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My forthcoming book 'Marketing Global Justice'
@CUP_Law
has a cover!!
It is by radical art/thought collective
@Adbusters
, who engage the technique of 'culture-jamming' to challenge the use of market symbols in social life
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This is so lovely. Feeling lucky today! Book is out! Open access 💫
Discount code MGJ2021 if you fancy having this on your shelf too.
Everyone should check out
@CSchwobelPatel
's (currently open access) fantastic sparkly new book Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of Int Criminal Justice. The most brilliant, amazing co-conspirator, comrade and colleague you could image:
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My Oxford Bibliographies entry on 'Teaching International Law' is out: Incl. overview of differences btw Western and non-Western law schools, critical pedagogy, and teaching tools. Suggestions for additions always welcome
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12 yrs of teaching the Treaty of Westphalia to international law students, and trying to take the gloss off, and I hadn’t come across this until today? How is that possible?
The Treaty of Westphalia via
@YouTube
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This is how you conference properly: pizza, wine, and some awesome friends and comrades
@ntinatzouvala
,
@GrietjeBa
,
@geo_2022
,
@MariePetersmann
,
@Dimitri_VdM
,
@andrea_leiter
,
@edajones16
@ElianaCusato
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This is a lovely tribute to my dad, who died suddenly on Saturday night. We are grieving his loss. I take great comfort in having seen him just two days before it happened, and for the kids having spent some time with their grandad.
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Thrilled to announce that I will be joining
@Warwick_Law
as Associate Professor from October!! Looking forward to working with another group of wonderful colleagues.
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Manuscript of 'Marketing Global Justice' submitted!!
Long ToC here:
Thank you to everyone who helped in various ways in the past weeks/months/years.
forthcoming with
@CUP_Law
next year
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International lawyers take note: Wendy Brown: 'we need to remember that part of the entire moral project of neoliberalism is to privatize everything including the nation, and make it something privately owned by those who are already there'
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Academic promotions are essentially collaborative, but where the colleagues and mentors who offer advice, feedback and encouragement don’t get recognised. Here are a few of my awesome promotion collaborators:
@VMunro_Law
,
@ruawall
,
@dallalstevens
.
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Preparing to leave Berlin with a heavy heart, but then saw that my profile is already up
@CRASSHlive
, where I'll be based from Aug for my forthcoming
@LeverhulmeTrust
fellowship 🥳. Looking forward to learning from the amazing
@CRASSHlive
community!
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Introduction to our 'Rosa Luxemburg and International Law' symposium
@Serena_Natile
🌹
Contributors:
@kanad_bagchi
, Santosh Anand,
@mtedeschini
,
@MarnieLloydd
, Chloe Jones, Attila Antal,
Marcel Garbos, Eric Loefflad,
@PaolaZichi
,
@mia_swart
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I have been very moved by the tributes to my dad Christoph Schwöbel, who died suddenly last Saturday.
As a complement to the tributes about his professional life, I add, with a bit of nervousnous about opening my heart here, a note about him as a dad and grandad.
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Reminder that registration is open for the Rosa Luxemburg and International Law online workshop on 15th Sep. Speakers include
@Serena_Natile
,
@kanad_bagchi
,
@anand_IntLaw
,
@mtedeschini
,
@MarnieLloydd
,
@_MiaSwart
. Keynote by
@DanaNaomyMills
🌹
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Birthday Post! On the occasion of Rosa Luxemburg’s birthday (and mine), I wrote about ‘Rosa’s ecology’ for
@rosaluxstiftung
: A call for rereading Rosa’s work in light of climate catastrophe and imperial wars.
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Also, international law being ‘dead’ was never at issue. It is very much alive - in a highly selective way of enabling distribution of resources, political power, and compassion. ICC referral is likely sadly but a small legal win, perhaps only an illusion of progress in this war
1/2: I am really trying to express myself diplomatically here. Please, try to stay sober! Could ”we” international lawyers, in the safety and comfort, refrain from celebrations at least until Ukrainians are no longer under fire? Have ”we” asked them whether IL and ICL did well?
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Apparently, walking through Utrecht accidentally wearing the favourite colour of the Dutch, qualifies you for receiving flowers from strangers!
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I have uploaded a draft chapter to on coloniality and (global) constitutionalism. '(Global) Constitutionalism and the Geopolitics of Knowledge'. Drawing on seminal work by
@wmignolo
and
@zeithistoriker
Comments welcome!
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Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice is out!
Get your copy here:
£25 for an academic book with images is not bad! Nor is an ebook on a pay-what-you-can basis…
@Warwick_Law
@CRASSHlive
@AvHStiftung
@2counterpress
Academic production can seem meaningless in these times, but I guess we do it to make sense of the world. I hope that with our collection The Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice we might contribute a little.
@pashukanist
Out soon with
@2counterpress
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I was live on
@abcnews
earlier to talk about Nicaragua v Germany at the ICJ.
I do own more than one shirt, I promise.
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A lasting impression after a yr visiting at the
@HumboldtUni
is that if you took all the amazing Berlin-based critical & radical women on casualised contracts & made them permanent faculty in a new institution that connects to the left politics lived in the city, it would be 🔥
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When you finally pluck up the courage to open your shiny new book and find two typos in less than ten minutes
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Things you find in your house during a pandemic ... people who lived here before us strategically placed Margaret Thatcher’s face under the door mat so you wipe your feet on her face when you come in. Love it.
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My piece on refusing recruitment through war talk is up on
@AJEnglish
, including a little sketch I did.
We don't need a 'war' against coronavirus. We need solidarity
@AJEnglish
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Our piece 'Against coloniality in the international law curriculum: examining decoloniality' has been published online & open access
@TheLTjournal
!
Michelle Burgis-Kasthala and I worked on this piece for about five yrs. Wonderful to see it out.
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ESIL book prize winners
@orford_anne
(monograph) and
@JanneNijman
(collaborative book), chaired by Freya Baeyens. So great to see three fantastic female scholars of international law on the stage.
#esil2022
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The
@WarwickCCLS
reading group resumes next week. This term, we are reading Nancy Fraser. Open to all via Teams, details below. Next week's reading will be introduced by the awesome
@nstybnar
.
@Warwick_Law
,
@PerpetuaAdar
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Endorsements of the book are up! Huge thanks to these giants of critical thinking:
@samuelmoyn
, Vasuki Nesiah,
@zeithistoriker
and
@ntinatzouvala
They appear to have substituted open access, so hope you find them convincing.. discount code MGJ2021
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In this coming academic year, we need some regular pick-me-ups. Our
@WarwickCCLS
reading group is resuming with the theme of Empire.
Our grand finale will be a disussion of Insurgent Empire with the brilliant
@PriyamvadaGopal
! (poster to follow).
@ruawall
@Warwick_Law
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Do mooting competitions reproduce privilege, and what might a radical moot look like?
Had it not been for covid, a fab group of critical students
@Warwick_Law
would have taken part in a first 'disruptive moot'
In the meantime, feedback v welcome on this:
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My review of Portraits of Women in International Law (
@OUPLaw
) is now online
@ModernLRev
.
The book, which I recommend reading and engaging with, is available here:
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Sensing a distinct business as usual air around academic turnarounds for corrections, review requests, reference requests and various ‘gentle reminders’.
🚨Some of us are still home-schooling/preparing meals and endless snacks/administering plasters/pretending to be crocodiles
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Delighted to start my year-long
@LeverhulmeTrust
fellowship on Legal Pipelines of the Green Transition this week, based
@CRASSHlive
. With this stereotypical/postcard view of all things UK higher education a few minutes’ walk from my desk.
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I just saw
@RolfatWarwick
wander into one of the campus buildings. I am interpreting that sighting as an official sign that I am properly part of the team...Very happy to be here!
Warwick Law School has recently welcomed a new Associate Professor to our team
@CSchwobelPatel
.
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Getting stuck into mining literature, and the first distracting impression: the diagrams are … weird
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I've uploaded a paper on
#populism
, int'l law, neoliberalism:
a) unsettling assumption of populist-problem / international law-solution binary b) noting the western-centric nature of the debate c) proposing tactical left populism
Comments v welcome!
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Thrilled to be starting as a Humboldt fellow
@AvHStiftung
. Working on links btw ICL, investment, & imperialism in post-conflict/-colonial spaces
@HumboldtUni
. Project provisionally titled Imperial Rentier Capitalism... Tbd whether it stands up to scrutiny.
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Excited about the new
#EJIL
issue:
@sofiastolk
and I have complementing pieces on the 'ideal' perpetrator and the 'ideal' victim. Also check out the review of
@msattorova1
's book! And: hooray for the sisterhood and women who make sure you are included in tweets :-)
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PhD Sanctuary Scholarships available
@warwickuni
for applicants with refugee and asylum seeker status.
Proud to have supported two wonderful candidates
@Warwick_Law
last year.
4 years funding incl. fees, research training grant, maintenance stipend.
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And a pic of me celebrating champagne-socialism style 🍾🌹
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Volume on
#populism
and international law is out!
In my contribution, I argue against the common ‘populist problem’-‘international law solution’ argument and suggest turning that on its head: ‘International law as problem’-‘(left) populism as potential solution’
This volume examines the relationship between
#populism
and
#internationallaw
in US, Kenya, Latin America, NL, trade, and beyond. Thank you to all our contributing authors!
@JCLawrence13
@CSchwobelPatel
@EdwinBikundo
@lysnotliz
a.o. See on the chapters:
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#Newprofilepic
with more hair.
Continuing the tradition of having pictures taken during/with illnesss. Last one, during chemo; this one, first day of testing negative after recovering from covid. Thank goodness for little touch ups.
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Mark Drumbl kicks off a symposium on my book Marketing Global Justice by writing a beautiful letter in his customary elegant style.
Thank you
@opiniojuris
for hosting this symposium.
@CUP_Law
@Warwick_Law
@WarwickCCLS
Symposium on ‘Marketing Global Justice’ – Monopoly Capitalism, Kitsch, and Accountable Accountability
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I wrote a short reflection on the ICC's ruling regarding Palestine.
I reference
@4noura
's work to mute expectations of the law, and more specifically the ICC, but elevating hope in political movement.
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Thinking intensely about (my) privilege during a glorious morning swim before discussing
@randledefalco
’s important book on Invisible Atrocities that received an honourable mention by
@law_soc
alongside
@FredericMegret
and
@Rachel_E_Lopez
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In terms of substance, German domestic laws received far greater air-time than international laws. Skirting around international laws also meant avoiding questions of genocide, violations of IHL, apartheid, self-determination.
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Marketing Global Justice out in paperback & more affordable. With code HIST1223 £18.39 ✨
If you have ever wondered why International (Criminal) Law has a tendency to oversell and underdeliver, this book may be for you... Dunno, still seems relevant?
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Thrilled to be joining the editorial committee of
@LawAndCritique
, where I had one of my own best publishing experiences. I'll be cheering on the internationalist, Marxist, feminist, decolonial content, so submit your work if this sounds like you!
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Was delighted to give a keynote today on the German international criminal code in the 'post'-colonial constellation
@unihh
. Auf deutsch: 'Deutsches Völkerstraftrecht in der postkolonialen Konstellation'. On the slides, the scholars I cited. A gallery of wisdom.
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A few weeks ago, a co-authored piece a colleague and I submitted to an academic journal on decolonising the curriculum and white privilege was desk-rejected because we hadn’t provided a ‘counter-argument’... 👇
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Wouter Werner and I wrote about our experimental mooting project. We do away with the competitive element of mooting and problematise the international courtroom. ‘Brecht treats rehearsing as a collective, experimental enterprise.’ Thanks
@ejiltalk
for publishing our reflection.
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Check out this awesome programme on ‘Constitutions of Value’ later this week: With
@pashukanist
@JdA_IntLaw
@GrietjeBa
@juliadehm
@IngoVenzke
and many more.
Being on the first panel with Gunther Teubner as co-panelist though...gulp
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The law faculty building
@HumboldtUni
during the Festival of Lights on the weekend. Stunning!
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Such a privilege to help launch eleven new
#LSA2021
books today!
Exciting new scholarship in international law and politics, part of CRN 23
@law_soc
, led by the amazing
@rose_parfitt_
,
@l_eslava
and
@MGunneflo
First of 2⃣ New Books in the Field sessions ⬇
2020-2021 Multi-Book Launch (International Law and Politics)
Chaired by:
@CSchwobelPatel
(
@Warwick_Law
)
⏰ 7 am CT
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Academics teaching online are documenting their very own 'how it started vs how it's going' demise. Lecture recording on the left from Sep. v Nov on the right...
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I have a fitting reading recommendation for this mansplaining: the wonderful feminist reading by Yoriko Otomo - also always part of my reading list for my ‘poor students’
@CSchwobelPatel
@YouTube
Um, too bad you misled your poor students: no such thing as "the Treaty of Westphalia". 😯 (Guess you failed to read the primary material.) Presume you mean the Peace of Westphalia comprising the treaties of Munster and Osnabruck.
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My 9yo asked me whether he can illustrate my next academic book on Legal Pipelines of the Green Transition and I casually said ‘yeah’…this is what he came up with, and honestly, I was not expecting this. He had like a two-sentence brief from me, and it’s perfect!
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Our first webinar! Starting with one of the best minds of the (critical legal) academy: Susan Marks will be speaking on her new book A False Tree of Liberty today.
@Warwick_Law
Very excited that Susan Marks is about to do a Zoom seminar for the CCLS on her new book A False Tree of Liberty
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We are calling on
@uniofwarwick
to divest from companies providing military support for Israeli war crimes and occupation.
@ncpratt
If you're Warwick staff or a student, and have not yet signed (but would like to), message me for the form
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Emily Haslam’s new critical intro to ICL is out with
@hartpublishing
in the Kent Critical Law Series. A fantastic teaching and research resource.
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Back to full-time work and full-time home-schooling/caring today. Had felt sorry for myself and all the other parents, until I saw this last night...5yo had laid out her school clothes before bed in anticipation that she might be going to school in the morning.
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Today, we go on strike again. My throat tightens at the thought of students missing teaching and supervision. And another, bigger, pay cheque deduction. But, the absurd neoliberalisation of the university must stop
This piece explains what has happened
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As promised, some snapshots from attempts to decolonise IL
Seminar 1: we discussed the ICJ's Lotus case on sovereignty via a feminist lens, w the rewritten judgment by C Chinkin, G Heathcote,
@edajones16
and
@HenryRGJones
. Fab on intersectionality.
In our teaching of (public) international law
@Warwick_Law
, we have committed to decolonising the curriculum. I'll be sharing some thoughts on this process as we move through the syllabus week by week. It would be great to get feedback. Here's how we started. Thread.
@tor_krever
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I’m committed to paying the support I got forward, so if you need advice/support esp. in relation to
🔹being an academic w kids
🔹dealing with grief
🔹dealing with cancer
🔹being a crit in international law,
feel free to email me. 🌹
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Still buzzing after yesterday’s book launch of Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice and pop-up exhibition event
@CRASSHlive
. Thank you to all who attended and participated.
@2counterpress
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✨Joint online book launch alert with fantastic speakers!! Do join us!! ✨
@WarwickCCLS
@Warwick_Law
Join
@CSchwobelPatel
and I for our joint book launches of 'Marketing Global Justice' and 'Law and Disorder'. They will be launched by the amazing Jodi Dean (
@Jodi7768
), Latha Varadarajan, Gerry Simpson and Costas Douzinas. Its on friday the 16th of July at 5pm GMT.
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Some of the same people who professed their solidarity with Black Lives Matter are supporting the International Criminal Court with similar conviction. I find that ironic.The ICC has proved to be racially biased; it relies on domestic police forces; and it is (obvs) pro-prison
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