Stephen Cody
@stephencody.bsky.social
Lawyer. Sociologist. Painter. Lawprof @Suffolk_Law. Writing about international criminal law, democracy, and ocean governance.
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I'm very pleased that, in a few days, I'll be submitting to law reviews the written version of an article I presented as the 2024 Doyle-Winter Lecture at Yale, on Fourth Amendment rights when property is moved. You can watch the lecture below. vimeo.com/935088325
2024 Doyle-Winter Lecture: Orin Kerr
Professor Orin S. Kerr delivered the Michael A. Doyle '62 and Bunny Winter Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law Lecture on March 26, 2024. Titled "Searching,…
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July 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I'm very pleased that, in a few days, I'll be submitting to law reviews the written version of an article I presented as the 2024 Doyle-Winter Lecture at Yale, on Fourth Amendment rights when property is moved. You can watch the lecture below. vimeo.com/935088325
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Here Miles and Federica discuss the novel and tricky issues of state responsibility in the ICJ Climate Opinion, incl attribution, causation, and multiple responsibility.
State Responsibility in the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change | by Federica Paddeu and Miles Jackson
State Responsibility in the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change
On 23 July 2025, the ICJ delivered its advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change. Although much of the opinion is devoted to the clarification of an extensive set of p...
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July 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Here Miles and Federica discuss the novel and tricky issues of state responsibility in the ICJ Climate Opinion, incl attribution, causation, and multiple responsibility.
It's always such a pleasure to attend the ASIL workshop on International Criminal Law.
June 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It's always such a pleasure to attend the ASIL workshop on International Criminal Law.
Trump wants to “unleash” deep-sea mining. How soon could it start?
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open.substack.com/pub/seabedsp...
Trump wants to “unleash” deep-sea mining. How soon could it start?
That depends on more than the whims of any one government or company
open.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Trump wants to “unleash” deep-sea mining. How soon could it start?
open.substack.com/pub/seabedsp...
open.substack.com/pub/seabedsp...
"Even a cursory sketch of production and reserves shows that there is no shortage of inputs for renewable technologies." www.nature.com/articles/s44...
May 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"Even a cursory sketch of production and reserves shows that there is no shortage of inputs for renewable technologies." www.nature.com/articles/s44...
In Oceanic Impunity, I argue that bottom-trawling and other actions that cause severe and widespread environmental harms should be criminalized. This video shows why: petapixel.com/2025/05/12/d...
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First-Ever Footage Reveals the Impact of Bottom Trawling on the Ocean Floor
Lots of fish die.
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May 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In Oceanic Impunity, I argue that bottom-trawling and other actions that cause severe and widespread environmental harms should be criminalized. This video shows why: petapixel.com/2025/05/12/d...
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight.
"My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."
"My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."
LIVE NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk and her legal team
Best QUALITY link
Best QUALITY link
Tufts student and lawyers speak at Logan Airport after returning from Louisiana
Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk and members of her legal team spoke at Boston Logan Airport on Saturday evening, after they arrived home from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention fac...
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May 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight.
"My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."
"My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about, and Trump’s order could clear the way for operations soon
theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...
theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about, and Trump’s order could clear the way for operations soon
Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes in the water column where many creatures live.
theconversation.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about, and Trump’s order could clear the way for operations soon
theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...
theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...
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Thread on why the least worst of two bad outcomes is still awful.
SCOTUS argument this morning.
SCOTUS argument this morning.
Let me try to be more measured about the Supreme Court taking this case: I see no upshot if you value public education.
All the usual caveats apply, e.g. Court could rule on different grounds, avoid issue.
Otherwise, my thoughts...
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www.scotusblog.com/2025/01/supr...
All the usual caveats apply, e.g. Court could rule on different grounds, avoid issue.
Otherwise, my thoughts...
1/
www.scotusblog.com/2025/01/supr...
Supreme Court will weigh in on effort to found nation’s first religious charter school - SCOTUSblog
The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon added three more cases – two of which will be argued together – to its docket for the 2024-25 term. In a brief unsigned order, the justices agreed to review a rul...
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April 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Thread on why the least worst of two bad outcomes is still awful.
SCOTUS argument this morning.
SCOTUS argument this morning.
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they're considering mass deportations -- after mass denaturalizations www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador
Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.
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April 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
they're considering mass deportations -- after mass denaturalizations www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Earth’s oceans once turned green – and they could change again
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Earth’s oceans once turned green – and they could change again
They could one day turn purple.
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April 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Earth’s oceans once turned green – and they could change again
theconversation.com/earths-ocean...
theconversation.com/earths-ocean...
China’s new underwater tool cuts deeps, exposing vulnerability of vital network of subsea cables
theconversation.com/chinas-new-u...
theconversation.com/chinas-new-u...
China’s new underwater tool cuts deeps, exposing vulnerability of vital network of subsea cables
Incidents of accidental and suspect breaches of submarine cables in northern Europe and around Taiwan concern security experts.
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April 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
China’s new underwater tool cuts deeps, exposing vulnerability of vital network of subsea cables
theconversation.com/chinas-new-u...
theconversation.com/chinas-new-u...
The #MetalsCompany is now seeking to circumvent governing international law and appeal directly to the Trump administration to mine the deep sea, despite warnings about the scientific uncertainty of deep sea mining's ecological consequences. www.npr.org/2025/03/27/n...
The world has no rulebook for deep-sea mining. One company is pushing forward anyway
Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a Canadian startup says it will move ahead, whether or not rules are in plac...
www.npr.org
March 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The #MetalsCompany is now seeking to circumvent governing international law and appeal directly to the Trump administration to mine the deep sea, despite warnings about the scientific uncertainty of deep sea mining's ecological consequences. www.npr.org/2025/03/27/n...
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...
theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.
theconversation.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...
theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...
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Check out our wonderful collection of essays plotting, dreaming, reimagining, abolishing, redistributing and reconstructing ICL's Critical Aftermaths w. Christine Schwoebel-Patel & @riclements.bsky.social @oxfordcrim.bsky.social
AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies" is now available to read and features and incredible line-up of scholars. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Check out our wonderful collection of essays plotting, dreaming, reimagining, abolishing, redistributing and reconstructing ICL's Critical Aftermaths w. Christine Schwoebel-Patel & @riclements.bsky.social @oxfordcrim.bsky.social
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The arrest warrant for Duterte for the crime against humanity of murder 👇
It was issued under seal and enforced by police in Manila.
It was issued under seal and enforced by police in Manila.
March 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The arrest warrant for Duterte for the crime against humanity of murder 👇
It was issued under seal and enforced by police in Manila.
It was issued under seal and enforced by police in Manila.
Dark Law "is a pernicious outgrowth of vague statutory construction, deferential judicial review, and political opportunism. Authorities brandish national security law as a response to constructed security threats in order to circumvent legal restraints on their power."
March 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Dark Law "is a pernicious outgrowth of vague statutory construction, deferential judicial review, and political opportunism. Authorities brandish national security law as a response to constructed security threats in order to circumvent legal restraints on their power."
Trump dares courts to stop him at every turn, but he's also using "dark law" to selectively investigate, detain, prosecute, and imprison disfavored groups. scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jlpa/vol6/is...
Dark Law: Legalistic Autocrats, Judicial Deference, and the Global Transformation of National Security
By Stephen Cody, Published on 01/01/21
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March 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Trump dares courts to stop him at every turn, but he's also using "dark law" to selectively investigate, detain, prosecute, and imprison disfavored groups. scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jlpa/vol6/is...
FYI: In a New Suffolk Law Podcast, I talk about my meandering path to law school and deep love of cephalopods. open.spotify.com/episode/5Ypq...
Professor Stephen Cody's Path to Law School
Law FaculTEAS · Episode
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February 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
FYI: In a New Suffolk Law Podcast, I talk about my meandering path to law school and deep love of cephalopods. open.spotify.com/episode/5Ypq...
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The firing of top military lawyers—the Judge Advocates General of the Army, Air Force, & Navy—by Hegseth signals a troubling move to strip legal oversight from military ops. @stevevladeck.bsky.social explains how this move clears the way for the Trump admin to ignore the rule of law in the military.
Let’s fire all the lawyers
The ominous removal of the judge advocates general by the Trump administration.
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February 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The firing of top military lawyers—the Judge Advocates General of the Army, Air Force, & Navy—by Hegseth signals a troubling move to strip legal oversight from military ops. @stevevladeck.bsky.social explains how this move clears the way for the Trump admin to ignore the rule of law in the military.
"The events of the nineteen-twenties and thirties—and of the forties, when NATO was formed—still echo in these tumultuous times. And, as the world darkens, we’re going to need all the friends we can get." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
The Trump Administration Trashes Europe and NATO
Speeches delivered by J. D. Vance and Pete Hegseth were not just verbal lashings of America’s allies but a wholesale rejection of eighty years of U.S. foreign policy.
www.newyorker.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
"The events of the nineteen-twenties and thirties—and of the forties, when NATO was formed—still echo in these tumultuous times. And, as the world darkens, we’re going to need all the friends we can get." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...