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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche

@dimitrivdm.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer and IHSS Fellow at Queen Mary University. International law, borders, infrastructure, critical theory. www.qmul.ac.uk/law/people/academic-…

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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Join us in London on 23 January for the inaugural event of the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society @qmul.bsky.social. With stellar speakers we reflect on the state of (legal) critique as we confront a world of "death and destruction without alibi". 👇👇👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-state-...
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The State of Critique: CCLAS Launch
Join us to celebrate the launch of the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (formerly Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context)
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VidyaKumar 🕵️🪐🚀💫⚖️🇵🇸 @vidyakumar.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
The letter by these UK Law Lords some of whom are lawyers/legal academics is honestly embarrassing.
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Samenleving & Politiek @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
“De strijd voor de bevrijding van Palestina is de strijd tegen een wereld waarin het geweld dat we in Gaza zien de norm wordt.” @dimitrivdm.bsky.social #Zomerreeks #MakeEuropeGreatAgain #Mega2025 👉 www.sampol.be/2025/07/euro...
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Europa, strijd voor de bevrijding van Palestina (en voor het internationaal recht)
De strijd voor de bevrijding van Palestina is de strijd tegen een wereld waarin het geweld dat we in Gaza zien de norm wordt. Het is een strijd die de toekomst van Europa vorm zal geven.
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Koen Bogaert @koenbogaert.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“Het associatieverdrag dat de rectoren willen opschorten, omvat ook academische samenwerking. Eigenlijk pleiten ze dus zelf voor een academische boycot. Toch blijven onze universiteiten halsstarrig vasthouden aan die academische banden – formeel of via netwerken en consortia.” 1/2
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Great hybrid-conversation at the Law & Society conference about our book (co-ed by Gavin Sullivan, @dimitrivdm.bsky.social & me) Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule, f’coming open access with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. 🙏to Gavin & to @mattcanfield.bsky.social for comments.
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“we’re not fighting an army, we’re fighting an idea. If I kill the fighters, the idea can still remain. But I want to make the idea unviable. When they look at Shuja’iyya and see there’s nothing there—just sand —that’s the point. I don’t think they’ll be able to return here for at least 100 years.”
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Amsterdam Law School @uvalawschool.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
On 19 May we're looking forward to hearing from @dimitrivdm.bsky.social. He'll be speaking about the algorithmic border control platform 'Cerberus' and its distinctive governance infrastructure. bit.ly/43bLmv4 @acil-uva.bsky.social #InternationalLaw
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Algorithmic Risk Governance: Mapping the Digital Bordering Infrastructure of Cerberus - ACIL
We look forward to welcoming Dimitri Van Den Meerssche to the Amsterdam Law School on Monday 19 May. Dimitri is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) at Queen Mary University of London. His current research studies the impact of new digital technologies on global security governance.
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Parvathi Menon @parvathimenon.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Critique is the sincerest form of flattery (said someone surely). CCEIL SOAS presents a workshop with the best people critiquing Koskenniemi's oeuvre. On May 26th, at Kairos (84 Tottenham Ct Rd), 1:30 to 6:30 PM. Please register to join us: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critique-o...
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VidyaKumar 🕵️🪐🚀💫⚖️🇵🇸 @vidyakumar.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I'll be speaking on revolution and #Polycritical Law @lselaw.bsky.social w many incredible folk incl Ingo Venzke, @dimitrivdm.bsky.social, Andrew Lang, @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social, Mike Wilkinson, @ohailes.bsky.social, Sofia Stolk, Lea Ypi many others! #Polycrisis lselaw.events/event/polycr...
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Polycritical Law | Day 1 - LSE Law School Events
"Polycrisis" captures our era of overlapping, relentless crises—pandemic, war, inflation, climate chaos—each triggering new disruptions. For law and governance, it demands adaptive tools, not just pre...
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
New @ejiltalk.bsky.social Podcast! 🔥 I spoke with Angelina Fisher & André Dao about the relation between international law and technology, the limits of human rights and new avenues for resistance that reclaim our collective future against algorithmic appropriation. www.ejiltalk.org/ejil-the-pod...
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I wrote a short piece on tariffs, sabotage and the end/s of international economic law for the good people of the @lpeblog.bsky.social. I almost had a nervous breakdown writing this, so you might as well read it lpeproject.org/blog/on-tari...
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On Tariffs and the Ends of International Economic Law
For decades, the rules of international trade helped cement U.S. firms at the top of global value chains. Should Trump's unapologetic embrace of tariffs be understood as part of a broader loss of…
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
In Cambridge, in my way to the spectacular conference by @norajaber.bsky.social and @torkrever.bsky.social on the juridification of justice … but I might stop for a picnic first. www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events...
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Amsterdam Center for International Law @acil-uva.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
On 19 May we're looking forward to hearing from @dimitrivdm.bsky.social when he'll be speaking about the algorithmic border control platform 'Cerberus' and its distinctive governance infrastructure. 15:30cet @uvalawschool.bsky.social & online. acil.uva.nl/content/even...
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Algorithmic Risk Governance: Mapping the Digital Bordering Infrastructure of Cerberus - ACIL
We look forward to welcoming Dimitri Van Den Meerssche to the Amsterdam Law School on Monday 19 May. Dimitri is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences ...
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MOBILE - Center of Excellence for Global Mobility Law @mobileucph.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🚨 Launch alert! 🚨 We’re thrilled to unveil our legal infrastructures special issue this Friday! Pop by (IRL or online) to hear more... 📆 Fri 25 April, 14:15 🏓 MOBILE HQ or Zoom 🥂 Reception to follow More info: mobilitylaw.ku.dk/calendar/202...
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Special Issue Launch seminar
Legal Infrastructures: Towards a Conceptual and Empirical Framework (German Law Journal)
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
To all London colleagues... On 13 May, Alessandra Mezzadri will give the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Law & Society in a Global Context @QMUL: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory. Guaranteed to be 🔥🔥🔥. Details below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clsgc-annu...
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CLSGC Annual Lecture: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the...
The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory
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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 19/04/2025
This collection looks absolutely fabulous if you're interested in international organizations, global governance, critical approaches to international law. With contributions from @dimitrivdm.bsky.social @riclements.bsky.social @littozmonnet.bsky.social
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Ik sprak met @maartenrabaey.bsky.social @demorgen.be die een sterk stuk schreef over de lange lijst oorlogsmisdaden en misdaden tegen de menselijkheid waar Israël zich schuldig aan maakt. Het is een kroniek van de horror. Noodzakelijk om te lezen en te blijven lezen. www.demorgen.be/nieuws/elke-...
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‘Elke dag zagen we baby’s sterven’: hoe Israël in Gaza de oorlogsmisdaden opstapelt
Hulpverleners zijn geëxecuteerd, ziekenhuizen, scholen en woningen tot puin herleid. De Palestijnse bevolking wordt uitgehongerd en verdreven. Juristen zien in Gaza een duidelijk patroon van oorlogsmi...
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Wat @glbouchez.bsky.social aantoont is erg zinvol. Het is een eerlijke en duidelijke bekentenis dat hij geen enkel begrip heeft van het concept genocide en de betekenis van die term in internationaal recht. Dit zijn de figuren die ook Lemkin's erfenis verraden. Erg Pijnlijk. t.co/z8OjlsDPSP
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https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025/03/24/bouchez-palestijnse-bevolking-maal-4-sinds-1940/
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Ale Mezzadri aka FeministOnMarx. @feministonmarx.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I will be giving the CLSGC annual lecture on the reproductive laws of capitalism in May! Truly honoured
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New work with Gavin Sullivan in the German Law Journal! Informed by unique access, we trace the design of Cerberus: an AI-based risk tool deployed by the UK Home Office. Cerberus, we argue, enacts a governmentality of suspicion that evades our regulatory repertoire. cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Legal Infrastructures of UK Border Control—Cerberus and the Dispositif of Speculative Suspicion | German Law Journal | Cambridge Core
The Legal Infrastructures of UK Border Control—Cerberus and the Dispositif of Speculative Suspicion - Volume 25 Issue 8
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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Published at last, with fellow traveler @tgammeltoft.bsky.social Cruise Ships in International Law: Towards a Theory of Legal Infrastructure Part of German Law Journal SI on Infrastructures @whamiltonbyrne.sky.social, Nora Stappert & TGH of @mobileucph.bsky.social, eds. doi.org/10.1017/glj....
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Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen @tgammeltoft.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
How to study phenomena that cut across multiple, different legal regimes? We have grappled with this issue since starting the MOBILE Center. Together w/ a stellar group we have explored one avenue: Legal infrastructures. Today our SI is out in German Law Jour.: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
👇👇👇 Statement by international lawyers, ESIL members and ESIL IG convenors on the forthcoming ESIL Annual Conference in Berlin in light of the very troubling decision by FU to curtail academic freedom. The letter remains open for signature.
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Academic freedom lies at the heart of our profession and we must protect it at all costs. In consultation with colleagues, we have tried to articulate widespread concerns with respect to the upcoming ESIL conference in Berlin, in light of recent events.
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Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 26/02/2025
Statement by International Lawyers, ESIL Members, and ESIL Interest Group Convenors related to the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference at Freie Universität Berlin. voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...
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Statement by International Lawyers, ESIL Members, and ESIL Interest Group Convenors related to the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference at Freie Universität Berlin
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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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Statement by International Lawyers, ESIL Members, and ESIL Interest Group Convenors related to the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference at Freie Universität Berlin
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Question: can someone guide me to scholars / activists / lawyers in the US working on the frontlines against Trump's deportation policies and plans? (For media request)
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🔥🔥🔥 Excited to share this collection in @ejiltalk.bsky.social: International Law and Technology as a Critical Project: A Collective Reading. 👇 This piece draws the contours of a critical approach to IL and technology by introducing five wonderful review essays. t.co/bd0DOcbXKp
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https://academic.oup.com/ejil/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ejil/chae069/7994342
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"Hij is mijn beste vriend", zegt de man die zijn arrestatie voor oorlogsmisdaden en misdaden tegen de menselijkheid ontloopt. Trump's plan om Gaza te bezetten volgt een koloniaal traject van etnische zuivering. Het is op zich al een illegale dreiging 🧵 www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
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President Trump wil controle Gaza overnemen: "We zullen het bezitten en ontwikkelen"
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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Thrilled to be hosting Prof. Kristin Ross for the Annual Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Lecture this year. "The Ecological Face of the Commune Form" Wed, 12 March 2025 6.30pm to 8.00pm at London School of Economics www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/ev...
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The Ecological Face of the Commune Form
At this free LSE event Professor Kristin Ross will discuss her new book The Ecological Face of the Commune Form.
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Marie Petersmann @mariepetersmann.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Our latest #Underworlds episode is now out 🎙️ *Hope* as Site and Struggle of Global Dis/Ordering with Claire Colebrook and David Chandler: open.spotify.com/show/7Ao1I3Q... On what expressions of hope—speculative, pragmatic or nihilist—are foregrounded against the receding horizon of liberal hope.
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
What better way to initiate my Blue Period, than with a wonderful new episode in our Underworlds podcast series... Heather Davis and Michael Picard guide us through global arteries of Waste. What is politically possible in the wastelands of plasticity and pollution? open.spotify.com/episode/4buP...
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Underworlds - Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/Ordering · Episode
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Renske Vos @renskevos.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This year’s final issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law, with an ILT symposium on Global South methodologies starring: @dimitrivdm.bsky.social Juliana Santos de Carvalho, Cristina Blanco Vizarreta, Idriss Paul-Armand Fofana, W.L. Cheah, Abdelghany Sayed www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Latest issue | Leiden Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The SOAS Lecture by Francesca Albanese is now available on Youtube: Imperialism, Colonialism and Human Rights: The Litmus Test of Palestine youtu.be/v9_mzAzWnXA?...
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Imperialism, Colonialism and Human Rights: The Litmus Test of Palestine
YouTube video by SOAS University of London
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