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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I am very pleased to announce the publication of my book International Law and the High Court of Australia. Published by Melrose Legal Publishers in The Hague @mlpthehague.bsky.social, the book traces the Court’s work in international law since Federation. melroselegalpublishers.com/wp-content/u...

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Joining the so called Board of Peace is untenable for any democracy. It creates perpetual power and control for its chairman and his self-nominated successors.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Boy, do I have some bad news about the consequences of illegal US threats and uses of force combined with the undermining of U.S. military alliances. www.justsecurity.org/109537/upend...

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Upending the International Order

Through both word and deed, President Trump has been aggressively undermining the rule of law internationally.

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I am delighted and honoured to have been elected Vice-Chair of the International Law Association by the Executive Council. The ILA was founded in Brussels in 1873 to progress the study, clarification and development of international law, now more important than ever.

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AJIL and AJIL Unbound @ajil.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Happy Friday!! The April issue of AJIL has been published online and featuring a stellar line up of authors. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

EU Member States agree that EU Commission should negotiate EU signing up to treaty setting up International Claims Commission for Ukraine 🇺🇦 eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

Text of the decision. Full text in the link.

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I'm trying to work out why Norfolk Island and Heard and McDonald Islands get their own little tariff regime. Perhaps the penguins on Heard have been exporting cuteness?

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Wilmer-Hale has made a powerful application, in the face of despicable attacks on the firm, and to clients of the firm, for the act of lawyering in the highest traditions of our profession. I have acted for many years for clients espousing difficult positions, my thoughts are with them

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Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🚨 REACTION: Oxfam reaction to Israel’s attack on Gaza despite ceasefire. “The ongoing targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure cannot be justified under any circumstances," said @oxfaminternational.bsky.social 's Clémence Lagouardat. oxf.am/3DOX71V

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The apparent suspension of the Yale Journal of International Law by Musk is insidious.

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The ludicrous hypocrisy of Vance pretending to lecture Europe on free speech, whilst dismantling every facet of free speech in the US, says everything we need to know.

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I intend to continue to stress the applicability and significance of public international law. Departures from it must be identified. The threatened use of military force, even as an 'option' to affect sovereign control of territory, is flagrantly unlawful. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say

Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force, U.S. officials told NBC News.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

🚨MAJOR DEVELOPMENT Portugal has cancelled plans to buy F-35 fighter jets from the US and will look to replace their F-16s with European fighters. “We have to be able to count on the predictability of our allies, which is no longer the case with the United States."💥

A photo of two US-made F-35 fighter jets flying towards the camera. One has a US flag visible in the cockpit

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The use of economic force to annex a sovereign State, Canada, is every bit as illegal, and despicable, as military force.

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Has anyone given Vance and Trump lettuces yet?

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

It is time to create an 'Axis of Sanity' that starts in Canada and ends in Australia and New Zealand. Enough is enough.

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I am very pleased to be speaking on the topic of international law and the resolution of groundwater disputes in the Middle East and Africa in Riyadh. @ASSELLMU

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

An apparently serious statement that the USA will "take" Gaza is utterly inconsistent with bedrock international law and has no place in our world.

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The rule of law, domestic and international, requires lawyers and the judiciary to stand strong, affirm the place of law in a healthy democracy, and adhere to legal principle.

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

For the avoidance of doubt, an occupying power is not entitled to cede the occupied territory to a third State and the third State does not thereby gain any form of sovereignty, whether to build condominiums and casinos or otherwise.

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Article 49(1) Geneva IV, and customary international law, and jus cogens, render this mad thought bubble utterly illegal.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling. It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks. Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article)

Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Article 49, Geneva IV. Enough said.

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Distressingly, one of the first executive orders is to make wildly false claims about the death penalty and call for its wider use in the US. As a long-term death penalty advocate and campaigner the call for more state killings is deeply disturbing. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Restoring The Death Penalty And Protecting Public Safety – The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

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American Society of International Law @asilorg.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Today the Society turns 119 years old! We were formally established on this day in 1906 at the NYC Bar Association by people who wanted to prevent war and make peace. Our activities have broadened since, but we still serve the same mission. Find out more at asil.org/about.

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Sydney, The Hague, London, Malta. A very full week of challenging international law work on complex human rights matters, climate change and capital punishment. Beginning with the ILA Australia event to celebrate former President Margaret Brewster and ending with the launch of new ILA Malta Branch.

Speaking on international law as a tool for change

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Tomorrow the execution of Masoud Rahimi, aged 34 is intended in Singapore. He was only 20 when arrested. This is a continuing horror and one of many healthy precious lives taken needlessly iland cruelly in the past weeks.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

BREAKING: Downing Street has said the government would fulfill its legal obligations in relation to the ICC after they issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope - Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I was delighted to address issues of groundwater and aquifer resources at Dubai Arbitration Week on Thursday, joining my 3 VB colleagues Dr Cameron Miles, Professor Attila M. Tanzi, Jane Davies Evans KC and Georges Chalfoun on a panel on freshwater scarcity and litigious issues.

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OGEL & TDM Law Journals @ogeltdm.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Final Conclusions Published - ILA 150th Anniversary Conference 2023 www.ila-hq.org/en/news-arti... 2023 marked 150 years since the creation of the International Law Association (ILA)

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Dr C Ward SC @cward-int-law.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I am pleased to have joined this community and look forward to more international lawyers joining as twitter fades into obscurity.

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