Reposted by Melissa StewartDr Juliette McIntyre 🩷💚 🏳️🌈 @drnajimagi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Went all the way to The Hague to watch Nicaragua v. Germany may as well write about it too t.co/o3CB9sPSU0 0147
Reposted by Melissa StewartRebecca Ingber @becingber.bsky.social · 13/09/2026In 1909 E.M. Forster wrote a short story, a warning about a world in which humans would cease to understand their own technological creations. It’s a quick read; here’s the PDF. (Apropos of nothing … ) 1229
Reposted by Melissa StewartCris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Hey quick question - can an Executive Order supersede multiple bilateral treaties that use 'Lake Ontario' as a critical part of defining scope, and require mutual agreement to amend? L: Protocol to the Agreement on Great Lakes Water Quality, art 1(j) R: Convention On Great Lakes Fisheries, art I 252
Reposted by Melissa StewartNPR @npr.org · 25/08/2026The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States. n.pr/4zwqYnPn.prUS set for largest mass visa revocation in history targeting up to 200,000 foreigners, officials sayThe Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States. 2914474
Reposted by Melissa StewartMax-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 25/08/2026The world’s #oceans simmered to their hottest temperatures on record over the weekend. They and are likely to warm even further in the next few months, putting stress on life in the water and on land too, the European #climate service Copernicus announced. @apnews.com @copernicusmarine.bsky.socialapnews.comEarth is simmering in its hottest water temps on record, and that's bad for fish and usThe European climate service Copernicus says the world's oceans have reached their hottest temperature on record. 0165
Reposted by Melissa StewartRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026"Even with tonight’s [Supreme Court] stay, section 3 [of the Executive Order on mail-in ballots] remains blocked; the USPS Final Rule remains frozen." Always grateful for the clear-eyed and lightening fast analysis by @stevevladeck.bsky.social. www.stevevladeck.com/p/246-making...stevevladeck.com246. Making Sense of the Mail-in Ballots RulingThe Supreme Court’s grant of a stay in one of the mail-in ballot cases is deeply wrong, but it’s also not the main event over whether Trump’s patently unlawful executive order can take effect. 9620169
Reposted by Melissa StewartSlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Éclipse totale du chat. 22008451
Reposted by Melissa StewartYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/08/2026So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...springfieldnewssun.comHundreds rally at site were Haitians required to check-in, get monitors after end of TPSHundreds of people gathered outside a federal immigration office Sunday morning to show support for Haitian immigrants from Springfield who were called to report for immigration check-ins. 561668711
Melissa Stewart @melissastewart.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Excellent post by Guy Goodwin-Gill on the Supreme Court's failure in Al Toro Lado to engage in any meaningful analysis of U.S. obligations under international law or Art. 33 of the Refugee Convention. opiniojuris.org/2026/08/06/w...opiniojuris.orgWrong in 1993, Still Wrong in 2026: Al Otro Lado and Incompetence in the US Supreme Court[Guy S. Goodwin-Gill is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Oxford] In 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Coast Guard … 121
Reposted by Melissa StewartAdil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The ICJ will hold public hearings on preliminary objections in Nicaragua v. Germany on September 7-10. Nicaragua alleges that Germany is complicit in genocide and failed to ensure respect for IHL in Gaza. Germany argues the claims are inadmissible because Israel is an 'indispensable third party'. 12323
Reposted by Melissa StewartAsaf Lubin @asaflubin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Come work with me! We’re hiring in law and technology, cybersecurity law, AI law, IP law, national security law, and international law, as well as other areas! 01410
Melissa Stewart @melissastewart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026One of my first real concerts was seeing The Frames at the Black Cat in 2005. Glen Hansard blew my mind. I played his album Rhythm and Repose on repeat for years whenever I needed comfort in the form of song. And when I had a small band in the Berkshires, Falling Slowly was a go to cover. 150
Reposted by Melissa StewartSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 27/07/2026In Cisco, #SCOTUS not only (unpersuasively) eviscerated the Alien Tort Statute, but it effectively neutered a 22-year-old precedent for no other reason than that the Republican appointees disagree w/ it. Today’s “One First” goes deep into the ruling—and why stare decisis is really *is* for suckers:stevevladeck.com240. The Rise and Fall of the Alien Tort StatuteThe Court's June 23 ruling in Cisco was significant not only for what it means for human rights accountability, but for the justices' approach to stare decisis. 1029696
Reposted by Melissa StewartTim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 29/07/2026“Worryingly, research is beginning to indicate that shifting too much “cognitive load” onto AI can lead to the atrophy of core intellectual processes, including memory, concentration and analytical skills.” www.smh.com.au/national/nev...smh.com.au‘Never-skilling’: High school rush to AI threatens to create a generation of duncesResearch is beginning to indicate that reliance on AI can lead to the atrophy of core intellectual processes, including memory, concentration and analytical skills. 23720
Reposted by Melissa StewartHarlan G. Cohen @harlangcohen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026In this issue: 3 Book Reviews: (1) @annetrebilcock.bsky.social reviews International Organization Initiatives: How and Why Organizations Adapt and Change, edited by Gabrielle Marceau and @hgoett.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ysy6hykstinyurl.comInternational Organization Initiatives: How and Why Organizations Adapt and Change. Edited by Gabrielle Marceau and Henner Gött, assisted by Akshaya Venkataraman and Ana Balcazar-Moreno. Oxford, UK: O...International Organization Initiatives: How and Why Organizations Adapt and Change. Edited by Gabrielle Marceau and Henner Gött, assisted by Akshaya Venkataraman and Ana Balcazar-Moreno. Oxford, UK: O... 132
Reposted by Melissa StewartHarlan G. Cohen @harlangcohen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026In this issue: @keitnerlaw.com's “State Responsibility as Myth and Legend” uses Alan Tzvika Nissel’s Merchants of Legalism+Allison Powers Useche’s Arbitrating Empire to explore how late 19th/early 20th cent. arbitration furthered subordination yet created frameworks for justice: tinyurl.com/fp5kubyktinyurl.comState Responsibility as Myth and Legend | American Journal of International Law | Cambridge CoreState Responsibility as Myth and Legend - Volume 120 Issue 3 031
Reposted by Melissa StewartSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 23/07/2026On Tuesday, the full Fifth Circuit granted DOJ's request for a "precedential stay" of district court rulings holding that the Due Process Clause requires bond hearings for immigration detainees w/in 90 days of their arrest. Today's "One First" explains why that's a really big (and problematic) deal:stevevladeck.comBonus 239: The Fifth Circuit's "Precedential Stay" in Sosnava RodriguezThe Fifth Circuit once again did the government's bidding on immigration detention—this time through an unexplained procedural move I've never seen before. 28657225
Reposted by Melissa StewartBoyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The UNHCR archives in Geneva are at risk; reading room already closed - and there's a much broader 'humanitarian archive emergency' ongoing with aid budget cuts. www.aretenews.com/unhcr-refuge...aretenews.comAs aid funds shrink, archivists warn of risks to the humanitarian recordUNHCR's archives are a test case for humanitarians struggling to preserve institutional memory in an era of retrenchment. 39677
Reposted by Melissa StewartAdil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Jon Finer, Biden’s deputy national-security adviser said that, for both Hamas and Israel, “civilian harm was not a side effect but part of the strategy.” The U.S., he said, “shouldn’t tolerate wars in which civilian harm is a goal, [or] allow our weapons to be used for that purpose.” 0177
Reposted by Melissa StewartJacob Katz Cogan @jkatzcogan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026dlvr.itCall for Papers: ASIL International Law & Social Science Interest Group Biennial ConferenceA call for papers has been issued for the Biennial Conference of the American Society of International Law's International Law & Social Science Interest Group, which will take place January 29-30, 2027, at UCLA School of Law. The call is here. 022
Reposted by Melissa StewartMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 18/07/2026Yesterday the US Administration supercharged its explicit effort to bar international students from staying in the US after graduation. All Americans should know: 1/3 of *all* STEM PhDs working in the US are immigrants who graduated from US universities, then stayed. www.piie.com/index%2Ephp/... 1232129
Reposted by Melissa StewartAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/07/2026BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.rpc.state.gov 8639911904
Reposted by Melissa StewartAmanda Frost @amandafrost.bsky.social · 03/07/2026www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comThe Other Case for Birthright CitizenshipThe legal arguments are clear. Now proponents need to start defending the practice on policy grounds. 066
Reposted by Melissa StewartAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026If "domicile" is what matters, what about two U.S. citizens domiciled in Europe who fly back to the U.S. to have a baby. Is their baby a birthright citizen under the 14th Amendment, or only thanks to "jus sanguinis" laws passed by Congress? These and many other questions go unanswered by Thomas. 423233
Reposted by Melissa StewartPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I think a lot of people underestimate how complicated life could get if your birth certificate wasn't accepted as prima facie evidence of US citizenship, absent some new federal bureaucracy that vetted and registered qualified births. 29676122
Reposted by Melissa StewartVerfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 30/06/2026Is irregular status just a category that vulnerable people happen to fall into – or itself a source of vulnerability? PEDRO SANZ DÍAZ on what Spain's extraordinary regularisation reveals about the legal architecture of migrant vulnerability. verfassungsblog.de/vulnerabilit... 084
Reposted by Melissa StewartSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Early last year, I wrote about what I called the "rule-of-law" split on the Supreme Court—where Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett joined the three Democratic appointees in 5-4 rulings. Cook was an example of this yesterday; the Fourteenth Amendment holding in Barbara is a bigger one today. 333357
Reposted by Melissa StewartSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026And a lest we forget Justice Kavanaugh writes separately because while he agrees with the judgment in this case that Trump cannot change birthright citizenship by EO, he believes that Congress can by statute create exceptions to birthright citizenship that would mirror the provisions of Trump’s EO. 831153
Reposted by Melissa StewartMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming. 5544441113
Reposted by Melissa StewartMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Kavanaugh concurs and dissents in part: He holds that Trump's order does NOT violate the 14th Amendment, but does violate a federal statute. He says Congress could change the statute to effectuate Trump's order in the future. Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 13544108
Reposted by Melissa StewartMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 731863497
Reposted by Melissa StewartMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned. 6050841361
Reposted by Melissa StewartQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 30/06/20262 more thoughts on birthright: 1. The movement to overturn Roe and Humphrey's Executor was built over decades. It took an enormous amount of effort to manufacture that sense of scholarly viability (see: Teles, Hollis-Brusky). The right got 5-4 on birthright with a sloppy last-minute scramble 151709433
Reposted by Melissa StewartRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026But 5-4 on the text of the constitution is pretty shocking! 71827
Reposted by Melissa StewartElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win. 9268982497
Reposted by Melissa StewartDouglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 30/06/2026New #CalledToTheBar! A roadshow episode recorded at the workshop "Australia’s Relationship with the UN Security Council" feat. @dchovell.bsky.social. Conversations reflect on Australia’s role in the UNSC over eight decades, looking both backwards & to future challenges soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...soundcloud.com81. Australia and the Security Council: ANU RoadshowIn this roadshow episode, recorded at the workshop Australia’s Relationship with the UN Security Council: Eighty Years and Counting at the Australian National University, Douglas Guilfoyle, Imogen Sau 043
Reposted by Melissa StewartMike Becker @mikebecker.bsky.social · 26/06/2026New #ICJ case: DRC accuses Rwanda of violating the Genocide Convention, CERD, CEDAW, and CAT. We've been down this road before; the ICJ dismissed another DRC v Rwanda case back in 2006 for lack of jurisdiction. 20 years later, have those problems been overcome? www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...icj-cij.org 154
Reposted by Melissa StewartStuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Salvador Santino Regilme ed., Statelessness and Citizenship Revocation in Europe: Rethinking Politics, Law, Security, and Human Rights - De Gruyter Brlll, July 2026 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... 033
Reposted by Melissa StewartBec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social · 24/06/2026#SCOTUS Cisco decision was a travesty. But the accountability landscape is wider than the ATS. Esp. in this moment, with AI companies posing immense risks for the enabling of atrocities, it is on all of us to step up and support the myriad pathways to justice: www.justsecurity.org/144005/justi...justsecurity.orgSeeking Justice the Day After SCOTUS Killed the Alien Tort StatuteThe Supreme Court's decision closes one door in transnational accountability, but other paths remain for survivors to pursue justice. 076
Reposted by Melissa StewartBec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Must-read by @becingber.bsky.social Law profs in my feed especially, pay attn to the final paragraph: democracyproject.org/posts/the-wa...democracyproject.orgThe War on International Law in the United States: Rebuilding a Constituency for the Rule of LawA broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict. 0126
Reposted by Melissa StewartKate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026So we have to give our articles to AI for free if we want to post on SSRN?!? www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...stephenbainbridge.comThe Social Science Research Network Has Jumped the SharkSignificant and unwelcome changes to what had been legal academia's major open source scholarly repository and notice system 0146
Reposted by Melissa StewartBoyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The Rise of International Environmental Law, 1946–1993: Narrow Limits and Extensive Tasks - by Outi Penttilä & Martti Koskenniemi academic.oup.com/ejil/article...academic.oup.comThe Rise of International Environmental Law, 1946–1993: Narrow Limits and Extensive TasksAbstract. Environmental lawyers have devoted little attention to their discipline’s past, and when they have done so, they have often narrated the past as 041
Reposted by Melissa StewartHeike Krieger @heikekrieger.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Interested in IHL and Courts? Submit an abstract to the most recent call for papers of the Yearbook of IHL! For further information, see here: docs.google.com/document/d/e...docs.google.comYearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume 29 (2026) – Call for Abstracts 053
Reposted by Melissa StewartGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13/05/2026An ICE removal flight operated by Journey Aviation just landed in Myanmar--the second time this year. Migrants onboard will have been shackled for 19+ hours. Previous Burmese deportees were immediately sent to a nearby torture prison, per @jamesstout.bsky.social. gillianbrockell.com/three-craven... 6572370
Reposted by Melissa StewartTom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Meanwhile www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 1167
Reposted by Melissa StewartDouglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Looking forward to hosting this discussion! Please register and join us! 📢 The Strait of Hormuz, UNCLOS and the Law of Blockade: ANZSIL Webinar, Friday 15 May 2026, 4-5PM (AEST)/6-7PM (NZST) Further information and registration here: lnkd.in/gws-Mi3y 087