Tony Walter Abanto
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Tony Walter Abanto
@tonywalterabanto.bsky.social
PhD candidate at FIU international relations. International law professor at UCSur. Max Planck Theory and History of Law Summer School 2023. ASIL member 🙂
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Two Weeks in Review – 14 – 27 July 2025 | by Luíza Leão Soares Pereira
Two Weeks in Review – 14 – 27 July 2025
In the last two weeks, a range of topics were covered in EJIL Talk!, from international criminal law and human rights, to the rule of non-intervention and the sources of international law. We also hav...
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July 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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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.
May 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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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...
International Law Under Pressure
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March 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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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...
Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook Is Based on Failures of US Corporate Democracy, not Foreign Dictators - ProMarket
Sarah Haan writes that to understand American authoritarianism, it’s less useful to analyze the strategies of elected dictators around the globe than to look at how corporate leaders in the United Sta...
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March 14, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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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.
March 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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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/
March 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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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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March 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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! ⌛

🔗 bit.ly/3ZwnrEP

#ESIL2025 🏗️⚖️
March 10, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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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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March 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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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.
March 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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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....
Colonialism on the Defensive: Australia in the United Nations Trusteeship Council
In the years following the Second World War, the United Nations (UN) Trusteeship Council was vital to the evolution of colonial practices throughout the world. Predicated on the liberal imperial pr...
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February 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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📣 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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February 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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!

www.reconstitution.eu/en/news/news...
Call for Applications: re:constitution Fellowships 2025/2026
Apply now, until 3 April 2025, 12 noon (CEST)
www.reconstitution.eu
February 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM