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Christiane Wilke
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Research on international law, armed conflict, and civilian harm. Professor at Carleton U, Legal Studies. Cyclist, hiker, looking forward to sabbatical.
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This guy gets it. Abolish football.
October 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Die eine Grafik, mit der die ganze Welt erklärt werden kann, existiert nic.....
@katjaberlin.bsky.social hat es auf den Punkt gebracht.
September 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Second, and particularly important, part of the SWAIL interview is out ⬇️
What is SWAIL's relationship to #TWAIL?
Part II discusses intersections and divergences between the two approaches.

@pilabuda.bsky.social & Marek Wasiński reflect on the discomforts SWAIL may provoke and on what SWAIL can offer scholars and practitioners.

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(Re)Searching for SWAIL. Part II
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September 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I am not a Hannah Arendt stan, but she nailed this one: 'Under such circumstances… the Palestinian Jews would degenerate into one of those small warrior tribes about whose possibilities and importance history has amply informed us since the days of Sparta.'
Sparta was an authoritarian state that suppressed all forms of cultural and political expression in order to brainwash its citizens into a life dedicated to war. Every year they carried out a murderous campaign against their slave population, the Helots, to keep them in place.
September 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Why recognize the State of Palestine?

Isn't it pointless?

Mere symbolism?

Isn't the two-state solution an illusion?

Or even a trap?

Whatever your view, take a minute to read this speech by Palestine's Deputy Ambassador to the UN from June 30.

digitallibrary.un.org/record/40861...
September 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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amazing response, no notes
September 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Bye bye Berlin. It’s been a great few days. Grateful for chance encounters and discussions at the conference, good food, and strolls through the city.
September 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Leaving Berlin inspired and exhausted after the @esil-sedi.bsky.social conference. Highlights included superb workshops, hearing Francesca Albanese speak, presenting to a great audience, sharing meals and stories, and conference swim breaks.
September 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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and I underscored the importance of solidarity & collective action in order to protect our academic spaces and communities. I also had the chance to further discuss the arguments of my article Silencing Palestinian voices: On freedom of expression and Gaza (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...) 4/
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September 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This was an amazing panel full of insights and integrity. Thanks so much to both of you.
I am also delighted to have had the opportunity to discuss, together with @jannisgrimm.bsky.social the pressing issue of academic freedom and the discourse on international law, where I also shared insights on the silencing attempts we have endured in the lead up to our workshop 3/
September 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I am also delighted to have had the opportunity to discuss, together with @jannisgrimm.bsky.social the pressing issue of academic freedom and the discourse on international law, where I also shared insights on the silencing attempts we have endured in the lead up to our workshop 3/
September 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I am grateful to them for their contribution and engagement, as well as our panelists for their thought-provoking presentations, and our audience for the captivating debates. I am also grateful to the local organisers, and the ESIL Board, for the support in making this event happen. 2/
September 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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And it’s a wrap on #ESIL2025 !

This year, with my colleagues of the ESIL IG on Int’l Law and Technology, we have had the privilege of welcoming Francesca Albanese, UN SR on the oPt, and Eyal Weizman, Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture, as keynote speakers for our annual workshop. 1/
September 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Israeli military commanders openly speak of not being constrained by legal advice

That the role of legal advisers is to defend Israel's actions in Gaza to the outside world using international law

They are "rubber stamps", as @michaelsfard.bsky.social put it

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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The University of California, Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 faculty members and students as part of an investigation into “alleged antisemitic incidents”, a move a targeted scholar likened to a “practice from the McCarthy era”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
As someone who is used to speaking on the “miscellaneous international issues” panel at conferences, it was an honour to share my research with a large and attentive audience of specialists at the @esil-sedi.bsky.social Annual Conference in Berlin. I’m still thinking about the questions and comments
September 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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A must-read piece by @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social

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“As academic and other institutions in the Global North closed ranks in support of a nuclear state unleashing unspeakable violence against an intentionally starved population, /1
Defining Away Palestine
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September 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Day 2 of the ESIL conference
@esil-sedi.bsky.social begins with a fantastic panel on reconstructing justice. www.esil2025.de
September 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Thrilled to be at the ESIL conference. Just finished my panel and now listening to a packed forum on “Institutional Reconstructions: Which Role for the United Nations?” with Prof Brunk, Prof Klabbers and Assoc Prof Sinclair, moderated by Prof Chinkin.
September 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Four EU countries have now banned the import of goods from unlawful Israeli settlements.

Totally undermining the claim made for years by Ireland that EU law was on obstacle to passing the Occupied Territories Bill.

Complying with the ICJ advisory opinion requires it.

And considerably more.
September 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Day one of the ESIL Annual Conference 2025 has come to a close — a full day of rich discussions, new connections, and inspiring ideas.
From panels to special events, the energy in Berlin is unmistakable. Looking forward to what tomorrow brings.
#ESIL2025 #InternationalLaw #ESILCommunity #ESILAC25
September 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Aw man I wish academics had headlines like this.

“Stephen Aguilar (existential dread) is not expected to write today, per @mpolikoff.bsky.social
CB Christian Gonzalez (hamstring) is not expected to practice today, per Mike Vrabel.
September 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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@ajil.bsky.social has a brand new issue on Reparations in International Law - take a look and discuss with your #ESIL2025 colleagues!

🌐 cup.org/46hRHXq

#InternationalLaw
September 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The pre-conference workshops were energizing; let’s see what the main @esil-sedi.bsky.social conference will bring. @cailesil.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM