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

In recent weeks, I've had to withdraw from conferences and professional societies because my university removed our research budget and my ability to self-fund is limited.
Given the situation in UKHE, I assume I'm not alone.
Can we think about alternative ways to stay engaged? Do others have tips?

Je *crois* avoir compris les différentes options pour le Budget 2025, si jamais ça peut être utile à d'autres.
Corrections bienvenues !

Ravie d'avoir reçu mon exemplaire du dernier volume @lerubicon.bsky.social - malheureusement plus d'actualité que jamais.
lerubicon.org/volume-8-du-...

Glad to be cited in @csmonitor.bsky.social on the normalisation of state-sponsored assassinations by Israel & the US and the existence of double standards in this respect.
csmonitor.com/World/Americ...

New chapter preprint on @ssrn.bsky.social: The intelligence community as a normative actor under international law.
Comments welcome - it's part of an ongoing research project.

Forthcoming in Russell Buchan & Inaki Navarrete's Research Handbook on Intelligence and Intl Law.
ssrn.com/abstract=495...

New review of my book by Prof. Dr. Heiko Meiertöns for the Zeitschrift für das Gesamte Sicherheitsrecht.
I'm grateful to Prof. Meiertöns for the very kind review and for allowing German speakers & practitioners to get a taste of the book's argument.

Don't get me wrong, I love doing interdisciplinary research. But - and with all due respect - do political scientists have a soul?

Nope. That's not only wrong in principle, it's also strategically counterproductive. Violations of IntLaw (however "morally justified") are the best predictor of conflict escalation, polarization, and further violations.
"Given what is at stake" is the exact rationale for the existence of IntLaw.

#PredatorFiles France being cynical as always:
- openly signing working papers and statements supporting intlaw & EU regulation to counter the misuse of commercial spyware
- secretly bypassing EU regulation and granting licenses to allow commercial spyware export to authoritarian states

My first #ESIL2023 was a blast and I'm already on my way to #EISAPEC23 in Potsdam.
I'll be on these 3 great panels (incl. with kfg_intlaw friends) so, naturally, feel free to drop in!
Panel recommendations are also appreciated as the programme is rather overwhelming 🤯

Spotted my book at #ESIL2023 and finally got to meet my editor, Ben Booth, in person!

Looking forward to #ESIL2023 tomorrow!
My first in-person ESIL and just a 1h30 bus ride from my hometown
Happy to get coffee/drinks - just hit me up :)
And feel free to join the ESIL SSIL workshop tomorrow on the de-legalization of IL (programme below)