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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz

@alexpdelacruz.bsky.social
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Postdoc, Tilburg. PhD, Melbourne. Interested in oceans, archipelagos, plastic pollution, state-making projects, and the lawyers who manage them.

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This a great piece. If you are interested in the South China Sea/West Philippines Sea, read it.
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Proudly sharing my latest for Blue Security: A Maritime Affairs Series. At its simplest, my argument is that in the law of the sea, history is here to stay, and international lawyers better watch out how it's being deployed in particularly harmful and violent ways.
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Tim Lindgren @tim-lindgren.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
A wonderful and, as always, engaging guest lecture on the law of the sea by @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social for our PIL course at Amsterdam University College 👏🏼 @uva.nl @acil-uva.bsky.social @kanadbagchi.bsky.social
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Blue Security @bluesecprogram.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Marine Environmental Security: Perspectives from International Law and the Blue Economy | Sarah Lothian, Jacqueline Espenilla, Asmiati A Malik and @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social on their Blue Security research & developments in marine environment protection & Blue Economy www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4FF...
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Marine Environmental Security: Perspectives from International Law and the Blue Economy
YouTube video by Blue Security
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I wish you a long and healthy life to stand trial for your crimes here 🇳🇱 May you be so healthy that no judge worth their election to the International Criminal Court, taking one look at you, would hear from you a phony plea of physical unfitness or frailty to face trial.
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Speaking here on marine plastics. Registration link below:
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Great piece from @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social on the South China Sea and what law applies within archipelagic waters. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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Why the Philippines made a dramatic turnaround on the question of archipelagos in the law of the sea
And strangely enough, it means China and the Philippines have traded positions.
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Yesterday, I became well and truly Dr Dela Cruz at the University of Melbourne. A most memorable ending to #ThisPhDLife
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Blue Security @bluesecprogram.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Blue Security Fellow @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social writes in @lowyinstitute.bsky.social on stalled int plastic treaty negotiations in South Korea. The ambitions of Philippine & Aust plastic law & policy shouldn't be held back by deadlocked treaty negotiations. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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The opportunity wasted to advance a global plastic treaty
Negotiations have stalled and that’s a rubbish result for countries of the Indo-Pacific.
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Sharing my latest piece as a Fellow at the La Trobe Asia @bluesecprogram.bsky.social, on marine plastic pollution and what the recent failure to agree a global plastic treaty means for Australia, the Philippines, and the Indo-Pacific 👇 www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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The opportunity wasted to advance a global plastic treaty
Negotiations have stalled and that’s a rubbish result for countries of the Indo-Pacific.
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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot @armibayot.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
China's condemnation of the enactment of the Philippine Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act and the Philippine Maritime Zones Act signals a shift in positions on the concept of archipelagos for both China and the Philippines - see @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social in @lowyinstitute.bsky.social The Interpreter
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Dr Juliette McIntyre 🩷💚 🏳️‍🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Putin and Netanyahu sitting in a tree, hiding from the ICC
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Troy Lee-Brown @drtlee-brown.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
New @lowyinstitute.bsky.social piece by @bluesecprogram.bsky.social 2024 Fellow @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social: Strangely, its now China which uses concept of archipelagos albeit contrary to int law to assert territorial & maritime claims - not unlike how PH had done in the past before advent of UNCLOS.
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In my first op-ed for @bluesecprogram.bsky.social, I comment on the newly enacted archipelagic sea lanes and maritime zones legislation of the Philippines. Now up on The Interpreter @lowyinstitute.bsky.social 👇🏽
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
25 weeks ago I founded #CalledToTheBar: international law over drinks with @drnajimagi.bsky.social, @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social, @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social, and @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social. And we now have 937 followers and 32,592 plays across our 4 major platforms. Wow. soundcloud.com/calledtothebar
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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
go.bsky.app/SNvMPk3
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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
It would be nice to think that this war of annihilation could end with a multilateral treaty for the prohibition of hunger as a method of warfare but
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Reece Lewis @reecelewis.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Inspired/encouraged to do a law of the sea starter pack (probably not comprehensive so feel free to suggest additions!) go.bsky.app/9tsqVmb
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Yesterday, I took the four-hour bus journey to Bonn to give one of this year's Rhineland Lectures in International Law - my first-ever public lecture after the PhD. Many thanks to the kind invitation from the Institute for Public International Law at the University of Bonn to share my work on
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
man, a series of editorial rejections have really put me down several notches after the high of getting a phd without amendments. win some, lose some. on the bright side, i am getting better at bouncing back from mean reviews. spite fuels my will to redraft. ready for my next little win, please.
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Happening on Friday at the University of Bonn, where I'll give my first public lecture as a full-time academic. I'll talk about my recent work on archipelagos and imperial boundaries.
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I do hope the International Criminal Court is listening. #StopTheKillings
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
It's great to actually have a copy of The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development in my hands. Many thanks to the editors, Ruth Buchanan, Luis Eslava, Sundhya Pahuja, and Caitlin Murphy for the opportunity to contribute alongside people that I read and cite in my work.
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 23/12/2023
so i'm home for the holidays and i found something familiar apparently "melbourne coffee" is now a thing in manila this specific coffee reminds me of the thesis that needs finishing 😅
shelves at a coffee house kitchen
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
I don't always get Zoom updates, but when I do, it's almost always within the two minutes preceding a meeting.
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
A lot of words to avoid saying "theocrat"
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Let's talk about ships baby Let's talk about registry Let's talk about all the good things and the bad things On high seas Let's talk abooooout ships (Let's talk about ships)
AI art image of a yacht
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Pamela Cajilig @anthropam.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Both-sidesism only makes sense in a level playing field.
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Dr Alex P Dela Cruz @alexpdelacruz.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
ah, feedback hath cometh to the thesis draft. it looks like a time to kill a few of my darlings.
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
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BlueSky Invites for "Global South" scholars form
This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for Blue Sky which do not seem to be reaching "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in th...
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