Sophie Duroy
@sophieduroy.bsky.social
Lecturer at @universityofessex.bsky.social | Formerly @kfgintlaw.bsky.social & @eui-law.bsky.social
Public International Law - Intelligence & Security - Human Rights.
Book: http://shorturl.at/itU19
Public International Law - Intelligence & Security - Human Rights.
Book: http://shorturl.at/itU19
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Sophie Duroy
@sophieduroy.bsky.social
· Jan 21
Wonderful evening celebrating the award of the @kcsi.uk Polly Corrigan Book Prize 2024 to a very deserved winner, @sophieduroy.bsky.social Thanks to Intelligence and National Security and Women In Intelligence network for their support.
It was a real honour and pleasure to receive the 2024 Polly Corrigan Book Prize and to deliver this address on intelligence and international law.
Thank you, once again, to the prize committee and organisers, and to the many people who supported me along the way - I will pay it forward.
Thank you, once again, to the prize committee and organisers, and to the many people who supported me along the way - I will pay it forward.
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Would you ask a judge to declare a house haunted? What about suing a fortune-teller for mispredicting your future? Should the law even allow these claims?
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Would you ask a judge to declare a house haunted? What about suing a fortune-teller for mispredicting your future? Should the law even allow these claims?
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
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I don't work on this but now absolutely wish I did! What a great idea. #legalhistory
Would you ask a judge to declare a house haunted? What about suing a fortune-teller for mispredicting your future? Should the law even allow these claims?
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I don't work on this but now absolutely wish I did! What a great idea. #legalhistory
Would you ask a judge to declare a house haunted? What about suing a fortune-teller for mispredicting your future? Should the law even allow these claims?
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Would you ask a judge to declare a house haunted? What about suing a fortune-teller for mispredicting your future? Should the law even allow these claims?
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
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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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🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
November 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
So glad I spent 6 months putting together an application that has a 1% chance of getting funded 🙃
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
So glad I spent 6 months putting together an application that has a 1% chance of getting funded 🙃
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Après l’ouverture de l’enquête pour viol qui l’a visé en 2017, Gérald Darmanin et ses avocats ont mis sur pied un plan destiné à décrédibiliser son accusatrice, Sophie Patterson. Nouvelles révélations.
Par @xavmon.bsky.social et Olivier-Jourdan Roulot.
Par @xavmon.bsky.social et Olivier-Jourdan Roulot.
De suspect à victime : la stratégie payante du ministre Darmanin
Après l’ouverture de l’enquête pour viol qui l’a visé en 2017, Gérald Darmanin et ses avocats ont mis sur pied un plan destiné à décrédibiliser son accusatrice, Sophie Patterson, devant la justice et ...
www.blast-info.fr
October 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Après l’ouverture de l’enquête pour viol qui l’a visé en 2017, Gérald Darmanin et ses avocats ont mis sur pied un plan destiné à décrédibiliser son accusatrice, Sophie Patterson. Nouvelles révélations.
Par @xavmon.bsky.social et Olivier-Jourdan Roulot.
Par @xavmon.bsky.social et Olivier-Jourdan Roulot.
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"The mission-driven mentality fragments the destruction of a people and place into thousands of isolated acts, each justified on its own terms, none acknowledged as part of a larger campaign of genocide."
One target at a time: The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide
www.972mag.com/israelis-log...
www.972mag.com/israelis-log...
The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide
By attaching a military goal to each act of killing, Israelis of all stripes could partake in the slaughter without questioning the morality of their actions.
www.972mag.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"The mission-driven mentality fragments the destruction of a people and place into thousands of isolated acts, each justified on its own terms, none acknowledged as part of a larger campaign of genocide."
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The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
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Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk
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« Hegel fait quelque part cette remarque que tous les grands événements et personnages historiques se répètent pour ainsi dire deux fois. Il a oublié d’ajouter : la première fois comme tragédie, la seconde fois comme farce. » (Karl Marx, à propos de la France) www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...
Emmanuel Macron renomme Sébastien Lecornu à Matignon
Peu après 22 heures, l’Élysée a annoncé dans un communiqué la reconduction du premier ministre démissionnaire, à qui le président « donne carte blanche ». Celui-ci a « accepté – par devoir – la missi…
www.mediapart.fr
October 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
« Hegel fait quelque part cette remarque que tous les grands événements et personnages historiques se répètent pour ainsi dire deux fois. Il a oublié d’ajouter : la première fois comme tragédie, la seconde fois comme farce. » (Karl Marx, à propos de la France) www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...
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Trop hâte de la liste des ministres, je me demande où ils vont mettre Darmanin et Agnes Runacher cette fois.
October 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Trop hâte de la liste des ministres, je me demande où ils vont mettre Darmanin et Agnes Runacher cette fois.
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Pierre Serna, historien de "l'extrême centre" : « La République en marche est devenue une République à l’arrêt. Le président est dans un déni total de sa responsabilité. Or, la République, c’est la responsabilité. Seuls les rois de l’Ancien Régime sont irresponsables » www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
Pierre Serna, historien : « Emmanuel Macron est dans un déni total de sa responsabilité »
L’auteur de « L’Extrême Centre ou le poison français » analyse la crise au prisme d’un oxymore qu’il a forgé, celui d’un « extrême centre » dans lequel les discours de modération mènent au chaos.
www.lemonde.fr
October 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Pierre Serna, historien de "l'extrême centre" : « La République en marche est devenue une République à l’arrêt. Le président est dans un déni total de sa responsabilité. Or, la République, c’est la responsabilité. Seuls les rois de l’Ancien Régime sont irresponsables » www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
Not to brag about my incredible political foresight, but I had not re-re-re-updated my French constitutional law slides after Lecornu was nominated PM
October 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Not to brag about my incredible political foresight, but I had not re-re-re-updated my French constitutional law slides after Lecornu was nominated PM
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Blimey, the French media didn't even have time to pop down to Carrefour for a lettuce.
October 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Blimey, the French media didn't even have time to pop down to Carrefour for a lettuce.
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Ce décret de nomination publié hier soir au JORF restera un moment d'histoire.
Sans doute le Gouvernement le plus éphémère de toute notre histoire républicaine.
Il aura duré... 14h.
Sans doute le Gouvernement le plus éphémère de toute notre histoire républicaine.
Il aura duré... 14h.
October 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Ce décret de nomination publié hier soir au JORF restera un moment d'histoire.
Sans doute le Gouvernement le plus éphémère de toute notre histoire républicaine.
Il aura duré... 14h.
Sans doute le Gouvernement le plus éphémère de toute notre histoire républicaine.
Il aura duré... 14h.
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Ce qui nous rapproche encore davantage de la IVe République, c'est que l'instabilité gouvernementale va de pair avec une grande stabilité du personnel gouvernemental.
October 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Ce qui nous rapproche encore davantage de la IVe République, c'est que l'instabilité gouvernementale va de pair avec une grande stabilité du personnel gouvernemental.
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Author copies for
Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics
by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!
If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.
Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics
by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!
If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.
September 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Author copies for
Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics
by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!
If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.
Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics
by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!
If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.
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Misogyny drives much of modern extremism, but society has failed to deal with it as a root cause of mass violence, @milleridriss.bsky.social writes
In her book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism, Miller-Idriss tackles the issue head on.
www.justsecurity.org/120654/how-m...
In her book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism, Miller-Idriss tackles the issue head on.
www.justsecurity.org/120654/how-m...
How Misogyny Fuels Violent Extremism
Taking a closer look at where misogynist beliefs come from can help shed light on the pathways to violence — and how to interrupt them.
www.justsecurity.org
September 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Misogyny drives much of modern extremism, but society has failed to deal with it as a root cause of mass violence, @milleridriss.bsky.social writes
In her book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism, Miller-Idriss tackles the issue head on.
www.justsecurity.org/120654/how-m...
In her book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism, Miller-Idriss tackles the issue head on.
www.justsecurity.org/120654/how-m...
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International Law as a Dual State or How Not to Cope with Failure | by Fuad Zarbiyev
International Law as a Dual State or How Not to Cope with Failure
One day in May 1933, Ernst Fraenkel, a German labor lawyer, was formally notified that, being Jewish, he was prohibited from representing clients before the courts of the Third Reich. As a veteran of ...
www.ejiltalk.org
September 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
International Law as a Dual State or How Not to Cope with Failure | by Fuad Zarbiyev
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France 🇫🇷 has a new Prime Minister.
Many see the task he is facing as impossible.
GIOVANNI CAPOCCIA (@gcapoccia.bsky.social) on the Fifth Republic and its constitutional identity under strain.
verfassungsblog.de/the-fifth-re...
Many see the task he is facing as impossible.
GIOVANNI CAPOCCIA (@gcapoccia.bsky.social) on the Fifth Republic and its constitutional identity under strain.
verfassungsblog.de/the-fifth-re...
September 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
France 🇫🇷 has a new Prime Minister.
Many see the task he is facing as impossible.
GIOVANNI CAPOCCIA (@gcapoccia.bsky.social) on the Fifth Republic and its constitutional identity under strain.
verfassungsblog.de/the-fifth-re...
Many see the task he is facing as impossible.
GIOVANNI CAPOCCIA (@gcapoccia.bsky.social) on the Fifth Republic and its constitutional identity under strain.
verfassungsblog.de/the-fifth-re...
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I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...
Defining Away Palestine
voelkerrechtsblog.org
September 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...
Reposted by Sophie Duroy
Les constitutions auraient-elles échoué ? Alors que les Lumières ont fait naître une foi dans la puissance des constitutions, Lauréline Fontaine lève le voile sur le mythe qui les entoure et dénonce le gouffre séparant les aspirations du constitutionnalisme et la réalité de sa mise en œuvre.
Le crépuscule du constitutionnalisme ?
Les constitutions auraient-elles échoué ? Alors que les Lumières ont fait naître une foi dans la puissance des constitutions, Lauréline Fontaine lève le voile sur le mythe qui les entoure et dénonce le gouffre séparant les aspirations du constitutionnalisme et la réalité de sa mise en œuvre.
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September 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Les constitutions auraient-elles échoué ? Alors que les Lumières ont fait naître une foi dans la puissance des constitutions, Lauréline Fontaine lève le voile sur le mythe qui les entoure et dénonce le gouffre séparant les aspirations du constitutionnalisme et la réalité de sa mise en œuvre.
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Agreed. Last point very interesting. Administration has stopped bothering even pretending that they care about international law. Bad sign.
I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different.
Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Agreed. Last point very interesting. Administration has stopped bothering even pretending that they care about international law. Bad sign.
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@lucatrenta.bsky.social and @avramovok.bsky.social's upcoming book, "Killing in the Name of the State," is available for pre-order on Amazon. This looks absolutely fascinating!
www.amazon.com/Killing-Name...
www.amazon.com/Killing-Name...
Killing in the Name of the State: State-Sponsored Assassination in International Politics
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September 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
@lucatrenta.bsky.social and @avramovok.bsky.social's upcoming book, "Killing in the Name of the State," is available for pre-order on Amazon. This looks absolutely fascinating!
www.amazon.com/Killing-Name...
www.amazon.com/Killing-Name...