Two Weeks in Review – 14 – 27 July 2025 | by Luíza Leão Soares Pereira

The Asser Institute, CLEER, Utrecht University, and University of Groningen are calling for abstract submissions for a workshop on the EU's role in reviving multilateralism. Early career scholars will be able to present their research and receive feedback by senior experts in a dynamic discussion.

Thank you @verfassungsblog.de and Dr @maximb.bsky.social for publishing our blog with @tejasrao.bsky.social: International Law Under Pressure: An Analysis of the First Six Weeks of the 2025 Trump US Administration, 2025/3/24, verfassungsblog.de/internationa...

If we’re looking for a roadmap for twenty-first-century authoritarianism, we should scrutinize the toolkit of strategies that corporate autocrats have developed for suppressing democracy inside their own organizations. www.promarket.org/2025/03/03/d...

The Columbia deportation case is bad enough on its own — but the precedent is worse. People can be deported without breaking a law because of a vague reference to foreign policy.

Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right here. 1/

Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires:
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📢 There are now multiple Calls for Papers open for IG workshops at this year’s ESIL Annual Conference in Berlin! 💡📃

Don't miss this opportunity – check them out and submit your proposals!📩

More CfPs will be announced soon, so stay tuned to the ESIL website! ⌛

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#ESIL2025 🏗️⚖️

Dr Machiko Kanetake has been appointed as the new academic director and chair of the executive board of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, starting 1 July 2025. Her leadership, together with the managing director Kasper Vrolijk, will be instrumental in shaping the future of the Institute.
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Several countries on the Eastern Flank of NATO are considering leaving the Ottawa Treaty, which bans anti-personnel mines.

Yesterday, Finland and Poland both announced their intentions to leave the treaty in the coming weeks.

Very excited to see my newest article, ‘Colonialism on the Defensive: Australia in the UN Trusteeship Council’ has now been published in the International History Review! I started working on this in 2020 so I’m glad it’s finally out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 The EUI's Academy of European Law is now accepting applications to its 2025 summer courses on #EU Law & #HumanRights Law.

Taking place in June, the courses provide an opportunity to actively engage in debates on societal issues.

📌 Apply by 4 April: https://buff.ly/4kg1tzM
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🇪🇺⚖️ Recruitment for the 2025/2026 cohort of re:constitution fellowships is now open! Are you a European scholar or practitioner dealing with the rule of law and democracy? We offer you a (funded) opportunity to join a group of excellent people. Spread the word!

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