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I tweeted that I wouldn’t write anything about the report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) regarding the shooting down of flight MH17 released yesterday. However, with so much focus on the [...]

At a conference in Florence a few years ago I saw a small crowd gathered around something. As the crowded parted, a smallish woman came towards me who I did not recognize immediately, but she [...]

When I was still an assistant professor – with an emphasis on teaching – I loved movies about college professors. So, naturally, one comes to the movie that I am about to review. ’The [...]

If we move on from my previous article, and accept that international law is, well, important and relevant, we can venture into more dangerous territory: a case study that seems to defy my own [...]

In a sense, it is a daily struggle. Trying to thread the needle. Convince people. How to square international law with global power politics, or a Realpolitik. Recently, I had an interesting [...]

[Warning: long read] This was a tough one. Shadi Hamid’s book ’Islamic Exceptionalism‘ is about one of the most pressing issues of the day  It cannot really be reviewed in a few hundred or [...]

I already said it at the beginning of the previous entry in this series (it’s been some time back, I know): International law still begins and ends with the state. It is the original subject of [...]

This is Part Two of an impromptu series on my favorite movie scenes about law, which will now include a scene from a mini-series. Somehow, the best and poignant explanations and dilemmas of law [...]