I wish you a long and healthy life to stand trial for your crimes here 🇳🇱

May you be so healthy that no judge worth their election to the International Criminal Court, taking one look at you, would hear from you a phony plea of physical unfitness or frailty to face trial.

Yesterday, I became well and truly Dr Dela Cruz at the University of Melbourne.

A most memorable ending to #ThisPhDLife

Yesterday, I took the four-hour bus journey to Bonn to give one of this year's Rhineland Lectures in International Law - my first-ever public lecture after the PhD.

Many thanks to the kind invitation from the Institute for Public International Law at the University of Bonn to share my work on

Happening on Friday at the University of Bonn, where I'll give my first public lecture as a full-time academic.

I'll talk about my recent work on archipelagos and imperial boundaries.

I do hope the International Criminal Court is listening.

#StopTheKillings

It's great to actually have a copy of The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development in my hands.

Many thanks to the editors, Ruth Buchanan, Luis Eslava, Sundhya Pahuja, and Caitlin Murphy for the opportunity to contribute alongside people that I read and cite in my work.

so i'm home for the holidays and i found something familiar

apparently "melbourne coffee" is now a thing in manila

this specific coffee reminds me of the thesis that needs finishing 😅