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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 1d

NEW REPORT | Sovereignty in All but Name: Israel’s Quickening Annexation of the West Bank

Netanyahu’s government is moving towards establishing permanent control of the occupied West Bank. Outside powers should commit to pushing Israel to change course.

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ESIL-SEDI @esil-sedi.bsky.social · 22h

📢 ESIL is pleased to announce two new volumes of the ESIL Proceedings (former ESIL Paper Series) now on EUI Cadmus
from the 2024 ESIL IGs’ Workshops & Annual Conference in Vilnius:

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 20h

Allegations against the court’s head prosecutor have hampered its effectiveness. They should be addressed immediately foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/11/i...

The ICC Needs a Chief Prosecutor

Allegations against the court’s head prosecutor have hampered its effectiveness. They should be addressed immediately.

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 1d

Look forward to the conversation 23 Oct Vienna 👉 Second World Approaches to International Law events.ceu.edu/2025-10-23/s...

Second World Approaches to International Law

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 2d

The many endings of the Kabuga trial www.justiceinfo.net/en/150638-th...

The many endings of the Kabuga trial

When is a trial no longer a trial? When is a defendant no longer a defendant? When is a court no longer a court?

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 7d

Trump Signals Instrumental Approach to U.N. – But it Could Be Worse at www.justsecurity.org/121750/trump...

Trump Signals Instrumental Approach to U.N. – But it Could Be Worse

Trump's General Assembly speech could have been worse, but countries that want to make the U.N. system work can't bank on U.S. leadership.

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 8d

Jane Goodall: A Life in Pictures www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...

Jane Goodall: A Life in Pictures

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 10d

The United Nations in Hindsight: The Increasing Use of Article 51 of the UN Charter and the Security Council at www.justsecurity.org/121542/incre...

The United Nations in Hindsight: The Increasing Use of Article 51 of the UN Charter and the Security Council

Reports required under Article 51 are crucial for the UNSC's ability to assess self-defense claims and maintain peace.

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 10d

RDC : l’ancien président Joseph Kabila condamné à la peine de mort www.jeuneafrique.com/1720994/poli...

RDC : l’ancien président Joseph Kabila condamné à la peine de mort

Il était notamment poursuivi pour trahison et crimes contre la paix et la sécurité de l’humanité devant la Haute Cour militaire de Kinshasa, pour ses liens supposés avec le groupe rebelle AFC/M23.

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 14d

The "double exclusion" of CEE - here in scholarly research, but applicable elsewhere as well (too eastern for the West, too western for the Third World) is never not a fascinating topic.

Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 14d

How does the “Second World” invite us to rethink international law?

Read the interview with @pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński on how SWAIL emerges from Eastern & Central Europe’s liminal position.

By @polinakulish.bsky.social & @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social

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(Re)Searching for SWAIL. Part I

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 14d

Interesting interview on Second World Approaches to International Law (including a nice shout out to our Socialism and International Law volume)!

Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 14d

How does the “Second World” invite us to rethink international law?

Read the interview with @pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński on how SWAIL emerges from Eastern & Central Europe’s liminal position.

By @polinakulish.bsky.social & @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social

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(Re)Searching for SWAIL. Part I

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Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 14d

What is SWAIL's relationship to #TWAIL?
Part II discusses intersections and divergences between the two approaches.

@pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński reflect on the discomforts SWAIL may provoke and on what SWAIL can offer scholars and practitioners.

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(Re)Searching for SWAIL. Part II

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 11d

UN expert calls on Mali to remain in International Criminal Court www.jurist.org/news/?p=294152

UN expert calls on Mali to remain in International Criminal Court

A UN expert called Friday for Mali to remain in the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the country announced plans to withdraw last week. On September 22, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announced....

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Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 14d

How does the “Second World” invite us to rethink international law?

Read the interview with @pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński on how SWAIL emerges from Eastern & Central Europe’s liminal position.

By @polinakulish.bsky.social & @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social

voelkerrechtsblog.org/researching-...

(Re)Searching for SWAIL. Part I

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 15d

How speaking in a second language directly affects your moral judgement
theconversation.com/how-speaking...

How speaking in a second language directly affects your moral judgement

The ‘moral foreign language effect’ makes you more rational, and less emotional.

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 16d

A Call for Meaningful Action to Support Justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo
www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

A Call for Meaningful Action to Support Justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo

The following remarks were delivered by Ida Sawyer, director of Human Rights Watch’s Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division, during a Side Event at the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 202...

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 16d

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announce withdrawal from International Criminal Court www.jurist.org/news/?p=293643

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger announce withdrawal from International Criminal Court

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger announced Monday that they will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing the tribunal of serving 'imperial' rather than African interests. The three...

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 20d

In Breakthrough, U.S. and Three Arab Powers Agree on Sudan Peace Roadmap www.crisisgroup.org/africa/sudan...

In Breakthrough, U.S. and Three Arab Powers Agree on Sudan Peace Roadmap | International Crisis Group

Crisis Group expert Alan Boswell writes on a breakthrough agreement among key outside actors that could help bring peace to Sudan

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 22d

At the Coming U.N. Leaders Meetings: Existential Questions on the U.S. Role, Israel-Palestine, and the U.N. Itself at www.justsecurity.org/120676/un-le...

At the Coming U.N. Leaders Meetings: Existential Questions on the U.S. Role, Israel-Palestine, and the U.N. Itself

This year's General Assembly meeting may do more to spotlight the U.N.’s current weaknesses than help find solutions to them.

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 22d

An Inversion of Pariah Status: How Washington is undermining the UN General Assembly as a sanctuary for peace to thwart the ICC justiceinconflict.org/2025/09/16/a...

An Inversion of Pariah Status: How Washington is undermining the UN General Assembly as a sanctuary for peace to thwart the ICC

Victor Peskin joins JiC for this guest post on the upcoming United Nations General Assembly. Victor is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics & Global Studies at Arizona State Univers…

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · 23d

Intersecting Crises: War, Diplomacy, and the Future of the Middle East events.ceu.edu/2025-09-29/i...

Intersecting Crises: War, Diplomacy, and the Future of the Middle East

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · Sep 7

UN report finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in eastern DRC conflict www.jurist.org/news/?p=292080

UN report finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in eastern DRC conflict

A UN rights report released Friday declared that all parties to the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law,....

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · Aug 27

Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · Aug 21

New US sanctions on International Criminal Court news.un.org/en/story/202...

International Criminal Court: New US sanctions ‘a flagrant attack’ on judicial independence

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has strongly rejected new sanctions announced by the United States on Wednesday against four more of its personnel in a renewed push surrounding investigations i...

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Patryk I. Labuda @pilabuda.bsky.social · Aug 16

‘Nie wszystko jest dozwolone’: Moja rozmowa w Gazecie Prawnej o zbrodni ludobójstwa w Gazie www.gazetaprawna.pl/magazyn-na-w...

Wersja open access: www.academia.edu/143447112/Ni...

Nie wszystko jest dozwolone

To, że dwa dawne mocarstwa kolonialne, które okupowały tereny na Bliskim Wschodzie, po wielu latach formalnie uznają istnienie państwa palestyńskiego, będzie miało długofalowe konsekwencje. Nawet najb...

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