Alex Green
@GlexAreen
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Law (PIL/statehood/climate change), philosophy, politics & culture. Senior Lecturer @UoYLaw ; Academic Associate @23essexstreet ; Trustee @SLSA_UK . (He/Him)
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My monograph with
@mortonjen
- Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law, published with the wonderful folks
@RoutledgeLaw
- is available to pre-order from today, with a fantastic 20% off as part of the midyear sale. Get it here: .
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Today just *one* student turned up to my (decolonised, heterodox) PGT legal theory seminar, with only two others bothering to email and explain their absence. I worked for *days* designing this module and I am just so tired.
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A student just emailed me the following, after the rail disruption today meant I couldn't get in.
I'm dead:
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*In that movie guy voice*: This February... Statehood gets redefined.
@CUP_Law
@asilorg
@asilorg_iltig
@UoYLaw
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Siri, show me the horrors of late stage capitalism...
Usher, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Julianne Hough will host competition series ‘The Activist’.
Activists go head-to-head in challenges to promote their causes, with their success measured via online engagement, social metrics, and hosts’ input.
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Absolutely overjoyed to announce that I have just signed a monograph contract with
@CUP_Law
to produce my first sole-authored book, 'Statehood as Political Community: International Law and the Emergence of New States'. (Short 🧵)
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I am noticing a recent spate of placing footnote markers inside/before punctuation. This is a war crime and must be stopped.
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🚨🚨 GIVE AWAY ALERT 🚨🚨
The wonderful
@mortonjen
and I have received our first author copies of 'Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law' from
@RoutledgeLaw
. We are, as a result, running a prize draw! (Instructions below.)
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My paper in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
@OxfordJournals
on statehood and sea-level rise is now out in advanced access:
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My paper on Theories of Legal Statehood is now out (open access) in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (
@OxfordJournals
).
@UoYLaw
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For every legal academic who wants to banish teaching 'politics' in favour of 'scholarship' (yawn), here's some scholarship on why you can't and shouldn't banish politics:
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Short piece by me on the ethics of law teaching, particularly as it relates to including our own value judgements within module design and the classroom:
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That's nothing. When I was studying for my PhD, I used to start work at 01:00 on Monday and finish at 03:00 the next Monday, week in, week out. I also wrote the great American novel in my spare time, all the while raising ten children and painting the roof of the Sistine Chapel.
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Very pleased to announce that my paper, "The Precarious Rationality of International Law: Critiquing the International Rule of Recognition" has just been accepted by
@Ger_Law_Journal
@CUP_Law
.
(I am particularly grateful to my insightful and generous reviewer.)
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Pleased to announce that, as of 17 May, I will be joining
@UoYLaw
.
Sad to leave behind my wonderful colleagues
@leedslawschool
but nonetheless excited for this next step in my career.
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Excited to announce this event, with
@MotherlandsRPG
,
@cypheroftyr
,
@BDaveWalters
,
@leedslawschool
, &
@LSJ_Leeds
.
'Into the Mother Lands: Creating Just and Resilient Communities' will imagine law & more in a world free from colonialism.
Register now:
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So proud of this collection of essays, co-edited
@TransLegalJ
with the amazing
@Allie_Hearne
. In this introduction, we canvass our theme, 'International Law and Political Morality', connecting it to Lauterpacht, Dworkin, and Grotius. Other papers🧵:
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To reach our final form as an academic couple,
@mortonjen
and I wrote a book together for
@RoutledgeLaw
! 'Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law' will be available to preorder from 10 July 2024. For now, check out this teaser:
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This is how great philosophy - and legal scholarship - is done.
Daniel Dennett (28th March 1942 - 19th April 2024)
RIP
Dennett on how to criticise wisely
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My
@CUP_Law
monograph, 'Statehood as Political Community' has made it to the
@UNGeneva
International Law Commission! Thanks so much to the wonderful
@Phoebe_Okowa
for this kind endorsement.
Statehood is one of the topics that was put on the ILC’s agenda at its inception. Tackling the issues requires serious political courage and
@GlexAreen
book Statehood as Political Community is a masterpiece on this important but elusive topic, available in all good book stores 😉
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Never mind the Covid tiers, the real news in Leeds is that I'll be joining
@leedslawschool
in January as a Senior Lecturer!
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A year ago today, I made the smartest decision I ever (or will ever have) made.
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It's that time of year when battle lines are being drawn over the content of Jurisprudence modules. Since I'm usually pretty vocal about this, I thought I'd put some thoughts down in a short🧵: 1/
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@EliazabethSe
@DamonLinker
@mattdizwhitlock
So...since you lost out to an unfair system, so must they?
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Had an absolute blast launching my book
@UCLLaws
. So many thanks due to
@colmocinneide
and
@MPaparinskis
for running the show, and to my amazing commentators for their insightful and generous thoughts.
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So many people helped make this book a reality. In addition to my supervisors,
@RizMokal
and
@MPaparinskis
, am particularly grateful to have received such glowing endorsements from the wonderful
@AdHaque110
@calibasak
and
@FredericMegret
.
*In that movie guy voice*: This February... Statehood gets redefined.
@CUP_Law
@asilorg
@asilorg_iltig
@UoYLaw
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🚨🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🚨
@legalscholars
@UoYLaw
@drjoshdoeslaw
and myself are looking for 500 word abstracts by *15 February 2023* on the topic PLURAL VISIONS OF LAW - THE LEGACY OF JOSEPH RAZ. Full details are available here: 🧵1/5
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My paper 'Ships of State and Empty Vessels' has been accepted for publication in the OJLS
@OxfordJournals
. It discusses what it means to offer 'theories of statehood' within international law. A draft version is available on my SSRN:
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@cypheroftyr
@MotherlandsRPG
@BDaveWalters
This isn't punching down. This is punching out someone who started shit he couldn't finish. Zero respect or tolerance for his nonsense.
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Thrilled to see my article with the brilliant
@mortonjen
published first (and open) access in the OJLS!
We discuss the rule of law, ad hominem regimes, civic equality, and structural disadvantage, as well as Knife Crime Prevention Orders.
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I'm giving away one of my author copies of 'Statehood as Political Community', courtesy of
@CUP_Law
. To take part, like, repost, AND reply to this, naming *your* favourite work of international legal theory! Deadline 12:00 GMT, 1 April 2024. Winner picked at random (I'll DM).
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Today,
@mortonjen
and I were to get married
@ArdgowanEstate
. Covid has, inevitably, pushed us back to 2021 when, hopefully, all this will be over. Nonetheless, I have never felt more certain, more committed, about anyone. In my heart, we are married already.
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Nice to see a leading journal enabling senior academics in taking shots at junior colleagues for poor academic writing - an oddly personal allegation - for [checks notes] not having read enough of their books. Seriously,
@ModernLRev
? 1/
New on the MLR Forum, Martin Loughlin's 'Some Thoughts on Academic Writing' responding to
@ruawall
and Daniel Matthews 'Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic':
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Happy Birthday to the other half of my soul, my mind, and my body, the perfect and incomparable
@mortonjen
. I can't wait to marry you tomorrow!
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@mattcolville
I think the most insulting thing about this is that it amounts to a denial of your humanity. Politics is something important that all humans do. For people to act like they are entitled not to hear it from you instrumentalises you as a means for entertainment, not a person.
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Greetings to all from beautiful Mauritius! Taking a contraband break from my honeymoon to brag shamelessly about my new paper, 'A Political Theory of State Equality', being released open access in
@TransLegalJ
:
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My first week at
@leedslawschool
has been so great. I've never felt so welcomed - so many friendly and helpful colleagues. Such a strong commitment to student education as well. Some very lucky lawyers-to-be enrolled this year!
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Really excited to see this new textbook announced at last. I wrote the entry on statehood and coauthored the entry on legal positivism with the wonderful
@EtkinBasak
:
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Thrilled to learn that my paper 'Three Reconstructions of 'Effectiveness': Some Implications for State Continuity and Sea-Level Rise' has been accepted for publication by the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (
@OxfordJournals
). A draft is now on my SSRN: 1/
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The strange state of my desk when working on law and science fiction:
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Here's a modest proposal - start your module with feminist legal theory. Let the springboard be that law is a product of, and tool for, patriarchal domination, and take things from there. Your students definitely *can* take this without getting confused. 6/
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Published version of my paper on inclusiveness and innovation in Jurisprudence teaching:
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@dimension20show
*Adopts Dying-Inside voice* "This tweet is so humiliating it makes me want to never use my crystal again. But, I suppose, at least this means that my existence has been noticed."
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It was such fun to record this episode of
@BorderlineJuris
with the wonderful
@EtkinBasak
and
@k_gorobets
. We discuss sea-level rise and international law, state creation, continuity, and extinction, and the 'Grotian tradition' of international law.
🚨🚨
What’s natural about natural law?
What exactly *is* a state?
And is it necessarily bound to a territory?
Answers to these 🔥 questions and so much more on tomorrow’s episode with the one and only
@GlexAreen
!
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*Weeps in 'yet another great book to read'*
🤩 This book has jumped to the top of my reading list. It explores the origins of self-determination, the connection between self-determination and decolonization, and the judicial review of claims to self-determination.
Details:
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Statehood as Political Community has over 1,000 online views! 🎉 In addition to a considerable number of physical sales, I am really overwhelmed by the interest my peers have shown in my book.
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Seen in the wild: a beautiful
@mortonjen
and also me on our way to
@UCLLaws
for my book launch!
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Not at all representative of contemporary legal philosophy, which stretches far, far beyond the male, white Anglosphere. Good thing, too, because apart from being exclusionary to the point of absurdity, this module looks unspeakably dull (and real Jurisprudence is anything but).
Looking forward to meeting on Monday with the students in my Jurisprudence reading group!
Syllabus for those who'd like to follow along:
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@ruawall
That is the sense I get too. I must say though, the seemly pan-university response of bombarding them with information so as to somehow 'calm them down' seems to be having the opposite effect and also creating exactly the sort of issue I had today.
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Since we are now quitting our role in the European University Institute, for the supremely legally important reason that it has 'European' in the title, I for one look forward to the blocking up of the Euro Tunnel. Brexit demands no less.
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Do you like law? Do you like science fiction? Yes, you do. Now join our thing!
Me and
@GlexAreen
are putting together a panel proposal on ‘Jurisprudence of the Future: Law, Justice and Science Fiction’ at the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia Conference. Hit us up by 4th September if you’d like to be part of it!
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I love beer. I can drink lots of it. But..if I had to sit down and drink, say, 90 beers, I might be a bit (dead and) sick of beer by the time I finished.
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Don't want to teach feminist theory (why?!)? Try critical race theory, Marxism, or queer theory. Your answer *cannot* be, "I am not really able to do so, I haven't read enough." My friend, this is your job. Go read it - I promise it's good. 9/
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Kind as always,
@djag2
raises an important point - there is currently a lot of misinformation being spread about the law of statehood by the seriously uninformed. For those interested, here follows a quickly thrown together list of reputable academic sources. 🧵
We appear to have arrived in the future where everyone gets to be an international lawyer for 15 minutes.
The patience of
@Alonso_GD
,
@GlexAreen
, and
@AccJurist
is phenomenal.
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I assume this is said in ignorance, since calling inclusive classrooms 'romper rooms' is revoltingly ableist. I welcome visual readiness indicators. Some students don't want to be advocates (duh), people learn in different ways, and it's not my job to 'toughen up' anyone.
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This is tragic and horrible but the answer is not and can never be to pass out the personal contact information of academics amongst students. Boundaries are healthy and important for all concerned.
A coroner's inquest has suggested that Exeter should consider providing the mobile numbers of personal tutors to students...
Academic staff are not crisis workers... 🧵
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@VoiceOfOBrien
Juris told me to say, "Don't worry Sad German Wizard, everything is better with scritches."
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Really pleased to see my article "The Creation of States as a Cardinal Point" out in
@AusYearBook
. In this piece, I examine two things. First, the alleged legal positivism of the late and great James Crawford... 1/4 🧵
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🚨🚨In November at
@BristolUniLaw
,
@saharatlarge
,
@drjoshdoeslaw
, and I will host a collaborative conference bringing analytical and critical legal theorists together.🚨🚨
Read all about it here: 1/2
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International law Twitter: contrary to what you may of heard, not all international legal theorists are positivists.
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I'm almost certainly going to buy this - it looks interesting - but the (frankly weird) flex that the state has been 'too long ignored' in political theory is quite obviously wrong.
Prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit has written a new book that explores why the state is the elephant in the room of political theory, too long ignored, & how to put this right. Read the Intro of The State to learn more:
#PoliticalPhilosophy
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Reminder that, on 15 November
@BristolUniLaw
,
@drjoshdoeslaw
,
@saharatlarge
, and I will be hosting an
@legalscholars
conference on the nature of Jurisprudence and Legal Theory. This event is free to attend. For more details, see:
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Who has two thumbs and is excited to teach their very own Philosophy of Law module tomorrow? This guy.
(For context, I'm pointing my thumbs at myself.)
(Me. It's me.)
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Pleased to learn that my paper "The Importance of Dystopian Hypotheticals: Towards an Ethical Turn in Liberal Political Philosophy" will be coming out soon. Something for everyone: Nozick, Hobbes, Arendt, hooks...and Star Wars, Star Trek, and Warhammer. Details to follow soon!
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@BarristerSecret
As much as I admire the crusade- and believe me, I do; devoted follower - please take some time to not fight every single battle. You must be exhausted with all this shite.
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It has been an absolute pleasure to convene the Jurisprudence of the Future stream with
@DrMitchTravis
at
#SLSA2022
. Thanks to
@SLSA_UK
@UoYLaw
@jed_meers
and Caroline Hunter for including us. Live long and prosper / may the Force be with you / Emperor's light guide you all!
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This is a defining issue of our times. In my view, the statehood of Small Island States should survive the loss of inhabitable land - our conceptions of legal personality, territory, and of statehood itself can and must accommodate this.
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Just uploaded onto my SSRN:
"A Political Theory of State Equality"
This is forthcoming in
@TransLegalJ
as part of an exciting symposium I co-edited with the wonderful
@Allie_Hearne
. More details on this soon!
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Very pleased that my paper with
@djag2
on the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty has been accepted by
@AJIL_andUnbound
. The preproduction version is on both our SSRNs here:
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I don't understand why everyone is always confusing law and morality. They are clearly separate.
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Go forth and read my new thing!
(In which I discuss an important contribution to the study of citizenship by
@joshaw
and also what it means to belong to a political community.)
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I'm really proud of this paper - it also contains a short (but, I hope, important) comparative reflection upon treaties of protection and association, and so the status of protectorates and associated States.
Delighted my paper with
@GlexAreen
"The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty: Statehood and Security", discussing the world's first climate resettlement and security treaty, has been accepted by
@AJIL_andUnbound
(Photo: AAP/Mick Tsikas) 1/2
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Delighted to see my (open access) piece, 'The Precarious Rationality of International Law' now available in the most recent
@Ger_Law_Journal
(
@CUP_Law
). It critiques Hartian understandings of PIL's formal sources, as well as positivism more generally.
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Today is my last day
@leedslawschool
. It was a short but wonderful time, with brilliant and supportive colleagues. As I start
@UoYLaw
I will look back with fondness - and forward too: a couple of exciting professional announcements coming up!
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Two interesting questions here: 1) can public statements constitute recognition in the absence of formal relations; 2) what is the status of statements in the UNSC preceeding a vote?
"Liechtenstein is of the view that Palestine fulfills the basic criteria for statehood under international law."
Sounds like recognition to me.
(The whole speech was, as a matter of international law, pure fire)
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The wonderful
@mortonjen
and I are looking for people to review our new book on legal pluralism. Calling all legal philosophers, critical theorists, legal anthropologists, and socio-legal scholars! DM or email us, book details below.
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@Alonso_GD
The amount of push back you are getting for this entirely reasonable observation blows my mind.
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Can I love my work, respect and value my students, and still support industrial action? Yes. Next question?
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This account just followed me. For any students considering it, don't use this 'service' (or any like it). The post I'm retweeting is full of so many inaccuracies, it's about as far from providing 'First Class' information as you can get. Honestly, just do your set reading.
Natural law and positive law are two distinct theories within jurisprudence that provide different perspectives on the nature and source of law. The relationship between these two perspectives has been a subject of ongoing debate within jurisprudence.
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@Martinunterlaa
@theSNP
Nope. The UK is a state. Scotland is, by any definition, both a country and a nation.
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Feeling really bad for my Australian friends and colleagues today, especially those Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Peoples. The fight fought was brave and just - you didn't deserve this outcome.
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🚨🚨🚨 This just dropped! 🚨🚨🚨
There is a huge amount going on in this report, particularly as regards the law of state continuity, but I want to draw particular attention to the radical potential of the points raised in paragraphs 28-30. (Long-ish)🧵 1/
Report of the ILC Study Group on sea-level rise in relation to international law -
#Intlaw
@ABILA_official
@ILA_official
#ILC_2024
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@00rayuk
@btphillips94
@educationgovuk
At research intensive institutions (read, the 'top' universities) the 'holiday' periods are the only time that many academics have to their own research. Shortening this time unrealistically enhances an already strained workload.
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Happy to see this out - it summarises the arguments in my forthcoming
@Ger_Law_Journal
@CUP_Law
paper, 'The Precarious Rationality of International Law'.
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This is a great opportunity. I'm writing the
#statehood
chapter for this volume and co-authoring
#positivism
with
@EtkinBasak
. Happy to chat to anyone considering joining the team, especially to write on
#selfdetermination
. I'm not an editor, of course, but can share experiences.
📣 Call for authors: for our Open Textbook on Public International Law, we are looking for authors to write short chapters on
#selfdetermination
,
#enforcement
, and
#peaceful
resolution of
#disputes
. Short notice, but otherwise attractive conditions
(book contract w/ int.publisher
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So, what has your PhD supervisor done recently? Yeah, this guy was mine. *flex*
Delighted to represent Latvia before
@CIJ_ICJ
yesterday and
@ITLOS_TIDM
last week, grateful for the trust of agent
@KristineLicis
and support of the team
@VLanovoy
@cmiles3vb
@jcrampin11
@PipeViveros
@ArnisAlauva
@sabinejansone
(and others in the real world)
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I think quite a lot about this sort of thing these days (short 🧵). In the minds of many, natural law is synonymous with sectarianism or bigotry, and not without cause. 1/
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New paper by me - a response to
@BrianLeiter
(and others) on *that* debate about Jurisprudence syllabuses. Forthcoming in
@TheLTjournal
in November, now on my SSRN:
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I love being an academic, I really do, but the (totally self-induced) guilt caused by having to apologise for delaying work due to being unwell really can't be healthy, can it?
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