Cris van Eijk
@crisveijk.bsky.social
International law, the (space) commons, and how they're made.
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https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/research/students/current-pgr-students/cristian-van-eijk/
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· Jan 30
The exclusive making of space law | Leiden Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core
The exclusive making of space law
doi.org
Excited to share my new article, 'The Exclusive Making of Space Law', just published in Leiden Journal of International Law. This article took 3 weeks to write the first draft, but 3 years to finalise, and I'm grateful to everyone who helped me along the way.
doi.org/10.1017/S0922156524000554
doi.org/10.1017/S0922156524000554
From the “Gray Lady” herself
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
From the “Gray Lady” herself
IU is very pretty in the fall.
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
IU is very pretty in the fall.
Verne Harris says tattoos can be archives, and I defer to the experts.
(Real talk: ‘archive’ is as open-textured as you want it to be - right up until you mistake an archivist for a librarian to their face. From there, all bets are off. They’ll find your remains in dozens of meat acid-free boxes-
(Real talk: ‘archive’ is as open-textured as you want it to be - right up until you mistake an archivist for a librarian to their face. From there, all bets are off. They’ll find your remains in dozens of meat acid-free boxes-
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Verne Harris says tattoos can be archives, and I defer to the experts.
(Real talk: ‘archive’ is as open-textured as you want it to be - right up until you mistake an archivist for a librarian to their face. From there, all bets are off. They’ll find your remains in dozens of meat acid-free boxes-
(Real talk: ‘archive’ is as open-textured as you want it to be - right up until you mistake an archivist for a librarian to their face. From there, all bets are off. They’ll find your remains in dozens of meat acid-free boxes-
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA:
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October 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA:
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Struggling to find words for the harms this invites.
For now, please just Google "sunshine unit", and then read this by Julian Aguon: placesjournal.org/article/bles...
For now, please just Google "sunshine unit", and then read this by Julian Aguon: placesjournal.org/article/bles...
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Struggling to find words for the harms this invites.
For now, please just Google "sunshine unit", and then read this by Julian Aguon: placesjournal.org/article/bles...
For now, please just Google "sunshine unit", and then read this by Julian Aguon: placesjournal.org/article/bles...
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I can hear this post read in Tamsin's voice. If you can't, I highly recommend Called to the Bar podcast, where she and @djag2.bsky.social set the record straight on piracy and all things international law w their co-hosts @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social @drnajimagi.bsky.social @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social
It's not fucking piracy! States can't commit piracy, and calling it piracy absolves the US of responsibility and says that the individuals who conducted the strikes were mutineers. It's an atrocity crime and deeply illegal but not fucking piracy. Not everything involving boats and violence is piracy
Washington Post edit board: There’s a name for attacks on civilian ships on the high seas: Piracy. That’s also an unfortunately plausible description of the Trump administration’s bombings of vessels around South America that it says are carrying drugs. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
October 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I can hear this post read in Tamsin's voice. If you can't, I highly recommend Called to the Bar podcast, where she and @djag2.bsky.social set the record straight on piracy and all things international law w their co-hosts @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social @drnajimagi.bsky.social @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social
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Listen to tamsin. She knows her shit
It's not fucking piracy! States can't commit piracy, and calling it piracy absolves the US of responsibility and says that the individuals who conducted the strikes were mutineers. It's an atrocity crime and deeply illegal but not fucking piracy. Not everything involving boats and violence is piracy
Washington Post edit board: There’s a name for attacks on civilian ships on the high seas: Piracy. That’s also an unfortunately plausible description of the Trump administration’s bombings of vessels around South America that it says are carrying drugs. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Listen to tamsin. She knows her shit
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It's not fucking piracy! States can't commit piracy, and calling it piracy absolves the US of responsibility and says that the individuals who conducted the strikes were mutineers. It's an atrocity crime and deeply illegal but not fucking piracy. Not everything involving boats and violence is piracy
Washington Post edit board: There’s a name for attacks on civilian ships on the high seas: Piracy. That’s also an unfortunately plausible description of the Trump administration’s bombings of vessels around South America that it says are carrying drugs. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The new pirates of the Caribbean
Attacks against alleged drug boats are lawless.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It's not fucking piracy! States can't commit piracy, and calling it piracy absolves the US of responsibility and says that the individuals who conducted the strikes were mutineers. It's an atrocity crime and deeply illegal but not fucking piracy. Not everything involving boats and violence is piracy
I’ve been saying a version of this in lectures since 2021, and in published writing since January this year.
Eg these tweets from Dec 2021:
Eg these tweets from Dec 2021:
October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I’ve been saying a version of this in lectures since 2021, and in published writing since January this year.
Eg these tweets from Dec 2021:
Eg these tweets from Dec 2021:
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Nukes, interceptors, and a peace coalition: outer space diplomacy is heating up at the UN.
My summary of day one of the dedicated space security debate. Full version at the link. More to come this week.
reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...
My summary of day one of the dedicated space security debate. Full version at the link. More to come this week.
reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...
October 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Nukes, interceptors, and a peace coalition: outer space diplomacy is heating up at the UN.
My summary of day one of the dedicated space security debate. Full version at the link. More to come this week.
reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...
My summary of day one of the dedicated space security debate. Full version at the link. More to come this week.
reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...
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Article is by this guy. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
October 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Article is by this guy. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Have they considered doing good things that people will like instead of bad things that everyone hates?
Labour MPs are getting battered at karaoke and WhatsApping each other shit emojis "to bond over how grim it all is."
They won 411 of the UK's 650 electoral seats just 15 months ago.
They won 411 of the UK's 650 electoral seats just 15 months ago.
October 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Have they considered doing good things that people will like instead of bad things that everyone hates?
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Post-truth has now entered ICJ decisions. How embarrassing, but also so much aligned with the current state of the world.
Judge Sebutinde cites The Free Press article - 'revealing' that starving children often have other health issues, and recently panned by John Oliver... in a section about "the challenges in verifying the accuracy and authenticity of information".
This is absolutely *mortifying*.
This is absolutely *mortifying*.
October 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Post-truth has now entered ICJ decisions. How embarrassing, but also so much aligned with the current state of the world.
Judge Sebutinde cites The Free Press article - 'revealing' that starving children often have other health issues, and recently panned by John Oliver... in a section about "the challenges in verifying the accuracy and authenticity of information".
This is absolutely *mortifying*.
This is absolutely *mortifying*.
October 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Judge Sebutinde cites The Free Press article - 'revealing' that starving children often have other health issues, and recently panned by John Oliver... in a section about "the challenges in verifying the accuracy and authenticity of information".
This is absolutely *mortifying*.
This is absolutely *mortifying*.
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There are many ways to frame the retrospective rescission of "indefinite" legal status for particular civilian populations.
Anyway, here's an excerpt from the ICC Elements of Crimes...
Anyway, here's an excerpt from the ICC Elements of Crimes...
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
There are many ways to frame the retrospective rescission of "indefinite" legal status for particular civilian populations.
Anyway, here's an excerpt from the ICC Elements of Crimes...
Anyway, here's an excerpt from the ICC Elements of Crimes...
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It's a very, very large number of people who've just been told to "go home" by HM's opposition. Add their friends, relatives and supporters and you have an enormous chunk of the voting population. Without those people's votes, the Labour Party is finished. It needs to be made to understand that.
Senior Labour figures have expressed dismay at the Party's "cowardly" and "incompetent" response to Tory shadow minister Katie Lam calling for legal migrants to "go home".
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
Exclusive: Labour Anger Erupts Over Party's Response To Katie Lam Immigration Row
"What’s the point of us saying we’re anti-racist when we fail to call out racism," said one MP.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
It's a very, very large number of people who've just been told to "go home" by HM's opposition. Add their friends, relatives and supporters and you have an enormous chunk of the voting population. Without those people's votes, the Labour Party is finished. It needs to be made to understand that.
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I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.
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The "I never thought Tories/Reform would send thugs to abduct, detain and expel MY family members" voters are going to be infuriating
a close up of a snow leopard with a national geographic logo behind it
Alt: Leopard about to eat faces
media.tenor.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
The "I never thought Tories/Reform would send thugs to abduct, detain and expel MY family members" voters are going to be infuriating
Congratulations to Dr Gloria Maritza Gómez Revuelta on winning the Berta Ulloa Prize for Int'l History for her thesis, 'Caleidoscopio cósmico: cultura, ciencia, política y diplomacia del espacio exterior en México (décadas de 1950-1970)'.
Dr Gómez Revuelta's work is fantastic - highly recommended!!
Dr Gómez Revuelta's work is fantastic - highly recommended!!
October 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Congratulations to Dr Gloria Maritza Gómez Revuelta on winning the Berta Ulloa Prize for Int'l History for her thesis, 'Caleidoscopio cósmico: cultura, ciencia, política y diplomacia del espacio exterior en México (décadas de 1950-1970)'.
Dr Gómez Revuelta's work is fantastic - highly recommended!!
Dr Gómez Revuelta's work is fantastic - highly recommended!!
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Pretty shocking, this, from a barrister and former Lord Chancellor. Shabana Mahmood, disgracefully peddling misinformation about the Human Rights watchdog.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Hmmmm. "The Home Secretary has said it is unacceptable for a European human rights watchdog to “question the validity” of the Supreme Court ruling".
Except the Commissioner didn't question the "validity" of the Supreme Court ruling, he questioned its fairness.
Hmmmm. "The Home Secretary has said it is unacceptable for a European human rights watchdog to “question the validity” of the Supreme Court ruling".
Except the Commissioner didn't question the "validity" of the Supreme Court ruling, he questioned its fairness.
Mahmood hits back at European watchdog over trans and protest rights concerns
The Supreme Court ruled in April that the words ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.
www.independent.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Pretty shocking, this, from a barrister and former Lord Chancellor. Shabana Mahmood, disgracefully peddling misinformation about the Human Rights watchdog.
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Good morning. Starlink has now launched more than TEN THOUSAND satellites into orbit. Nearly 1400 have already been burned up in the atmosphere so far.
Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Good morning. Starlink has now launched more than TEN THOUSAND satellites into orbit. Nearly 1400 have already been burned up in the atmosphere so far.
Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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Is there *anything* she won't say?
Sure - since becoming an MP in July 2024, Katie Lam hasn't said the word 'Windrush' once, even on Windrush Day.
Which is strange, because in May 2023, Katie Lam was briefed enough to attend meetings of the Windrush Cross-Govt WG as Braverman's Special Adviser.
Sure - since becoming an MP in July 2024, Katie Lam hasn't said the word 'Windrush' once, even on Windrush Day.
Which is strange, because in May 2023, Katie Lam was briefed enough to attend meetings of the Windrush Cross-Govt WG as Braverman's Special Adviser.
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
October 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Is there *anything* she won't say?
Sure - since becoming an MP in July 2024, Katie Lam hasn't said the word 'Windrush' once, even on Windrush Day.
Which is strange, because in May 2023, Katie Lam was briefed enough to attend meetings of the Windrush Cross-Govt WG as Braverman's Special Adviser.
Sure - since becoming an MP in July 2024, Katie Lam hasn't said the word 'Windrush' once, even on Windrush Day.
Which is strange, because in May 2023, Katie Lam was briefed enough to attend meetings of the Windrush Cross-Govt WG as Braverman's Special Adviser.
There are many ways to frame the retrospective rescission of "indefinite" legal status for particular civilian populations.
Anyway, here's an excerpt from the ICC Elements of Crimes...
Anyway, here's an excerpt from the ICC Elements of Crimes...
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
There are many ways to frame the retrospective rescission of "indefinite" legal status for particular civilian populations.
Anyway, here's an excerpt from the ICC Elements of Crimes...
Anyway, here's an excerpt from the ICC Elements of Crimes...