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Neiha Lasharie
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(International) Lawyer; Research Fellow, Partners in Justice International. Thinking about eugenics, gender, decoloniality, "white slavery," Islamic law, and Carlos Sainz (not in that order, all within the context of int'l law). she/her
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The council convenes once more
#deathblart
Comic, Page 1: P1: Outer space, showing several distant planets and a star, focusing on a foreground ringed planet that appears to have oceans and continents with large visibly man-made alterations, including bridges and a central trench of city circling the planet. Narration: "There are 11 billion sentient life forms on this planet. Uncountable artificial intelligences, consciousnesses stored in the core, more arriving every day" P2: A hand touches the top of an alien-looking casket. Narration: "One less, now." P3: The face of an alien person with an expression of grief, with pupil-less eyes, distinctive cheek markings, a metallic hoop around their neck, and a cloak, referred to from now as "MC". P4: Another person appears behind the first, with a floating holographic display of information in front of their face. Other person: "I take it you are aware of the duty the late Vhixyr is trusting to you?" MC: "Yes, I was told long ago." Page 2: P1: MC is pictured silhouetted from behind, standing in front of a far-future city, full of other citizens and glass transport tubes in the sky stretching into the distance. Narration: "Out of over 11 billion, me." P2: (Blank) Narration: "Despite Vhixyr's insistence that I was just the best fit, I always wondered-" P3: MC's foot stepping on a panel. Narration: "I wondered if my dear grandparent harbored some secret resentment," P4: MC standing in front of a doorway, raising a hand to a glowing panel on the wall. Behind the doorway is swirling shapes and light. Narration: "...or if they just thought I was the only one who could forgive them for this life-long burden?" P5: MC walking on a transparent bridge through a void filled with swirling light. Narration: "But really, all that mattered-" P6: (Blank) Narration: "Is that there are five of them. ...of us." Page 3: P1: Two arch-shaped desks with small cylindrical devices with 3 bulbs protruding from them, and a fan-shaped holographic display behind them showing a wave-form. MC: "I wasn't expecting your equipment to look so... ancient?" P2: A zoomed out view of the room, showing MC speaking to a larger smiling alien with an arch-shaped structure on their back, referred to from here as Council 1. Council 1: "For taking vibrations in the air. Ancient traditions, after all." P3: From behind MC, still speaking to Council 1, who is pointing at their own mouth. Council 1: "And I see you've been practicing your oral language!" MC: "No small effort - but we need to be able to speak this way for a full cycle after all." Council 1: "You get used to it." P4: Showing MC now. Council 1: "I trust you have now... viewed it, as well?" MC: "...of course." P5: Zooming out, showing both MC and Council 1, and another person in the back of the room by a large holo display. This person (Council 2) is slim, wearing a dark sleeveless shirt and a large brace over their shoulders. Council 2: "As of now, Earth has reached 89.3% of its sun-cycle." Council 1: "Then we will begin." Page 4: P1: From left to right seated at the desk in front of holo displays, Council 2, Council 1, and a third Council member with a robe and a U-shaped brace framing their head, all with somber expressions. Council 1: "Today we welcome Thonriel, third grandchild of Vhixyr, to the order of T'ddub. Thonriel has the terrible and honorable charge of speaking first today, as our order convenes for audiograph number 0X7B65D. -ahem- So... what did you think?" P2: Thonriel (MC), wearing a grim expression and slamming their hand down on their own desk. "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 is still a bad movie."
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
neihalash.bsky.social
For some flabbergasting reason, the coolest people follow me on here. I might as well take advantage of this and ask, apropos of nothing (👀):

What do you wish you would have known when you were applying for a PhD in international law?
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Despite increasingly hostile terrain, our local colleagues and the victims they serve are achieving justice against the odds!

We are proud to be supporting these journeys.

Read more in our newsletter at bit.ly/PJIOct2025
Driving Justice Forward, Together — A PJI Community Update
Read the latest on the progress you helped create.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Over the last 6 months, PJI is honoured to have led 35 intensive, collaborative, and case-based working sessions to support colleagues in Kenya, Guatemala, and one situation we must keep confidential for security reasons.
November 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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and other lies I tell myself
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
neihalash.bsky.social
Halloween is a great example of what community could look like year-round and yes that includes cute babies in costumes.
November 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet.

Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀

#PublicHealth
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Perceiving Time and Hope in International Law Through Hadestown

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Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Perceiving Time and Hope in International Law Through Hadestown
[Ruby Rosselle ‘Ross’ Tugade is a PhD student at the Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales (Sydney), researching anti-communicst state violence in the Philippines] Anaïs Mitch…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Ninjas Against Terror – The Akatsuki and the Challenges of Defining Terrorism in International Law

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Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Ninjas Against Terror – The Akatsuki and the Challenges of Defining Terrorism in International Law
[Shpresa Salihu is a graduate assistant and PhD candidate at the Chair of Public International Law and European Law (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)] ‘We are both ordinary men, driven to seek …
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October 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
neihalash.bsky.social
I do think we need to talk about the manufacturing of the erosion of the rule of law, even if that’s extremely awkward to say, because this is it.
jasonv.bsky.social JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · Sep 30
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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🇵🇰 VIDEO: No pause for food delivery riders during Pakistan's monsoon

Abdullah Abbas wades through Lahore's flooded streets, struggling to push his broken motorcycle and deliver a food order on time. Abbas says he has no choice despite the monsoon conditions.
September 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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The fucking protein powder has a shrink wrap arbitration agreement now? This is like a nightmare law school hypo
READ THIS: By opening and using this product you agret to be bound Ayall do not agree to be bound, please return this product immediately, IN PEEL BACK K
August 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Call for Papers: Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law

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Call for Papers: Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law
It’s that time of the year again! The editorial team at Opinio Juris is pleased to announce the call for papers for our Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law. We can&#821…
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August 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”

Melinda Gates
August 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
neihalash.bsky.social
i grew up on these streets
A world map screenshot of the Kingdom of Misthalin from the MMRPG Runescape, which includes Lumbridge, Draynor Village, Varrock, Barbarian Village/Gunnarsgrunn, Edgeville, and the Digsite.
July 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Now @justsecurity.org

I join Alex de Waal (@worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social) to call on all states with any leverage at all over Israel to use it without delay to demand comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, & coordinated humanitarian action.

Time has run out

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Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
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July 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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The UN has determined that the “worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.”

Alex DeWaal and @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social call for all States to fulfill their moral, legal, and basic human imperatives now by ensuring comprehensive humanitarian action.
Time Has Run Out: Mass Starvation in Gaza and the Global Imperative
It is time for comprehensive, full-spectrum, sustainable, and coordinated humanitarian action. States globally must act without delay on that imperative.
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July 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
neihalash.bsky.social
Man, I wish Ursula K. Le Guin was still alive.
July 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Yes, the ICJ Advisory Opinion is the hot topic, but don't forget about human rights law!

For insights on the Inter-American Court’s AO on climate emergency, listen to our chat with comrade @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social on #CalledtotheBar.

Thanks to @djag2.bsky.social for this brilliant podcast!
djag2.bsky.social Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · Jul 25
New #CalledToTheBar is live! This week Ntina Tzouvala is joined by Juan Auz to discuss the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency. (This episode was recorded before the ICJ advisory opinion on climate change was handed down.)

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47. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights' Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency
This week Ntina Tzouvala is joined by Juan Auz to discuss the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency. What is it, how did it come about and what's its signific
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July 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
neihalash.bsky.social
Good day for the Iron Sheik
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July 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
neihalash.bsky.social
I don't know what it says about me/the world that ICJ decisions have a grounding effect on me.
July 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Okay my little #ProcedureGoblin babes let's get on it, ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of Climate Change thread starts here! 🧵
a woman covering her mouth with her hand in a dark room with green lights behind her
ALT: a woman covering her mouth with her hand in a dark room with green lights behind her
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July 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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My latest @opiniojuris.bsky.social

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The IHL / LOAC Divide Does Not Exist: On the Myth of the Two Cultures Problem in a Postcolonial World
Yesterday, Brian Cox, a frequent critic of this blog, posted a long comment on Twitter (now X), in the context of a discussion he had with Opinio Juris’ own Kevin Jon Heller. The post was part of a…
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July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
neihalash.bsky.social
I still get giddy every time I see my work cited somewhere—but also what are you doing citing *me*! I'm just a baby lawyer!! Don't make me pull the PhD trigger (I'm SO suspectible)!!
July 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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#Baltimore Mayor #BrandonScott invested in 42 summer youth camps, 29 literacy programs, extended the rec center hours to 11 p.m, planned block parties, opened the pools for safe fun, & opened several schools up for summer classes. Crime is down 62%. 🔥🔥 www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Baltimore is seeing the city’s fewest homicides in 50 years. Here’s why.
Multiple people have taken credit for the historic drop that mirrors a national decrease in violent crimes. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says it’s due to a community-based approach to gun violence.
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July 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM