Ntina Tzouvala

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I am very grateful to those who turned up in person and tuned in online for this talk. If you missed it and are interested, the recording is here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGmt...

Aggression, Capitalism, and International Law: Missed Opportunities or Structural Constraints?www.youtube.com This lecture was delivered by Dr Ntina Tzouvala (ANU College of Law), as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2023-24 and chaired by Professor C...

Along with Nahed Samour (a scholar and woman whom I admire greatly), we wrote a piece on self-defence and Palestine and why Israel's claims demand that we suspend all disbelief: rsilpak.org/2023/self-de...

Self-defence in Israel and Palestine: Unsuspending Disbeliefrsilpak.org RSIL is a private sector research and policy institution based in Pakistan whose mission is to conduct research on the intersection between international law and the Pakistani legal context.

The world is overall sh*t, but/and next week (30/10) I will be at UCL giving a (hybrid) talk on aggression, capitalism, and IL: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/... this was slightly eccentric when I first started working on it, but it has become weirdly relevant. Come!

Hybrid | Aggression, Capitalism, and International Lawwww.ucl.ac.uk This lecture will be delivered by Dr Ntina Tzouvala, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2023-24

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Can private companies be held responsible for aggression? At yesterday's monday meeting @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social presented her thoughts on "Aggression, Capitalism and International Law: Missed Opportunities or Structural Constraints?”

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My review of Yascha Mounk's The Identity Trap is live! www.liberalcurrents.com/the-liberal-...

The Liberal Centrist Trapwww.liberalcurrents.com Identity politics is vital for liberalism precisely because oppression is never neutral, color-blind, or universal.

If in Berlin next Tuesday (7 November), I will be talking about the von Pezold arbitration with the good folks of the ECCHR, who fought the good fight (and sadly lost). I am very excited about how to bring together theory and practice in the struggle for an anti-racist international legal order.

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twitter users stone age in 2023 hunter-gatherers 🤝 mastodon attempt failed, turned to sky worship for sustenance

Marx’s whole point, in contrast, was to lay bare the differentia specifica of capitalism. To deny the existence of capitalism is therefore to naturalize the economy as fundamentally undifferentiated lpeproject.org/blog/is-capi...

Is Capitalism “a Thing”?lpeproject.org According to Sam Moyn, capitalism and the ills it is said to generate are nothing more than a contingent jumble of various legal rules and regulations. Indeed, “capitalism” is merely a term of abu...

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I am indebted to the editors of AJIL Unbound for this symposium on my recent work, and to each of the authors for taking the time to engage with, reflect on, or challenge my arguments — or to take them in entirely new and very exciting directions. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Anna Saunders, “Constitution-Making as a Technique of International Law: Reconsidering the Post-Wa...www.cambridge.org Welcome to Cambridge Core

my hottest academic take is that many people become journal editors without the time or the will to make hard decisions, which leads to more things going out for review than they should, which in turn leads to the current peer review crisis. sometimes, desk rejects are a good idea, folks

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I am simply begging any and all persons of conscience to focus. This can and will get worse. We can stop it. 🙏🏽

WaPo: 1.4 million civilians displaced in Gaza, air strikes everywhere, 30% of housing destroyed, 4000 dead, 1000 more likely under rubble, food and water running out, and the ground invasion hasn’t even begun. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/1...

Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas releases two American hostages, a mother and daughterwww.washingtonpost.com United Nations chief António Guterres visited the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza Friday, saying aid trucks were still blocked from reaching Palestinians.

Kendi is espousing an almost evangelical anti-racism, which holds the promise of releasing the racist from the bondage of their reactionary ideas. In 2020, this neat narrative stood in contrast to rising calls to break the system. www.newyorker.com/news/our-col...

Ibram X. Kendi’s Anti-Racismwww.newyorker.com The historian espoused grand ambitions to dismantle American racism, but the crisis at his research center suggests that he always had a more limited view of change.

I am very grateful to Prof. Nollkaemper who is one of the very few Western academics who insists on the Palestinians' right to self-determination as legally (and of course, morally and politically, but these are my words) relevant to this discussion: www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...

10 questions about the armed conflict between Israel and Hamaswww.uva.nl What does the law say about this long-running conflict between Israel en Hamas? Marten Zwanenburg, Marieke de Hoon and André Nollkaemper answer 10 questions.

100% not the most important thing in the world rn, but comrade Oishik Sircar wrote an extremely interesting book about law, modernity and violence in post-colonial India and I was very happy to review it: www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/indi...

Ntina Tzouvala · Law’s violence (2023)www.radicalphilosophy.com Oishik Sircar, Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021). 370pp., £40.99 hb., 978 0 19012 792 3 This is a book that resists easy categoris...

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"The reaction to the October 7 attack on Israel...and to Israel’s vow to hit back against Gaza has undone months of work to paint Moscow as a global pariah for breaching international law, they said, exposing the US, EU and their allies to charges of hypocrisy." www.ft.com/content/e0b4...

Rush by west to back Israel erodes developing countries’ support for Ukrainewww.ft.com Diplomats warn backing for Israeli assault on Gaza has poisoned efforts to build consensus against Russia’s war

the whole concept of ISDS

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? I'll start: Amazon makes more money out of their Cloud services than out of their e-commerce platform.

He was the worst possible thing for a biographer of real but limited talent: He was boring. newrepublic.com/article/1750...

How Michael Lewis’s Book on Sam Bankman-Fried Went Off the Railsnewrepublic.com The CEO of FTX was the worst possible subject for a biographer of real but limited talent: He was boring.

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"We cannot cross until we carry each other"

“We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”jewishcurrents.org The editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents on recommitting to our movements in this moment.

I don't even know where to begin with this: newleftreview.org/issues/ii143...

Perry Anderson, The Standard of Civilization, NLR 143, September–October 2023newleftreview.org A world order governed by the rule of law is the mainstay of the West’s claim to leadership. A host of institutions, topped by the UN itself, lend this principle material form. But what is the jurid...

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Today, the Guardian and other orgs co-released "Trafficking Inc": a massive investigation linking Amazon, McDonalds, the InterContinental Hotels Group and Chuck E. Cheese to labor trafficking and forced labor, particularly in the Persian Gulf www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabiawww.theguardian.com Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions

FULLY aware that there is more important stuff going on BUT: does anyone by any chance have any good recommendations on the political economy of Chinese defence spending? I am looking for non-hysterical takes that also highlight distributional/macroeconomic issues.

I am at this particular stage of research where I download 50 articles per day and read one paragraph from each before moving on. 0/10, would not recommend.

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This was different to write than prior stuff I've done for the blog--I hope it is productive or fruitful! And thanks to Sam Moyn for, effectively, bringing this together.

Today, @sanjukta.bsky.social argues that LPE scholars should eschew high-altitude legal and social theory, and instead focus on contesting and clarifying the mid-level legal and economic concepts that have the most effect in the world. lpeproject.org/blog/in-defe...

In Defense of Theoretical Quietismlpeproject.org Sam Moyn has recently challenged what he sees as the “theoretical quietism” of LPE. Yet this resistance to high-altitude legal and social theory is entirely justified. The most productive theorizi...

you can tell I am now an old lady, because for no reason whatsoever I sent someone a voice message with MY thoughts about THEIR research project, and frankly, this is hilarious to me.

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1) The interpretation of legal documents in early modern England 2) Lawyers use language in the same way as witches

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about. Here's mine: - Whether we can have statehood without inhabitable land. - The legal-philosophical symbolism in Wagner's Ring.

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1. Law, time and sexual consent 2. Feminist activism and early 20th century prosecutions.

ok I like this: 1) how/when/why the political economy of war in the most immediate sense (think big guns, not economic drivers of conflict) became so invisible to IL; 2) critical IL/law needs a serious epistemology that is neither empiricist nor voluntarist, and it needs it ASAP.

Come and be my colleague at @ANU_Law. Up to five positions on a wide range of areas including climate, defence and natsec, health law and others: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDF767/2...

2023 Academic Appointment Round at The Australian National Universitywww.jobs.ac.uk Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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⚠️ New article! "Vulnerability Theory as a Paradigm Shift in International Investment Law: Reimagining the Role of the State" (with the amazing Aysel Kücüksu) has just been published at #BHRJ and it is available open access: t.co/nR34CmMVcr 1

Vulnerability Theory as a Paradigm Shift in International Investment Law: Reimagining the Role of th...t.co Vulnerability Theory as a Paradigm Shift in International Investment Law: Reimagining the Role of the State

In contrast to rudderless performers like Bolsonaro and Trump, then, Milei is zealously committed to a coherent ideology. It is partly for this reason that international financial markets are uneasy. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

William Callison, Milei’s Chainsaw — Sidecarnewleftreview.org The far right rises in Argentina.