Richard Clements
@riclements.bsky.social
Assistant prof at Tilburg writing about international law, expertise and compositional form but also the odd poem, essay, story. https://linktr.ee/richard.clements
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Richard Clements
@riclements.bsky.social
· Jul 15
International legal craft | Substack
I'm an academic based in The Netherlands teaching & writing about international law, as well as other things that take my fancy.
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After some humming and hahing, I set up a Substack. Will be writing about intl law, the field, writing, teaching, the university, and more. Subscribe/share if you're interested (or, as I still am, mildly amused): substack.com/@intlegalcra...
A really excellent editorial reflecting on IL's contemporary moment: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Fin de siècle international law | Leiden Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core
Fin de siècle international law - Volume 38 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
October 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A really excellent editorial reflecting on IL's contemporary moment: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Some reflections on my experiences of #AI in academia (tl,dr: too apolitical, too a-humanities). Hopefully of interest to anyone as ambivalent about tech zealotry as me.
intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/on-ai
intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/on-ai
On A.I.
Remembering why we learn
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October 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Some reflections on my experiences of #AI in academia (tl,dr: too apolitical, too a-humanities). Hopefully of interest to anyone as ambivalent about tech zealotry as me.
intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/on-ai
intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/on-ai
The latest international legal craft Substack is up!
This week, I'm thinking about scholarly canons, floorplans and Hannah Arendt. Check it out/subscribe here: intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/the-houses...
This week, I'm thinking about scholarly canons, floorplans and Hannah Arendt. Check it out/subscribe here: intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/the-houses...
The houses we live in
On canonical texts
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August 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The latest international legal craft Substack is up!
This week, I'm thinking about scholarly canons, floorplans and Hannah Arendt. Check it out/subscribe here: intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/the-houses...
This week, I'm thinking about scholarly canons, floorplans and Hannah Arendt. Check it out/subscribe here: intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/the-houses...
The fact that this intro post alone has 100 reads already tells me there might be something to this... Thanks to everyone who's subscribed so far!
July 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The fact that this intro post alone has 100 reads already tells me there might be something to this... Thanks to everyone who's subscribed so far!
If it helps, you can remove the ai-generated summary by adding -ai at the end of any google search. I'm not sure it differs environmentally since it might just be that the user no longer sees it but it's still being generated, but also nice not to have automated garbage shoved in your face...
July 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
If it helps, you can remove the ai-generated summary by adding -ai at the end of any google search. I'm not sure it differs environmentally since it might just be that the user no longer sees it but it's still being generated, but also nice not to have automated garbage shoved in your face...
Why, you ask? The constraints of academic writing, the publishing racket, and for a different - better? - scholarly community: intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/a-substack...
A Substack on the international law academy?
Really?
intlegalcraft.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Why, you ask? The constraints of academic writing, the publishing racket, and for a different - better? - scholarly community: intlegalcraft.substack.com/p/a-substack...
After some humming and hahing, I set up a Substack. Will be writing about intl law, the field, writing, teaching, the university, and more. Subscribe/share if you're interested (or, as I still am, mildly amused): substack.com/@intlegalcra...
International legal craft | Substack
I'm an academic based in The Netherlands teaching & writing about international law, as well as other things that take my fancy.
substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
After some humming and hahing, I set up a Substack. Will be writing about intl law, the field, writing, teaching, the university, and more. Subscribe/share if you're interested (or, as I still am, mildly amused): substack.com/@intlegalcra...
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I had the pleasure to review The Justice Factory: Management practices at the ICC (academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...) for IA (@iajournal.bsky.social). Richard Clements' (@riclements.bsky.social) pathbreaking book is a must read for those interested in the ICC and global governance more generally .
The justice factory: management practices at the International Criminal Court
In The justice factory, Richard Clements explores the relationship between global justice and management discourses that permeate the International Crimina
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July 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I had the pleasure to review The Justice Factory: Management practices at the ICC (academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...) for IA (@iajournal.bsky.social). Richard Clements' (@riclements.bsky.social) pathbreaking book is a must read for those interested in the ICC and global governance more generally .
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One way to understand the nature of legal work is to ask how the jurist becomes oriented towards their materials. What draws us in or excites us, what leaves us unmoved or repels us - (1/n)
June 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
One way to understand the nature of legal work is to ask how the jurist becomes oriented towards their materials. What draws us in or excites us, what leaves us unmoved or repels us - (1/n)
A nice overview from editors Negar Mansouri and @drqv.bsky.social on this excellent volume on alternative approaches to international institutional law: cambridgeblog.org/2025/06/inte...
International Organisations as Vessels for Visions of World Ordering
What do international institutional lawyers see when they peek out from a window? If, as David Kennedy argues, public international lawyers see a “world of nation-states and war” while trade lawyers s...
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June 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A nice overview from editors Negar Mansouri and @drqv.bsky.social on this excellent volume on alternative approaches to international institutional law: cambridgeblog.org/2025/06/inte...
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Forgive me, but if your "industry" depends entirely on stealing someone else's work, it deserves to die.
"Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”
www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
"Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”
www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
www.theverge.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Forgive me, but if your "industry" depends entirely on stealing someone else's work, it deserves to die.
"Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”
www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
"Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”
www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
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Terrific to see my book available online — and soon in print! Many thanks to series editors Nadia Lambek, @riclements.bsky.social, @leslava.bsky.social, and Markus Gunneflo! And congrats on the new series!
The Element is *FREE* to access online for the next 2 weeks and pre-order print copies can be purchased in advance of print publication in June at a VERY reasonable price: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court
Cambridge Core - Public International Law - Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court
www.cambridge.org
May 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Terrific to see my book available online — and soon in print! Many thanks to series editors Nadia Lambek, @riclements.bsky.social, @leslava.bsky.social, and Markus Gunneflo! And congrats on the new series!
Reposted by Richard Clements
The Element is *FREE* to access online for the next 2 weeks and pre-order print copies can be purchased in advance of print publication in June at a VERY reasonable price: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court
Cambridge Core - Public International Law - Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court
www.cambridge.org
May 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The Element is *FREE* to access online for the next 2 weeks and pre-order print copies can be purchased in advance of print publication in June at a VERY reasonable price: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Wonderful - good luck with the writing up/presenting in the meantime!
May 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Wonderful - good luck with the writing up/presenting in the meantime!
Would love to read the paper if you are willing to share - currently thinking about legal interpretation as composition (drawing on Cover, Manderson and others).
May 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Would love to read the paper if you are willing to share - currently thinking about legal interpretation as composition (drawing on Cover, Manderson and others).
In a short piece I wrote for @ejiltalk.bsky.social, I ask how the finalised #PandemicAgreement innovates the existing #globalhealth infrastructure, and how it reflects/adjusts relations between global north/south states in seeking to tackle pandemics equitably.
www.ejiltalk.org/the-who-pand...
www.ejiltalk.org/the-who-pand...
The WHO Pandemic Agreement: Equity for Developing States or Business as Usual?
At 3am on Wednesday 16th April 2025, after three years of intense negotiations, WHO member states (minus the United States) preliminarily consented to a final text of the so-called Pandemic Agreement....
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May 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
In a short piece I wrote for @ejiltalk.bsky.social, I ask how the finalised #PandemicAgreement innovates the existing #globalhealth infrastructure, and how it reflects/adjusts relations between global north/south states in seeking to tackle pandemics equitably.
www.ejiltalk.org/the-who-pand...
www.ejiltalk.org/the-who-pand...
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Todays big international law news, that seems to be buried in the back pages. This pandemic treaty now needs to be adopted at the World Health Assembky in May.
#PandemicAccord www.bbc.com/news/article...
#PandemicAccord www.bbc.com/news/article...
World Health Organization agrees legally binding pandemic treaty
The agreement is designed to ensure more cooperation between nations in the event of another pandemic.
www.bbc.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Todays big international law news, that seems to be buried in the back pages. This pandemic treaty now needs to be adopted at the World Health Assembky in May.
#PandemicAccord www.bbc.com/news/article...
#PandemicAccord www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law', edited by @drqv.bsky.social and Negar Mansouri is now available online! Wonderful to have been part of this project. Open access and 20% discount here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ways-of-seeing-international-organisations/0133708A460AEFDFD65838622E6B0D54🎉
April 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
'Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law', edited by @drqv.bsky.social and Negar Mansouri is now available online! Wonderful to have been part of this project. Open access and 20% discount here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
The Pandemic Agreement is close to being finalised. However, north/south vaccine-sharing remains the most contentious issue: www.reuters.com/business/hea...
WHO members close to accord on tackling future pandemics, sources say
Members of the World Health Organization are close to a deal on a treaty to prepare for future pandemics, sources involved in the talks told Reuters on Saturday, with a WHO spokesperson saying discussions had been paused until Tuesday.
www.reuters.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The Pandemic Agreement is close to being finalised. However, north/south vaccine-sharing remains the most contentious issue: www.reuters.com/business/hea...