Dr C Ward SC
@cward-int-law.bsky.social
Public international law advocate and academic lawyer: 6 St James Hall International, Sydney, 3VB Barristers, London, Australian National University, Vice-Chair and former President International Law Association (ILA).
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Boy, do I have some bad news about the consequences of illegal US threats and uses of force combined with the undermining of U.S. military alliances.
www.justsecurity.org/109537/upend...
www.justsecurity.org/109537/upend...
September 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Boy, do I have some bad news about the consequences of illegal US threats and uses of force combined with the undermining of U.S. military alliances.
www.justsecurity.org/109537/upend...
www.justsecurity.org/109537/upend...
I am delighted and honoured to have been elected Vice-Chair of the International Law Association by the Executive Council. The ILA was founded in Brussels in 1873 to progress the study, clarification and development of international law, now more important than ever.
May 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I am delighted and honoured to have been elected Vice-Chair of the International Law Association by the Executive Council. The ILA was founded in Brussels in 1873 to progress the study, clarification and development of international law, now more important than ever.
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Happy Friday!! The April issue of AJIL has been published online and featuring a stellar line up of authors. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
April 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Happy Friday!! The April issue of AJIL has been published online and featuring a stellar line up of authors. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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EU Member States agree that EU Commission should negotiate EU signing up to treaty setting up International Claims Commission for Ukraine 🇺🇦 eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
April 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
EU Member States agree that EU Commission should negotiate EU signing up to treaty setting up International Claims Commission for Ukraine 🇺🇦 eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
I'm trying to work out why Norfolk Island and Heard and McDonald Islands get their own little tariff regime. Perhaps the penguins on Heard have been exporting cuteness?
April 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I'm trying to work out why Norfolk Island and Heard and McDonald Islands get their own little tariff regime. Perhaps the penguins on Heard have been exporting cuteness?
Wilmer-Hale has made a powerful application, in the face of despicable attacks on the firm, and to clients of the firm, for the act of lawyering in the highest traditions of our profession. I have acted for many years for clients espousing difficult positions, my thoughts are with them
March 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Wilmer-Hale has made a powerful application, in the face of despicable attacks on the firm, and to clients of the firm, for the act of lawyering in the highest traditions of our profession. I have acted for many years for clients espousing difficult positions, my thoughts are with them
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🚨 REACTION: Oxfam reaction to Israel’s attack on Gaza despite ceasefire.
“The ongoing targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure cannot be justified under any circumstances," said @oxfaminternational.bsky.social 's Clémence Lagouardat.
oxf.am/3DOX71V
“The ongoing targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure cannot be justified under any circumstances," said @oxfaminternational.bsky.social 's Clémence Lagouardat.
oxf.am/3DOX71V
March 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🚨 REACTION: Oxfam reaction to Israel’s attack on Gaza despite ceasefire.
“The ongoing targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure cannot be justified under any circumstances," said @oxfaminternational.bsky.social 's Clémence Lagouardat.
oxf.am/3DOX71V
“The ongoing targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure cannot be justified under any circumstances," said @oxfaminternational.bsky.social 's Clémence Lagouardat.
oxf.am/3DOX71V
The apparent suspension of the Yale Journal of International Law by Musk is insidious.
March 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The apparent suspension of the Yale Journal of International Law by Musk is insidious.
The ludicrous hypocrisy of Vance pretending to lecture Europe on free speech, whilst dismantling every facet of free speech in the US, says everything we need to know.
March 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The ludicrous hypocrisy of Vance pretending to lecture Europe on free speech, whilst dismantling every facet of free speech in the US, says everything we need to know.
I intend to continue to stress the applicability and significance of public international law. Departures from it must be identified. The threatened use of military force, even as an 'option' to affect sovereign control of territory, is flagrantly unlawful.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say
Potential plans range from partnering more closely with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of U.S. troops seizing the canal by force, U.S. officials told NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I intend to continue to stress the applicability and significance of public international law. Departures from it must be identified. The threatened use of military force, even as an 'option' to affect sovereign control of territory, is flagrantly unlawful.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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🚨MAJOR DEVELOPMENT
Portugal has cancelled plans to buy F-35 fighter jets from the US and will look to replace their F-16s with European fighters.
“We have to be able to count on the predictability of our allies, which is no longer the case with the United States."💥
Portugal has cancelled plans to buy F-35 fighter jets from the US and will look to replace their F-16s with European fighters.
“We have to be able to count on the predictability of our allies, which is no longer the case with the United States."💥
March 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM
🚨MAJOR DEVELOPMENT
Portugal has cancelled plans to buy F-35 fighter jets from the US and will look to replace their F-16s with European fighters.
“We have to be able to count on the predictability of our allies, which is no longer the case with the United States."💥
Portugal has cancelled plans to buy F-35 fighter jets from the US and will look to replace their F-16s with European fighters.
“We have to be able to count on the predictability of our allies, which is no longer the case with the United States."💥
The use of economic force to annex a sovereign State, Canada, is every bit as illegal, and despicable, as military force.
March 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The use of economic force to annex a sovereign State, Canada, is every bit as illegal, and despicable, as military force.
Has anyone given Vance and Trump lettuces yet?
March 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Has anyone given Vance and Trump lettuces yet?
Coalition of the sane.
March 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Coalition of the sane.
It's a thing called precedent.
February 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It's a thing called precedent.
It is time to create an 'Axis of Sanity' that starts in Canada and ends in Australia and New Zealand. Enough is enough.
February 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It is time to create an 'Axis of Sanity' that starts in Canada and ends in Australia and New Zealand. Enough is enough.
The first meaningful analyses of the practical devastation to follow the despicable slashing of USAID projects are starting to be identified. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump administration says it's cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts
The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a judge’s order giving the Trump administration a midnight deadline to release billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid.
apnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The first meaningful analyses of the practical devastation to follow the despicable slashing of USAID projects are starting to be identified. apnews.com/article/trum...
I am very pleased to be speaking on the topic of international law and the resolution of groundwater disputes in the Middle East and Africa in Riyadh.
@ASSELLMU
@ASSELLMU
February 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I am very pleased to be speaking on the topic of international law and the resolution of groundwater disputes in the Middle East and Africa in Riyadh.
@ASSELLMU
@ASSELLMU
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Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.
www.newyorker.com
February 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Dismantling the death penalty is a responsibility that belongs to all of us. Inspiring to see how a group of nuns are trying to save women on death row in Texas: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
An apparently serious statement that the USA will "take" Gaza is utterly inconsistent with bedrock international law and has no place in our world.
February 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
An apparently serious statement that the USA will "take" Gaza is utterly inconsistent with bedrock international law and has no place in our world.
The rule of law, domestic and international, requires lawyers and the judiciary to stand strong, affirm the place of law in a healthy democracy, and adhere to legal principle.
February 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The rule of law, domestic and international, requires lawyers and the judiciary to stand strong, affirm the place of law in a healthy democracy, and adhere to legal principle.
For the avoidance of doubt, an occupying power is not entitled to cede the occupied territory to a third State and the third State does not thereby gain any form of sovereignty, whether to build condominiums and casinos or otherwise.
February 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
For the avoidance of doubt, an occupying power is not entitled to cede the occupied territory to a third State and the third State does not thereby gain any form of sovereignty, whether to build condominiums and casinos or otherwise.