Boyd van Dijk
@boydvandijk.bsky.social
Senior Researcher @ Sciences Po, Paris | 'Preparing for War' (OUP) | 'Humanity in War' (OUP - forthcoming)
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Boyd van Dijk
@boydvandijk.bsky.social
· Nov 19
1) Thrilled to announce I’ve signed a new book contract with OUP. The book explores the ideas and practices of international law in wartime, focusing on actors from the Global South and East.
next Tuesday - for those in/around Bristol, please join us!
for those of you in/near Bristol: I'll be speaking there on Dec 2 on the rise and fall of proportionality in US government military-legal thinking - please come if you're around.
www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...
www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...
The Rise and Fall of Proportionality: International Humanitarian Law and the American Way of War
Online and in person for internal University of Bristol Atendees
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
next Tuesday - for those in/around Bristol, please join us!
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I'm looking for recent work on (int) legal history and digital humanities/text mining, any suggestions perhaps? 🙏
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I'm looking for recent work on (int) legal history and digital humanities/text mining, any suggestions perhaps? 🙏
a bit of what if history - US govt draft statement announcing its withdrawal from Additional Protocols making in case of scenario accession Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (Feb 1975) to 2nd session in Geneva.
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
a bit of what if history - US govt draft statement announcing its withdrawal from Additional Protocols making in case of scenario accession Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (Feb 1975) to 2nd session in Geneva.
interesting new special issue in IO on the future of world order, with an article on the future of int law and the territorial order
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Holding the World Together? The Future of Territorial Order | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Holding the World Together? The Future of Territorial Order - Volume 79 Issue S1
www.cambridge.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
interesting new special issue in IO on the future of world order, with an article on the future of int law and the territorial order
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
new special issue @ajil.bsky.social on Symposium on Africa’s International Law of Democracy
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Africa’s International Law of Democracy
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
new special issue @ajil.bsky.social on Symposium on Africa’s International Law of Democracy
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Israel has violated Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killed hundreds flip.it/SOS7tf
Israel has violated Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killed hundreds
Gaza Government Media Office says Israel fully responsible for humanitarian, security repercussions from its violations.
flip.it
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Israel has violated Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killed hundreds flip.it/SOS7tf
Good pushback by Philippe Sands against John Bew's defeatist ad apologetic remarks
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump and his ilk imagine a world without international law – but they will not achieve it | Philippe Sands
History shows us that the creation of international rules and institutions is followed by their partial destruction, and a reconstruction that builds on what came before, says professor of law Philipp...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Good pushback by Philippe Sands against John Bew's defeatist ad apologetic remarks
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Omer Bartov: "In reality, since 1948, the IDF engaged in multiple war crimes, not least during the War of Independence. Most of these crimes were covered up/denied...For years, office of the Military Advocate General has facilitated/obscured the[se] crimes."
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
How the IDF escapes justice
unherd.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Omer Bartov: "In reality, since 1948, the IDF engaged in multiple war crimes, not least during the War of Independence. Most of these crimes were covered up/denied...For years, office of the Military Advocate General has facilitated/obscured the[se] crimes."
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
unherd.com/2025/11/how-...
I'm looking for recent work on (int) legal history and digital humanities/text mining, any suggestions perhaps? 🙏
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I'm looking for recent work on (int) legal history and digital humanities/text mining, any suggestions perhaps? 🙏
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No shock here: The Guardian notes several phrases in the U.S. peace proposal to Ukraine appear to be directly translated from Russian.
One standout is the line “It is expected that Russia will not invade neighboring countries,” a clunky English phrasing mirroring the Russian “ожидается.”
One standout is the line “It is expected that Russia will not invade neighboring countries,” a clunky English phrasing mirroring the Russian “ожидается.”
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
No shock here: The Guardian notes several phrases in the U.S. peace proposal to Ukraine appear to be directly translated from Russian.
One standout is the line “It is expected that Russia will not invade neighboring countries,” a clunky English phrasing mirroring the Russian “ожидается.”
One standout is the line “It is expected that Russia will not invade neighboring countries,” a clunky English phrasing mirroring the Russian “ожидается.”
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Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records
hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records - Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School's Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents.
hls.harvard.edu
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records
hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...
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A French ICC judge placed under US sanctions for his work on the ongoing Gaza genocide case describes how sanctions have impacted his life: no Amazon, PayPal, Visa or Mastercard; severely restricted banking; hotel bookings canceled—"like being sent back to the 1990s." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
A French ICC judge placed under US sanctions for his work on the ongoing Gaza genocide case describes how sanctions have impacted his life: no Amazon, PayPal, Visa or Mastercard; severely restricted banking; hotel bookings canceled—"like being sent back to the 1990s." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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While opportunities in #internationallaw are few & far between, here is the call for the International Court of Justice #ICJ #fellowship. Make sure your university is on board! Link below:
Judicial Fellowship Programme | INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE share.google/p1f84y4N9ZQM...
Judicial Fellowship Programme | INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE share.google/p1f84y4N9ZQM...
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
While opportunities in #internationallaw are few & far between, here is the call for the International Court of Justice #ICJ #fellowship. Make sure your university is on board! Link below:
Judicial Fellowship Programme | INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE share.google/p1f84y4N9ZQM...
Judicial Fellowship Programme | INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE share.google/p1f84y4N9ZQM...
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All I can say is: yikes.
MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In the documents, Chomsky described Epstein as a "highly valued friend."
Epstein emails show close connection with MIT's Noam Chomsky
MIT's famous linguistic professor Noam Chomsky was in regular and close contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to a review of emails published by the U.S. House Oversight Committee. In t...
www.wbur.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
All I can say is: yikes.
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Far too much credibility is being given to the new ‘Trump peace plan’ that would be tantamount to Ukraine’s capitulation. Here I explain why this new plan is far less than it seems and is unlikely to lead to anything. (£/free trial), open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/y...?
Yet another peace plan?
What's going on with leaked proposals for a new US/Russia deal
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Far too much credibility is being given to the new ‘Trump peace plan’ that would be tantamount to Ukraine’s capitulation. Here I explain why this new plan is far less than it seems and is unlikely to lead to anything. (£/free trial), open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/y...?
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
intriguing new special issue on weapons and unnecessary suffering - by Thomas Gregory, Maartje Abbenhuis & Jeremy Armstrong
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
intriguing new special issue on weapons and unnecessary suffering - by Thomas Gregory, Maartje Abbenhuis & Jeremy Armstrong
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Lessons learnt...
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Lessons learnt...
really interesting upcoming lecture by Alison Duxbury - at @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social
www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events...
www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events...
LCIL-CILJ Annual Lecture 2025: 'The Application of Human Rights Law
Register here if attending online Please note, this lecture will not be recorded. Lecture summary: In the last few years, courts have decided several cases that have examined the application of human
www.lcil.cam.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
really interesting upcoming lecture by Alison Duxbury - at @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social
www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events...
www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events...
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Michael Streeter, Franco (second edition; @hauspublishing.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians): www.hauspublishing.com/product/fran...
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Michael Streeter, Franco (second edition; @hauspublishing.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians): www.hauspublishing.com/product/fran...
delighted to be part of this exceptional project - congrats to Meredith, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, and all the other editors.
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
delighted to be part of this exceptional project - congrats to Meredith, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, and all the other editors.
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The number of international college students enrolling in their American schools for the first time decreased by 17% this fall, according to data published on Monday.
New International Student Enrollment Plummeted This Fall, Survey Finds
The overall number of international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, including those who enrolled in prior years or who are working after graduation, fell only slightly.
nyti.ms
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The number of international college students enrolling in their American schools for the first time decreased by 17% this fall, according to data published on Monday.