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Looking forward to this - attending today and presenting tomorrow, developing my work on justiciability / access to justice and conflict Durham Law School سو الخولي 🦌

So, this will be out soon - my thoughts on international law and Utopia (sorry it's so long!) brill.com/view/title/550… @aoifemod Dr Ruth Houghton @fredericmegret @Umut_Ozsu

So after the whirlwind developments of yesterday, here's our half of Masterman and Murray on Boris's Withdrawal deal's implications for NI. It was said he couldn't get a deal with the EU. He could, but only by going backwards on the demands of his DUP allies: dcubrexitinstitute.eu/2019/10/a-back…

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Congratulations to Andrew Mohamdee for passing his Master of Jurisprudence - ‘Rules vs Discretion: Calibrating the Scales for Financial Remedies on Divorce’. A real pleasure to supervise - many thanks to Prof William Lucy at Durham Law School and Sharon Thompson for examining.

Postgraduate Colloquium in Critical International Law - joint Durham / SOAS project - 27th April 2020, Durham, UK. PhDs in international law pls apply, colleagues working in international law pls volunteer to chair panels / comment on papers - dur.ac.uk/law/events/?ev…

Come and learn best practice and behind-the-scenes tips on how to submit your article to journals, book proposals and how to conduct peer review. "A one-stop academic skills shop!" - former participant 25 March University of Leeds sponsored by Cambridge University Press - Law biicl.org/events/11343/i…

Next week we will publish 37 issues of the journal from the NI Legal Quarterly archives! The issues date from spring 2008 to winter 2016 (volumes 59 to 67). This material will be immediately available as an open access resource. 📖 More to follow next week!

Lots of interest in this article in the recently published April International and Comparative Law Quarterly issue by Paul F Scott on the use of passports as a national security tool. Please find the full text, free to access, here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The April issue International and Comparative Law Quarterly is out now, featuring articles on investment treaties, safe zones, passports as national security tools, Art 16 UNESCO Conv, claim proximity in EU jurisdiction, agency law and NIAC and rebus sic stantibus! Something for everyone! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Join me on Monday June 15, 2020 as I’ll be speaking on “International Solidarity and Human Rights in the Pandemic”. This conversation will be hosted by the Nigerian Society of International Law, and I look forward to engaging with my other colleagues and participants. Thank you.

Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser today renamed a street in front of the White House 'Black Lives Matter Plaza', and had the slogan painted in huge yellow letters along the road leading to the presidential residence. | Read: bit.ly/2A5Qrf1

Very sad news - in my experience Jonathan was enthusiastic, generous with his time and hugely encouraging as editor of EHRLR. RIP.

New Court of Appeal foreign act of state judgment - [2021] EWCA Civ 129.

Significant on application of Belhaj and Law Debenture FAoS principles - demonstrates 'case by case' nature of decisions on Belhaj 'third rule' (see para 30).

Congratulations to all those elected to the United Nations International Law Commission. We are especially proud of our Editor Dapo Akande @UKILCCampaign who was elected today. Dapo's knowledge, expertise, and wisdom will make a significant and lasting contribution to the ILC.

I am pleased beyond words and both honoured and humbled to n equal measure to have been elected today to the United Nations International Law Commission for the term 2023-2027. This is by any standards an outstanding mandate, thank you to everyone involved.

We stand shoulder to shoulder with Seun Twins, @DurhamSUpres as we work together in trying to change culture. Seun Twins is a success story. Durham University is proud of her leadership. Personalised attacks, especially of the kind experienced today, are totally unacceptable.

I woke up feeling that my entire life’s work has been a delusion. Ukraine has no concept of statehood, says Putin. So what do I tell my students this week about the sanctity of the UN Charter, rights of people’s to self determination and territorial sovereignty? (1/2)

Article 2(4) of the UN Charter - 'All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.'